A 17-year-old writer named Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay) aspires to follow in the footsteps of her famous...
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Grandpa
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2012
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Boy A director John Crowley followed up that award-winning film festival favorite with this eerie yet eloquent drama...
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2009
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This nutty British comedy observes with jet-black humor the myriad outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English...
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2007
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Hanif Kureishi wrote this drama about a woman whose late-blooming romance causes a serious rift with her family. May...
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Toots
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2004
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The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema provides the basis for this...
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2004
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Robbins
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2004
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2004
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First telecast in the U.K. on February 17, 2002, the five-part British miniseries The Jury probes the workings of justice...
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2002
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Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for...
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2001
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2001
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2000
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In this bizarre satiric comedy, Kath (Toni Collette) is a chef who decides to leave the family business and strike out on her...
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2000
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Originally telecast over Britain's ITV1 in 2000, the two-part mystery miniseries Thursday the 12th began with the discovery...
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2000
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On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for...
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1999
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A romantic and sentimental comedy set at the turn of the 19th century, An Ideal Husband delves into themes of love, passion,...
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1999
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1998
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Five criminals with varying degrees of experience are brought together and torn apart by a major robbery in this hard-edged...
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1997
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When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness...
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1996
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In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as...
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1996
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Wilkie Collins helped pioneer a new literary genre when he published The Moonstone in 1868, widely believed to be the first...
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1996
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What if Germany had won WW II and successfully taken over Europe? Based on a novel by Robert Harris, this compelling drama...
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1994
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1994
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Mr. Stevens, Sr.
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1993
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Sherlock Holmes fans are divided as to who was the best on-camera interpreter of "The Master": Basil Rathbone or...
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1991
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Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer...
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1991
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Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film...
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Lord Houghton
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1990
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This family adventure movie, based on the novel by Marguerite Henry, is about a mute Arab boy and his constant companion, a...
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1990
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Based on John Trenhaile's A Man Called Kyril, this byzantine-plotted spy melodrama stars Ian Charleson in the title role....
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1989
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The hardcore metal band Strife has their 1995 winter tour documented on this film. In addition to live performances, the...
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1988
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Koenig
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1988
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Gene Wilder directed and wrote (along with Terence Marsh) this mild farce which is a pale reminder of Wilder's glory days in...
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1986
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This comedy concerns two buddies trying to make a go of it. Ritchie Lee (Lenny Henry) is the owner of an ice cream van that...
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Chiropodist
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1986
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1986
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A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the...
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1986
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Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second...
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1985
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1985
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1985
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This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt...
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1985
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Czech Mate isn't nearly as clumsy as its title. This British made-for-TVer stars the lovely Susan George as a political naif....
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1984
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1984
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1983
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Coming Out of the Ice stars John Savage as the real-life Victor Herman, an American athlete born to Ukrainian immigrants. In...
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1982
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Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to...
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1982
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As indicated by its title, this British miniseries concentrated on the years between the two world wars, when the eminent...
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1981
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A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python...
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1981
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John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a...
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1981
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Doing Time is the American title for the British-made Porridge. Based on a popular TV sitcom, the film stars Ronnie Barker...
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Grouty
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1979
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This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege...
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1979
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Grout
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1979
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Rudolph Valentino, born in Italy in 1895 as Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi, emigrated to the U.S. and became for...
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1977
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Film study courses will benefit from this story of the haunting ghost of a murdered woman in England with its unique...
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1976
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Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns...
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1974
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In this taut British horror movie, a lesbian entertains visitors at her lovely English country manor. Unfortunately,...
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1974
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On March 24, 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, one of the most infamous atrocities of World War II occurred -- the...
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1973
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John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate...
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1973
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Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of...
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1973
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Donald Pleasence is the sole "name" actor in the pleasant children's film Malachi's Cove. The actual star is...
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1973
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The Pied Piper eschews the romanticism of Robert Browning's poem and returns to the grim Grimm Brothers source. Pop singer...
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1972
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Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great...
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1972
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Sam Peckinpah examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, loosely based on the novel The...
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Tom Hedden
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1971
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Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy...
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1970
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In this crime drama, a painter finds himself entangled in a murder plot when he gets involved with a pretty girl. ~ Sandra...
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1969
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Several board members of the Acme Precision Corporation are murdered, and Steed is on hand to witness each killing. The...
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1969
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While Olde England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred (David Hemmings) is commencing to join the...
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1969
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This uneven spy saga finds secret agent Charles Hood (Vince Edwards) on the trail of the criminal master spy Hammerhead...
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Hammerhead
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1968
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Americans in 1968 seemed to prefer long, campy film titles. Thus it was that the British Taste of Excitement was rechristened...
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1968
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A former World War II submarine captain and his friend turn to smuggling when a former crew member lays out a plan to...
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Johann
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1968
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John McGrath's television play The Bofors Gun was expanded (if not improved) by this film adaptation. The time is 1954: a...
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Sgt. Walker
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1968
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Bill McLean (Van Heflin) is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his...
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Nikolai Volkov
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1968
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Frank Sinatra stars in this espionage thriller filmed at the height of the Cold War. Sam Laker (Sinatra) is an American...
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Martin Slattery
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1967
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This Hammer film production is a surprisingly frightening horror thriller and a hoot-fest for lovers of over-the-top acting....
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Harry
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1965
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England's famed comedy brothers John Boulting and Roy Boulting created this caper about a trio of crooks plotting to retrieve...
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1965
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In this thriller, an insurance detective looks into a car crash and discovers that it is part of a scam. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1964
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An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the...
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1963
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1963
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The Devil's Agent is Peter Van Eyck in this economical espionager. A Viennese wine merchant, Van Eyck becomes the unwilling...
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1962
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Based on a novel by Constantine Fitzgibbon, this two-part British miniseries was set sometime in the 1990s. Weakened by...
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1962
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Two Living, One Dead examines the pitfalls of hero worship, and the culpability of the media in fostering misguided...
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1961
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Something is seriously amiss in the tiny British village of Midwich. At 11 a.m. one morning, every village resident suddenly...
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1960
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1959
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