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1976
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An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah complex inherits the position of an English Earl in this cutting satire of...
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1972
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Set during World War I, Zeppelin stars Michael York as Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a British defector who goes to work in the...
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1971
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This musical biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Torval Maurstad) is based on the play of the same name. Living in...
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1970
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Three elderly spinsters become amateur detectives when someone poisons their beloved cat in this strange drama. The three...
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1966
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Once again Vincent Price stars for director Roger Corman in The Tomb of Ligeia, the last of Corman's eight Edgar Allen Poe...
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1964
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1963
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Steed is assigned to transport a shipment of live corneas to Switzerland to be used in a delicate eye-graft operation. But...
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1963
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In this routine, slapstick, frenetic tale, British comic Spike Milligan stars as Harold Petts, a rural mailman with a sudden...
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1962
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In this crime drama, a TV star tries to prove that her lover did not murder his boozy wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1962
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Timothy Bateson stars as a timorous bank clerk who fancies himself a brilliant scientist. Experimenting with alchemy in his...
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1962
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1962
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In this spy thriller clever reporters outfox Communist spies who have come to Geneva to learn more about Western nuclear...
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1961
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In this mystery, a Scotland Yard agent must break up a ring of jewel thieves. He goes undercover and successfully...
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1961
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In this comedy, a young man stands to inherit a vast fortune, but first he must spend a small fortune in two months. ~...
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1961
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Please Turn Over is an updated British variation on a theme put forth by the old Hollywood film Theodora Goes Wild. A bored...
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1960
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A little boy learns the dangers of chronic lying the hard way in this thriller. He is only eleven when he tells a story that...
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1960
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An A.P. Dearsley stage play was the basis for the seven-reel British comedy And the Same to You. Brian Rix stars as the...
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1960
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After emerging as a potent force in the genre with Horror of Dracula, Hammer Films added their handsome Gothic touch to this...
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1959
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This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as...
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1959
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In this lightweight drama, an adventurous couple endeavors to open a coffee bar and record production company. They begin...
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Mr. Dryden
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1958
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In this sad drama, a boozy reporter must cope with a series of personal disasters begin with the death of his wife in a car...
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1958
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In this melodrama, a surgeon overcomes his humble beginnings to become a renowned physician. His success is threatened when...
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1957
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In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people...
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1957
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The British Assignment Redhead stars Hollywood's Richard Denning as a devil-may-care secret agent. The blonde Denning is, of...
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1957
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The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they...
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1957
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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1956
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One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who...
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1956
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
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1956
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In this comedy, a custodian names the apartment boilers he maintains "Mavis and Ethel." The trouble begins when he loses his...
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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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1956
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Time is of the essence in this comedy when an American cabaret singer learns that she is in line for a large inheritance....
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...
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1954
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In this courtroom drama a doctor's plan's to marry are thwarted by blackmail. He is expected to take the fall for the murder...
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1954
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Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by...
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1954
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In this action-filled crime drama, a tough journalist relentlessly pursues a fleeing racketeer. When the gangster realizes...
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1954
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In this newsroom drama, a workaholic editor refuses to take a vacation with his wife. Instead he remains in his office and...
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1954
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In this crime drama, a man wrongfully convicted of murder goes back home to find the real killer and clear his name. ~...
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1954
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The title is explained during the course of the British Flannelfoot. We'll just say here that the film stars Jack Watling as...
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1953
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The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents...
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1953
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"Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small...
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1952
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Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the...
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1952
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Jenny, a pretty, independent, factory worker takes a holiday in Blackpool with her friend Mary. She has a week-long affair...
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1952
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Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a...
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1951
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In this farce, an enigmatic writer (Mai Zetterling) begins using the pen-name Dominic Danges, a popular writer believed dead....
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1951
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I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Obsessed was based on the William Dinner-William Moray play The Late Edwina Black, which also served as the film's original...
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1951
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Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell...
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1951
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In this murder mystery, a woman pretends to be her murdered sister's ghost in an effort to catch the killer. She is assisted...
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1950
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Denied steady work in the U.S. because of his alleged left-wing political beliefs, Edward G. Robinson was obliged to seek out...
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Col. Fogarty
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1950
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Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of...
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1950
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This British crime drama offers a freely adapted account of the notorious, daring burglar who became a killer and later paid...
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1949
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The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast...
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1949
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Sam Vane
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1949
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Diamond City is a British "western", set not in Australia as was often the case but in the wilds of South Africa....
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1949
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George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward Dmytryk managed to find work in England. Dmytryk's Obsession is based on...
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1949
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1949
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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1948
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Cinematographer Ronald Neame made his directorial debut with the 1947 murder melodrama Take My Life. When a Covent Garden...
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1948
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Nazi war criminal Bruckner (Mervyn Johns) manages to escape capture at the end of WW II. Bruckner sets up shop in England,...
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1948
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At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses...
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1947
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1947
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Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air...
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1946
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The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper,...
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1945
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In this espionage film, a Danish double-agent is assigned by the Nazis to sneak into to England and abscond with the secret...
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George Merrick
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1943
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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1942
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The modest but intriguing British melodrama At the Villa Rose was released in the U.S. by Monogram and given the more prosaic...
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1941
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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Maxwell Archer, Detective was adapted from Hugh Clevely's novel Meet Maxwell Archer. John Loder plays the famed ficitional...
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Nicolides
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1939
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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1939
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Filmed in 1935, the British Hell's Cargo finally received a US release in 1939, capitalizing on the recent outbreak of war in...
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1939
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Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night...
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1939
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It took two directors to bring this modest British thriller to the screen. The story concerns a gang of international jewel...
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Murbridge
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1939
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Long after the company went out of business in the US, Grand National Pictures thrived in England, turning out such...
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1939
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In this detective drama, a secret service agent is assigned to investigate the death of a bag lady who was discovered to be...
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Barstow
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1938
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1938
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In this crime drama, a police inspector pursues a Lord's secretary suspected of stealing his gold bullion. She is the prime...
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1938
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1936
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