Published in 1830, Stendhal's landmark historical novel Le Rouge et le Noir has long been required reading in college...
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Abbé Pirard
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1993
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Splitting Heirs is a dull mistaken identity comedy about a British Duke (Eric Idle) who is switched at birth when his parents...
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1993
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Anthony Perkins, in one of his last roles, is the sole highlight of this mundane, German-made psychological thriller, based...
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1992
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1989
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Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm uses Dracula author Bram Stoker's final novel as the basic springboard into a surreal...
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1988
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Ken Russell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome, Salome's Last Dance takes the form of a play within a film. Wilde...
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Herod/Alfred Taylor
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1988
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Victor Banerjee, the India-born star of David Lean's A Passage to India, is the central figure of director Ronald L. Neame's...
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1986
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Reg Sampson
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1986
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The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931,...
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1985
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This darkly haunting slightly fictionalized film is a retelling of the life and death of Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), the...
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1985
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1985
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Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game...
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1984
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1984
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In the conclusion of the four-part story "Four to Doomsday," the Doctor (Peter Davison) discovers that the alien Urbankans...
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Monarch
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1982
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The Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions materialize on a huge Urbankan space vessel. They soon learn that their...
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Monarch
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1982
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In the third episode of the four-part story "Four to Doomsday," the Doctor (Peter Davison) is still imprisoned on an Urbankan...
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Monarch
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1982
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In the second episode of the four-part story "Four to Doomsday," the Doctor (Peter Davidson) and his companions are trapped...
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Monarch
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1982
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Dickens' oft-filmed novel Great Expectations has been adapted several times for British television. This version was offered...
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1981
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The crew attempts to smuggle vital power-source crystals onto the Scorpio. This action may well cost them their lives --...
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1981
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Saint and the Brave Goose was culled from the revived Saint TV series of the late 1970s. Ian Ogilvy takes over from...
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George Duchamps
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1981
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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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Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories...
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1980
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George and Mildred originated as a spin-off of the popular British sitcom Man About the House. Thus, the feature-length...
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1980
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John Cleese co-wrote and stars in this satiric comedy as the less-than-spectacular progeny of the world's greatest detective....
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1977
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This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of...
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1975
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1973
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This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard...
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1970
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In this slapstick comedy two bumbling workmen attempt to take a long wooden plank through a London suburb to a building...
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1967
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Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying...
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1967
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Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in...
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The Voice
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1966
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No sooner has Steed inherited an ornate dagger from an unknown benefactor than he is besieged by mysterious characters who...
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1965
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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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The incredibly durable cop show Z Cars (pronounced "Zed Cars") was one of the great guilty pleasures of British television --...
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DI Charlie Barlow
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1962
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This episode was originally telecast May 27, 1961. The title refers to an organization that specializes in "persuading"...
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1961
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In this crime drama, a renowned safecracker, just out of the slammer, finds himself immediately involved with a plot to rob...
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1960
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Director Philip Leacock, praised for his handling of child actors, does another excellent job with the two young stars in...
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1960
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The title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war,...
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1957
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In this British crime drama, an escaped killer heads for the French coast to find a mysterious treasure reportedly buried in...
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1956
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Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual...
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1956
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Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through...
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1956
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1955
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The Night My Number Came Up was based on an actual incident in the life of Britain's Sir Victor Goddard. Michael Redgrave...
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1955
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Richard Attenborough stars as a former crew member of a British gunboat, which was distinguished by a heroic wartime record....
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1955
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