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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A man who has become an emotion basket case thinks back on the friend who made him that way in this offbeat comedy from Great...
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2008
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The British prime minister and the Royal Family find themselves quietly at odds in the wake of a national tragedy in this...
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2006
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2006
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For I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, director Mike Hodges re-teams with Trevor Preston, the respected British television writer with...
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2004
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2003
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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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British screen favorites Timothy Spall and Martin Clunes headline the rollicking survivalist farce Neville's Island, which...
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1998
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In this British-French co-production, assistant bank manager Alex (Richard E. Grant), a part-time theater instructor, decides...
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1997
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The Glass Virgin is a 1995 UK television miniseries directed by Sarah Hellings, adapted from the best-selling novel by...
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1995
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This British romantic comedy from director and star Martin Clunes concerns Neil Price (Clunes), a meek toy demonstrator who...
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Margaret
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1994
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1993
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1992
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Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for...
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1989
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Alan Ayckbourn's riotously funny play about a small-time acting troupe in the sticks is brought to the screen by director...
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Rebecca Huntley-Pike
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1989
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In the first episode of the three-part Doctor Who adventure "Ghost Light," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) accompanies Ace...
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Mrs. Pritchard
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1989
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1989
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1989
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Joan Hickson stars as Miss Jane Marple in this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery...
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1987
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After a brief business-trip fling, a white-collar executive (Daniel Massey) learns he has contracted AIDS, and he and his...
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1987
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The rise of teen culture in 1950s Britain provides the backdrop for Julien Temple's unconventional rock musical Absolute...
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1986
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Presented by Britain's Granada Television, the weekly anthology Time for Murder consisted of six hour-long dramas with the...
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1985
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Made for British television, this film concerns a bizarre, out-of-the-way Yorkshire hotel and its mysterious inhabitants. ~...
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1985
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The life and times of Britain's first female Member of Parliament are dramatically chronicled in this British miniseries....
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1982
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Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars...
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Ursula Westerby
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1980
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When a locked vault causes problems in the robbery of a bank, the gunman hold a bank manager and his family hostage. ~ Rovi...
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1979
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Margaret Stephenson
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1974
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Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story,...
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1972
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Born to Win is the grimly ironic title of this jet-black comedy about heroin addicts. George Segal plays Jay Jay, an...
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1971
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With a storyline evocative of the previous year's smash gay-themed The Boys in the Band, this drama centers on a varied group...
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1971
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Child actor Mark Lester proved that his sudden ascension to stardom in Oliver wasn't a fluke with Run Wild, Run Free. Lester...
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Mrs. Ransome
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1969
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This violent western finds a son leaving his father and family behind in the wake of the elder's violent guerilla warfare...
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Laura
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1969
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British agents drop like skeets in this convoluted espionage film. Jonas Wilde (Richard Johnson) is a successful British...
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Barbara Canning
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1968
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In this psychological drama, the daughter of a British barrister is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Her bereaved father...
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1968
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1967
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Though long defunct in the United States, the tiny production firm of Pathe continued churning out British programmers into...
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Myrtle Robbins
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1965
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Constance Babington Smith
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1965
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In this adventure, set in 19th-century India when the British were attempting to stop the slave trade against the Sudanese...
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Margaret Woodville
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1964
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Delia Pinner
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1963
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Released in England under the title The World Ten Times Over, this dour drama is about the misfortunes of two aging single...
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Billa
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1963
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Brendan Behan, the quixotic, eternally sloshed Irish poet/playwright, peppered his play The Quare Fellow with plenty of...
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Kathleen
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1962
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In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and...
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Laura Farr
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1962
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This French/Italian sword 'n' sandal effort is set in the Rome of 476 BC. The Eternal City is threatened with invasion from...
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1961
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Versatile director Roy Baker tackles the question of racial bias in this dated but effective drama, a working-class version...
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Kathie Palmer
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1961
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William Holden stars as an American artist who becomes involved with the sordid underworld of prostitution in Hong Kong in...
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Kay O'Neil
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1960
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Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered...
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Sister Mitya
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1960
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In this witty music-business satire, Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) is a talent agent down on his luck who thinks his tide...
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Maisie King
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1959
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Liz Ferrers
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1959
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Bachelor of Hearts stars Hardy Kruger as Wolf, a German exchange student attending Cambridge University. Initially arousing...
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Ann
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1958
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When the English Civil War is winding down but the Roundheads and Royalists are still at odds with each other, it is decided...
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Anne Wyndham
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1958
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In direct contrast to his later lush-budgeted international epics, director J. Lee Thompson turns his lenses towards the...
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Hetty
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1958
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The British Ice Cold in Alex was released in the US as Desert Attack. John Mills stars as Captain Anson, a grumbling...
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Sister Diane Murdoch
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1958
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Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. She...
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Margaret
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1957
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Based on a popular British television drama, this 1957 film features a riveting performance from Yvonne Mitchell as a...
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Georgie Harlow
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1957
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The Birthday Present is a bitter half-hour anecdote stretched to 100 minutes. Tony Britton plays a British toy salesman who...
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Jean Scott
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1957
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What was the lady-like Dame Anna Neagle doing in something called Bad Girl -- or, as it was renamed in certain regions,...
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Janet Carr
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1955
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting...
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1952
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