A commoner has an unusual run-in with the King of England in this offbeat historical drama. In 1547, Thorn (James Coombes) is...
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2000
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Published in 1830, Stendhal's landmark historical novel Le Rouge et le Noir has long been required reading in college...
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Marquis de la Mole
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1993
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Although the story of 19th century Irish statesman and patriot Charles Steward Parnell resulted in a disastrous movie vehicle...
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1990
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1989
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Gen. Vortek
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1989
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The year is 1908; after centuries of unchecked power, the Ottoman empire is rapidly crumbling. As a result, Turkey's secret...
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1988
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TheTV movie Jack the Ripper endeavors to shed new light on one of the most notorious unsolved cases in history. The Ripper,...
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1988
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The 25th season of Doctor Who came to an end with the modestly titled four-parter "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy."...
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1988
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In the second episode of the four-part story "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace...
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Captain Cook
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1988
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In the third episode of the four-part story "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace...
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Captain Cook
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1988
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A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had...
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1985
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Hal Holbrook stars in this TV pilot film as Colonel Calvin Turner, a special operative for the OSS during World War II....
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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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A well-wrought tale only hampered by a miniscule budget, this story about George Frederick Handel (1685-1759), the...
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Swift
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1985
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Like the Virginia Woolf novel which it interprets, this 1983 BBC production has three parts: "The Window," "Time Passes," and...
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1983
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This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful...
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1983
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Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring...
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1983
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Coming in around the middle of the pack, this so-so drama about motorcycle racing features David Essex, the British pop star,...
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1981
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The ugly conflict between Irish and British forces in Northern Ireland provides the backdrop for this drama set in the early...
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John Russell
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1979
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Producer/director Joseph Strick continues his long cinematic love affair with the works of Irish author James Joyce in...
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Simon Dedalus
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1979
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Blake (Gareth Thomas) and Cally (Jan Chappell) try to win the support of President Sarkoff (T.P. McKenna), exiled leader of...
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1978
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1977
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This feature-length dramatization of James Herriot's best-seller was issued by EMI as a big-screen theatrical release in...
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1974
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In this thriller, a wheelchair bound beauty must escape the unwanted attentions of a homicidal maniac. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1974
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This melodramatic crime drama tells the story of homosexual gang leader Vic Dakin (Richard Burton), who likes a bit of rough...
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1971
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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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Maj. Scott
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1971
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Low-brow British humor abounds in this farcical account of Edwin Anthony, the first man to receive a successful penis...
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1971
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A trio of aspiring crooks plan to steal a million dollars in this crime comedy. Lord Nicholas (David Warner) and his Swiss...
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Smith
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1970
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Set in the British Isles in the 1930s, this film involves two old-maid sisters who lock their deranged brother in a cellar...
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1970
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Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the...
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1969
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During the ill-fated charge of British troops at Balaclava in the Crimean War, loyal soldiers who blindly followed orders...
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1968
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Based on the classic novel by James Joyce, this drama deals with the life of an impotent married Jewish man, his wife and a...
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Buck Mulligan
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1967
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Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a...
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1965
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Recovering from a broken leg at a private convalescent home, Steed soon learns that he is being stalked by a mysterious...
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1965
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Emma goes undercover as a department store clerk when a sales receipt is found on the body of a murdered agent. She is backed...
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Maj. Robert Wentworth (ret.)
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1965
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1964
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A horse stable turns out to be the headquarters of a highly sophisticated murder-for-hire service. Hoping to beard the crooks...
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1964
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Downfall is yet another hour-long entry in the seemingly endless series of British-filmed Edgar Wallace mysteries....
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1964
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Rita Tushingham was propelled into stardom with The Girl with Green Eyes. She plays a gawky young rural Irish girl who takes...
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1964
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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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1962
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Freedom to Die has the look of a half-hour TV drama inflated to feature-film length. Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an...
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1962
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This uneven, wartime drama delves into the complexities of the political situation in Northern Ireland, compounded in World...
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1960
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A real-life incident became the basis for this highly fictionalized drama about a January 1911 confrontation between...
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1960
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