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2001
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Lost for Words is a poignant autobiography of Deric Longden's relationship with his aging and eccentric mother, Annie. The...
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1998
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This British drama was originally created for British television but was later released in the U.S. It is based on a true...
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Deric's Mother
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1994
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Jean Taylor
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1992
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John Michael Phillips directs this British live-action musical, based on the children's story by Beatrix Potter. A tailor...
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1989
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A British production created by Monty Python alumni, this film concerns an inept chocolate-factory executive...
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1988
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Capt. Emily Ridley
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1984
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Capt. Emily Ridley
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1981
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Mrs. Grose
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1971
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In this farce, four people go to extremes to inherit the giant fortune of a wealthy practical joker. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1970
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1969
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This is a somewhat sensitive story of a virgin 39-year-old British soccer fan who goes to a bar with a bunch of his pals and...
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Mrs. Winthram
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1964
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It's Hoppity Goes To Town with sex in this 1963 British version of the old chestnut concerning an innocent country lass who...
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1963
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This well-wrought romance takes place in Lancashire, England in an industrial area where Vic (Alan Bates) and Ingrid...
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Mrs. Rothwell
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1962
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Based on James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof, this is a thoughtful drama revolving around the relationship between a...
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Mrs. Taylor
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1962
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One of the many "B"-grade British comedies meant to fill the lower half of a double-billing, Over the Odds is about...
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Mrs. Carter
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1961
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1960
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In this espionage film, an American journalist goes to London. There he becomes friends with a young woman who is really a...
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1958
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This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role...
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Mrs. Galloway
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1958
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1957's The Good Companions was the second film version of the well-known J. B. Priestly play. The story revolves around the...
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1957
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This British drama chronicles the exploits of a brutal Liverpudlian gang leader/would-be rock star who finds himself...
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Mrs. Larkin
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1957
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Sailor Beware was originally released in England as Panic in the Parlour. The panic begins when a sailor named Albert...
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1956
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Tired of the humdrum routine at a staid British woman's prison, brassy American chorine Angela Booth (Beverly Michaels) busts...
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1956
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In this comedy, the lives of two families get turned topsy-turvy when their respective young sons win a large football pool....
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1956
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Cook
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1955
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Love, marriage and show business provide the basis of this lively comedy that centers on a husband and wife, who are chosen...
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1955
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An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are...
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1955
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1955
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A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard...
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1955
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In this comedy, two rabid football fans begin an unstoppable train of events when they physically harass a referee. ~ Sandra...
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1955
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In the tradition of Derby Day and The Extra Day came another multiplotted British comedy/drama, The Crowded Day. A huge and...
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1954
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Arthur Watkyn's droll theatrical piece For Better, For Worse was expertly adapted for the big screen in 1954. Popular young...
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1954
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Veronica Hurst is the star of the 1954 British frivolity Don't Blame the Stork. Hurst plays an actress who will do anything...
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1954
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John Mills followed his successful Gentle Gunman with the tensioned-filled meller The Long Memory. Convicted for a murder he...
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1953
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1953
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The Anglo-American melodrama The Big Frame was released in Britain as Count the Hours. Mark Stevens stars as a Texas-born...
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1953
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1953
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Based on a novel by John Brophy, Turn the Key Softly takes place within a single day. The film follows the exploits of three...
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Landlady
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1953
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1953
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The philosophies and practices of London policewomen provide the basis of this exciting and interesting docu-drama that...
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1953
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Time Gentlemen Please is a phrase that is all too familiar to British pub patrons; it means that it's closing time, and...
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1953
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James Hayter plays the chairman of a British football club. Hayter's fondness for gambling results in his involvement with...
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1953
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The Hundred Hour Hunt was originally released in Britain as Emergency, then as Emergency Call. A woman lies in a hospital...
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1952
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In this crime drama, a junk dealer's son breaks his father's heart when his poor grades get him tossed out of Oxford. The...
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1952
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Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross (Jack Watling) is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James...
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Mrs. James
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1952
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In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is...
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1951
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Basil Radford is cast superbly to type as The Galloping Major. The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill...
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1951
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Mrs. Dorbell
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1950
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This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows...
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1950
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1949
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In this melodrama, a London girl falls happily in love with a Frenchman and immediately goes blind. Convinced her affliction...
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Rosa
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1949
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In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the...
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1949
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Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda...
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Broaders
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1949
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Maytime in Mayfair is concerned with England's high-fashion set, especially those creatures whose designs set the tone for...
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Janet
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1949
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1949
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Brown is the color of the uniforms worn by the residents of a British borstal (boy's reformatory). Jack Warner plays the...
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1949
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In this ironically titled British WW II drama, a widowed housewife provides housing for two navy men while her daughters...
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1948
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Based on a novel by Chris Massie, Corridor of Mirrors is a British attempt to match the poetry and lyricism of the French...
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1948
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Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German...
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1948
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Originally released in England as The Courtneys of Curzon Street, The Courtney Affair entertainingly covers the first 45...
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1947
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Once a Jolly Swagman is the story of Bill Fox (Dirk Bogarde), a factory worker who dreams of fame and fortune as motorbike...
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Ma Fox
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1947
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In this British WW II drama, a British housewife proves herself to be as patriotic and courageous as any soldier. ~ Sandra...
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1945
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The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of...
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1944
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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 phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In...
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1942
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Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film...
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1942
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In this WW II comedy, a professor teaching a correspondence school gets in hot water when he entangles himself with the...
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1941
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