First time writer-director James Marquand's feature debut, the steel-tough crime thriller Dead Man's Cards, marks one of the...
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Billy the Cowboy
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2006
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Produced and aired in 2006, the final, four-hour installment of the 15-year Granada/WGBH television series Prime Suspect --...
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2006
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2003
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William Shakespeare's King Lear is transposed into a modern-dress British crime drama in this tense tale of family ties and...
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Quick
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2002
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A cinematic showcase for British newcomer Joe Tucker, this frenetic crime comedy concerns a loud-mouthed thug who offers to...
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2002
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Grimshanks
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2002
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Eleanor H. Porter's novel about a cheerful girl who brightens the lives of those around her is brought to the screen once...
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2002
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This omnibus film is both a tribute to 1990s Cool Britannia and an opportunity for many of Britain's best actors to step...
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[Horny]
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1999
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Swing is the story of working-class friends who escape their bleak Liverpool lives to launch a swing band. Martin...
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Sid
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1998
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Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small...
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1997
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A young man learns that love hurts (or at least it does if you're doing it right) in this saucy comedy from England. Henry...
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Henry Harding
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1997
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The Professor
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1995
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Based on the novel by H.E. Bates, this period drama stars Embeth Davidtz as Bella Ford, a woman living in rural England...
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Ben Wainwright
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1995
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1994
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A man battles both his own demons and a fierce enemy while fighting on the front lines of World War I. Charlie (Lloyd Owen)...
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1994
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Hired to help locate a missing author, an insurance investigator discovers to his terror that the nightmarish events depicted...
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1994
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Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) investigates the connection between a teen's murder and a pedophile...
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Bill Otley
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1994
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Helen Mirren delivers a standout performance in this TV miniseries as Jane Tennison, a London police detective. Tennison is...
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Bill Otley
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1993
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Following up the goofy big-screen comedies Dragnet and Delirious, director Tom Mankiewicz delivered this made-for-cable...
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1993
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The Derek Bentley Case has been an uneasy blight on the British legal system since the early 1950s. Two young, frightened...
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Fairfax
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1991
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Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books...
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1991
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When three angels are sent to earth to help out three troubled souls, their troubles have just begun. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1991
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Peter Medak directed this fact-based drama, chronicling the lives of the infamous Kray Brothers, notorious celebrities in 60s...
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Jack "The Hat" McVitie
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1990
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In this British drama, the sorts of Britons who live in colonial encampments outside of Britain tend to be the most...
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Johnny Deacon
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1990
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1989
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Tom Skerritt plays an end-of-tether CIA agent in Red King, White Knight. His superiors persuade Skerritt to take one last...
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1989
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Mr. Deakin
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1988
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Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence, the BBC miniseries The Rainbow starred Imogen Stubbs as Ursula Brangwen, the beautiful,...
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1988
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The British Wish You Were Here served as the auspicious film debut for 16-year-old Emily Lloyd. The scene is a British...
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Eric
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1987
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Not a film for children, this downbeat, violent drama is about three orphans who come to live with their sadistic uncle and...
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1986
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This densely-packed film is based on a book by Tom Hart about the struggles of a young Yorkshire boy trying to come to grips...
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Mr. Dobson
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1985
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Purporting to be loosely based on Hamlet, Strange Brew is about an evil braumeister at the Elsinore Brewery who has...
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1983
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In this provocative British drama, a young Yorkshire woman discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she...
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Alan
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1980
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Based on a novel by David Garnett, Sailor's Return is a British Victorian-era domestic drama, with plenty of domesticity and...
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William Targett
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1978
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Tom Bell starred in this six-part British miniseries as Frank Ross, a nasty career criminal freshly released from prison....
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Frank Ross
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1978
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The now-legendary miniseries Holocaust first aired as a presentation in NBC's Big Event series. Written by Gerald Green, the...
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1978
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on...
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1975
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In this drama, a self-made millionaire sets sail on a solo race, and finds that a beautiful girl has stowed away on his...
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1974
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In this thriller, a naive young woman travels from Liverpool to London to search for a man willing to sire her child. She...
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1972
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Tom Bell plays a disgruntled young Brit who becomes bored by his job and his marriage. Bell impulsively launches an affair...
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Len
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1971
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Colin Trafford
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1971
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In this suspenseful crime drama set in war-torn Ireland, IRA terrorists conspire to blow up a British power station....
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1969
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Three sailors on shore leave engage in a series of comedic sexual pursuits in Lock Up Your Daughters!. Jim Dale, Ian Bannen,...
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Shaftoe
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1969
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Occasionally listed as In Enemy Hands (evidently a working title), In Enemy Country is a war film with "A" ambitions and a...
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Ian
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1968
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Tom
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1968
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Originally titled Blues For Lovers, Ballad in Blue was the last of actor Paul Henreid's theatrical-film directorial efforts....
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Steve Collins
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1966
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The Arab-Israeli conflict provides the backdrop for this political drama that tells the story of an American gentile woman...
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1966
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Tom Bell stars in this tight little British thriller as a mercurial cat burglar. So long as things are going his way, Bell is...
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Peter Rayston
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1966
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Arabs resentful of the creation of Israel carry out terrorist missions in this action drama set in 1949. They harass the Jews...
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Dan
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1964
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Billie Whitelaw dominates this crime melodrama, not as a criminal but as vengeful bystander Jackie Parker. Parker's husband,...
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1962
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Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl....
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Toby
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1962
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Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but...
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Evans
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1962
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This effective crime caper involves an attempted robbery of no one less than the U.S. Army, a heist which has its beginnings...
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Fenner
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1962
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1961
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This microcosmic comedy/drama is set in the kitchen of a swank London restaurant. The kitchen's unofficial father-figure is...
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1961
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Albert Stokes
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1960
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Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top...
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1960
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