Made for British television, this is a black comedy/drama concerning the exploits of five elderly people whose friendship...
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1991
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Laurentia McLachlan
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1991
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Based on the P.D. James novels, this mystery miniseries follows the investigations of Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden)....
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1989
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Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is a middle-aged "maiden lady" piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. Timid and self-deprecating,...
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Aunt D'Arcy
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1987
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An Emmy-winning adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel by the same name, this is a Canadian TV production which follows...
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1987
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The adaptation of Vita Sackville-West's novel stars Wendy Hiller as Lady Slane, an elderly woman whose husband dies. Her...
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1986
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Based on what some consider to be Elizabeth Bowen's best novel, The Death of the Heart focuses on one of her primary themes,...
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Matchett
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1986
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Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a 6-part British miniseries, first telecast in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. The...
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1985
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Arthur Hiller directed this drama exploring the disintegration of an ideal marriage after the husband discovers he is gay....
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Winnie
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1982
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A bachelor sets out to win the love of a women he lost 50 years previous. ~ Rovi...
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1982
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From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a...
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1982
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In this period drama, Hannah Gordon and Dame Wendy Hiller play two sisters who teach students at Oxford University. However,...
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1981
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Originally made for television, the film centers on an Egyptian archaeological expedition, and the discovery of the tomb of...
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1980
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John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a...
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Mothershead
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1980
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A quarrel erupts between the Duke of Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke (Jon Finch), and the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray...
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Duchess of York
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1979
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Frank Willard's 1927 stage play The Cat and the Canary was filmed several times before this 1978 version saw the light of...
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Allison Crosby
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1978
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Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis...
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1976
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
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1974
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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Alice More
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1966
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Julian Berniers (Dean Martin ) return from Illinois with his young bride Lily (Yvette Mimieux) to the family in New Orleans....
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Anna Berniers
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1963
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The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't...
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Gertrude Morel
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1960
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Newly hired at a private school, teacher Laura Siddons (Wendy Hiller) suspects that one of her students, a girl named Gloria...
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1959
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Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside...
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Miss Pat Cooper
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1958
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This satire takes a sharp poke at the intrinsic laziness of British aristocracy who would rather die of starvation than...
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Edith Clitterburn
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1957
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The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark...
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Elizabeth
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1957
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Lucinda Bentley
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1953
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Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of...
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Mrs. Almayer
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1952
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While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the...
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Joan Webster
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1945
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George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by...
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Maj. Barbara Undershaft
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1941
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Eliza Doolittle
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1938
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In this British comedy, a working-class father wins a fortune on the football pools and ends up buying a tiny tea shop in...
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1937
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Robert Donat stars as a businessman struggling to keep his company afloat in this British comedy also known as Cash. ~ Jason...
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1933
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