Jack Hawkins
Biography: John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men in films like Angels One Five (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Ben Hur (1959) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 14, 1910
Deathday: July 18, 1973
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962-12-11
Lawrence of Arabia
Overview: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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Ben-Hur
1959-11-18
Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957-10-11
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Overview: The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Masquerade
1965-04-13
Masquerade
Overview: The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-13
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Oh! What a Lovely War
1969-03-10
Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Lord Jim
1965-02-15
Lord Jim
Overview: After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-15
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The Fallen Idol
1948-09-30
The Fallen Idol
Overview: Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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Kidnapped
1971-12-22
Kidnapped
Overview: Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Waterloo
1970-10-26
Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Theatre of Blood
1973-03-16
Theatre of Blood
Overview: A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Angels One Five
1952-03-19
Angels One Five
Overview: The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-19
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Zulu
1964-01-22
Zulu
Overview: In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Tales That Witness Madness
1973-10-31
Tales That Witness Madness
Overview: Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1965-11-10
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Overview: An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-10
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Land of the Pharaohs
1955-07-24
Land of the Pharaohs
Overview: A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-24
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The Black Rose
1950-09-01
The Black Rose
Overview: In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
Genres: War Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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No Highway in the Sky
1951-06-28
No Highway in the Sky
Overview: James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Gideon's Day
1958-03-25
Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Nicholas and Alexandra
1971-11-29
Nicholas and Alexandra
Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Guns at Batasi
1964-10-30
Guns at Batasi
Overview: An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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When Eight Bells Toll
1971-03-09
When Eight Bells Toll
Overview: In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969-04-28
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Overview: Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-28
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The Small Back Room
1949-02-21
The Small Back Room
Overview: At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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The Cruel Sea
1953-02-24
The Cruel Sea
Overview: At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-24
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Shalako
1968-09-26
Shalako
Overview: Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Young Winston
1972-07-20
Young Winston
Overview: This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-20
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The League of Gentlemen
1960-04-15
The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Malta Story
1953-06-01
Malta Story
Overview: Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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The Man in the Sky
1957-01-24
The Man in the Sky
Overview: The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Mandy
1952-07-29
Mandy
Overview: London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-29
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Lafayette
1962-02-16
Lafayette
Overview: The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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The Long Arm
1956-06-01
The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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The Prisoner
1955-04-19
The Prisoner
Overview: A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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The Third Secret
1964-02-02
The Third Secret
Overview: A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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Rampage
1963-10-09
Rampage
Overview: In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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Death at Broadcasting House
1934-11-01
Death at Broadcasting House
Overview: An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Sin
1971-01-01
Sin
Overview: When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Seekers
1954-06-22
The Seekers
Overview: A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-22
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Great Catherine
1968-11-29
Great Catherine
Overview: When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-29
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Jane Eyre
1970-12-01
Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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The Two-Headed Spy
1958-11-17
The Two-Headed Spy
Overview: Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Murder Will Out
1939-08-13
Murder Will Out
Overview: Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-13
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Fortune Is a Woman
1957-03-13
Fortune Is a Woman
Overview: An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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State Secret
1950-09-11
State Secret
Overview: While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966-05-20
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Overview: A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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The Elusive Pimpernel
1950-11-07
The Elusive Pimpernel
Overview: A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-07
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Judith
1966-01-20
Judith
Overview: A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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I Lived with You
1933-06-13
I Lived with You
Overview: In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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The Lodger
1932-09-08
The Lodger
Overview: An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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The Planter's Wife
1952-12-04
The Planter's Wife
Overview: The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Twice Upon a Time
1953-07-06
Twice Upon a Time
Overview: A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while there they start to hatch a plot to get back together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-06
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The Adventures of Gerard
1970-07-03
The Adventures of Gerard
Overview: Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Autumn Crocus
1934-02-01
Autumn Crocus
Overview: A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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Peg of Old Drury
1935-08-27
Peg of Old Drury
Overview: a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-27
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Five Finger Exercise
1962-04-19
Five Finger Exercise
Overview: The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-19
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958-01-01
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Two Loves
1961-05-24
Two Loves
Overview: American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Home at Seven
1952-03-16
Home at Seven
Overview: Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-16
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948-10-26
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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The Intruder
1953-10-18
The Intruder
Overview: When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Genres: Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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The Frog
1937-03-23
The Frog
Overview: In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes. Wallace was one of the first British authors to capitalise on the potential of cinema to increase his already considerable celebrity. His luridly titled thrillers depicting shady underworlds remained popular film sources long after his death in 1932. This lavish production boasts a distinguished cast and delivers on all fronts: from romance and exotic cabaret acts, to heaps of tension and a dramatic reveal.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-23
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Touch and Go
1955-10-02
Touch and Go
Overview: When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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Birds of Prey
1930-11-18
Birds of Prey
Overview: At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-18
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Front Page Story
1954-03-15
Front Page Story
Overview: A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-15
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Fortune in Diamonds
1951-03-07
Fortune in Diamonds
Overview: As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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The Flying Squad
1940-10-12
The Flying Squad
Overview: Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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The Good Companions
1933-02-28
The Good Companions
Overview: Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
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The Lost Chord
1933-04-07
The Lost Chord
Overview: 'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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A Shot in the Dark
1933-11-03
A Shot in the Dark
Overview: The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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The Jewel
1933-10-01
The Jewel
Overview: A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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The Open Door
1966-02-19
The Open Door
Overview: Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-19
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The Next of Kin
1942-06-15
The Next of Kin
Overview: Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-15
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Lorna Doone
1934-12-09
Lorna Doone
Overview: High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-09
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Stalked
1968-04-02
Stalked
Overview: In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home to escape God. Films like this would be shown to adult church groups to stimulate discussion - such as “was this man being stalked by Jesus in wooden shoes?”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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Beauty and the Barge
1937-02-07
Beauty and the Barge
Overview: A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-07
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Who Goes Next?
1938-03-01
Who Goes Next?
Overview: During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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Twinky
1970-01-06
Twinky
Overview: A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-06
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Escape to the Sun
1972-10-31
Escape to the Sun
Overview: Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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The Father
1969-04-16
The Father
Overview: Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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A Royal Divorce
1938-09-21
A Royal Divorce
Overview: The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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The Last Lion
1972-05-29
The Last Lion
Overview: Terminally ill millionaire tries to kill a lion before he dies.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-29
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Pathway Into Light
1952-03-04
Pathway Into Light
Overview: A documentary short celebrating the life of Louis Braille, his invention of the writing system named after him, and the legacy he has left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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