Brook Williams
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Birthday: January 22, 1938
Deathday: April 29, 2005
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Where Eagles Dare
1968-12-04
Where Eagles Dare
Overview: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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The Plague of the Zombies
1966-01-09
The Plague of the Zombies
Overview: Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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Hammersmith Is Out
1972-05-12
Hammersmith Is Out
Overview: The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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Absolution
1978-06-05
Absolution
Overview: At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-05
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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999-01-01
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Overview: In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government claiming to have some love letters from the composer to her great-grandmother, the Countess Delfina Potocka.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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England, My England
1995-01-01
England, My England
Overview: The story of Henry Purcell.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Pascali's Island
1988-07-22
Pascali's Island
Overview: 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-22
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Testimony
1988-11-01
Testimony
Overview: The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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The Medusa Touch
1978-04-13
The Medusa Touch
Overview: A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-13
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The Jokers
1967-05-15
The Jokers
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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First Men in the Moon
1964-07-01
First Men in the Moon
Overview: The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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The V.I.P.s
1963-09-01
The V.I.P.s
Overview: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Fright
1971-09-18
Fright
Overview: Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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The Gathering Storm
1974-11-29
The Gathering Storm
Overview: Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-29
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Brief Encounter
1974-11-12
Brief Encounter
Overview: Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-12
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Raid on Rommel
1971-02-12
Raid on Rommel
Overview: Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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Villain
1971-05-26
Villain
Overview: In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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The Heroes of Telemark
1965-11-12
The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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North Sea Hijack
1980-02-18
North Sea Hijack
Overview: When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-18
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The Wild Geese
1978-06-28
The Wild Geese
Overview: A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Massacre in Rome
1973-10-04
Massacre in Rome
Overview: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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The Sea Wolves
1980-07-03
The Sea Wolves
Overview: A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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Hot Enough for June
1964-01-01
Hot Enough for June
Overview: A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Fifth Monkey
1990-10-05
The Fifth Monkey
Overview: When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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The Raging Moon
1971-01-21
The Raging Moon
Overview: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988-09-20
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Overview: Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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Anne of the Thousand Days
1969-12-18
Anne of the Thousand Days
Overview: Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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