Anthony Bate
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 31, 1927
Deathday: June 19, 2012
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The Man in the Back Seat
1961-06-01
The Man in the Back Seat
Overview: The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977-05-31
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Overview: Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-31
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984-11-28
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Overview: When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.
Genres: Drama Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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Beasts: During Barty's Party
1976-10-23
Beasts: During Barty's Party
Overview: A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-23
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The Set Up
1963-01-01
The Set Up
Overview: Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Double Echo
1976-10-05
Double Echo
Overview: A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-05
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Act of Murder
1964-09-01
Act of Murder
Overview: A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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The Seagull
1978-02-05
The Seagull
Overview: A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-05
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Eminent Domain
1991-04-12
Eminent Domain
Overview: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Nowhere in Africa
2001-12-11
Nowhere in Africa
Overview: A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-12-11
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A Woman Called Golda
1982-04-26
A Woman Called Golda
Overview: The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-26
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Moonlight on the Highway
1969-04-12
Moonlight on the Highway
Overview: Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-12
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Breakthrough at Reykjavik
1987-12-06
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Overview: Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-06
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Payroll
1961-01-01
Payroll
Overview: A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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A Prize of Arms
1962-12-11
A Prize of Arms
Overview: A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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Psy-Warriors
1981-07-17
Psy-Warriors
Overview: Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Beyond Our Means
1973-09-18
Beyond Our Means
Overview: A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Lighthouse Hill
2004-05-04
Lighthouse Hill
Overview: After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-04
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Level Seven
1966-10-27
Level Seven
Overview: Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here. But how safe is it?
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-27
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Davey Jones' Locker
1965-01-01
Davey Jones' Locker
Overview: A troublesome boy gets other children into danger while skin diving, but learns his lesson after a near-fatal accident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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A Visitor from Outer Space
1983-04-28
A Visitor from Outer Space
Overview: A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-28
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1980-05-07
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Overview: Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Nelly's Version
1983-06-09
Nelly's Version
Overview: People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-09
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Happy Now
2001-08-20
Happy Now
Overview: All grown up and gunning for political power in a small North Wales community, Glen Marcus and his best mate harbour a dark secret which seems to be coming back to haunt them. But can the daughter of Tina Trent, a local woman just returned from Alaska, be the same girl the two lads buried fourteen years earlier? Only local policeman Max Bracchi can solve the case with the help of a wrongly accused tramp, Tin Man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-20
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Ghost Story
1974-03-19
Ghost Story
Overview: Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-19
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The Network
1979-12-20
The Network
Overview: What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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Countdown to War
1989-04-07
Countdown to War
Overview: Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Stop-over Forever
1964-05-31
Stop-over Forever
Overview: The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-31
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The Collection
The Collection
Overview: An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
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The Big Day
1960-07-01
The Big Day
Overview: A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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The Big Boys
1961-08-28
The Big Boys
Overview: BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-28
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Snowball
1960-01-01
Snowball
Overview: A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Exploits at West Poley
1985-01-01
Exploits at West Poley
Overview: Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Coins Against The Wall
1980-02-07
Coins Against The Wall
Overview: A play about bullying, asking whether anything can actually be done about it. A gang of boys engage David in a game of 'coins against the wall' every day at school, a game for which David needs a daily supply of money, and which he inevitably loses. When he doesn't have money he truants from school, and eventually steals money from home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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Dalhousie's Luck
1980-08-03
Dalhousie's Luck
Overview: Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-03
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Last Summer's Child
1981-11-06
Last Summer's Child
Overview: Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Events make him grow up rather fast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-06
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