Ben Aris
Biography: Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class, or upper-middle class, man.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 16, 1937
Deathday: September 04, 2003
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Tommy
1975-03-19
Tommy
Overview: After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-19
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Hamlet
1969-12-21
Hamlet
Overview: Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-21
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A Hazard of Hearts
1987-12-27
A Hazard of Hearts
Overview: When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-27
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Star Quality
1985-11-10
Star Quality
Overview: Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
1976-02-15
I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
Overview: Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and no man is safe from the crotch-grabbing tea lady. In his attempts to seduce pretty office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine called Agnes that emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' guaranteed to turn any man or woman into an slathering sex maniac. Although his attempts to zap Cheryl are singularly unsuccessful, Pigeon gets some interesting results when he accidentally turns the 'sex ray' on his bullying boss Nutbrown and the prudish Mary Watchtower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-15
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Savage Messiah
1972-06-27
Savage Messiah
Overview: In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1980-11-20
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Overview: Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-20
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U.F.O. The Movie
1993-12-10
U.F.O. The Movie
Overview: The legendary Roy 'Chubby' Brown stars in his very first feature length movie. Chubby is captured by a gang of feminist aliens from the 25th century and beamed up to their spaceship during his live show in Blackpool. Put on trial for crimes against woman, he is soon found guilty and sentenced to the ultimate penalty. Is this the end of the planet's favourite son? Will he escape? Or will Chubby be terminated? Co-starring super model Sara Stockbridge and Roger Lloyd Pack, 'Trig' from Only Fools and Horses. U.F.O. is the bawdiest, most outrageous celluloid experience of the year or indeed any year.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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The Three Musketeers
1973-12-11
The Three Musketeers
Overview: The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the King. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the Cardinal.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-11
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Christmas Spirits
1981-01-01
Christmas Spirits
Overview: Julia, a Hollywood property scout, is looking for a house to star in a horror movie, she finds more than she bargained for at Glebes Hall. Unaired in the UK.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
1992-09-28
Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
Overview: Biopic purporting to tell the real story behind the marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from their initial courtship through their eventual separation.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-28
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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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Fearless Frank
1978-10-04
Fearless Frank
Overview: The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-04
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Vampira
1974-10-10
Vampira
Overview: In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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The Fool
1990-12-07
The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Get Carter
1971-02-03
Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Juggernaut
1974-09-25
Juggernaut
Overview: A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Alfie Darling
1975-07-17
Alfie Darling
Overview: Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-17
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
1980-11-07
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Overview: Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-07
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Royal Flash
1975-10-10
Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Night Train to Murder
1984-01-01
Night Train to Murder
Overview: When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Enemy
1976-01-01
Enemy
Overview: Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Reckoning
1970-01-31
The Reckoning
Overview: Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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The Music Lovers
1971-02-12
The Music Lovers
Overview: Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988-03-19
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Overview: Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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Up at the Villa
2000-04-14
Up at the Villa
Overview: Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974-02-16
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Overview: The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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O Lucky Man!
1973-03-25
O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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if....
1968-12-19
if....
Overview: In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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West 11
1963-10-08
West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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The After Dinner Joke
1978-02-14
The After Dinner Joke
Overview: A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-14
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King of the Wind
1990-05-25
King of the Wind
Overview: In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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The Falklands Factor
1983-04-26
The Falklands Factor
Overview: Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-26
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The Ritz
1976-08-12
The Ritz
Overview: To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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Lionheart
1968-01-01
Lionheart
Overview: A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Ready
2002-01-01
Ready
Overview: Naomi has known all her life that she will succumb to the same fate that has befallen her family for generations. Unlike her ancestors, who all made unmitigated fools of themselves trying to avoid the curse, Naomi has accepted her destiny and tells herself that she is ready.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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