David Markham
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 03, 1913
Deathday: December 15, 1983
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Day for Night
1973-05-24
Day for Night
Overview: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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Murder in the Family
1938-01-01
Murder in the Family
Overview: After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Stars Look Down
1940-01-22
The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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And Did Those Feet ?
1965-06-02
And Did Those Feet ?
Overview: Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-02
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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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Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969-01-01
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Overview: Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality
Genres: History Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Bukovsky
1977-01-01
Bukovsky
Overview: Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private screenings. The documentary appears publicly for the first time as a special feature of the BFI's 'Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)' box set, alongside 50 minutes of outtakes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979-08-05
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Overview: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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The Master Builder
1958-02-23
The Master Builder
Overview: Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-23
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Gandhi
1982-12-01
Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Loyalties
1976-02-29
Loyalties
Overview: During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-29
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The Dawn Killer
1959-09-01
The Dawn Killer
Overview: Sheepdog Glen, accused of sheep killing on the Romney Marshes, is cleared by the efforts of his two youthful owners in time for the Sheepdog Trials.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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The Three Hostages
1977-12-27
The Three Hostages
Overview: Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover three hostages taken prisoner by a shadowy criminal organisation
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-27
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Z.P.G.
1972-05-25
Z.P.G.
Overview: In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981-03-04
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Overview: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969-09-17
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Overview: An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
1971-06-16
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Overview: Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-16
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The Rainbirds
1971-02-11
The Rainbirds
Overview: After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-11
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Tess
1979-10-06
Tess
Overview: A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Richard's Things
1980-12-26
Richard's Things
Overview: Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Whose Child Am I?
1976-01-01
Whose Child Am I?
Overview: Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Tales from the Crypt
1972-03-09
Tales from the Crypt
Overview: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Two English Girls
1971-11-18
Two English Girls
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with Ann’s family, Claude falls in love with her sister Muriel, but both families lay down a year-long separation without contact before they may marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-18
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The Right Person
1955-01-01
The Right Person
Overview: In Copenhagen, a former resistance fighter seeks the traitor responsible for betraying his comrades during World War II.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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'That Crazy Woman'
1980-02-21
'That Crazy Woman'
Overview: In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-21
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The Roads of Exile
1978-01-01
The Roads of Exile
Overview: French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Wuthering Heights
1967-10-28
Wuthering Heights
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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The Blakes Slept Here
1953-09-08
The Blakes Slept Here
Overview: The story of a family house through four generations
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-08
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Rope
1947-01-05
Rope
Overview: Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-05
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