Dirk Bogarde
Biography: Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art-house films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, before starring in the successful Doctor film series (1954–1963). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Despair (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dirk Bogarde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: March 28, 1921
Deathday: May 08, 1999
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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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El Rey en Londres
1966-10-11
El Rey en Londres
Overview: The film shows as a documentary the trip to London of Palito Ortega and Graciela Borges
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-10-11
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Our Mother's House
1967-09-14
Our Mother's House
Overview: Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-14
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Overview: A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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A Tale of Two Cities
1958-02-07
A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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A Bridge Too Far
1977-06-15
A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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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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Death in Venice
1971-03-05
Death in Venice
Overview: Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-05
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Darling
1965-08-03
Darling
Overview: The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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Sebastian
1968-01-24
Sebastian
Overview: Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-24
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The Night Porter
1974-04-03
The Night Porter
Overview: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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The Woman in Question
1950-10-03
The Woman in Question
Overview: Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-03
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Cast a Dark Shadow
1955-09-20
Cast a Dark Shadow
Overview: Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-20
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Despair
1978-09-20
Despair
Overview: Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-20
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Modesty Blaise
1966-05-01
Modesty Blaise
Overview: Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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The Damned
1969-10-30
The Damned
Overview: In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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Justine
1969-08-06
Justine
Overview: In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-06
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The Servant
1963-11-14
The Servant
Overview: Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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H.M.S. Defiant
1962-04-15
H.M.S. Defiant
Overview: Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-15
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Victim
1961-08-01
Victim
Overview: A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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For Better, for Worse
1954-06-20
For Better, for Worse
Overview: In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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The Serpent
1973-04-07
The Serpent
Overview: Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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The Wind Cannot Read
1958-06-10
The Wind Cannot Read
Overview: A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
1992-11-23
Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
Overview: A two-part interview in which Dirk Bogarde talks about his life and career.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-23
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954-06-01
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Overview: During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Doctor in the House
1954-03-23
Doctor in the House
Overview: The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-23
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Doctor at Sea
1955-07-12
Doctor at Sea
Overview: The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Doctor at Large
1957-03-26
Doctor at Large
Overview: Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-26
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Doctor in Distress
1963-07-30
Doctor in Distress
Overview: "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-30
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So Long at the Fair
1950-05-31
So Long at the Fair
Overview: Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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The Password Is Courage
1962-06-01
The Password Is Courage
Overview: Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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Penny Princess
1952-03-24
Penny Princess
Overview: A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-24
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The Mind Benders
1963-02-01
The Mind Benders
Overview: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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The Gentle Gunman
1952-10-23
The Gentle Gunman
Overview: The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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Providence
1977-01-25
Providence
Overview: On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-25
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The Blue Lamp
1950-01-19
The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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Appointment in London
1953-02-17
Appointment in London
Overview: Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-17
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Ill Met by Moonlight
1957-01-31
Ill Met by Moonlight
Overview: Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Accident
1967-02-09
Accident
Overview: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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Dancing with Crime
1947-06-25
Dancing with Crime
Overview: When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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The Sleeping Tiger
1954-06-21
The Sleeping Tiger
Overview: A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Campbell's Kingdom
1957-09-03
Campbell's Kingdom
Overview: Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-03
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Simba
1955-01-07
Simba
Overview: A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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I Could Go on Singing
1963-03-07
I Could Go on Singing
Overview: Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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The Fixer
1968-12-08
The Fixer
Overview: Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-08
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King and Country
1964-09-05
King and Country
Overview: During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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Libel
1959-10-23
Libel
Overview: A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-23
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The Singer Not the Song
1961-01-05
The Singer Not the Song
Overview: A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-05
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Quartet
1948-10-26
Quartet
Overview: Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Once a Jolly Swagman
1949-02-02
Once a Jolly Swagman
Overview: A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Daddy Nostalgia
1990-09-05
Daddy Nostalgia
Overview: A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-05
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The Spanish Gardener
1956-12-25
The Spanish Gardener
Overview: Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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May We Borrow Your Husband?
1986-05-13
May We Borrow Your Husband?
Overview: An author seeking solitude in a small hotel in the South of France is an unwilling witness to a relationship between a young couple and two interior designers.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-13
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Song Without End
1960-08-11
Song Without End
Overview: The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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Hunted
1952-03-17
Hunted
Overview: An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-17
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Permission to Kill
1975-11-20
Permission to Kill
Overview: Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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They Who Dare
1954-02-02
They Who Dare
Overview: In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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The High Bright Sun
1964-11-01
The High Bright Sun
Overview: This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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Esther Waters
1948-09-28
Esther Waters
Overview: Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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The Doctor's Dilemma
1959-01-01
The Doctor's Dilemma
Overview: Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Blackmailed
1951-01-30
Blackmailed
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-30
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The Angel Wore Red
1960-04-14
The Angel Wore Red
Overview: A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Desperate Moment
1953-03-17
Desperate Moment
Overview: Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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Dear Mr. Prohack
1949-09-07
Dear Mr. Prohack
Overview: A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Boys in Brown
1949-12-01
Boys in Brown
Overview: Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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The Patricia Neal Story
1981-12-08
The Patricia Neal Story
Overview: The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-08
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The Epic That Never Was
1969-09-19
The Epic That Never Was
Overview: The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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Pictures of Europe
1990-04-25
Pictures of Europe
Overview: What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
2023-06-18
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Overview: Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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Blithe Spirit
1966-12-07
Blithe Spirit
Overview: Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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Upon This Rock
1970-01-01
Upon This Rock
Overview: Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Come on George!
1939-12-01
Come on George!
Overview: George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
2019-06-25
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Overview: Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-25
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985-01-01
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Overview: Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
2021-07-30
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Overview: In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-07-30
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Empire of the Censors
1995-05-28
Empire of the Censors
Overview: The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-28
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
1977-01-01
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Overview: Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Boys Don't Cry
2000-02-25
Boys Don't Cry
Overview: A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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The Vision
1987-11-25
The Vision
Overview: Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Schindler
1983-10-01
Schindler
Overview: The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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We Joined the Navy
1963-05-17
We Joined the Navy
Overview: Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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The Private Dirk Bogarde
2001-08-14
The Private Dirk Bogarde
Overview: Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager, Anthony Forwood, seen through home movies and excerpts from Bogarde's memoirs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-14
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A Letter to True
2004-01-01
A Letter to True
Overview: A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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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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Little Moon of Alban
1964-03-18
Little Moon of Alban
Overview: Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WWI she finds herself caring for what she considers the enemy. Then she begins to fall in love with soldier Kenneth Boyd.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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Power Without Glory
1947-06-01
Power Without Glory
Overview: Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Visconti's Venice
1970-07-01
Visconti's Venice
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary produced during the original release of the film. The promotional piece features interviews with director Luchino Visconti and actor Dirk Bogarde as they discuss the filmmaking process involved in bringing Death in Venice to life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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The Case of Helvig Delbo
1947-07-22
The Case of Helvig Delbo
Overview: A true story of wartime espionage reconstructed for television by Robert Barr. In Denmark in 1943 twelve patriots who had been aiding Allied airmen to escape to Britain were rounded up by the Gestapo. British Intelligence Officers found one clue. It pointed to the traitor being a girl. With the aid of patriots from the Norwegian and Danish underground they tracked her down... and the flow of airmen escaping to Britain began again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-22
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Catch a Fallen Star
1987-12-23
Catch a Fallen Star
Overview: A portrait of Jessie Matthews, a once famous British singer, dancer and film star
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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