John Phillips
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Birthday: July 20, 1914
Deathday: May 11, 1995
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Quadrophenia
1979-09-14
Quadrophenia
Overview: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-14
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Village of the Damned
1960-06-16
Village of the Damned
Overview: In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-16
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Becket
1964-03-11
Becket
Overview: Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Mission: Monte Carlo
1974-01-01
Mission: Monte Carlo
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
1968-08-21
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Overview: When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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The Mummy's Shroud
1967-03-15
The Mummy's Shroud
Overview: Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-15
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Man in the Moon
1960-10-31
Man in the Moon
Overview: William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-31
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961-12-28
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Overview: Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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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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Sky High
1951-10-19
Sky High
Overview: When he is told that he is to spend three more years as a tailgunner, goofball GI Herbert Pumice thinks that a promotion--which he has little to no chance of getting--will get him out of the job he hates. He asks his girlfriend Sally, who owns the base café, for help. She goes to the base commander, Col. Baker--who she knows has a crush on her--to help out Herbert. Col. Baker schedules a promotion hearing for Herbert that Friday. He naturally fails it miserably, and then learns that Col. Baker is going out on a date with Sally. Meanwhile, the base military intelligence officer discovers that Herbert is a dead-ringer for the head of a spy ring intending to sabotage a new automated plane, and gets Herbert assigned to infiltrate the gang. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Romanoff and Juliet
1961-06-08
Romanoff and Juliet
Overview: Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Fortune Is a Woman
1957-03-13
Fortune Is a Woman
Overview: An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Dial Red O
1955-03-13
Dial Red O
Overview: The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-13
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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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Dunkirk
1958-03-20
Dunkirk
Overview: A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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The Hallelujah Handshake
1970-12-17
The Hallelujah Handshake
Overview: Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-17
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Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
1977-10-04
Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
Overview: During World War I Major Errol Phipps is determined to escape from Stalag Luft 112B but his attempts all fail. However all the other prisoners and the guards succeed, leaving him alone in the camp to make elaborate plans - including a tunnel system so extensive it becomes the Munich Underground. He is so obsessed with his escape plans he fails to realize that the war has ended and dies a disappointed man. He does however manage to escape from his grave after he has been buried though.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-04
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Mrs. Amworth
1975-01-01
Mrs. Amworth
Overview: A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Ascendancy
1983-01-01
Ascendancy
Overview: Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Three Dangerous Ladies
1977-06-05
Three Dangerous Ladies
Overview: Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-05
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The Shiralee
1957-07-11
The Shiralee
Overview: An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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Joey Boy
1965-01-01
Joey Boy
Overview: While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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I Accuse!
1958-03-05
I Accuse!
Overview: Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Offbeat
1961-01-01
Offbeat
Overview: When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Executioner
1980-04-17
The Executioner
Overview: Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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The Mouse on the Moon
1963-05-07
The Mouse on the Moon
Overview: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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Angels One Five
1952-03-19
Angels One Five
Overview: The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-19
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The Devil's Eggshell
1966-06-28
The Devil's Eggshell
Overview: The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-28
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