Cyril Shaps
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Birthday: October 13, 1923
Deathday: January 01, 2003
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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966-03-06
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Overview: Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-06
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The Lost Son
1999-06-25
The Lost Son
Overview: Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-25
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The Looking Glass War
1970-01-02
The Looking Glass War
Overview: When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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The Clandestine Marriage
1999-11-12
The Clandestine Marriage
Overview: A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
1979-07-19
Unidentified Flying Oddball
Overview: A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-19
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The Importance of Being Earnest
2002-05-17
The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990-09-30
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Overview: Real life husband and wife Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this Screen One film as the parents of teenage boy diagnosed with schizophrenia
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-30
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Never Let Go
1960-06-02
Never Let Go
Overview: John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-02
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The Cherry Orchard
1971-12-19
The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-19
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The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
The Kremlin Letter
Overview: After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Return of a Stranger
1961-01-01
Return of a Stranger
Overview: An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1964-10-04
The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970-05-02
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Overview: Astronauts rescued from a mission to mars are kidnapped when they arrive back on earth. They seem to have been irradiated, and can now kill people merely by touching them. But the Doctor discovers the astronauts have been replaced with Alien ambassadors who are being forced to behave in a hostile manner. With The Doctor traveling to the alien mother ship, and Liz kidnapped, The Brigadier is left wondering who to trust.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-02
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The Man Who Cried
2000-08-29
The Man Who Cried
Overview: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Genres: Romance Drama Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-29
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Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
1967-09-23
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Overview: Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers a band of archaelogists on a secret expedition to unearth the reason for his old enemies' extinction. In the underground shadowy depths, they find the icy tomb. A whole army in hibernation. A threat to no one, if the temperature remains low. But if the traitor in their midst gets his way, things could really heat up.
Genres: Adventure Horror Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Bar Mitzvah Boy
1976-09-14
Bar Mitzvah Boy
Overview: On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Up Jumped a Swagman
1965-12-21
Up Jumped a Swagman
Overview: A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-21
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Traitors
1990-11-05
Traitors
Overview: A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-05
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For My Baby
2000-10-19
For My Baby
Overview: A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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Operation: Daybreak
1975-11-01
Operation: Daybreak
Overview: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Great
1975-03-17
Great
Overview: An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world's largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.
Genres: Animation History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-17
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962-12-11
Lawrence of Arabia
Overview: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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The End of the Affair
1999-12-03
The End of the Affair
Overview: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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The Pianist
2002-09-17
The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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The Silent Enemy
1958-03-04
The Silent Enemy
Overview: The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978-12-16
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Overview: Finding the fourth segment of the Key to Time was simple enough, but holding onto it may be another matter. The Doctor and Romana find themselves embroiled in the political games of the planet Tara, where doubles, android or otherwise, complicate the coronation of Prince Reynart.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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The Spy Who Loved Me
1977-07-07
The Spy Who Loved Me
Overview: Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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To Sir, with Love
1967-06-14
To Sir, with Love
Overview: A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-14
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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991-12-06
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-06
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978-01-01
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Overview: One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Odessa File
1974-10-17
The Odessa File
Overview: Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Avalanche Express
1979-09-27
Avalanche Express
Overview: CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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The Little Ones
1965-06-01
The Little Ones
Overview: The story of Ted and Jackie, two London kids who decide to run away to Liverpool and, from there, stow away on a ship bound for Jamaica - the home of Jackie's estranged father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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Simon Magus
1999-02-17
Simon Magus
Overview: Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-17
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The Pursuers
1961-12-31
The Pursuers
Overview: A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret meeting in Paris they discuss what to do with the former Auschwitz commandant Karl Brochmann, who since 12 years lives in London under the false identity of Karl Luther. They decide to take the law in their own hands, and send their member David to London. He starts his commission by scaring Luther, to see his reactions. Luther is already nervous, because the newspapers are writing about the capture of Eichmann. When he finds out that somebody has broken into his apartment and painted a swastika on his mirror, he gets terrified. He empties his bank account, packs a bag with all his cash and runs away, followed by David.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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SOS Pacific
1959-10-14
SOS Pacific
Overview: A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-14
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Interpol
1957-04-02
Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Erik the Viking
1989-09-01
Erik the Viking
Overview: Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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The Governess
1998-07-31
The Governess
Overview: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-31
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
1963-04-20
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Overview: The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-20
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Danger Within
1959-02-17
Danger Within
Overview: Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-17
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The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965-11-28
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Overview: Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
Genres: Romance Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Passport to Shame
1958-12-02
Passport to Shame
Overview: British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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Our Miss Fred
1972-12-14
Our Miss Fred
Overview: Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a troupe of Girl Guides.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-14
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974-06-08
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Overview: The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately sought by the Eight Legs, a race of mutated spiders, as the final element in their plan for universal domination. With help from an old mentor, the Doctor realises the only way to foil the plot is to make the ultimate sacrifice. The Doctor must risk death to return to the cave of the Great One and save the universe.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-08
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11 Harrowhouse
1974-09-26
11 Harrowhouse
Overview: A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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RKO 281
2000-04-07
RKO 281
Overview: In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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The Boy Who Stole a Million
1960-09-02
The Boy Who Stole a Million
Overview: A boy gets involved in a bank robbery
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Violent Playground
1958-01-14
Violent Playground
Overview: A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-14
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Who Killed Lamb?
1974-02-04
Who Killed Lamb?
Overview: A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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The Madness of King George
1994-12-28
The Madness of King George
Overview: Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-28
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Tennis Court
1984-12-17
Tennis Court
Overview: Maggie and Harry Dowl arrive in England to inspect a house left to Maggie. The house has a dilapidated tennis court, but this seems to have some force which takes over the daughter of the local holy man, as well as causing tennis balls to gush blood and kill people with animated nets.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-17
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The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman
1978-02-01
The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman
Overview: Marcus Fleischman's reincarnation proves a frustrating one. His widow, in his absence, leads the simple life of a shopkeeper, and brings up their son as best she can.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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The Switch
1976-06-07
The Switch
Overview: Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle Sander. Suspects include the beautiful Marissa and boyfriend, who have a few surprises in store. Lord Sinclair and Danny then travel to Switzerland, where they have to help an elderly Duchess protect her jewels by finding proof of past marriage to a prince.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-07
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