Elsa Lanchester
Biography: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (October 28, 1902 – December 26, 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television and former dancer. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Laughton's success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. Her role as the bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), brought her recognition, and came to be one of the roles most closely associated with her throughout her life. Lanchester played supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come to the Stable (1949) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the last of twelve films in which she appeared with Laughton. Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester resumed her career with appearances in such Disney films as Mary Poppins (1964), That Darn Cat! (1965) and Blackbeard's Ghost (1968). The horror film, Willard, (1971) was highly successful and one of her last roles was in Murder By Death (1976). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Lanchester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: October 28, 1902
Deathday: December 26, 1986
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935-04-20
Bride of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Mary Poppins
1964-12-17
Mary Poppins
Overview: Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Lassie Come Home
1943-12-01
Lassie Come Home
Overview: Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Bell, Book and Candle
1958-12-25
Bell, Book and Candle
Overview: A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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Murder by Death
1976-06-23
Murder by Death
Overview: Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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The Spiral Staircase
1946-02-06
The Spiral Staircase
Overview: On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-06
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Tales of Manhattan
1942-08-05
Tales of Manhattan
Overview: Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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The Inspector General
1949-12-31
The Inspector General
Overview: An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Hell's Half Acre
1954-06-01
Hell's Half Acre
Overview: A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Willard
1971-07-30
Willard
Overview: A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-30
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Ladies in Retirement
1941-09-09
Ladies in Retirement
Overview: Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957-12-17
Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933-08-17
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Overview: Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-17
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The Secret Garden
1949-04-30
The Secret Garden
Overview: When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-30
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942-01-29
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Overview: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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Naughty Marietta
1935-03-29
Naughty Marietta
Overview: In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Blackbeard's Ghost
1968-02-08
Blackbeard's Ghost
Overview: The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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My Dog, the Thief
1969-09-21
My Dog, the Thief
Overview: As ratings for Jack Crandall's lifeless airborne traffic reports plummet, a super-size St. Bernard on the lam stows away in his chopper. Crandall's new co-pilot helps send ratings sky-high, but the canine's chronic kleptomania generates girl trouble, jewel thievery, and loads of laughs.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-21
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Buccaneer's Girl
1950-03-01
Buccaneer's Girl
Overview: A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1967-05-28
Easy Come, Easy Go
Overview: Navy frogman Ted Jackson balances his time between twin careers as a deep-sea diver and nightclub singer. During a dive, Ted spots sunken treasure and returns with the hope to retrieve it.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-28
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Androcles and the Lion
1952-12-01
Androcles and the Lion
Overview: George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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The Bishop's Wife
1947-12-25
The Bishop's Wife
Overview: An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Rembrandt
1936-11-06
Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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The Big Clock
1948-03-18
The Big Clock
Overview: Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Rascal
1969-06-11
Rascal
Overview: A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. Because of Rascal, both father and son realize their responsibility to each other
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Pajama Party
1964-11-11
Pajama Party
Overview: A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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The Razor's Edge
1946-11-19
The Razor's Edge
Overview: An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-19
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The American Nightmare
2000-09-11
The American Nightmare
Overview: An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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Dreamboat
1952-07-26
Dreamboat
Overview: Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-26
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Honeymoon Hotel
1964-06-03
Honeymoon Hotel
Overview: A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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The Girls of Pleasure Island
1953-04-01
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Overview: In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Come to the Stable
1949-07-27
Come to the Stable
Overview: Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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One of the Best
1927-11-01
One of the Best
Overview: '1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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The Petty Girl
1950-08-17
The Petty Girl
Overview: An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-17
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018-07-27
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Overview: A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-27
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Northwest Outpost
1947-06-25
Northwest Outpost
Overview: US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin (Hugo Haas), who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova (Ilona Massey), the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut).
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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The Ghost Goes West
1935-12-17
The Ghost Goes West
Overview: Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan. To clear his mounting debts, Donald sells the dilapidated pile to an American businessman, Mr Martin, who has the castle complete with the Glourie ghost transported and rebuilt in Florida. While old-world gentility rubs up comically against 20th-century materialism, Martin's daughter takes a liking to both Donald and Murdoch, convinced they are one and the same man...
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-17
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Les Miserables
1952-08-14
Les Miserables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-14
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Arnold
1973-11-16
Arnold
Overview: Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Vessel of Wrath
1938-03-04
Vessel of Wrath
Overview: Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Me, Natalie
1969-07-13
Me, Natalie
Overview: Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-13
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The Glass Slipper
1955-03-24
The Glass Slipper
Overview: Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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Terror in the Wax Museum
1973-05-02
Terror in the Wax Museum
Overview: Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-02
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Passport to Destiny
1944-01-31
Passport to Destiny
Overview: An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-31
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Frenchie
1950-12-25
Frenchie
Overview: Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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In Name Only
1969-11-25
In Name Only
Overview: In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014-08-01
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Overview: Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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David Copperfield
1935-01-18
David Copperfield
Overview: Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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Die Laughing
1980-04-01
Die Laughing
Overview: A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased…
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-01
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Blue Bottles
1928-05-05
Blue Bottles
Overview: As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of the law assemble. The confrontation between order and disorder ensues, with our heroine caught up in it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-05
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The Love Habit
1931-01-16
The Love Habit
Overview: 'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-16
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Ashes
1930-12-31
Ashes
Overview: Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in 2000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Thumbs Up
1943-07-05
Thumbs Up
Overview: In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she learns that her fiance, a producer, and his partner are looking for new talent at the war factories. While working there, the woman meets a handsome RAF officer and falls in love. This causes some trouble.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-05
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The Constant Nymph
1928-02-20
The Constant Nymph
Overview: Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-20
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Alice in Wonderland
1955-10-22
Alice in Wonderland
Overview: A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-22
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Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
Forever and a Day
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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3 Ring Circus
1954-12-22
3 Ring Circus
Overview: Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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Daydreams
1928-05-01
Daydreams
Overview: A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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The Tonic
1928-05-01
The Tonic
Overview: The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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Comets
1930-09-19
Comets
Overview: A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-19
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That Darn Cat!
1965-12-02
That Darn Cat!
Overview: A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Potiphar's Wife
1931-03-28
Potiphar's Wife
Overview: 'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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The Stronger Sex
1931-02-26
The Stronger Sex
Overview: A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-26
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The Officers' Mess
1931-05-08
The Officers' Mess
Overview: A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-08
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Overview: This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-31
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Commercial Entertainment Product
1992-11-24
Commercial Entertainment Product
Overview: The video debut of experimental musicians and culture jamming artists Emergency Broadcast Network.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-24
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009-01-01
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Overview: Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
1924-01-01
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
Overview: The Pope and Cardinal Montefiasco plot to bring England back within the fold of the Catholic Church. Montefiasco decides to do this by first converting the Prince of Wales, then arranging the murder of leading Protestants on St Bartholomew's day. The Prince falls under the influence of the homosexual Dean of Balliol, an ally of the Cardinal, but may yet be saved by his love for cabaret girl Beatrice...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
1993-10-25
Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers
Overview: Documentary about the Yale Puppeteers. A bit eccentric, certainly off beat and creative, the puppeteers and their story - as well as their place in history - is meticulously documented and tugs at the heartstrings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-25
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The Flood
1962-05-05
The Flood
Overview: Stravinsky and Balanchine's take on the apocalyptic Biblical tale. An opera composed for video.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-05
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007-05-16
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Overview: Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-16
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Universal Horror
1998-10-08
Universal Horror
Overview: A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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