Maurice Denham
Biography: Maurice Denham OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 23, 1909
Deathday: July 24, 2002
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Recluse
1981-01-01
Recluse
Overview: A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965-06-16
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Overview: In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-16
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The Day of the Jackal
1973-05-16
The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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The Alphabet Murders
1965-12-26
The Alphabet Murders
Overview: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-26
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Animal Farm
1954-12-28
Animal Farm
Overview: Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Malta Story
1953-06-01
Malta Story
Overview: Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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Night of the Demon
1957-11-09
Night of the Demon
Overview: American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-09
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Our Man in Havana
1960-01-27
Our Man in Havana
Overview: Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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Some Girls Do
1969-01-23
Some Girls Do
Overview: A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-23
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The Million Pound Note
1954-01-07
The Million Pound Note
Overview: An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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Torture Garden
1967-11-01
Torture Garden
Overview: Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Operation Crossbow
1965-04-01
Operation Crossbow
Overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Paranoiac
1963-01-07
Paranoiac
Overview: A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-07
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Madness of the Heart
1949-12-20
Madness of the Heart
Overview: A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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The Night Caller
1965-12-31
The Night Caller
Overview: The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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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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The End of the River
1947-12-01
The End of the River
Overview: A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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Love Song
1985-04-06
Love Song
Overview: The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-06
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-11-06
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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84 Charing Cross Road
1987-02-13
84 Charing Cross Road
Overview: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Barnacle Bill
1957-12-17
Barnacle Bill
Overview: A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Nicholas and Alexandra
1971-11-29
Nicholas and Alexandra
Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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Countess Dracula
1971-01-30
Countess Dracula
Overview: Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-30
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The Nanny
1965-10-07
The Nanny
Overview: Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Two Way Stretch
1960-12-20
Two Way Stretch
Overview: Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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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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Sink the Bismarck!
1960-02-11
Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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23 Paces to Baker Street
1956-05-18
23 Paces to Baker Street
Overview: Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Luther
1974-01-21
Luther
Overview: One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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The Mark
1961-01-26
The Mark
Overview: A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-26
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The Purple Plain
1954-09-14
The Purple Plain
Overview: An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-14
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The Man Within
1947-05-19
The Man Within
Overview: A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-19
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Hysteria
1965-04-01
Hysteria
Overview: An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Danger Route
1967-10-01
Danger Route
Overview: Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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From a Far Country
1981-09-15
From a Far Country
Overview: This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Easy Money
1948-01-20
Easy Money
Overview: A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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Eight O'Clock Walk
1954-03-16
Eight O'Clock Walk
Overview: Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Many Waters
1938-10-17
Many Waters
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-17
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Power to Fly
1953-01-01
Power to Fly
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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All Passion Spent
1986-12-09
All Passion Spent
Overview: his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-09
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The History of the Cinema
1956-07-31
The History of the Cinema
Overview: A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.
Genres: History Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-31
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Simon and Laura
1955-11-02
Simon and Laura
Overview: A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-02
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It's Not Cricket
1949-04-01
It's Not Cricket
Overview: Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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The Greengage Summer
1961-05-01
The Greengage Summer
Overview: Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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Time Bomb
1953-02-05
Time Bomb
Overview: When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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The Spider and the Fly
1949-12-01
The Spider and the Fly
Overview: "The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Schalcken the Painter
1979-12-22
Schalcken the Painter
Overview: Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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Midas Run
1969-05-07
Midas Run
Overview: A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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Bed
1995-10-20
Bed
Overview: Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Poet's Pub
1949-07-05
Poet's Pub
Overview: A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-05
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Love's Labour's Lost
1975-12-14
Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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The Blind Goddess
1948-09-14
The Blind Goddess
Overview: Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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The Blue Lagoon
1949-03-01
The Blue Lagoon
Overview: In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-01
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Jassy
1947-08-13
Jassy
Overview: In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Here Come the Huggetts
1948-12-02
Here Come the Huggetts
Overview: The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-02
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Traveller's Joy
1950-12-25
Traveller's Joy
Overview: A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Look Before You Love
1948-01-06
Look Before You Love
Overview: Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-06
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Captain Boycott
1947-08-26
Captain Boycott
Overview: Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Holiday Camp
1947-08-05
Holiday Camp
Overview: The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-05
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Shout at the Devil
1976-04-12
Shout at the Devil
Overview: During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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Invasion Quartet
1961-09-01
Invasion Quartet
Overview: This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun. See if this fearless foursome can stomp their Fascist foes and get back to their game of cricket! Spike Milligan, Gregoire Aslan, and Thorley Walters co-star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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The Captain's Table
1959-01-06
The Captain's Table
Overview: A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-06
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Scrapbook for 1933
1950-02-06
Scrapbook for 1933
Overview: A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-06
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London Belongs to Me
1948-11-05
London Belongs to Me
Overview: Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949-05-23
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Overview: The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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Negatives
1968-09-05
Negatives
Overview: A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-05
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A Desperate Case
1958-01-02
A Desperate Case
Overview: A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the railways transport it from station to station, seeking its true abode. Finally, one of its owners comes to the nightmare tribunal where those who maltreat their luggage are dealt with. Did it happen? Was it a dream? Be warned. See this film. Avoid making yours 'a desperate case'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-02
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987-07-15
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Overview: Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-15
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987-02-25
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Overview: Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-25
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Mr. Love
1985-01-01
Mr. Love
Overview: An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Set Up
1963-01-01
The Set Up
Overview: Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Very Edge
1963-04-30
The Very Edge
Overview: Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-30
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The Last Vampyre
1993-03-14
The Last Vampyre
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-14
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The Best House in London
1969-01-01
The Best House in London
Overview: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990-09-28
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Overview: Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Once Upon a Dream
1949-02-01
Once Upon a Dream
Overview: An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Julia
1977-10-01
Julia
Overview: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Daybreak
1948-05-18
Daybreak
Overview: A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Long Past Glory
1963-11-17
Long Past Glory
Overview: Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970-06-01
The Virgin and the Gypsy
Overview: Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
1980-04-22
The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
Overview: Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-22
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The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
1980-04-15
The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
Overview: Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-15
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The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
1980-04-08
The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
Overview: The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-08
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Seeing in the Dark
1989-09-13
Seeing in the Dark
Overview: Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he starts to be plagued by a series of mysterious phone calls and letters. Tony becomes haunted by a growing premonition of catastrophe.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-13
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Nona
1991-10-19
Nona
Overview: British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of her entire family, with her constant craving for food and demands, which everybody indulges, in spite of falling into prostitution and bankruptcy. Her two grandsons hit on the idea of marrying her off to an elderly man who runs a tobacconists and sweet kiosk, however, the latter believes that Chico is trying to hitch him up with the beautiful young Marta.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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Robert Rylands' Last Journey
1996-10-18
Robert Rylands' Last Journey
Overview: Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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The Uncle
1965-04-23
The Uncle
Overview: Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-23
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The Dog It Was That Died
1989-01-01
The Dog It Was That Died
Overview: Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Downfall
1964-01-01
Downfall
Overview: Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Ali and the Camel
1960-01-01
Ali and the Camel
Overview: Eight part serial. When Ali's father, a diver, has to go to hospital, Ali is offered money by a Professor involved in a jewel robbery. A camel, who talks only to Ali, persuades Ali to buy him and then helps him to discover where the jewels are hidden.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Take My Life
1947-05-30
Take My Life
Overview: When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-30
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The 7th Dawn
1964-09-02
The 7th Dawn
Overview: Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Julius Caesar
1969-04-13
Julius Caesar
Overview: The play by William Shakespeare.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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Don't Ever Leave Me
1949-07-19
Don't Ever Leave Me
Overview: Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-19
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The Long Duel
1967-07-27
The Long Duel
Overview: An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-27
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The Heroes of Telemark
1965-11-12
The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Street Corner
1953-03-17
Street Corner
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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Tears in the Rain
1988-01-01
Tears in the Rain
Overview: When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Net
1953-02-09
The Net
Overview: A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-09
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After the Fox
1966-09-08
After the Fox
Overview: A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-08
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Oliver Twist
1948-06-28
Oliver Twist
Overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-28
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Monsignor Quixote
1985-01-01
Monsignor Quixote
Overview: Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Landfall
1949-09-30
Landfall
Overview: A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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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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A Touch of Love
1969-09-01
A Touch of Love
Overview: Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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Blanche Fury
1948-02-19
Blanche Fury
Overview: Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-19
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My Brother's Keeper
1948-08-19
My Brother's Keeper
Overview: War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-19
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Fame Is the Spur
1947-09-23
Fame Is the Spur
Overview: A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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A Slight Ache
1967-02-06
A Slight Ache
Overview: In the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast, comfortably disputing as to whether the honeysuckle or convolvulus is in flower, and joining forces to drown a wasp in the marmalade jar. When a stranger appears at the garden gate his presence both disturbs and fascinates them.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-06
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They Made Me a Fugitive
1947-06-24
They Made Me a Fugitive
Overview: After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
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The Hope and the Glory
1984-04-25
The Hope and the Glory
Overview: Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but warm, friendship with Joe, an old man who has a room in the same house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-25
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The Upturned Glass
1947-06-17
The Upturned Glass
Overview: A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-17
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Piping Hot
1959-01-01
Piping Hot
Overview: An animated film about the history and use of hot water.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Memento Mori
1992-04-19
Memento Mori
Overview: Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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The King's Breakfast
1963-01-01
The King's Breakfast
Overview: A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Martin Luther, Heretic
1983-11-08
Martin Luther, Heretic
Overview: Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-08
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Miranda
1948-04-06
Miranda
Overview: A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-06
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Checkpoint
1956-12-25
Checkpoint
Overview: Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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No Highway in the Sky
1951-06-28
No Highway in the Sky
Overview: James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Carrington V.C.
1954-12-09
Carrington V.C.
Overview: Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1984-03-30
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Overview: A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan III. A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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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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Go as You Please in Britain
1975-01-02
Go as You Please in Britain
Overview: Traces the development of the Freightliner services and introduces customers with differing freight problems, who describe the advantages the system has for them over other forms of transport. The story of the Ford Company train which daily links factories at Liverpool and Genk, in Belgium, and examples of the growing influence of the Freightliner system and the company train in the export field. Produced for Freightliners Limited and British Rail Shipping & International Services Division.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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The Chain
1984-01-01
The Chain
Overview: Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
1965-03-01
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
Overview: When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluctantly establishes himself in the underworld with the help of a street-smart boy.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-01
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For Better, For Worse
1961-01-01
For Better, For Worse
Overview: Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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