Biography: Bernard Cribbins (29 December 1928 - 27 July 2022) was an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, had been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 had still been an active performer. He was particularly known to British audiences as the story-telling voice in The Wombles, a children's programme running which ran for 40 episodes between 1973 and 1975. He also recorded several hit novelty records in the early 1960s and was a regular and prolific performer on Jackanory on BBC TV between 1966 and 1991. Cribbins' most recent prominent role had been as Wilfred Mott, companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Cribbins licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 29, 1928
Deathday: July 27, 2022
Popularity:
1972-05-25
Overview: After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
Popularity:
2017-02-17
Overview: The Lake District, nearly all a national park, covers a mountainous region in NW England's Cumbria county, and contains Windemere and other lakes, England's largest and deepest. The seasons dominate tourism, the dominant modern sector as it is the most popular domestic destination, with walks, aquatic fun and lake tours, as well as traditional rural life, including old-fashioned games and competitions at Rusland. While the varied environment is home to many wildlife species, some rare or even unique, the agricultural pride is the local Herdwick sheep, which produces fine wool and survives outdoors on high slopes even in harsh winters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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1964-02-23
Overview: Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-23
Popularity:
1964-06-01
Overview: Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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1967-04-13
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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2013-11-23
Overview: Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present, celebrity fans and special surprises.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
Popularity:
1978-06-23
Overview: Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-23
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1963-03-17
Overview: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-17
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1970-12-21
Overview: After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-21
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2003-05-18
Overview: Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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1957-04-01
Overview: While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
Popularity:
2006-06-25
Overview: To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But when the baddies, led by Cruella de Vil, discover that they have not been invited, they steal the Queen's handbag containing her spectacles and the text of her speech; without it, the Queen will not be able to make a speech at the party. Can the goodies find the handbag in time?
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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1966-08-05
Overview: Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-05
Popularity:
1981-01-04
Overview: When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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1965-04-18
Overview: The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-18
Popularity:
1960-12-20
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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1976-12-28
Overview: A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-28
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1977-11-10
Overview: Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-10
Popularity:
1963-05-07
Overview: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-07
Popularity:
1992-10-02
Overview: Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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1966-07-01
Overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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1968-07-12
Overview: George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-12
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1982-10-18
Overview: A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes. It features an all-star cast including Tommy Cooper, Bernard Cribbins, Jimmy Edwards, Irene Handl, Bob Todd and Andrew Sachs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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1959-12-21
Overview: Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy finishes up in the bull-ring facing a VERY angry bull and cheered on by the crowd. What will he do now?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-21
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1965-01-01
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated animation.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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1979-12-17
Overview: Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-17
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1969-01-01
Overview: Barclays Bank documentary about computers in the UK and how they might be used in the future.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
1964-01-01
Overview: Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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1958-01-02
Overview: The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-02
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1988-05-25
Overview: Short stories based on the popular Sylvanian Families toys
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-25
Popularity:
2022-07-10
Overview: A double dose of the doctor! Two classic Dr. Who adventures return in new 4K restorations. Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) were the first time the good Doctor was ever seen in colour and on the big screen. The films, directed by Gordon Flemyng, remain the doctor’s only cinematic outings and feature the legendary Peter Cushing as everyone’s favourite timelord alongside a supporting cast that includes Roy Castle, Bernard Cribbins, Jennie Linden and Roberta Tovey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-10
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1965-07-21
Overview: The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants the team his son plays for to win instead so he makes life as difficult as he can for them. But Barton United are offered help by the local professional team that just happens to be Manchester United with boss man Matt Busby.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-21
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1965-08-03
Overview: A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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1975-12-25
Overview: Rock musical retelling of the legend of the Trojan Horse.
Genres: Music TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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1976-07-22
Overview: Night Ferry stars Bernard Cribbins as Pyramid, a dastardly master-of-disguise who plans to smuggle an ancient Egyptian mummy out of the country. When young Jeff discovers the plan, a dangerous chase via London's Victoria and Clapham stations ensues.
Genres: Action Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-22
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1978-05-20
Overview: Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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2012-05-16
Overview: John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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2009-05-10
Overview: 30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-10
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1979-12-24
Overview: The world as seen through the eyes of a robin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-24
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1961-10-10
Overview: Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
Popularity:
1958-03-20
Overview: A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-20
Popularity:
1964-10-10
Overview: An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-10
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1977-02-13
Overview: Directed by Donald McWhinnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-13
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1967-01-01
Overview: Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
Popularity:
2016-05-30
Overview: At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-30
Popularity:
1978-01-02
Overview: Sponsored as part of the Electricity Council's 'Understanding Electricity' campaign, Play Safe is a series of three hard-hitting fillers designed to highlight to children the potentially fatal consequences of playing near overhead electric lines and substations. The carefree attitude of the youngsters as they fly their kites and radio-controlled planes in the open air is undermined by composer Harry Robinson's electronic soundtrack, which pulsates with menace throughout.
Genres: Family Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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1975-11-10
Overview: Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers. Highlights the customer who parades their knowledge, the silent customer who cannot communicate his needs and the finicky customer who requires every detail. Features John Cleese, Anghared Rees, Patricia Routledge, Bernard Cribbins and Lynn Redgrave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-10
Popularity:
2009-11-13
Overview: Big Chris leads a chorus of characters from various animated children's television shows in a medley of seven songs: 1. "Can You Feel It" 2. "Don't Stop" 3. "Jai Ho!" 4. "Tubthumping" 5. "Never Forget" 6. "Hey Jude" 7. "One Day Like This"
Genres: Music Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
Popularity:
1959-01-01
Overview: Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
Popularity:
2012-06-07
Overview: Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-07
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2018-06-29
Overview: A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-29
Popularity:
1964-01-01
Overview: A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins' classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, "Right Said Fred". In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
Popularity:
1960-11-10
Overview: A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-10
Popularity:
1987-06-26
Overview: A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
Popularity:
1962-08-05
Overview: Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-05
Popularity:
2013-08-04
Overview: Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed, in the company of former cast members and celebrity fans.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-04
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1962-12-14
Overview: A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-14
Popularity:
1960-12-26
Overview: A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-26
Popularity:
2007-12-25
Overview: When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-25
Popularity:
1961-10-26
Overview: During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-26
Popularity:
2012-09-11
Overview: A profile of Sir George Martin, Britain's most celebrated record producer, from his early days at EMI/Parlophone to his work with The Beatles.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-11
Popularity:
1973-01-01
Overview: Bernard Cribbins appears as himself, and various characters in the brewing trade, in a lighthearted look at the beer making (and drinking) process, from the picking of hops and barley to the various different kinds of pubs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Popularity:
1987-12-26
Overview: Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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2009-12-29
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-29
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2010-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
Popularity:
1994-08-12
Overview: Meet the actor who, along with Christopher Lee, became the most recognizable and beloved of the Hammer Films family, bringing an unparalleled dramatic skill to his roles as Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Van Helsing, Baron Frankenstein and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-12
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1989-01-01
Overview: John Cleese training video on customers.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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1984-12-15
Overview: A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-15
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