Frederick Treves
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 29, 1925
Deathday: January 30, 2012
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The Long Arm
1956-06-01
The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Defence of the Realm
1986-05-09
Defence of the Realm
Overview: A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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Hedgehog Wedding
1987-04-17
Hedgehog Wedding
Overview: Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Bomber Harris
1989-09-03
Bomber Harris
Overview: Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-03
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The Cherry Orchard
1981-10-13
The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a walthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherrt orchard and dividing the estate into plats that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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A Certain Justice
1998-01-01
A Certain Justice
Overview: The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply disproves the prosecution's case against them. In the course of her career ,she has made enemies and one of them kills her and she is found in a very ritualistic setting.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Paper Mask
1990-09-14
Paper Mask
Overview: A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Death of a Son
1989-01-08
Death of a Son
Overview: The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-08
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Pool of London
1951-02-20
Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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Country
1981-10-20
Country
Overview: In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Wynne and Penkovsky
1985-02-01
Wynne and Penkovsky
Overview: The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Gentle Folk
1980-01-19
Gentle Folk
Overview: An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-19
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A Flame to the Phoenix
1983-12-15
A Flame to the Phoenix
Overview: A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II begins.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-15
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2002-02-24
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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The Elephant Man
1980-10-09
The Elephant Man
Overview: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-09
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978-12-12
On a Paving Stone Mounted
Overview: An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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The Fool
1990-12-07
The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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The Square
1957-01-01
The Square
Overview: Old man of class and character living in a London square after both have suffered from time. Before his house is pulled down the residents surprise him with a party.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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One Hour to Zero
1976-01-01
One Hour to Zero
Overview: Steve runs away from home, having argued with his father, and hides in a slate mine where his friend Paul finds him and brings him back. However, on returning to their village the two boys find the place completely deserted. Or so they think.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Doctor Who: Meglos
1980-10-18
Doctor Who: Meglos
Overview: On the lush planet Tigella, two opposing factions are divided over the usage of the Dodecahedron, an ancient and powerful artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. The Doctor is summoned to arbitrate the conflict, but the power-crazed Meglos intercepts the call and impersonates him in order to steal the Dodecahedron.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-18
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Sweeney 2
1978-03-30
Sweeney 2
Overview: The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-30
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
2002-05-12
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Overview: The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas, where he has a run-in with a murderous band of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns and flying fists. Marooned by the pirates on a remote desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters, but before they can turn him into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and makes a life-altering decision.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-12
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Theban Plays: Antigone
1986-09-19
Theban Plays: Antigone
Overview: In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Lucky
1974-02-05
Lucky
Overview: “Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'Lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unlucky career as a criminal has resulted in a series of stretches in prison for theft. The story follows Lucky on the day of his release from his latest sentence. As he wanders around Liverpool, not really belonging anywhere, it becomes clear that he is still waiting for his father, a man who has long since abandoned Lucky and his family, to return and take him back 'home' to Africa.” - Richard Parkin
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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Afraid of the Dark
1991-10-10
Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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The High Terrace
1956-10-01
The High Terrace
Overview: A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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The Naked Civil Servant
1975-12-17
The Naked Civil Servant
Overview: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Sunshine
1999-09-13
Sunshine
Overview: The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Doran's Box
1976-01-20
Doran's Box
Overview: A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-20
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P.Q. 17
1981-12-15
P.Q. 17
Overview: "That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A British Allied convoy designated for the Soviet Union comes under attack from German forces during World War II.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-15
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Nighthawks
1981-03-17
Nighthawks
Overview: When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-17
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God on the Rocks
1992-12-29
God on the Rocks
Overview: Growing up in a household incapable of showing love and affection, Margaret's life is transformed when Lydia, a worldly teenage maid, arrives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-29
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988-05-15
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Overview: The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
1977-10-12
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
Overview: Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is sunk in a collision resulting in a grievous loss of life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-12
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Forgotten Love Songs
1978-01-04
Forgotten Love Songs
Overview: 'The man knew what he wanted. A relationship that was loving, but not possessive. In other words, he wanted to maintain his sanity.'
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-04
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Wheel of Fate
1953-07-01
Wheel of Fate
Overview: Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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