Ralph Richardson
Also Known As: Sir Ralph Richardson, Ральф Ричардсон, Ralph David Richardson, Ральф Дэвид Ричардсон
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films. Richardson first became known for his work on stage in the 1930s. In the 1940s, together with Laurence Olivier, he ran the Old Vic company. He continued on stage and in films into the early 1980s and was especially praised for his comedic roles. In his later years he was celebrated for his theatre work with his old friend John Gielgud. Among his most famous roles were Peer Gynt, Falstaff, John Gabriel Borkman and Hirst in Pinter's No Man's Land. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Birthday: December 19, 1902
Deathday: October 10, 1983
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Gender: Male
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Dragonslayer
Overview: A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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Frankenstein: The True Story
Overview: Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-19
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The Four Feathers
Overview: A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Things to Come
Overview: The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-31
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
Genres: History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Overview: A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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Woman of Straw
Overview: Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-28
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-04
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The Fallen Idol
Overview: Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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Battle of Britain
Overview: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-15
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Overview: A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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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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The Bed Sitting Room
Overview: In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-01
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Overview: An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-20
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The Ghoul
Overview: British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-01
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
Overview: When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.
Genres: Drama Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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The Heiress
Overview: In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-06
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Khartoum
Overview: English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Genres: History War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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A Doll's House
Overview: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-10
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O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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Time Bandits
Overview: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-13
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Overview: Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife, debauchery of his older son, and sickness of the youngest son as past guilts, repressed anger, and deep-seated regrets slowly come boiling out, threatening to destroy the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-09
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Richard III
Overview: Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-13
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Q Planes
Overview: In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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The Divorce of Lady X
Overview: The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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The King of Paris
Overview: Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threatens to eclipse his own, he jealously strives to control every aspect of her life - including her romance with theatre electrician Paul Lebrun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-05
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The Day Will Dawn
Overview: Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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Tales from the Crypt
Overview: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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The Looking Glass War
Overview: When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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The Lion Has Wings
Overview: This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Moscow in Madrid
Overview: When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a location on the plains outside Madrid, Spain and built a set to look like the Russian capital. This promotional film gives viewers a short look at the set under construction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Overview: An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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The Sound Barrier
Overview: Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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The 300 Spartans
Overview: Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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School for Secrets
Overview: Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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The Citadel
Overview: Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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On the Night of the Fire
Overview: A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Overview: Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-03
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Bulldog Jack
Overview: While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Outcast of the Islands
Overview: After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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The Holly and the Ivy
Overview: An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-03
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Thunder in the City
Overview: A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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The Silver Fleet
Overview: Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-15
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Bees on the Boat-Deck
Overview: Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-11
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South Riding
Overview: Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Overview: Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-19
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Hedda Gabler
Overview: Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-28
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Smiley
Overview: Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away from home. Much to the exasperation of his overworked wife, Ma Greevins, Bill is also very fond of the drink. Smiley is determined to buy himself a push bike and so he takes on odd jobs in an effort to save up enough money. But Smiley always seems to get caught up in some sort of misadventure. Smiley is a classic Australian film that will delight audiences of all ages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Charlie Muffin
Overview: Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-11
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Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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No Man's Land
Overview: 'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home of a rich writer and they start reminiscing about the 'past,' in a menacing, Pinteresque fashion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-03
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Eagle in a Cage
Overview: 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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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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The Volunteer
Overview: World War II propaganda film.
Genres: War Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-10
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Java Head
Overview: The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-31
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Invitation to the Wedding
Overview: An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John Dexter’s production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Originally broadcast on Britain’s ITV, this classic performance captures all the slapstick, puns and double entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over four hundred years.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-12
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Home at Seven
Overview: Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-16
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Home
Overview: David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Rollerball
Overview: In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-25
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Smith
Overview: John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-28
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Watership Down
Overview: When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Genres: Adventure Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Overview: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Overview: In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles in the movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Upon This Rock
Overview: Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Passionate Stranger
Overview: Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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Dreyfus
Overview: In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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Johnson Over Jordan
Overview: Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-04
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David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Chimes at Midnight
Overview: Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Cricket
Overview: Through the pattern of this film a ‘Test’ at Lord’s runs like a thread and a broadcast commentary on the match is imposed on the background of cricket as a game, a craft, an interest of a people, a piece of history. The craftsmen are shown who make the ball and the bat–that ‘fourth straight stick’ with which the batsmen defend ‘the other three’. The craftsmen are shown who play the game, from W. G. Grace in the ‘nets’ to D. G. Bradman and Denis Compton in the thread of the ‘Test’. The history of the game is epitomized in the Long Room shots at Lord’s and from there the camera moves to the village green; to the London side- street where the urchins play on a ‘bumping pitch’; to South Africa, and India, where in the ‘blinding light’ there is often ‘an hour to play and the last man in.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-18
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Come Saturday
Overview: Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-02
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Heart to Heart
Overview: A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-06
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Eagles of the Fleet
Overview: Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Directed by William Wyler
Overview: Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-01
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Friday the Thirteenth
Overview: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-01
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