Trevor Howard
Also Known As: Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith
Biography: Howard was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years before World War II. His first paid work was in the play Revolt in a Reformatory (1934), before he left RADA in 1935 to take small roles. Although stories of his courageous wartime service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans alike, files held in the Public Record Office reveal that he had actually been discharged from the British Army in 1943 for mental instability and having a "psychopathic personality". The story, which surfaced in Terence Pettigrew's biography of the actor, published by Peter Owen in 2001, was initially denied by Howard's widow, actress Helen Cherry. Later, confronted with official records, she told the Daily Telegraph (24 June 2001) that his mother had claimed he was a holder of the Military Cross. She added that Howard had an honourable military record and "had nothing to be ashamed of".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 29, 1913
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 07, 1988
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The Third Man
Overview: In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Brief Encounter
Overview: Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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Ludwig
Overview: Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Foreign Body
Overview: Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
Overview: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Triple Cross
Overview: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Genres: Adventure War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-09
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Father Goose
Overview: During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-10
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Overview: The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-08
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Von Ryan's Express
Overview: Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Genres: War Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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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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Kidnapped
Overview: Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Offence
Overview: A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-11
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The Liquidator
Overview: Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself. This leads to complications.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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I See a Dark Stranger
Overview: Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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Meteor
Overview: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Green for Danger
Overview: In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-07
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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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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White Mischief
Overview: A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-10
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Morituri
Overview: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-24
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The Catholics
Overview: Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and react back to the past: they begin to say Mass in Latin and act according to traditional Catholic dogma. So, Rome decides to send a representative to investigate what is happening
Genres: Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Aces High
Overview: The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-19
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The Clouded Yellow
Overview: After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-21
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Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Overview: Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Ryan's Daughter
Overview: The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-19
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Time After Time
Overview: 'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-26
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Overview: During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Run for the Sun
Overview: Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-30
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Squaring the Circle
Overview: Royal Air Force training film starring Trevor Howard as an RAF pilot. Focus of the film is on the importance of finding the right job for the right person in the RAF.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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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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Odette
Overview: The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Overview: Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-07
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The Passionate Friends
Overview: A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-26
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The Sea Wolves
Overview: A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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The Missionary
Overview: In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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Gift Horse
Overview: Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-01
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The Night Visitor
Overview: An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Dust
Overview: A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Hennessy
Overview: Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Sons and Lovers
Overview: The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-29
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Hurricane
Overview: The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Overview: Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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The Roots of Heaven
Overview: In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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Catch Me a Spy
Overview: While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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Who?
Overview: After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
Genres: Mystery Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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The Lion
Overview: Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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The Unholy
Overview: A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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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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Conduct Unbecoming
Overview: A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-04
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Twinky
Overview: A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-06
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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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Golden Salamander
Overview: An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-01
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Light Years Away
Overview: A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Persecution
Overview: A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-07
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The Key
Overview: In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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Craze
Overview: A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-16
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Lovers' Net
Overview: Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form of gorgeous widow Francoise Arnoul. Alas, it turns out that Arnoul has a sordid past of her own, leaving our hero sadder but wiser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-18
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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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Man in the Middle
Overview: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-27
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Overview: A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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The Heart of the Matter
Overview: Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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The Dawning
Overview: An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-08
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Slavers
Overview: A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Moment of Danger
Overview: Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye to getting even.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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A Doll's House
Overview: Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-16
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So Well Remembered
Overview: A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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The Stranger's Hand
Overview: Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-20
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11 Harrowhouse
Overview: A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Overview: The story of the last years of Handel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Stevie
Overview: For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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The Shillingbury Blowers
Overview: A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the previous conductor is criticized for the false notes played by the brass band.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Overview: An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Memory of the Camps
Overview: In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. A film was made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. It was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on PBS FRONTLINE in 1985.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-07
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Death in the Sun
Overview: A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-03-15
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Inside the Third Reich
Overview: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-09
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Overview: Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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Windwalker
Overview: An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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Manuela
Overview: James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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Christmas Eve
Overview: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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Hand in Glove
Overview: A woman finds herself on the verge of madness after experiencing a vision of her lovers imminent death.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Way to the Stars
Overview: Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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The Deadly Game
Overview: Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-22
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Overview: Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-01
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Pope Joan
Overview: Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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Staying On
Overview: A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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Pretty Polly
Overview: Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in Singapore her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-19
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Overview: Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Way Ahead
Overview: A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Flashpoint Africa
Overview: A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Overview: The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Overview: British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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The Bengal Lancers!
Overview: 30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Superman II
Overview: Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who made himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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Eagle in a Cage
Overview: Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-20
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The Aircraft Rocket, Part 4: Tactics, Section 2: Coastal
Overview: One of a series of World War II-era RAF training films, this instalment instructs Coastal Command pilots on proper formation and firing techniques for interdicting enemy shipping.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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