Joss Ackland
Also Known As: جاس آکلند, Джосс Экленд
Biography: Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: North Kensington, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 29, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 19, 2023
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Lethal Weapon 2
Overview: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-07
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Overview: Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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The Hunt for Red October
Overview: A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-02
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Swept from the Sea
Overview: The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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No Good Deed
Overview: While doing a friend a favour and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. The screenplay by Christopher Cannan and Steve Barancik is based on the short story "The House in Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-28
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D3: The Mighty Ducks
Overview: The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Genres: Comedy Action Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Jacob
Overview: Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself deceived. Finally, Jacob has to face both his uncle and brother.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-04
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Nowhere to Run
Overview: Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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The Mighty Ducks
Overview: After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the King. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the Cardinal.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-11
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Villain
Overview: In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Lady Jane
Overview: The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Overview: John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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It Couldn't Happen Here
Overview: Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant embark upon a journey across England - but which England? Is it the half-remembered England of their childhoods, or the brutal reality of Mrs Thatcher's late-eighties England? Along the way they come across many familiar (and sinister) faces. The movie also features some of the Pet Shop Boys' most popular records.
Genres: Music Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-08
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The Sicilian
Overview: Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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Asylum
Overview: A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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K-19: The Widowmaker
Overview: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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Citizen X
Overview: Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-25
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A Zed & Two Noughts
Overview: Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Lounge Act
Overview: Have you ever wondered what happens with your pet when you are not at home? A dog worried about its future, a lazy parrot and an aquarium full of fish with strong religious beliefs, show us what really happens, since they share an uncertain future with the old age of its owner.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Once Upon a Crime
Overview: On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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Flawless
Overview: A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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S*P*Y*S
Overview: Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-05
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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Overview: Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-06
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How About You...
Overview: A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Mother's Boys
Overview: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Overview: Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Overview: Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Surviving Picasso
Overview: The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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The Princess and the Goblin
Overview: The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-03
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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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Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Overview: Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an earthquake. Once there, he learns he was summoned by the wizard Merlin, who needs Calvin to save Camelot. Using dazzling modern inventions, can Calvin help King Arthur retain his crown and thwart the evil Lord Belasco?
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-11
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Icon
Overview: A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian policewoman, they work to uncover a plot to use biological weapons against certain factions of the Russian people to commit genocide. The virus would also be released in other populations, but would be treated making the candidate a hero. A side plot has the agent being reunited with his long lost daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Silver Bears
Overview: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-03
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The Little Prince
Overview: After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prince from outer space; the friendship conjures up stories of journeys through the solar system for the stranded aviator.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-06
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A Murder of Quality
Overview: At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Overview: When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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The House That Dripped Blood
Overview: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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To Kill a Priest
Overview: A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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I'll Be There
Overview: A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Great Expectations
Overview: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Apple
Overview: In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subsequently a maze of drugs, sex, and temptation.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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The Mumbo Jumbo
Overview: A cynical young American, Thomas Doubting, stumbles upon a magical amulet which takes him on a mysterious journey to the island of Sinmouth. The eccentric locals believe he is the lost legend of "Mumbo Jumbo" - an entity who will restore their fortunes and rescue the beautiful Princess Vanilla. On his journey, the Mumbo Jumbo discovers Sinmouth's dark secret and saves the inhabitants from their greatest enemy and his villainous slave.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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Jekyll & Hyde
Overview: Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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Crescendo
Overview: An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-07
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Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley
Overview: "In Search of the Great Beast 666" documents the chilling life, impulses and journey of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), one of the most controversial and mysterious characters of the 20th Century; infamously known as "The Wickedest Man in the World."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-10
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The Mind Snatchers
Overview: A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-28
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Saint Jack
Overview: Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Giorgino
Overview: October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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First and Last
Overview: The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-12
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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Overview: King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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The Love Tapes
Overview: At Frank Yost's Good Possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients have misadventures while trying to find the right person to be with.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-09
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The Object of Beauty
Overview: American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Overview: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-05
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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Ghost Ship
Overview: Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Boy with Chocolate Fingers
Overview: The story is about Donald McGlone, the boy with chocolate fingers (his fingers are made of chocolate). Because he is different, Donald has no friends and other children shun him. He grows up isolated and alone. Later he keeps a low profile working as an elevator operator, wearing gloves to conceal his secret. One day Molly, the girl he secretly adores, is trapped by a huge bear in the office. Donald gets a chance to make his difference become his greatest asset, if he is brave enough to save her. The moral of the story: If you are different, don't worry about what others may think, say or do, just be yourself and your dreams may come true.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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OcchioPinocchio
Overview: A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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Deadly Voyage
Overview: When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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Shadowlands
Overview: A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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Prisoners of the Sun
Overview: A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse
Genres: Mystery Action Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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Pinocchio
Overview: The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-01
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Hidden in Silence
Overview: Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry
Overview: A Master Painter of Twentieth Century Modern Art, Joan Miro was at once both distinctly modern and a lover of history. Created with exclusive access to the Miro Museum in Barcelona, Spain, this film is a rich tapestry of art, history and personality, interweaving state-of-the-art High Definition Filming, Historic Newsreel Footage, a tour of his legendary studio and performance by La Claca Theater Group in costumes designed by Miro himself. In the film, we journey through the dazzling achievements of a master Modern Art painters and printmaker. This film covers the painters invention of the Grattage style and his adventures into Surrealism, Abstract and Modernist painting and Collages, reflecting the influence of different trends, like the pure and brilliant colors used in Fauvism, shapes taken from Cubism, influences from folkloric Catalan art, and Roman frescos from the churches
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Miss Nightingale
Overview: The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Katherine of Alexandria
Overview: The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of Peter O'Toole, who died before the film was released.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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The Black Windmill
Overview: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-17
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Above and Beyond
Overview: True Story about the Atlantic Ferry Operation during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-29
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The Four Musketeers
Overview: The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-31
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To the Ends of Time
Overview: In a mythical kingdom, a young boy must fight time for the love of his princess and the future of his land.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-21
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Overview: Gorgeous Antonia is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets Mike, a tough drifter who helps her score more smack. Although they're not attracted to each other initially, Antonia and Mike eventually give in to their growing feelings for each other. But this leads to a dilemma: How does Mike help the woman he now loves kick her addiction?
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Overview: In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-28
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The Lie
Overview: Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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The Sheltering Desert
Overview: In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Daisies in December
Overview: A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this romantic human drama. Gerald's a stuffy ex-stockbroker who's been placed in the facility for his own best interest. Katherine's a warm and friendly resident with a soaring spirit and a zest for life. Their union is a transforming one, and also timely, as Katherine stands on the threshhold of a painful and very frightening battle with cancer. Poignant storytelling with a winning pair of costars.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-03
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Rough Cut
Overview: Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-19
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England Made Me
Overview: A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Citizen Locke
Overview: Story of John Locke...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-30
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You Talk Too Much
Overview: An old lady seeks help from her doctor after her sun-in-law tells her that she suffers from logorrhea
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Penny Gold
Overview: While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
Overview: Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accept a six-month research post in the Antarctic, making the first detailed study of a penguin colony, changes all that... Living in Shackleton’s derelict hut, Forbush is alone at the frozen edge of the world, his only links to civilisation a two-way radio and letters to his elusive, would-be girlfriend, Tara, in London. Through an often ferocious winter in the company of the penguins, he grows increasingly attached to his hardy, endearing subjects – learning profound lessons in endurance and humility.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-29
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Operation: Daybreak
Overview: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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The Bridge
Overview: When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival of Phillip Wilson Steer for his annual painting visit launches a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Othello
Overview: With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London of the near future, a crime-ridden metropolis virtually torn apart by racial hostilities. By order of the Prime Minister, black police officer John Othello (Eamonn Walker) is promoted to Commissioner, a post dearly coveted by Othello's friend, mentor and fellow officer Ben Jago (Christopher Eccleston). Seething with jealousy, Jago contrives to discredit Othello in the eyes of the public, and to destroy John's interracial marriage to the lily-white Dessie (Keeley Hawes). Among those used as unwitting dupes to gain Jago's ends are Othello's trusted lieutenant, Michael Cass (Richard Coyle), scrupulously honest police constable Alan Roderick (Del Synnott), and Jago's own wife, Lulu (Rachael Stirling).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-23
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Passion of Mind
Overview: A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Overview: At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-29
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Milk
Overview: Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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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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Hogfather
Overview: It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Tales from the Madhouse
Overview: Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-16
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The Palermo Connection
Overview: Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Landfall
Overview: A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Seven Days to Noon
Overview: When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-30
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Next to No Time
Overview: Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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In Search of the Castaways
Overview: Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Overview: Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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The Greek Tycoon
Overview: A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-12
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Overview: An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-16
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Overview: A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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Project: Shadowchaser
Overview: Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-02
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Voices in the Garden
Overview: Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant socialising have gradually dwindled, and for Cuckoo the villa has become a prison. Then an attractive young couple arrive, resurrecting the tensions and sexual rivalry between Archie and Cuckoo, and forcing all four to learn about themselves.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-23
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Overview: It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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The Princess and the Goblin
Overview: The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-03
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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Firelight
Overview: In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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My Giant
Overview: Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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A Different Loyalty
Overview: In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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These Foolish Things
Overview: The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Moscow Zero
Overview: In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.
Genres: Action Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-05
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Tre colonne in cronaca
Overview: Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Defining a Style
Overview: In this 2005 featurette, many key WATERSHIP DOWN animators and background artists recall their painstaking work on this landmark adaptation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Overview: Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate attempt to bring the war more quickly to an end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his espionage work once again threatening lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to empathize with their plight. As the country lurches toward revolution, Indy finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends and his military duty.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-26
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Heading For Glory
Overview: The 1974 finals in West Germany saw the emergence of "Total Football" in the shape of the classy Dutch led by the legendary Johan Cruyff. The Dutch swept all before them until they came up against the solid hosts in the final. Beckenbauer led West Germany to a tense 2-1 victory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-30
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Olympus Force: The Key
Overview: Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette containing a secret that can destroy the world.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Access to the Children
Overview: A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays, which they usually spend at the zoo.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-05
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The Three Sisters
Overview: In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-18
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The Portrait
Overview: The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting of a portrait we are asked to consider: Is it ever better not to know some things than to know them? Does secrecy protect or damage those we love? Can all things be forgiven and forgotten?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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Codename: Kyril
Overview: At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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Brown Bear's Wedding
Overview: The shy Brown Bear falls for the beautiful White Bear and is bound and determined to make her his wife.
Genres: Animation Romance Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-25
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White Bear's Secret
Overview: Brown Bear and White Bear are now married, but Brown Bear is finding the married life a little harder than he hoped.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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The Bankrupt
Overview: Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-27
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Overview: Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-30
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When We Are Married
Overview: Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Elizabeth Alone
Overview: "Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!" But should we condemn her as she condemns herself?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Findings on a Late Afternoon
Overview: Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon spent with his father, he starts to come to terms with the wounding confusions and mistakes of his past-his lies, his girl-friend's suicide, his mother's obsessive love of his - younger brother and her death in a hospital when he arrived too late to communicate his real feelings for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-11
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Maggie
Overview: East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-law, and an amiable but uncomprehending husband in Norman (Joss Ackland). When Christopher Shearway (Jonathan Cecil), the welfare officer at the factory where Norman Proud works, begins to take Maggie to theatres and art galleries as a “social experiment” it works too well.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-25
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Simulacrum
Overview: SIMULACRUM is just a step into the future where an insurgent human race rises up against Artificial Intelligence machines. A young, human ‘lab rat’ escapes captivity from diabolical experiments with the help of another prisoner and gains extraordinary powers along the way. They get pulled apart and battle to be reunited, facing extreme situations and frightening characters along the way. The bourgeoning relationship of the two lovers is played out against an existential war between man and machine, leading to an exciting climax in the artificial reality of the SIMULACRUM.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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Julius Caesar
Overview: A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-30
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The Leather Boys
Overview: Documentary lamenting the state of the British motorbike industry in the mid-eighties and looking back on the better old days.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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