Jean Simmons
Also Known As: ジーン・シモンズ, Джин Симмонс, Jean Merilyn Simmons, جین سیمونز
Biography: Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 31, 1929
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 22, 2010
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Angel Face
Overview: Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Guys and Dolls
Overview: Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Elmer Gantry
Overview: A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Hamlet
Overview: Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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How to Make an American Quilt
Overview: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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The Egyptian
Overview: In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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The Grass Is Greener
Overview: Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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The Big Country
Overview: Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-30
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Great Expectations
Overview: In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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The Robe
Overview: Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Désirée
Overview: In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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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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Young Bess
Overview: The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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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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A Bullet Is Waiting
Overview: A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Footsteps in the Fog
Overview: A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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Black Narcissus
Overview: A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-26
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Rough Night in Jericho
Overview: The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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Shadows in the Sun
Overview: A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-15
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So Long at the Fair
Overview: Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Androcles and the Lion
Overview: George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Down at the Hydro
Overview: Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-04
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Uncle Silas
Overview: Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Happy Ending
Overview: When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read about in fairy tales. Now it's 16 years later; Fred has had an affair, and Mary drowns her sorrows in pills and booze, a dangerous combination that nearly resulted in her death the year before. As Mary rushes off to the Bahamas for a relaxing escape from her crumbling marriage, she reflects on the past and wonders just where it all went wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-21
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This Could Be the Night
Overview: To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Going Undercover
Overview: Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-17
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On Cukor
Overview: Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Divorce American Style
Overview: After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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The Actress
Overview: The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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Affair with a Stranger
Overview: Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-20
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Fun in the Big Country
Overview: Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Home Before Dark
Overview: A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-16
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All the Way Home
Overview: In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-17
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Until They Sail
Overview: Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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She Couldn't Say No
Overview: An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-15
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Winter Solstice
Overview: When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Cage of Gold
Overview: The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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This Earth Is Mine
Overview: Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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Adam and Evelyne
Overview: A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-31
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Hilda Crane
Overview: After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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Life at the Top
Overview: Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-14
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Say Hello to Yesterday
Overview: Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-14
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Hungry Hill
Overview: Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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Dominique
Overview: The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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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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Mister Buddwing
Overview: An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Discovering Hamlet
Overview: Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Overview: Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-23
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Meet Sexton Blake
Overview: The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
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The Blue Lagoon
Overview: In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-01
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Laker Girls
Overview: Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for a spot on the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleading team.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-03
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Give Us the Moon
Overview: Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-31
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-20
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Heidi
Overview: Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. He at first resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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The Woman in the Hall
Overview: Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-27
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A Friendship in Vienna
Overview: Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-27
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Midas Valley
Overview: Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, passion and intrigue amongst them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-27
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Sensibility and Sense
Overview: Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Overview: Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-28
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Decisions! Decisions!
Overview: A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-11
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Overview: Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Romance Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-02
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Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Overview: Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve fame and fortune in show business and get all messed up in the process.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-19
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Mr. Sycamore
Overview: Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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The Easter Promise
Overview: Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a short time following the death of her mother. She brings the woman home for the family Easter celebration, and the little girl's concern and kindness help the woman see the promise of better days ahead.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-26
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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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A Moment in Time
Overview: Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself to a regime of rest, exercise, and starvation rations. When he meets the attractive Deidre Mackay, he finds himself experiencing emotions he never thought he'd feel again. From each other they learn how to live and how to love. They relive their youths-pulling pranks, laughing and dreaming. With a love so powerful, their time together is of no consequence. For it is a moment that stands still in time. A Moment In Time will make you laugh and cry and share a love that you'll never forget!
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Overview: Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Soldier in Love
Overview: The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-26
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Trio
Overview: W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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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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Mr. Emmanuel
Overview: An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-02
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Her Own Rules
Overview: Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-13
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Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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December Flower
Overview: Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-23
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Overview: The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-11
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Golden Gate
Overview: A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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People Like Us
Overview: When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-13
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A Small Killing
Overview: A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-24
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Trumbo
Overview: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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