Timothy Bateson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Timothy Dingwall Bateson was an English actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: April 03, 1926
Deathday: September 16, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Overview: Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-08
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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Joseph
Overview: Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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Foreign Body
Overview: Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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Tread Softly Stranger
Overview: Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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All or Nothing
Overview: Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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The Mouse That Roared
Overview: The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-17
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Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini
Overview: The life of legendary opera composer Gioacchino Rossini is recounted in this documentary, which examines how the author of "The Barber of Seville" opted to give up composing for the life of a performer at the age of 37. Using historical context, the film follows Rossini's life from his early years up to the height of his career, and includes a variety of excerpts from both his popular and his lesser-known works.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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A Handful of Dust
Overview: English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-24
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Overview: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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The Clandestine Marriage
Overview: A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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The Anniversary
Overview: Mrs Taggart always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It’s a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is determined for it to continue. None of her three sons have dared to cross their ruthless domineering mother but this anniversary they intend to try. With cruel and brutal twists, the family get-together becomes a social nightmare beyond endurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-07
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There Was a Crooked Man
Overview: When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-31
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Labyrinth
Overview: When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-27
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Oliver Twist
Overview: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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The Unstoppable Man
Overview: Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Annie: A Royal Adventure
Overview: Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Warbucks is going to be Knighted by the King. Annie and the gang stumbles onto a wicked scheme led by an evil noblewoman who plans to blow up Buckingham Palace so she can become Queen and claim the throne for herself! And now it is up to Annie and her friends to stop her!
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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The Stable Door
Overview: This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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East of Ipswich
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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Donkeys' Years
Overview: Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Autobiography of a Princess
Overview: On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-05
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The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
Overview: The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-08
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The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
Overview: Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-15
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The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
Overview: Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-22
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For My Baby
Overview: A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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Tunnel under the World
Overview: Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this already; except the details are always different. Is it conceivable that he is merely a simulacrum, the ultimate in consumer market surveying?
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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Doctor in Distress
Overview: "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-30
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Nightmare
Overview: A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her loved ones that she is not insane.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-28
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The Criminal
Overview: Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct and frank in answer to his nervousness. During the night, someone breaks into his flat and cuts her throat. He runs into the arms of the police, who dismiss his story, but release him while they search for the weapon. He investigates the crime, and over the next few days, meets a knowing pornographer, hit men, and other schemers. As dead bodies pile up wherever he goes, the police are soon looking for him with guns drawn. As he discovers secrets about a shadowy corporation, the police close in. Can he find someone to trust?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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What a Carve Up!
Overview: Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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Jigsaw
Overview: A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-21
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Tanglewoods' Secret
Overview: Young brother and sister in 1940s New England learn about life, death and faith
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Italian Job
Overview: Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-02
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-09
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Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Overview: The Doctor is summoned by the mysterious and powerful White Guardian, and sent on a quest to find the six segments of the Key to Time, which, once assembled, will restore balance to the Universe. Joining the Doctor and K9 is the smart and sassy Romana, a Time Lord fresh from the Academy. Landing on the wintry planet of Ribos to locate the first segment, the TARDIS crew quickly find themselves embroiled in a little local trouble with a pair of conmen and an unstable warlord...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Birds of Prey
Overview: An eccentric old man takes bizarre revenge on a couple preying on the elderly.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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After the Fox
Overview: A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-08
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Overview: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Twisted Nerve
Overview: Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Yesterday's Enemy
Overview: Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-10
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Loophole
Overview: When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-25
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Ladies in Lavender
Overview: Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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The Guinea Pig
Overview: A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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It's Trad, Dad!
Overview: The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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Between Two Worlds
Overview: The story of a young man undergoing treatment by a Czech psychoanalyst.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-06
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Foreign Exchange
Overview: A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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Expresso Bongo
Overview: A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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As You Like It
Overview: Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, where the deposed Duke holds court. Romantic mixups, cross-dressing, love poems nailed to trees, and a lion await them all.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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Devil's Bait
Overview: The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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The Mayfly and the Frog
Overview: When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Danger Route
Overview: Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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Crooks Anonymous
Overview: A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-31
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The Girl on the Boat
Overview: Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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1917
Overview: A British short film about World War I, directed by Stephen Weeks and starring Timothy Bateson, David Leland, and Geoffrey Davies.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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On the Fiddle
Overview: Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Father Came Too!
Overview: When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-11
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True Blue
Overview: The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Heart of Darkness
Overview: A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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The Knack... and How to Get It
Overview: A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Hard Times
Overview: Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Vice Versa
Overview: Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-28
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The Spy Killer
Overview: Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-11
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The Big Day
Overview: A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Seventy Deadly Pills
Overview: A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Don Quixote
Overview: Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-09
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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The Golden Rabbit
Overview: A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing him to overcome his nerves and rescue his girlfriend who has been kidnapped to force him to sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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Flayed
Overview: 'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just the naked person.'
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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The Horse's Mouth
Overview: Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape
Overview: Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a travelling circus. Peewee manages to befriend the real ape by giving him a bunch of bananas.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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White Corridors
Overview: White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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