Alexander Knox
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexander Knox (January 16, 1907 – April 25, 1995) was a Canadian actor and author of adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Knox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Strathroy, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: January 16, 1907
Deathday: April 25, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Woman of Straw
Overview: Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-28
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Alias John Preston
Overview: A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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Crack in the World
Overview: Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-15
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Cry of the Innocent
Overview: An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-15
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The Sea Wolf
Overview: Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Two of a Kind
Overview: A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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Europe '51
Overview: A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Khartoum
Overview: English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Genres: History War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Modesty Blaise
Overview: Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Man in the Saddle
Overview: A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-02
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Operation Amsterdam
Overview: When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-12
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Shalako
Overview: Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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None Shall Escape
Overview: Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-03
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Overview: A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-17
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Villa Rides
Overview: Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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The Sign of the Ram
Overview: A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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Sister Kenny
Overview: An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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Tokyo Joe
Overview: An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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The Damned
Overview: An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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The Psychopath
Overview: Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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The Night My Number Came Up
Overview: British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-22
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Accident
Overview: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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Wilson
Overview: The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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The Sleeping Tiger
Overview: A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Hidden Fear
Overview: A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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The Betrayal
Overview: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-24
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Intent to Kill
Overview: While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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Over 21
Overview: A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-08
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-23
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The Gaunt Stranger
Overview: A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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Man in the Middle
Overview: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-27
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Overview: The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
Genres: Crime Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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The Two-Headed Spy
Overview: Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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In the Cool of the Day
Overview: After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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Davy
Overview: The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-02
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High Tide at Noon
Overview: After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel, the steadfast friend and the poetry-quoting newcomer. As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Saturday's Hero
Overview: A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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The Divided Heart
Overview: During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-09
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Mister Moses
Overview: A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-12
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Paula
Overview: A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-15
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Reach for the Sky
Overview: The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-05
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Crack in the Mirror
Overview: Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine. The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man, Larnier, and their passion knows no boundaries of caution or safety. Eventually, Eponine's and Larnier's lust drives them to madness, and they murder Hagolin. The second tale concerns an up-and-coming young lawyer, Claude, whose mentor is a highly successful veteran attorney, Lamerciere, with a beautiful young wife named Florence. Claude finds himself defending Larnier and Eponine, while Lamerciere dies of a heart attack after he discovers that Florence has been unfaithful to him with Claude.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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This Above All
Overview: In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-12
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The Share Out
Overview: A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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Skullduggery
Overview: An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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Run a Crooked Mile
Overview: A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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The Judge Steps Out
Overview: A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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The Four Feathers
Overview: A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Overview: Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-06
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Holocaust 2000
Overview: An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Overview: Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Overview: A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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Puppet on a Chain
Overview: Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent, Maggie, the American is soon stirring things up.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-02
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
Overview: A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-30
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The 25th Hour
Overview: A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-26
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You Only Live Twice
Overview: A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-13
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The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Storm Over Jamaica
Overview: A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-25
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Joshua Then and Now
Overview: Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-17
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How I Won the War
Overview: An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Churchill and the Generals
Overview: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-23
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Overview: A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-16
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Man Above Men
Overview: Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The judge sees himself as a protector of democracy, but his daughter, Susan, regards him as the greatest living argument for euthanasia.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-19
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Bikini Paradise
Overview: A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Gorky Park
Overview: Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-15
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The Vikings
Overview: Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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