Sean Connery
Also Known As: Sir Sean Connery, Thomas Sean Connery, ショーン・コネリー, Σον Κόνερι, Τόμας Σον Κόνερι, Σερ Σον Κόνερι, Σερ Τόμας Σον Κόνερι, 肖恩·康纳利, شان کانری
Biography: Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Birthday: August 25, 1930
Deathday: October 31, 2020
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Gender: Male
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Overview: In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-24
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The Untouchables
Overview: Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Genres: Crime History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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The Name of the Rose
Overview: 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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The Man Who Would Be King
Overview: A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Marnie
Overview: Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-17
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Dr. No
Overview: Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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From Russia with Love
Overview: Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Thunderball
Overview: A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-11
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Goldfinger
Overview: Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-20
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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 Russia House
Overview: Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Diamonds Are Forever
Overview: Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
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Finding Forrester
Overview: Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-21
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The Hunt for Red October
Overview: A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-02
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Playing by Heart
Overview: In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Outland
Overview: An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Crime Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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Family Business
Overview: Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-06
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Entrapment
Overview: Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-29
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Murder on the Orient Express
Overview: In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Robin and Marian
Overview: Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Zardoz
Overview: In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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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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A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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First Knight
Overview: The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is torn between her loyalty to her husband and her growing love for his rival. But Lancelot must balance his loyalty to the throne with the rewards of true love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-07
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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The First Great Train Robbery
Overview: In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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Highlander II: The Quickening
Overview: In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the supposed lack of ozone. Also, flashbacks show the story behind MacLeod and Ramirez's exile from Ziest.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-13
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Highlander
Overview: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Rising Sun
Overview: When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-30
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The Anderson Tapes
Overview: Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-17
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Overview: Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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The Red Tent
Overview: Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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The Presidio
Overview: Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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The Hill
Overview: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-17
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Wrong Is Right
Overview: Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-16
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Overview: To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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DragonHeart
Overview: In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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Just Cause
Overview: A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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Medicine Man
Overview: An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-07
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The Offence
Overview: A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-11
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The 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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The Avengers
Overview: British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-13
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The Rock
Overview: When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Overview: A follow-up special to ABC's 1987 "The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson." The program includes clips of great stunts, interviews with celebrities and profiles of legendary stuntpeople.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Meteor
Overview: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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A Good Man in Africa
Overview: Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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The Molly Maguires
Overview: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-08
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Never Say Never Again
Overview: James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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Ever to Excel
Overview: The history and development of St Andrews University, Scotland, on the occasion of its 600th anniversary, and the story of how its graduates have shaped the modern world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Time Bandits
Overview: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-13
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The Wind and the Lion
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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Another Time, Another Place
Overview: In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-02
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Overview: The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so Tarzan pursues them to their mine.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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Cuba
Overview: A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Thriller Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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The James Bond Story
Overview: Bond... James Bond! Perhaps the greatest fictional cinema icon ever. He first appeared on the big screen in 1962 in Dr. No and has remained the most powerful action hero ever since. The secret to his success is his adaptability. No matter what tight spots he finds himself in, he always appears to be suave, sophisticated and cool. This is the full story -- from the creation of the character, the men who played him, all the toys, and all the women. Everything you wanted to know about James Bond... and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-09
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Action of the Tiger
Overview: A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-22
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Hell Drivers
Overview: An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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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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Sean Connery: Private
Overview: A 1993 TV special and biography of Sean Connery featuring archive footage and appearances by Albert R. Broccoli, Michael Caine, and Michael Feeney Callan.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Overview: Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film clips, never-before-seen photos and interviews with
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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Mr. Connery Goes to Hollywood
Overview: A brief overview of Sean Connery's life and career, with comments from the man himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-03
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Overview: A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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A Fine Madness
Overview: A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Overview: The very best of Billy Connolly's stand up comedy, from 30 years of performances around the world!
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Ransom
Overview: Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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The Frightened City
Overview: A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Overview: Infinite Space, a documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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G'olé!
Overview: This is the official FIFA film of the 1982 World Cup Finals in Spain. Runs 96 minutes and includes commentary by Sean Connery with a special score composed by Rick Wakeman. Not your average footie film, this is a stunning record of the 1982 tournament finals which included England and Northern Ireland and culminated in Italy's thrilling victory against West Germany.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-21
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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The Next Man
Overview: Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Overview: Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends. See some of Hollywood's top names and greatest talents in their very first appearances on celluloid. From Dustin Hoffman's 1966 stock and personality tests to Raquel Welch and James Coburn cavorting for Our Man Flint, from The Three Stooges to Rock Hudson, see stars trying to get on film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Five Days One Summer
Overview: A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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The Big Screen
Overview: Two of Britain's leading film directors - John Schlesinger and Gerald Thomas - share the anxiety, hopes and risks experienced by those involved with the movie industry. The Big Screen follows the production of four British films: the eighth James Bond film Live and Let Die, The Optimists of Nine Elms, science fiction-thriller The Final Programme and The 14. Actors Peter Sellers, David Hemmings, Jon Finch, Roger Moore and Jenny Runacre are among those seen at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-20
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MacBeth
Overview: This is a very theatrical version, full of sound & fury, histrionics and big arm movements. Cynical audiences might not buy into it, but if you were to go back to the early 1600s this is probably the way you'd see it. The plot of Macbeth, if you were snoozing during high school English class, is about an 11th century Scottish warrior who hatches a dubious plan to steal the throne. Spurred on by his wife Lady Macbeth, who wears the pants in the household, he finds himself swiftly slipping down the path of evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-22
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We're Nothing Like James Bond
Overview: How two friends, thanks to the strong relationship between them, piece back together the fragments of their existence sent topsy-turvy by serious illness? Through a peculiar kind of road movie, alternating the dense reflections of the two main characters on life, with their easy positive glances towards the future. Starting from a weird juvenile infatuation with James Bond: he utterly immortal, they extremely mortal. Now more than before.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-29
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Everything or Nothing
Overview: The story of three men with a shared dream: James Bond franchise producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and Bond creator and author Ian Fleming. It’s the thrilling and inspiring narrative behind the longest running film franchise in cinema history, which began in 1962.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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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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Sir Billi
Overview: An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to save an illegal fugitive - Bessie Boo the beaver!
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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The Guns of James Bond
Overview: Short 1964 black-and-white documentary featurette hosted by Sean Connery and featuring the real-life inspiration for the character of Q, Major Geoffrey Boothroyd with a discussion of the gun weaponry used by James Bond.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Overview: This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Overview: Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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Sean Connery Documentary
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-12
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Time Lock
Overview: A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-27
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30 Years of James Bond
Overview: An examination of why the James Bond films have proved so popular including a discussion between the four actors who have played Bond, an interview with Cubby Broccoli and contributions from the directors, production designers, special effects and stuntmen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-03
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In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
Overview: Jonathan Ross delves into the world of James Bond and meets with new and former cast members who reveal humorous stories and anecdotes in a series of interviews. All the 5 Bonds at the time are featured, though only Lazenby (reflecting in the usual frank, self criticizing manner), Moore and Brosnan granted an interview. Connery and Dalton are featured through some unused footage from LWT's 30 years of James Bond program. The ever faithful Desmond Llewelyn turns up in character as well as some other less related peeps like Christopher Lee, Paul McCartney and the ultimate playboy: Hugh Hefner -- who all give an interesting perspective on the worlds most famous spy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-10
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The Sean Connery Paradox
Overview: Having become a world star thanks to James Bond, Sean Connery, who died in 2020, has never stopped trying to shed the image of a sexy and slightly brutal macho that stuck to 007. A look back at an eclectic career, carried out with panache.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-28
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Male of the Species
Overview: Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an aging barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-03
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
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The World Of Bond
Overview: A 6 part video that looks at the famous Title Sequences, Gadgets, Villains, Bond Girls, Locations, and Vehicles through the years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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The Trouble with 'Marnie'
Overview: This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-30
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Overview: Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career and the family and friendships that were her priority.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-11
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Memories of Me
Overview: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life, bonds with Abe, who gets along famously with everyone but his son. Abe begins having memory loss and eventually is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He and his son grow closer in time and, before it's too late, Abbie tries to get Abe a speaking role in a film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-28
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Bond Girls Are Forever
Overview: Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traces the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-06
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Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Overview: An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on another cinematic benchmark featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, James Mangold, and many others as well.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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The Untouchables: Production Stories
Overview: Cast and crew from "The Untouchables" share production stories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast
Overview: Brian DePalma and Art Linson discuss how the 1987 film "The Untouchables" came together.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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The Bowler and the Bunnet
Overview: Sean Connery examines the gap and suspicion in the relationship between management and workers in industry, and shows how one Scottish shipyard is trying to change that and what could well be a blueprint for other companies to follow.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-18
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Close Up
Overview: More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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Blood Money
Overview: "Mountain" McClintock is over the hill as a boxer, but his corrupt manager keeps putting him back in the ring.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Sad?
Overview: Set in the mid sixties and shot with more black than white, ‘SAD?’ is a dark ten minute film that explores the time that we spend alone watching television, and the good and sad effects it can have on you. The film has a timeless, forgotten feel about it, a study of a world and time detached from the norm, a life filled with both laughter and loneliness, escapism and escapees...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-18
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HyperNormalisation
Overview: We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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Junket Whore
Overview: A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-12
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No Road Back
Overview: A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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Waiting for Gascoigne: The Story of a Legend
Overview: The story of Paul Gascoigne through the 1995-96 season, as one of the most famous football players in the UK.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
Overview: Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Lilacs in the Spring
Overview: A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-21
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Adventure Story
Overview: The story of Alexander the Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-12
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Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
Overview: An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-13
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Sean Connery’s Edinburgh
Overview: The screen legend conducts a personal tour of the great city that shaped him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "From Russia with Love".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-23
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Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
Overview: This featurette takes a closer look at the production history of Murder on the Orient Express. Included in it are clips from archival interviews with dierctor Sidney Lumet, producer Richard Goodwin, and cast and crew members.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-07
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Inside 'Dr. No'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film Dr. No.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-16
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Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-09
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Circasia
Overview: Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-08
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On Tour with the Aston Martin DB5
Overview: A tour with James Bond's famous Aston Matin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-17
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Simon
Overview: Story of Simon, the odd boy out and how he is thwarted in his attempts to be one of "the gang".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Overview: Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining behind-the-scenes stories of the most iconic cars.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-29
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Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat
Overview: Short documentary about the staging and filming of the elevator fight sequence from the James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Spanish Western
Overview: A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-04
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Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Overview: Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who playing Q in 17 James Bond films. This trailer with archief footage was created as tribute for SE dvd of The World Is Not Enough. His final movie before he died on 19 December 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Overview: Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Laurence Fishburne, Terry Gilliam and George Lucas pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star as he celebrates his 85th birthday.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-18
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Overview: Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
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A Young World
Overview: A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Overview: A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-11
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La rosa dei nomi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-16
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أفغانستان لماذا؟
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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A Night to Remember
Overview: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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The Vocation
Overview: Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th century. The story of his father Gustav Natanael Nykvist is told through his own photos, letters, and films. Director & cinematographer: Sven Nykvist. Narrators in the English dubbed version: Liv Ullmann & Sean Connery. Produced by Ingmar Bergman (Cinematograph AB). Digitally restored in 2022.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-04-02
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Catch Me If You Can
Overview: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-16
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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Overview: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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