Michael Redgrave
Also Known As: Майкл Редгрейв, Michael Scudamore Redgrave
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Redgrave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 21, 1985
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The Lady Vanishes
Overview: On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Secret Beyond the Door
Overview: After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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1984
Overview: In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-06
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Battle of Britain
Overview: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-15
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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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The Dam Busters
Overview: The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-16
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Dead of Night
Overview: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-09
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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The Go-Between
Overview: British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-16
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Overview: Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-05
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Time Without Pity
Overview: Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Mr. Arkadin
Overview: Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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The Way to the Stars
Overview: Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Overview: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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The Innocents
Overview: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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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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The Browning Version
Overview: Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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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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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Overview: During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Overview: Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-19
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Captive Heart
Overview: A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-29
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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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Goodbye Gemini
Overview: Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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The Quiet American
Overview: Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-08
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Thunder Rock
Overview: David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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The Years Between
Overview: After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Hedda Gabler
Overview: Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-28
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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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Young Cassidy
Overview: In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-25
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A Diary for Timothy
Overview: A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-01
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The Happy Road
Overview: Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-20
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Kipps
Overview: A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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Behind the Mask
Overview: A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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Assignment K
Overview: Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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The Green Scarf
Overview: A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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The Big Blockade
Overview: Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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Connecting Rooms
Overview: Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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A Window in London
Overview: A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-15
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No, My Darling Daughter
Overview: A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-22
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Law and Disorder
Overview: When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-09
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Stolen Life
Overview: Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Oh... Rosalinda!!
Overview: In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-21
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Heidi
Overview: Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. He at first resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Climbing High
Overview: Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Overview: A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth inspired him to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Part 2 consists of a visualization of Coleridge’s epic poem.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-11
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Fame Is the Spur
Overview: A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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The Questioning City
Overview: Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963. From British Pathé TV's Arts Collection.
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Original Language: en
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Secret Agent
Overview: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-31
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Overview: Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family photographs and letters and his father's diaries and autobiography, and produces a picture of a complicated and troubled man who was bisexual, a heavy drinker and emotionally distant and cold as a father. Includes contributions from Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, as well as Harold Pinter and Diana Menuhin. Also contains clips from several of Michael Redgrave's films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-13
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Palaces of a Queen
Overview: Filmed tour of the royal palaces in Great Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-12
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Kyoto
Overview: Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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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: Animation Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-21
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The Immortal Land
Overview: Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Man Within
Overview: A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-19
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David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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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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Jeannie
Overview: Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Overview: Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Mann talks about his filmmaking philosophy and the challenges of shooting in such rugged locations, and shares his insights on the Douglas-Harris feud.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Overview: The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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The Canterville Ghost
Overview: An American ambassador moves his family into a haunted English castle.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
Overview: This madcap comic short features (incredibly) Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave and a young Peter O'Toole.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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