Ingrid Pitt
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Biography: Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer, best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Birthday: November 21, 1937
Deathday: November 23, 2010
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Gender: Female
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The Vampire Lovers
Overview: In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Overview: The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but proves to be uncontrollable.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-24
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Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Overview: Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. England's most successful independent film company, the "fear factory" of Hammer Studios, has a history filled with feuds, censorship battles and streaks of luck both good and bad. Now the legacy of horror returns, featuring interviews with such Hammer legends as Raquel Welch, Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Hazel Court, Martine Beswicke, Freddie Francis, Val Guest and Ray Harryhausen. Plus you'll be treated to behind-the-scenes home movies and nonstop shock scenes from over 40 classic films, including Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Curse of the Werewolf and many more! It's the definitive study of one of the greatest names in horror!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-06
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The Wicker Man
Overview: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Countess Dracula
Overview: Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-30
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The House That Dripped Blood
Overview: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Wild Geese II
Overview: A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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Minotaur
Overview: Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.
Genres: Horror Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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Who Dares Wins
Overview: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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Sound of Horror
Overview: When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-08
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Overview: A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Bride of Monster Mania
Overview: Host Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, satisfies the yearnings of viewers with a taste for terror in this one-hour special devoted to movies' ultimate bad girls. From witches to vampires, female monsters and robots to women possessed and women from outer space, Bride Of Monster Mania unearths dazzling film footage, rare photos and exclusive interviews to pay homage to the scream sirens who have succeeded in seducing moviegoers for decades.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Fanex Files: Hammer Films
Overview: This fascinating documentary tells the story of the talented people behind and in front of the cameras at the Hammer Film Studios. Their prodigious output made household names of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, arguably the greatest fright duo since Lugosi and Karloff. Filled with shocking clips, terrifying trailers, and fascinating interviews with cast and crew culled from twenty years of the FANEX Film Convention archives, this film is a horror fan's delight!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
Overview: This acclaimed animation short depicts the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt at age 8 from a concentration camp, in a cross-generational collaboration between Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton & 10-yr-old 1st-time animator Perry Chen.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-01
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The Omegans
Overview: When an artist discovers his wife is having an affair with their jungle guide, he lures them into posing for him in a radioactive jungle river.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-18
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Where Eagles Dare
Overview: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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Transmutations
Overview: When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-29
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In Search of Dracula
Overview: A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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Ex-S: The Wicker Man
Overview: Cast and crew discuss the 1973 film The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-16
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Un beso en el puerto
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-05-19
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Nobody Ordered Love
Overview: During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew. The film was withdrawn from distribution shortly after it's release and is considered to be lost and may have been destroyed after the director died.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Chimes at Midnight
Overview: Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Beyond the Rave
Overview: An English soldier must find and win back his girlfriend from the clutches of a mysterious group of hardcore ravers before he flies to Iraq in the morning.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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Dominator
Overview: After a civil war in Hell, Lucifer has been defeated and the Key to Hell is in Lord Desecrater's grasp. However, the rebellious Dominator has his own thoughts and keeps the Key to Hell away from Lord Desecrater and is forced to fight off his forces including three other demons - Decimator, Extricator and Lady Violator.
Genres: Horror Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-03
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The Asylum
Overview: Plagued by endless visions and nightmares, Jenny Adams suspects that, as a child, she was responsible for the brutal murder of her own mother.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Sea of Dust
Overview: David Lynch meets The Brides of Dracula.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-07
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Artemis '81
Overview: Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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Parker
Overview: An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Overview: A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-16
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Overview: Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular Hollywood culture. With a particular focus given to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second studies the role of female sexuality in film throughout the years. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-23
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Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Overview: The cast and main players in the crew come together to discuss the making of cult British horror film The Wicker Man. They discuss the adaptation of the source material, the casting process and the difficult shoot which dealt with everything from a summer film being shot in late autumn and the troubles of the actual wicker man itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-29
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The Comedy of Errors
Overview: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Hanna's War
Overview: Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-14
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Los duendes de Andalucía
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Genres: Music Documentary Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-04
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The House
Overview: Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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The World of Hammer: Vamp
Overview: Through the years, Hammer's depiction of female vampires was consistently groundbreaking and always controversial, exploring the fine line between forbidden desire and the curse of the undead. This TV production contains only recycled clips with the only new addition being narration from Oliver Reed.
Genres: Horror Documentary Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-01
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Drácula en la Hammer
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-11-04
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On Location: Where Eagles Dare
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties of shooting a movie on location in the Austrian Alps.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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The Wicker Man Enigma
Overview: Cast and Crew Members come together to discuss the troubled production and distribution of 'The Wicker Man'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Overview: The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive on Sea Base 4, a nuclear warhead station under the sea that has some very nasty neighbours.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-13
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The Perfect Scary Movie
Overview: A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Octopussy
Overview: James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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Where the Action Is
Overview: A gambler is smuggled into a billionaire's house to undertake a gambling duel.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-08
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