Donald Pleasence
Also Known As: Donald Pleasance, Don Pleasence, Donald Plesance, Donald Henry Pleasence, Дональд Генри Плезенс, Дональд Плезенс, دانلد پلزنس
Biography: Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades. Often typecast as villainous and/or psychopathic characters, Pleasence is arguably best-known for his work in two of cinema's most successful franchises - James Bond and Halloween. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Pleasence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: October 05, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 02, 1995
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Known For:
Halloween
Overview: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-24
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Escape from New York
Overview: In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-23
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THX 1138
Overview: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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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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Fantastic Voyage
Overview: In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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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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Will Penny
Overview: Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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Eye of the Devil
Overview: A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-09
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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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Death Line
Overview: There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-13
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
Overview: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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Cul-de-sac
Overview: On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-17
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Overview: Six years after being kidnapped by a cult, Jamie tries to escape the clutches of her serial killer uncle, Michael Myers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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The Great Escape
Overview: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-03
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Overview: Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd – the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode – and her babysitter Rachel. Can Dr. Loomis stop him before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Overview: One year later, Michael Myers' traumatized young niece is horrified to discover she has a telepathic bond with her evil uncle... and that he is on the way back to Haddonfield to begin the carnage again.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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The Eagle Has Landed
Overview: When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Halloween II
Overview: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-04
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Telefon
Overview: Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Buried Alive
Overview: A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Warrior Queen
Overview: In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, meantime secretly helping the slaves to escape. Eventually her life is also in jeopardy, and as the volcano erupts she and the slaves attempt to escape while being chased by the military.
Genres: Action History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-26
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Oh, God!
Overview: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-07
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The Hallelujah Trail
Overview: A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Watch Out, We're Mad
Overview: After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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The Mutations
Overview: A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-22
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Pumaman
Overview: Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Last to Go
Overview: The last of five animated shorts directed by Gerald Potterton for Pinter People, voiced by Harold Pinter and Donald Pleasence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Kidnapped
Overview: Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Black Windmill
Overview: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-17
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Prince of Darkness
Overview: A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Wake in Fright
Overview: A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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Dracula
Overview: Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-20
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Mr. Freedom
Overview: Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-08
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Overview: It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Circus of Horrors
Overview: A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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The Dybbuk
Overview: A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-21
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Nosferatu in Venice
Overview: Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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I Don't Want to Be Born
Overview: A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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Fatal Frames
Overview: Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer who videotapes his victims for the police. As the horrible murders continue, Ritt is unknowingly pushed into the killer's games and he soon becomes a target of the police. The video-killer is on the loose and Ritt must find out the truth before it's too late.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-15
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Hell Is a City
Overview: Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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Phenomena
Overview: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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Phantom of Death
Overview: Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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Soldier Blue
Overview: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Tales That Witness Madness
Overview: Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Overview: A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.
Genres: Adventure Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-24
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The Night of the Generals
Overview: A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Thriller Mystery War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Overview: Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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The Battle of the Sexes
Overview: Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-25
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The Last Tycoon
Overview: Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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The Devil's Men
Overview: A satanic cult led by Baron Corofax kidnaps three young people and Father Roche & Milo must save them from the hands of this evil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-11
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Nothing Underneath
Overview: Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister might be injured or killed, he travels to Italy to look for her, only to discover that she's vanished without a trace. Enlisting the help of about-to-retire Commissioner Danesi, Bob soon finds himself embroiled in a web of mystery and terror, when a scissors wielding killer begins to strike and all clues lead back to Jessica...
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-07
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River of Death
Overview: An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealth of the city, for reasons of their own. But to their horror they find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew, what with a Nazi doctor still using the place for his human experiments.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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The Monster Club
Overview: A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-11
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Terror in the Aisles
Overview: A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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From Beyond the Grave
Overview: Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-21
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The Man in the Sky
Overview: The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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The House of Usher
Overview: An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find, however, that Roderick's brother Walter has gone insane, and Roderick himself isn't far behind. Can Ryan and Molly escape from the doomed mansion before the curse of Usher claims them as well?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-13
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The Wind Cannot Read
Overview: A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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Tomorrow Never Comes
Overview: Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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Blood Relatives
Overview: A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Cobra Mission
Overview: Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-31
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The Shakedown
Overview: Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Look Back in Anger
Overview: A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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Shadows and Fog
Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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What a Carve Up!
Overview: Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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The Hands of Orlac
Overview: Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer – useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Warrior of the Lost World
Overview: A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Hour of the Pig
Overview: In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Overview: Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Overview: Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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The Traitor
Overview: In wartime, an English spy must go into neutral territory to murder a fellow-Englishman who has been working for the enemy.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-07
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Sons and Lovers
Overview: The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-29
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Hearts of the West
Overview: Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-08
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Treasure of the Amazon
Overview: An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-30
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Diên Biên Phu
Overview: Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-04
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Casablanca Express
Overview: It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-22
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The Uncanny
Overview: Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-24
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The Wind of Change
Overview: Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'. The film deals with the 'colour problem' within the context of Teddy boy violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Jaguar Lives!
Overview: The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Django Strikes Again
Overview: Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practice a little liberation theology.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-22
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Overview: In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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Trial by Combat
Overview: A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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Innocent Bystanders
Overview: Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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A Breed Apart
Overview: A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Overview: A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Orders Are Orders
Overview: An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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The Devonsville Terror
Overview: Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-24
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Night Creature
Overview: A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. Meanwhile, the leopard begins to hunt the inhabitants of the island.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-01
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Double Target
Overview: After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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The Caretaker
Overview: Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-21
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-29
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Dr. Crippen
Overview: A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Ground Zero
Overview: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Lonely Water
Overview: Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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Arch of Triumph
Overview: A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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Goldenrod
Overview: A champion rodeo rider receives crippling injuries in the ring, resulting in the ending of his career. When his wife deserts him, he's left with the responsibility of raising two young sons with no job and no prospects.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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The Passover Plot
Overview: Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Power Play
Overview: A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Scoop
Overview: Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-26
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Overview: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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The Commander
Overview: Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!
Genres: Action War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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Guinevere
Overview: As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-07
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Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Overview: Using original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles, and crew members, 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest unveils the production of the horror classic and how the ingenuity of Carpenter and his team, coupled with the shoestring budget of $325,000, drove the filmmakers to create one of the most influential horror films of all time.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-05
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Gold of the Amazon Women
Overview: An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-06
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
Overview: An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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Matchless
Overview: A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-13
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Journey into Fear
Overview: U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-08
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Where Is Parsifal?
Overview: Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Ambassador
Overview: An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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The Inspector
Overview: At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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Moi, général de Gaulle
Overview: The first fiction film about de Gaulle. At the origin of the adventure, there is a script commissioned in 1942 from William Faulkner. It lacked the end of the story, and the view of the French of today. The destinies of the great and the small intersect, without meeting. Epics live on dreams as much as on reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-08
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No Love for Johnnie
Overview: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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The Pied Piper
Overview: Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Reel Horror
Overview: Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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The Angry Man
Overview: Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Specters
Overview: A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-04-24
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American Rickshaw
Overview: After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Miami rickshaw runner Scott Edwards becomes embroiled in the murder of a televangelist's son when he inadvertently takes the wrong videotape. With the help of the stripper and a witch, Edwards sets out to clear his name while avoiding the assassin dead-set on retrieving the tape.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-24
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To Kill a Stranger
Overview: Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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Meriel the Ghost Girl
Overview: Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-28
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Deadheat
Overview: A man travels to Siena, Italy, looking for his father, a jockey whom he has never met. The father is dead, and in investigating the circumstances of the death, the son ends up involved in a plot of murder and intrigue.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Spare the Rod
Overview: It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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The Rainbow Boys
Overview: Struggling to subsist on negligible and infrequent gold discoveries, prospector Ralph Logan crosses paths with Mazella, a New York City drifter with a three-wheel motorcycle and plenty of time on his hands. After introducing his new acquaintance to the practical but volatile Gladys, Logan suggests the trio join forces for a mission deep into the mountains of British Columbia in search of his father's elusive stash of gold.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-27
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Overview: Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-23
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Suspect
Overview: A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-15
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House of the Damned
Overview: A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-08
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The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
Overview: A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pilot with a shady past - this is the team that undercover operator Armo Shalik assembles to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded fortress in the remote and deadly African bush. But when Kahlenberg finds out they are coming, the gang's expedition turns into a strictly one-way safari - to slaughter.
Genres: Action Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Overview: Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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The Jerusalem File
Overview: An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-02
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The Big Freeze
Overview: A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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The Corsican Brothers
Overview: In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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Last In, First Out
Overview: A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Creature of Comfort
Overview: A series of vignettes are tied together by a story involving a carnivorous entity which masquerades as a bedcover. The creature absorbs evil and greedy people into its body, but leaves the innocent unharmed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Metropolitan Animals
Overview: In the year 2030 mankind has regressed to ape form. In order to explain this, a scientist shows a 20th century film about a Roman couple in a society gone mad slightly more than usual to his audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-09
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The Greatest Man in the World
Overview: Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest with full honours, but only the president and a few high officials know just what sort of a man their hero was.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-09
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Computercide
Overview: The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by an industrialist named Korter. Interestingly, Korter is found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When he gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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Basements
Overview: Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in a single location.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-12
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Dracula Unearthed
Overview: Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and explores the general fascination of Count Dracula, a figure who resonates with audiences across the literary, art, mythological and historical worlds.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-31
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Overview: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-05
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Wedding in White
Overview: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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The Bastard
Overview: Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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Barnacle Bill
Overview: A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Last Platoon
Overview: After ex-cop and highly decorated war hero Chet Costa's Vietnamese girlfriend disappears, he accepts a risky mission: he shall blow up a bridge at the Vietnamese border to close the Vietcong's line of communication. He's given a group of prisoners to accompany him. Already on the way there their helicopter is shot down; a march through the wilderness begins. When his soldiers recognize that they're effectively on a suicide mission, they decide to get rid of their Seargent and to flee to Bangkok.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-21
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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Overview: The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Freeze: But is it Art?
Overview: In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a building in the East End of London. Entitled Freeze, it was a huge critical and commercial success, propelling Hirst and the group into the spotlight of the avant-garde. More than five years later, Hirst exhibits to international acclaim and is regularly derided in the tabloid press. This portrait of Hirst, which resumes the Omnibus season, is presented as a drug-induced nightmare after Hirst has been put to sleep by a sinister dentist, played by Donald Pleasence. In between interviews with fellow Freeze artists including Angus Fairhurst , Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin , Hirst is seen preparing Mother and Child Divided, his work for last year's Venice Blennale. The piece consists of a cow and a calf, each sawn in half, pickled in formaldehyde and exhibited in four tanks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-22
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Occupations
Overview: In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assistance by Kabak (who has just arrived from Moscow) but Gramsci soon realizes Kabak is not motivated by ideology, as he has other motives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-01
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Women in Arms
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-09
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Paganini Horror
Overview: A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals. When the band decides to record the song and film a video in Paganini's old mansion, the spirit of the deceased composer is summoned and the band unlocks a portal to Hell.
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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The Cupboard
Overview: When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-11
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In and Out of Fashion
Overview: The legendary photographer William Klein has designed this fascinating book on fashion photography, with a selection of images from throughout his career, including material from his films. Though Klein claims roots in areas as diverse as painting, street photography, the tabloids, and B movies, his fashion work has been known since the fifties and sixties and has been a constant in his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-03
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Femme Fatale
Overview: Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the villagers makes them drop dead.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-07
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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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Toff and Fingers
Overview: Toff and Fingers head to a small Scottish village to lay low after stealing some antique silverware. The pair pose as a General and his batman looking their next job but the warm welcome, from the locals, makes them have second thoughts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-03
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Call Me Daddy
Overview: A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-08
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Manuela
Overview: James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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Round the World in 80 Days
Overview: Animation. Part of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days", depicting scenes in the Reform Club and Phineas Fogg's adventures in India.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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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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Alice Through the Looking Box
Overview: A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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The Big Day
Overview: A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
Overview: An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Millions
Overview: A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Dario Argento's World of Horror
Overview: Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Blade on the Feather
Overview: A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to be.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-19
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A Story of David
Overview: Directed by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. Saul's son, and David's best friend, Jonathan, conspires to help David, who is reluctant to fight back against his own people the Israelites.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Black Arrow
Overview: In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival houses who want the throne. Fresh from battle, a knight finds his family dead. He joins the outlaws led by the Black Arrow (Stephan Chase) to seek justice. The noble Black Arrow foils Sir Brackley's (Oliver Reed) plan to kill one ward (Benedict Taylor) and marry the other. This is a classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson turned into film by Disney pictures.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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The Horsemasters
Overview: American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The strict, but admired, instructor fears she must sell her favorite horse because of school tradition, but the students end up taking up a collection to buy it back for her.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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The Black Tent
Overview: During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-19
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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Into the Darkness
Overview: A bevy of beautiful models arrives on a tropical island for a photo shoot, but soon they are being killed off one by one.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Beachcomber
Overview: Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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Skin Deep
Overview: Gerry Muddiman works for a large American corporation, supposedly modern and forward-thinking, but whose style of modern business paternalism and methods ends up driving a wedge between him and his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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The Fox Trot
Overview: The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the world their life takes a strange new turn.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-29
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Overview: While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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The Man Inside
Overview: A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Safe Haven
Overview: Danger and betrayal attend two sisters and their boyfriends on a remote Scottish island.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Arthur? Arthur!
Overview: The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Better Late Than Never
Overview: Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-17
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Gila and Rik
Overview: The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagonists.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Sleep is Lovely
Overview: Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin. One morning Peter, John and Colin see a middle aged man, Clive, fall out of a motor cruiser into the water. They rescue him and decide to ransom him for £1,000. Peter and Elsa are-reunited but Elsa then commences an affair with Colin. Clive turns out to be Elsa's father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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Heart of a Child
Overview: A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Malachi's Cove
Overview: A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-01
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Naso di cane
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Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-11
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Alone in the Dark
Overview: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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The News-Benders
Overview: An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency offering an unusual job: creating the news - before it happens. And a refusal, it seems, is not an option.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-10
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The Falklands Factor
Overview: Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-26
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Halloween: The Inside Story
Overview: This feature-length documentary takes a look at one of the most successful film franchises of all time as it goes behind the scenes of John Carpenter’s Halloween, the frightfest that redefined the horror genre in the late 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-25
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Value for Money
Overview: A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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The Two-Headed Spy
Overview: Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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The Cafeteria
Overview: An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her invalid father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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The Joke
Overview: Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Overview: Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-27
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Driving Lessons
Overview: In John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN, Michael Myers was suddenly able to drive a car after having sat in a sanitarium staring at the wall since childhood. While the filmmakers addressed this slight plot hole briefly in the original movie with a throw away line by Donald Pleasance ("Maybe someone around here gave him lessons"), ArieScope Pictures was fortunate enough to track down a never-before-seen deleted scene that thoroughly explains what really happened.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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