Michael Sarne
Also Known As: Michael Scheuer, Michael Scheuer Sarne, Mike Sarne
Biography: Michael Sarne (born Michael Scheuer; 6 August 1940) is a British actor, writer, producer, and director, who also had a brief career as a pop singer in the 1960s. Sarne directed the films Joanna (1968) and Myra Breckinridge (1970). He has appeared as an actor in several films including A Place to Go (1965), Two Weeks in September (1967), and Moonlighting (1982).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
Birthday: August 06, 1939
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Gender: Male
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Cult People
Overview: In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Success Is the Best Revenge
Overview: Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-26
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The Waiting Time
Overview: When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unravel the events which led to the assault.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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Les Misérables
Overview: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-18
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The Fourth Angel
Overview: Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-15
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The World's End
Overview: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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A Place to Go
Overview: Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Every Day's a Holiday
Overview: A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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The Guns of Navarone
Overview: A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Genres: War Adventure Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-27
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Riding the Edge
Overview: Teenage cyclist rescues his dad from terrorists in the Middle East. "Iron Eagle" on a motorcycle.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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The Hollow Men
Overview: Matthew comes to a seaside town to see a performance of his play, although even his brother Marc, who plays the role of Napoleon, does not know that Metthew is its author. Also in life Marc plays "Napoleon", becoming the leader of a group of local youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Two Weeks in September
Overview: Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Overview: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Overview: Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-19
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Appointment with Death
Overview: Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Gloves Off
Overview: A talented fighter must save his beloved gym by training a gentle giant for a bare-knuckle fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-08
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No Kidding
Overview: A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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On the Fiddle
Overview: Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
Overview: Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-12
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Hands Up!
Overview: The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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DJ
Overview: The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What happens when music is more important than relationships? Who we become without love? Is having talent enough to climb to the top?
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-01-16
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Moonlighting
Overview: A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-18
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The Piano Room
Overview: A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 2013-09-15
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Myra Breckinridge
Overview: Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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Eastern Promises
Overview: A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Thieves in the Night
Overview: "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." Experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers in the British ruled Palestine.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-11
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