Lois Maxwell
Also Known As: ロイス・マクスウェル, Lois Ruth Hooker, لوئیس ماکسول
Biography: Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress who is best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in the early James Bond movies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Birthday: February 14, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 29, 2007
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Live and Let Die
Overview: James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Dr. No
Overview: Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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Goldfinger
Overview: Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-20
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Thunderball
Overview: A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-11
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From Russia with Love
Overview: Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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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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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Overview: James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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Diamonds Are Forever
Overview: Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Overview: Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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The Man with the Golden Gun
Overview: Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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Moonraker
Overview: After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-26
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Octopussy
Overview: James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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For Your Eyes Only
Overview: A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-24
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A View to a Kill
Overview: A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-24
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Lolita
Overview: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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The Haunting
Overview: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-21
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Satellite in the Sky
Overview: A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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Corridor of Mirrors
Overview: A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-23
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Bond Girls Are Forever
Overview: Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traces the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-06
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Lost and Found
Overview: While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Time Without Pity
Overview: Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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The Dark Past
Overview: A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Aida
Overview: This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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Kazan
Overview: Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood about Kazan, the wolfdog.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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Hard to Forget
Overview: Private Dick Max Warner investigates the disappearance of a young heiress Sandra Applewhite. He is convinced that she was murdered by her fiancé - but without her body, he can not prove anything. So he sees a poster with a model who is an identical copy of Sandra. One by one the pieces are falling into place and Max realizes that much more than a legacy is at stake.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-11
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Come Fly with Me
Overview: Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Mantrap
Overview: Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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Lady in the Fog
Overview: In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-13
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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 Crime Doctor's Diary
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-15
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The Incredible Voyage of Stingray
Overview: Adventures of the super-sub Stingray and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol and their battles against Titan, leader of the underwater city of Titanica.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Eternal Evil
Overview: A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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Kill Me Tomorrow
Overview: A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Operation Kid Brother
Overview: The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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Passport to Treason
Overview: After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Rome, Sweet Home
Overview: Anachronism-laden historic sitcom in which a Roman businessman is conned into putting up a muscle-bound poet against a top gladiator in order to get one over his arch rival at the mens club, Braggius. Things look bleak when his champ proves to have a glass jaw. But his son and slave have an idea which may just save the day!
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Original Language: en
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Age of Innocence
Overview: A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Overview: This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Women of Twilight
Overview: When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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That Hagen Girl
Overview: Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-01
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The Big Punch
Overview: Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-26
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Invaders from the Deep
Overview: A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Stingray. When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
Overview: Jonathan Ross delves into the world of James Bond and meets with new and former cast members who reveal humorous stories and anecdotes in a series of interviews. All the 5 Bonds at the time are featured, though only Lazenby (reflecting in the usual frank, self criticizing manner), Moore and Brosnan granted an interview. Connery and Dalton are featured through some unused footage from LWT's 30 years of James Bond program. The ever faithful Desmond Llewelyn turns up in character as well as some other less related peeps like Christopher Lee, Paul McCartney and the ultimate playboy: Hugh Hefner -- who all give an interesting perspective on the worlds most famous spy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-10
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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Viva il cinema
Overview: Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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The Decision of Christopher Blake
Overview: A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Endless Night
Overview: Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-05
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Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Overview: The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-16
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The Ambassadors
Overview: Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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The Woman's Angle
Overview: The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-12
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Face of Fire
Overview: A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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Lady in a Corner
Overview: Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, she must also deal with a mole.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-11
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Tomorrow Is Too Late
Overview: Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-21
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Lebbra bianca
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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The High Terrace
Overview: A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Terence Young: Bond Vivant
Overview: Documentary on the career of director Terence Young.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-16
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Inside 'Dr. No'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film Dr. No.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-16
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Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond
Overview: Moneypenny and Q discuss the rumors that James Bond is getting married. Promotional clip show to coincide with the release of the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (1967) featuring clips from the earlier 007 movies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-02
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Sporting Chance
Overview: Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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From Hong Kong with Love
Overview: Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Love and Poison
Overview: Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Queen Christina finds herself another captain of the guard.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Inside 'Octopussy'
Overview: Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-25
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The Unstoppable Man
Overview: Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Mr. Patman
Overview: Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-22
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Submarine Attack
Overview: During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-16
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Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Overview: A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-16
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Martha, Ruth & Edie
Overview: Two women attending a women's seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarrassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown together by chance, they discuss their emotional lives in intimate detail.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-25
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