Martin Benson
Also Known As: Martin Benjamin Benson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Martin Benjamin Benson (10 August 1918 – 28 February 2010) was an English character actor, who appeared in films, theatre and television. He appeared in both British and Hollywood productions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Benson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 10, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 28, 2010
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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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The Omen
Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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The King and I
Overview: Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Genres: Music Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Sphinx
Overview: Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
Genres: Adventure Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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Spin a Dark Web
Overview: A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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23 Paces to Baker Street
Overview: Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Captain Clegg
Overview: A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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The Sea Wolves
Overview: A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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The Strange World of Planet X
Overview: Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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The Flesh Is Weak
Overview: Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Wheel of Fate
Overview: Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Recoil
Overview: A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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Mozambique
Overview: An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to Zanzibar.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Satan Never Sleeps
Overview: A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-22
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The Secret of My Success
Overview: Women (Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens) and his mother help an English constable (James Booth) rise to ruler of a banana republic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-29
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West of Zanzibar
Overview: Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-24
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Mystery Junction
Overview: In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Istanbul
Overview: A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-23
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Overview: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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Man from Tangier
Overview: International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Once More, with Feeling!
Overview: The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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A Man Could Get Killed
Overview: An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Overview: An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-09
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The Dark Light
Overview: The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-23
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Young Toscanini
Overview: A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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The Secret Door
Overview: World War II espionage in Lisbon with Allied safe-crackers cultivating a master spy and his wife so they can steal Japanese codes that are keys to Axis battle plans.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-04
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Judgment Deferred
Overview: A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Overview: Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
Genres: Music Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-30
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The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Three Enemies
Overview: A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-06-23
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Black 13
Overview: The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-30
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The Gentle Trap
Overview: A young locksmith becomes involved in crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-31
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Monsieur Ripois
Overview: While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend, Patricia, over for dinner. Over the course of the evening, Andre shares his entire romantic history since first coming to London as a young man, including his liaisons with his former boss, a marriage-minded young girl and a kindhearted Frenchwoman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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The Gambler and the Lady
Overview: A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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The Message
Overview: In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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Schoolgirl Chums
Overview: In the 1930s, Alison starts a new boarding school and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to dethrone the royal family of Bosnovia.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-19
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Assassin for Hire
Overview: Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel
Overview: A police constable goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of violent thieves.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-12
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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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Tiffany Jones
Overview: Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily Mail comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-16
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Take It Easy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1986-03-21
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Escape by Night
Overview: An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-23
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The Human Factor
Overview: When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Behold a Pale Horse
Overview: Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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The Magnificent Two
Overview: Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-05
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Cleopatra
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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The Message
Overview: In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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Passage Home
Overview: Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-17
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A Woman of Mystery
Overview: UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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Angela's Ashes
Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Night Without Stars
Overview: A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-03
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Sea of Sand
Overview: A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-04
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Doctor at Large
Overview: Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-26
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The Blind Goddess
Overview: Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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The Frightened Man
Overview: Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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Pope Joan
Overview: Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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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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A Matter of WHO
Overview: Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-03
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Wide Boy
Overview: Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-01
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I'll Get You for This
Overview: Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Battle Beneath the Earth
Overview: Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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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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The Next Victim
Overview: A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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West of Zanzibar
Overview: Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-24
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The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Overview: Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wilde's disastrous libel charge against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-05
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Pews
Overview: Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the town is empty.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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The Silent Invasion
Overview: During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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The Fur Collar
Overview: A reporter feigns death, in order to trap a fugitive and uncover a spy ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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