1959

Ben-Hur

8/2660

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

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Ben-Hur

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai

8/2009

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

8/2878

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

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Lawrence of Arabia

1965

Masquerade

5/12

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

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Masquerade

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

7/38

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

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Oh! What a Lovely War

1948

The Fallen Idol

7/163

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

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The Fallen Idol

1965

Lord Jim

7/71

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.

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Lord Jim

1971

Kidnapped

6/32

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.

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Kidnapped

1970

Waterloo

7/187

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

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Waterloo

1973

Theatre of Blood

7/210

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

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Theatre of Blood

1952

Angels One Five

6/29

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

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Angels One Five

1964

Zulu

7/494

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

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Zulu

1973

Tales That Witness Madness

6/47

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.

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Tales That Witness Madness

1955

Land of the Pharaohs

6/84

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

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Land of the Pharaohs

1951

No Highway

7/55

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

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No Highway

1958

Gideon's Day

6/29

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.

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Gideon's Day

1950

The Black Rose

7/19

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.

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The Black Rose

1964

Guns at Batasi

7/23

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

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Guns at Batasi

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra

7/62

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

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Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

When Eight Bells Toll

6/45

In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

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When Eight Bells Toll

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!

6/50

Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.

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Monte Carlo or Bust!

1949

The Small Back Room

7/56

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.

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The Small Back Room

1953

The Cruel Sea

7/61

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer

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The Cruel Sea

1968

Shalako

6/76

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.

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Shalako

1960

The League of Gentlemen

7/86

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

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The League of Gentlemen

1957

The Man in the Sky

7/7

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.

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The Man in the Sky

1952

Mandy

7/26

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.

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Mandy

1948

Bonnie Prince Charlie

4/4

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

1962

Lafayette

5/4

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.

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Lafayette

1972

Young Winston

6/43

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

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Young Winston

1956

The Long Arm

7/17

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

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The Long Arm

1955

The Prisoner

7/20

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

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The Prisoner

1964

The Third Secret

6/25

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.

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The Third Secret

1963

Rampage

5/11

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.

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Rampage

1934

Death at Broadcasting House

6/10

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

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Death at Broadcasting House

1971

Sin

6/3

When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.

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Sin

1954

The Seekers

6/5

A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

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The Seekers

1968

Great Catherine

6/6

When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.

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Great Catherine

1958

The Two-Headed Spy

6/14

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.

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The Two-Headed Spy

1970

Jane Eyre

7/11

Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.

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Jane Eyre

1957

Fortune Is a Woman

7/12

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.

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Fortune Is a Woman

1950

State Secret

7/14

Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.

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State Secret

1966

Poppies Are Also Flowers

6/19

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

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Poppies Are Also Flowers

1950

The Elusive Pimpernel

6/7

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

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The Elusive Pimpernel

1966

Judith

4/9

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.

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Judith

1933

I Lived with You

5/5

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.

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I Lived with You

1932

The Lodger

5/11

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

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The Lodger

1952

The Planter's Wife

6/4

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

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The Planter's Wife

1953

Twice Upon a Time

6/1

A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while there they start to hatch a plot to get back together.

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Twice Upon a Time

1935

Peg of Old Drury

6/3

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.

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Peg of Old Drury

1934

Autumn Crocus

7/2

A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.

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Autumn Crocus

1962

Five Finger Exercise

5/3

The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.

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Five Finger Exercise

1961

Two Loves

5/9

American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.

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Two Loves

1952

Home at Seven

6/15

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

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Home at Seven

1930

Birds of Prey

6/3

At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.

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Birds of Prey

1955

Touch and Go

6/9

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.

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Touch and Go

1954

Front Page Story

0/0

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

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Front Page Story

1951

Fortune in Diamonds

8/2

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.

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Fortune in Diamonds

1953

Malta Story

6/16

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.

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Malta Story

1933

The Good Companions

6/4

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

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The Good Companions

1933

A Shot in the Dark

6/1

The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.

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A Shot in the Dark

1940

The Flying Squad

6/3

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

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The Flying Squad

1953

The Intruder

7/6

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.

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The Intruder

1970

The Adventures of Gerard

6/6

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

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The Adventures of Gerard

1933

The Jewel

0/0

A family heirloom is stolen and the family attempts to recover it.

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The Jewel

1942

The Next of Kin

5/6

Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.

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The Next of Kin

1934

Lorna Doone

6/2

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

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Lorna Doone

1968

Stalked

4/1

In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home to escape God. Films like this would be shown to adult church groups to stimulate discussion - such as “was this man being stalked by Jesus in wooden shoes?”.

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Stalked

1937

Beauty and the Barge

7/4

A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.

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Beauty and the Barge

1938

Who Goes Next?

6/5

During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.

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Who Goes Next?

1970

Twinky

5/22

A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.

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Twinky

1972

Escape to the Sun

0/0

Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives

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Escape to the Sun

1969

The Father

0/0

Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.

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The Father

1938

A Royal Divorce

0/0

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

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A Royal Divorce

1972

The Last Lion

0/0

Terminally ill millionaire tries to kill a lion before he dies.

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The Last Lion

1958

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

0/0

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

1937

The Frog

0/0

In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes. Wallace was one of the first British authors to capitalise on the potential of cinema to increase his already considerable celebrity. His luridly titled thrillers depicting shady underworlds remained popular film sources long after his death in 1932. This lavish production boasts a distinguished cast and delivers on all fronts: from romance and exotic cabaret acts, to heaps of tension and a dramatic reveal.

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The Frog

1933

The Lost Chord

0/0

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Lost Chord

1965

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

0/0

An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

1939

Murder Will Out

0/0

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.

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Murder Will Out