Peter Cushing
Birthday: 1913-05-26
Place of Birth: Kenley, Surrey, England, UK
Biography: Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, his most famous roles outside of "Hammer Horror" include his many appearances as Sherlock Holmes, as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977) and as the mysterious Doctor Who in Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966, two cinema films based on the television series Doctor Who.
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Star Wars
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over ...
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital m...
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The Curse of Frankenstein
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of event...
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Frankenstein Created Woman
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron...
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director ...
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The Evil of Frankenstein
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Fran...
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The Revenge of Frankenstein
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he ...
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Biggles
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life ...
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game...
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The Brides of Dracula
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his m...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
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Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet ...
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Dracula
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he ...
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The Vampire Lovers
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs s...
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Top Secret!
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festiv...
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Dracula A.D. 1972
Set in London in the early 1970's, supposedly for teen thrills, Johnny organises a black magic cerem...
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At the Earth's Core
A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the cen...
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Horror Express
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen rem...
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are resp...
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Dr. Who and the Daleks
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised ...
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Asylum
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four ...
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Shock Waves
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of z...
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their ...
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Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey host...
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The Beast Must Die
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the...
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The Gorgon
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims we...
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Madhouse
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the...
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satani...
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Mystery on Monster Island
A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because ...
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The Black Knight
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the ha...
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Island of Terror
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and di...
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The Masks of Death
Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There...
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Torture Garden
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful...
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Twins of Evil
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vamp...
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Nothing But the Night
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written...
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Legend of the Werewolf
A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into a...
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The Creeping Flesh
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he...
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And Now the Screaming Starts!
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the Fengriffen family. The ...
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Scream and Scream Again
A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a h...
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Alexander the Great
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops for...
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The Skull
The Skull [from a short story by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho] is a fearsome, finely acted and moo...
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Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
A long thought lost radio interview with Peter Cushing is accompanied by comments from friends and c...
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Time Without Pity
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a week...
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Cash on Demand
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-bloode...
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The Abominable Snowman
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in searc...
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The Devil's Men
A satanic cult led by Baron Corofax kidnaps three young people and Father Roche & Milo must save the...
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Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks...
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Tales from the Crypt
Five strangers encounter the mysterious Crypt Keeper while viewing old catacombs in the English coun...
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Dalekmania
1995 documentary film that examines that 60's craze and focuses in particular on the two 1960's Doct...
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House of the Long Shadows
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel l...
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The House That Dripped Blood
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house....
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She
The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal ...
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Corruption
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering oth...
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From Beyond the Grave
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "O...
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Fear in the Night
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered i...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corp...
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The Mummy
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally m...
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The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d...
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Captain Clegg
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but...
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The Ghoul
After daring each other to a car race through the misty moorlands, a group of friends come upon a ma...
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I, Monster
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been...
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the hum...
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Arabian Adventure
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can comple...
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John Paul Jones
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his s...
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Night of the Big Heat
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties,...
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Son of Hitler
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actuall...
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The Uncanny
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatu...
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Shatter
Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small...
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Violent Playground
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac....
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films i...
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The Blood Beast Terror
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Fo...
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Blood Suckers
A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching ...
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The End of the Affair
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in lov...
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The Hellfire Club
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, ...
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Trial by Combat
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') be...
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The Naked Edge
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife rece...
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Deafblind Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world through her teacher Annie Sullivan. The...
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The Man Who Finally Died
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at...
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Tender Dracula
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire ro...
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Sword of Sherwood Forest
Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Arch...
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual ...
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They Dare Not Love
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a bea...
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Magic Fire
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Th...
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Vigil in the Night
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake....
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The Great Houdinis
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult a...
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupati...
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Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood
An interview with Legendary Actor Peter Cushing and clips from some of his best films....
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Cone of Silence
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash wit...
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Suspect
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...
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The Standard
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle fl...
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Laddie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military fat...
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Moulin Rouge
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...
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A Chump at Oxford
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
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Women in War
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an acciden...
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Anastasia
Set 16 years after the execution of the Tsar and his family by the Bolsheviks. Exiles Prince Bounine...
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Black Jack
Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing t...
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A Touch of the Sun
A bumbling US marine Captain is assigned to retrieve a space capsule from a despotic African ruler....
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Some May Live
During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her husband coerces her...
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One More Time
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers....
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The Woman in the House
This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, ...
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The Detour
During a school outing, Dominic’s [John Galdes] pet dog Rameses – which a sculptor [Adrian Rendle] h...
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The Story of Star Wars
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and An...
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Attack of the Octopus People
In the not too distant future, Daniel Davis returns to his hometown to find that it has been taken o...
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The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interview...
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Fists of Fire
A look at Shaw Brothers Studios in their prime. Includes: interviews with David Chiang; exploring th...
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: ...
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It Might Be You
A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents....
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Dreams
This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham L...
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Fanex Files: Hammer Films
This fascinating documentary tells the story of the talented people behind and in front of the camer...
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracu...
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - For...
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When We Are Married
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually m...
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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status wit...
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Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...
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Innocent Blood
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her vict...
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Look at Life: Model World
A look into the different types of models that can be found across Britain, from model villages and ...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...
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