Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

Birthday: 1922-05-31

Place of Birth: Ealing, London, England, UK

Biography: Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologis...

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search f...

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Trading Places
Trading Places

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by t...

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry...

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Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms...

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Robin and Marian
Robin and Marian

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Maria...

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A Room with a View
A Room with a View

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai...

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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of inte...

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September
September

After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Steph...

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The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal...

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Rising Damp
Rising Damp

Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medi...

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Maurice
Maurice

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restric...

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Bad Timing
Bad Timing

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Tho...

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Noises Off...
Noises Off...

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to contr...

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To the Devil a Daughter
To the Devil a Daughter

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led ...

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King Rat
King Rat

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...

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Defence of the Realm
Defence of the Realm

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB ag...

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A Doll's House
A Doll's House

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian hus...

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The Night They Raided Minsky's
The Night They Raided Minsky's

Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy...

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The Whoopee Boys
The Whoopee Boys

Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sn...

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Scorchers
Scorchers

Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. Th...

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Alfie
Alfie

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes...

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A Little Temptation
A Little Temptation

A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her lif...

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Cuba
Cuba

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army ...

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One Against the Wind
One Against the Wind

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied s...

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The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele,...

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A Murder of Quality
A Murder of Quality

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the mu...

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The Cruel Sea
The Cruel Sea

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...

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The House That Dripped Blood
The House That Dripped Blood

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house....

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Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....

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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Jamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket...

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Brimstone & Treacle
Brimstone & Treacle

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer....

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The Vault of Horror
The Vault of Horror

The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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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The Night My Number Came Up
The Night My Number Came Up

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pil...

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Madame Sin
Madame Sin

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine....

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Dracula
Dracula

A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Maste...

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The Lark
The Lark

Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victo...

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Sweeney 2
Sweeney 2

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting a...

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Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....

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Transmutations
Transmutations

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hire...

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A Private Function
A Private Function

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince ...

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Percy
Percy

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors ...

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Saint Jack
Saint Jack

Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimp...

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Return from the River Kwai
Return from the River Kwai

A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai ...

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Percy's Progress
Percy's Progress

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the wo...

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the ...

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The Holly and the Ivy
The Holly and the Ivy

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes...

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The Signalman
The Signalman

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. Th...

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The Love She Sought
The Love She Sought

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's ex...

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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor....

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Brimstone and Treacle
Brimstone and Treacle

The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to...

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The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara sedu...

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Nothing But the Best
Nothing But the Best

Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's d...

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Scent of Mystery
Scent of Mystery

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain....

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Scoop
Scoop

Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical no...

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Stealing Heaven
Stealing Heaven

Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with on...

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They Who Dare
They Who Dare

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with ord...

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The Heart of the Matter
The Heart of the Matter

Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when h...

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The High Bright Sun
The High Bright Sun

This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free it...

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Station Six-Sahara
Station Six-Sahara

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts...

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Dear Mr. Prohack
Dear Mr. Prohack

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for...

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The Last Chapter
The Last Chapter

A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan....

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The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th ...

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Maroc 7
Maroc 7

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigu...

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The Lady From the Sea
The Lady From the Sea

A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in ...

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Hotel du Lac
Hotel du Lac

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swis...

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Lease of Life
Lease of Life

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so fa...

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Partners
Partners

When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young w...

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Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette

An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state...

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The Man Who Loved Redheads
The Man Who Loved Redheads

Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) who...

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Game for Vultures
Game for Vultures

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Th...

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Keys to Freedom
Keys to Freedom

The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the immi...

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The Ringer
The Ringer

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him....

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The Spy with a Cold Nose
The Spy with a Cold Nose

A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the R...

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The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck

A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their ...

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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Little Girl in Blue Velvet

An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl....

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You Must Be Joking
You Must Be Joking

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a sele...

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Watership Down
Watership Down

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwi...

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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)

A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets...

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The Sound Barrier
The Sound Barrier

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of...

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Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Follow The Yellow Brick Road

Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed ar...

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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night

Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises ...

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Let's Murder Vivaldi
Let's Murder Vivaldi

Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'....

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Camille
Camille

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval....

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Sunday Lovers
Sunday Lovers

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA ...

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Donkeys' Years
Donkeys' Years

Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion....

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Gentle Folk
Gentle Folk

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from ...

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School Play
School Play

Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults....

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Too Late the Hero
Too Late the Hero

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island...

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Anywhere but England
Anywhere but England

Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threa...

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Pacific Destiny
Pacific Destiny

Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the...

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A Child's Christmas in Wales
A Child's Christmas in Wales

It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also di...

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The Black Candle
The Black Candle

Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glor...

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The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher

A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conf...

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The Missionary
The Missionary

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl...

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Quest for Love
Quest for Love

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself ...

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal s...

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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...

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Across the Andes by Frog
Across the Andes by Frog

Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are able...

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Blade on the Feather
Blade on the Feather

A reclusive author is visited by a young admirer - but both men are more than they claim to be....

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name fo...

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The Happy Valley
The Happy Valley

In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent,...

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Sunday Pursuit
Sunday Pursuit

Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his bos...

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Past Caring
Past Caring

67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefu...

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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli....

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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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Codename: Kyril
Codename: Kyril

At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reporte...

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Hanna's War
Hanna's War

Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would ...

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a we...

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The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...

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Scenes from Family Life
Scenes from Family Life

The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides....

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Shooting the Chandelier
Shooting the Chandelier

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught be...

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The Holy Terror
The Holy Terror

A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 185...

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The Crazy Kill
The Crazy Kill

A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick,...

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The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Sea...

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Crest of a Wave
Crest of a Wave

Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as c...

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In Hiding
In Hiding

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays....

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You're All Right, How Am I?
You're All Right, How Am I?

' If you walked down Piccadilly naked and refused to put your clothes on when the police requested y...

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Death Becomes Me
Death Becomes Me

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Ro...

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Tonight in Britain
Tonight in Britain

A short survey of British entertainment and London attractions photographed at Edinburgh, Stratford ...

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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Tr...

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Night Duty
Night Duty

A night worker at a mental institution finds his job beginning to change....

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Man and Mirror
Man and Mirror

Mrs Isobel Manners lives a large Victorian house with her two grown up sons; Geoffrey and Edward. Mr...

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