Donald Pleasence
Birthday: 1919-10-05
Place of Birth: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Biography: Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades. Often typecast as villainous and/or psychopathic characters, Pleasence is arguably best-known for his work in two of cinema's most successful franchises - James Bond and Halloween.
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Halloween
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a menta...
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Escape from New York
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison ...
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THX 1138
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...
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You Only Live Twice
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers ...
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Fantastic Voyage
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealin...
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Will Penny
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the prop...
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Eye of the Devil
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret....
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...
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1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...
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Death Line
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people...
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jeal...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...
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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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Cul-de-sac
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeb...
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Ha...
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The Great Escape
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and return...
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his small hometow...
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The Eagle Has Landed
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a cou...
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Halloween II
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist D...
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Witness for the Prosecution
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months...
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Telefon
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB age...
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Buried Alive
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants...
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Warrior Queen
In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen move...
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Oh, God!
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him...
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The Hallelujah Trail
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance...
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Watch Out, We're Mad
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will...
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The Mutations
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow....
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Pumaman
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural p...
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Last to Go
The last of five animated shorts directed by Gerald Potterton for Pinter People, voiced by Harold Pi...
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Kidnapped
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to b...
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The Black Windmill
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he ca...
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Prince of Darkness
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a gr...
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Wake in Fright
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a b...
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Dracula
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attractio...
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Mr. Freedom
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to Fran...
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protecti...
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Circus of Horrors
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends d...
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The Dybbuk
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated...
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Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampi...
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I Don't Want to Be Born
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the ...
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Fatal Frames
Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella...
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Hell Is a City
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming ...
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Phenomena
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Sw...
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Phantom of Death
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a...
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Soldier Blue
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive privat...
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Tales That Witness Madness
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Vis...
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-t...
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The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He ...
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their un...
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The Battle of the Sexes
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their exp...
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The Last Tycoon
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the whi...
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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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Nothing Underneath
Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashi...
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River of Death
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley cre...
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The Monster Club
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture o...
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Terror in the Aisles
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time...
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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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The Man in the Sky
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two childr...
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The House of Usher
An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are ...
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The Wind Cannot Read
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They sta...
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Tomorrow Never Comes
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working...
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Blood Relatives
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary....
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Cobra Mission
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to inve...
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The Shakedown
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, ...
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Look Back in Anger
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life ...
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Shadows and Fog
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g...
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What a Carve Up!
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ance...
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The Hands of Orlac
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed....
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Warrior of the Lost World
A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian gov...
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The Hour of the Pig
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. ...
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a t...
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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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The Traitor
In wartime, an English spy must go into neutral territory to murder a fellow-Englishman who has been...
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Sons and Lovers
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he s...
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Hearts of the West
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west...
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Treasure of the Amazon
An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle...
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Diên Biên Phu
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, betw...
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Casablanca Express
It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon d...
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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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The Wind of Change
Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decol...
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Jaguar Lives!
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world....
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Django Strikes Again
Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is ki...
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2...
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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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Innocent Bystanders
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scienti...
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A Breed Apart
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs....
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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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Orders Are Orders
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a l...
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The Devonsville Terror
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three l...
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Night Creature
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it...
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Double Target
After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout south...
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The Caretaker
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house i...
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Ten Little Indians
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing the...
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Dr. Crippen
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while...
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Ground Zero
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test ...
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Lonely Water
Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over i...
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Arch of Triumph
A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previo...
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Goldenrod
A champion rodeo rider receives crippling injuries in the ring, resulting in the ending of his caree...
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The Passover Plot
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen...
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Power Play
A group of military officers frustrated by government corruption and brutality attempts a coup....
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Scoop
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical no...
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1...
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The Commander
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is un...
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Guinevere
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with th...
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Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Using original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles, and c...
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Gold of the Amazon Women
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of ...
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the t...
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Matchless
A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He i...
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Journey into Fear
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab bus...
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Where Is Parsifal?
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky...
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The Ambassador
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventi...
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The Inspector
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palesti...
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Life of General De Gaulle
The first fiction film about de Gaulle. At the origin of the adventure, there is a script commission...
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No Love for Johnnie
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li...
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The Pied Piper
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany...
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Reel Horror
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood....
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L'Homme en colère
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the...
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Specters
A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence o...
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American Rickshaw
After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Miami rickshaw runner Scott Edwards becomes emb...
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To Kill a Stranger
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time ...
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Meriel the Ghost Girl
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally disco...
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Deadheat
A man travels to Siena, Italy, looking for his father, a jockey whom he has never met. The father is...
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Spare the Rod
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a...
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The Rainbow Boys
Struggling to subsist on negligible and infrequent gold discoveries, prospector Ralph Logan crosses ...
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political ...
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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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House of the Damned
A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new se...
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The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pil...
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern...
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The Jerusalem File
An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However...
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The Big Freeze
A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-fol...
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The Corsican Brothers
In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feel...
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Last In, First Out
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factio...
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Creature of Comfort
A series of vignettes are tied together by a story involving a carnivorous entity which masquerades ...
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Metropolitan Animals
In the year 2030 mankind has regressed to ape form. In order to explain this, a scientist shows a 20...
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The Greatest Man in the World
Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. H...
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Computercide
The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned...
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Basements
Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Du...
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis...
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Wedding in White
A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of the...
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The Bastard
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to Engla...
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Barnacle Bill
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '...
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Last Platoon
After ex-cop and highly decorated war hero Chet Costa's Vietnamese girlfriend disappears, he accepts...
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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune t...
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Freeze: But is it Art?
In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...
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Occupations
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of t...
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Women in Arms
Nadia Cossa is a political prisoner who manages to escape during a transfer to a new prison. The you...
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Paganini Horror
A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rit...
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The Cupboard
When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his be...
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Femme Fatale
Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempe...
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Toff and Fingers
Toff and Fingers head to a small Scottish village to lay low after stealing some antique silverware....
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Call Me Daddy
A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in...
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Manuela
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship ...
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Round the World in 80 Days
Animation. Part of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days", depicting scenes in the Reform Club ...
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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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Alice Through the Looking Box
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set....
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The Big Day
A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suita...
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his pred...
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Millions
A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire....
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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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A Story of David
Directed by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who lon...
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Black Arrow
In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival hous...
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The Horsemasters
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox i...
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The Black Tent
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedou...
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Hindle Wakes
In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overt...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in...
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Into the Darkness
A bevy of beautiful models arrives on a tropical island for a photo shoot, but soon they are being k...
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The Beachcomber
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are f...
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Skin Deep
Gerry Muddiman works for a large American corporation, supposedly modern and forward-thinking, but w...
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The Fox Trot
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostal...
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the appa...
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The Man Inside
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft....
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Safe Haven
Danger and betrayal attend two sisters and their boyfriends on a remote Scottish island....
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Arthur? Arthur!
The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, tha...
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Better Late Than Never
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement ho...
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Gila and Rik
The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies an...
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Sleep is Lovely
Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all...
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Heart of a Child
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the l...
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Malachi's Cove
A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She suppor...
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Alone in the Dark
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay si...
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The News-Benders
An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency ...
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The Falklands Factor
Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to...
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Value for Money
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to t...
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The Two-Headed Spy
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobio...
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The Cafeteria
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her i...
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The Joke
Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his vict...
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Driving Lessons
In John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN, Michael Myers was suddenly able to drive a car after hav...
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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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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos ...
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