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The Ladykillers | Professor Marcus | 1955-12-08 | Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia… |
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Murder by Death | Bensonmum | 1976-06-23 | Lionel Twain invites the world’s five greatest detectives to a ‘dinner and murder’. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning r… |
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Our Man in Havana | Jim Wormold | 1960-01-27 | Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offe… |
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The Man in the White Suit | Sidney Stratton | 1951-08-07 | The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell… |
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The Lavender Hill Mob | Henry ‘Dutch’ Holland | 1951-06-28 | A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country…. |
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H.M.S. Defiant | Captain Crawford | 1962-04-15 | Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa… |
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Tunes of Glory | Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. | 1960-09-17 | Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit… |
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The Horse’s Mouth | Gulley Jimson | 1958-11-11 | Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse … |
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The Captain’s Paradise | Captain Henry St. James | 1953-09-28 | Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather … |
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The Card | Edward Henry ‘Denry’ Machin | 1952-02-25 | A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so… |
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Barnacle Bill | Captain William Horatio Ambrose | 1957-12-17 | A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ‘All at Sea’… |
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Last Holiday | George Bird | 1950-05-15 | George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn’t long to live. On his doctor’s advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside… |
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The Prisoner | The Cardinal | 1955-04-19 | 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 … |
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To Paris with Love | Sir Edgar Fraser | 1955-01-01 | A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love…. |
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Father Brown | Father Brown | 1954-06-08 | Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul…. |
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The Scapegoat | John Barratt / Jacques De Gue | 1959-08-06 | An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman…. |
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Hotel Paradiso | Benedict Boniface | 1966-03-01 | Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris – Monsieur Boniface… |
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Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious | Wilhelm Frick | 1965-10-13 | A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt… |
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Monsignor Quixote | Father Quixote | 1987-02-13 | Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r… |
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The Making of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ | himself | 2003-09-22 | … |
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Malta Story | Flight Lt. Peter Ross | 1953-06-01 | In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own s… |
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Adolf Hitler | 1973-04-19 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provi… |
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A Foreign Field | Amos | 1993-09-10 | Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They… |
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Edwin | Sir Fennimore Truscott | 1984-01-01 | Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife’s fidelit… |
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The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness | | 1980-12-31 | A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness…. |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai | Col. Nicholson | 1957-10-11 | 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… |
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Cromwell | King Charles I | 1970-09-16 | Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell … |
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Scrooge | Jacob Marley’s Ghost | 1970-11-05 | The classic Charles Dickens’ Christmas ghost tale told in musical form…. |
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The Swan | Prince Albert | 1956-04-26 | Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant co… |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy | Earl of Dorincourt | 1980-11-25 | Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric’s grandfather, the Earl of D… |
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The Quiller Memorandum | Pol | 1966-11-10 | After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller i… |
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The Mudlark | Benjamin Disraeli | 1950-10-03 | It’s 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria…… |
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The Making of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ | Himself (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 | … |
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A Majority of One | Koichi Asano | 1961-12-27 | A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the les… |
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Tales from Hollywood | | 1992-10-18 | A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwri… |
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Twelfth Night | Malvolio | 1969-01-06 | Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John D… |
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Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | 1976-02-01 | Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw…. |
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The Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and Overdrafts | Self | 1970-09-08 | The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map…. |
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant | | 1958-01-01 | 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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Lawrence of Arabia | Prince Feisal | 1962-12-11 | 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. Law… |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1948-06-28 | When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Esc… |
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The Comedians | Major H. O. Jones | 1967-10-31 | American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti…. |
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The Gift of Friendship | Jocelyn Broome | 1974-09-24 | Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor…. |
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The Comedians in Africa | Self (uncredited) | 1967-08-31 | Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians…. |
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A Run for Your Money | Whimple | 1949-11-23 | Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort… |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire | Marcus Aurelius | 1964-03-24 | In the year 180 AD Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has… |
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Kind Hearts and Coronets | The D’Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha | 1949-06-21 | When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be bu… |
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David Lean: A Life in Film | Himself | 1985-01-01 | A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia…. |
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Doctor Zhivago | Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago | 1965-12-22 | The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship dur… |
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Raise the Titanic | John Bigalow | 1980-08-01 | To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic…. |
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A Passage to India | Professor Godbole | 1984-12-14 | Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a Bri… |
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Star Wars | Obi-Wan “Ben” Kenobi | 1977-05-25 | Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an… |
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Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel | Himself | 2015-12-15 | Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout… |
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Star Wars: Deleted Magic | Self (archive footage) | 2005-03-01 | This is a very interesting Star Wars documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a loo… |
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Little Dorrit | William Dorrit | 1987-12-11 | A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young sea… |
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Mute Witness | The Reaper | 1995-09-28 | Billy is mute, but it hasn’t kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister’s boyfriend,… |
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SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back | Obi Wan Kenobi | 1980-09-22 | Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ … |
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Kafka | The Chief Clerk | 1991-11-15 | Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all… |
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Papst Innozenz III. | 1972-03-03 | In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. H… |
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When Star Wars Ruled the World | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) | 2004-09-18 | A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon…. |
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Eskimo Day | James | 1996-04-04 | Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they… |
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The Making of Star Wars | Himself | 1977-09-16 | Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted… |
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The Stratford Adventure | Self | 1954-08-02 | This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon, created its own renowned Shakespearean theatre. … |
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The Story of Star Wars | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) | 2004-08-18 | The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i… |
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Great Expectations | Herbert Pocket | 1946-12-26 | In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman…. |
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Lovesick | Sigmund Freud | 1983-02-18 | Sigmund Freud’s ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient…. |
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The Empire Strikes Back | Obi-Wan Kenobi | 1980-05-20 | The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar… |
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Evensong | W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited) | 1934-09-03 | Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba…… |
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess | Self – Actor (archive footage) | 2006-09-16 | In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rain… |
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Return of the Jedi | Ben ‘Obi-Wan’ Kenobi | 1983-05-25 | Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc… |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return | Self – Obi-Wan Kenobi (uncredited) (archive footage) | 2022-09-08 | A new documentary that showcases the making of the epic limited series. Features never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and visits t… |
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The Star Wars Holiday Special | Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1978-12-01 | Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet – in time for Life Day, the… |
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A Handful of Dust | Mr. Todd | 1988-06-24 | English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance … |
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited) | 2015-12-15 | Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers…. |
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice) | 2019-12-18 | The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener… |
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