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Sahara

Sahara

Sahara

IMDb: 4.7
1983
111min

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

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The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

IMDb: 7.3
1955
94min

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

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Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

IMDb: 7.4
1970
206min

An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

IMDb: 6.5
1966
105min

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other… or can be made to have seemed to do so!

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The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

IMDb: 7.5
1965
102min

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encounter dangerous rivals. Tommy also tries to play match maker between Ashton and Spring – a difficult task indeed.

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Town on Trial

Town on Trial

Town on Trial

IMDb: 6.5
1957
95min

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50’s.

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

IMDb: 7.2
1978
100min

The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.

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Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

IMDb: 7.1
1948
111min

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole – only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him

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Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free

IMDb: 6.2
1969
100min

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children’s film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named “Lady”. The cast also includes John Mills, Gordon Jackson and Sylvia Sims.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

IMDb: 5.7
1992
117min

In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation (Randy Quaid, National Lampoon’s Vacation) disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death. “Nobody’s ever done a Frankenstein like this one and nobody’s ever done a better one” (Houston Chronicle).

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

IMDb: 7.8
2010
86min

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston’s The African Queen and King Vidor’s War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

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Bean

Bean

Bean

IMDb: 6.4
1997
85min

Bean works as a caretaker at Britain’s formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can’t because the chairman of the gallery’s board defends him. They send him to USA, to the small Los Angeles art gallery instead, where he’ll have to officiate at the opening of the greatest US picture ever (called “Whistler’s Mother”).

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Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl

IMDb: 4.7
1987
92min

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he’s asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

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When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

IMDb: 7.8
1986
80min

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II

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Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi

IMDb: 8.1
1982
191min

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of ‘passive resistance’, endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

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Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange

IMDb: 5.4
1978
93min

A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

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King Rat

King Rat

King Rat

IMDb: 7.6
1965
134min

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to escape to. Included among the prisoners is the American Cpl. King, a wheeler dealer who has managed to established a pretty good life for himself in the camp. While most of the prisoners are near starvation and have uniforms that are in tatters, King eats well and and has crisp clean clothes to wear every day. His nemesis is Lt. Robin Grey, the camp Provost who attempts to keep good order and discipline. He knows that King is breaking camp rules by bartering with the Japanese but can’t quite get the evidence he needs to stop him. King soon forms a friendship with Lt. Peter Marlowe an upper class British officer who is fascinated with King’s élan and no rules approach to life…

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Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

IMDb: 6.6
1965
115min

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

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The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden

IMDb: 7.6
1964
105min

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the job, Laurel vows to expose her. Meanwhile, Laurel’s married-divorced-married mother tries to get her back.

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Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

IMDb: 7.2
1960
126min

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates. A rousing adventure suitable for the whole family, this Disney adaptation of the classic Johann Wyss novel stars Dorothy McGuire and John Mills as Mother and Father Robinson.

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Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

IMDb: 7.9
1958
124min

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria

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Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

IMDb: 7.7
1954
107min

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

IMDb: 8.0
1946
118min

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

IMDb: 7.8
1939
114min

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people touched his life.

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Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk

IMDb: 7.1
1958
134min

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

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