Desmond Davis

Desmond Davis

Desmond Davis (1926-2021) was a British film and television director.

  • Title: Desmond Davis
  • Popularity: 0.645
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1926-05-24
  • Place of Birth: London, England
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Desmond Davis Movies

  • 1981
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    Clash of the Titans

    Clash of the Titans

    6.871 1981 HD

    To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various...

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  • 1964
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    Girl with Green Eyes

    Girl with Green Eyes

    6.552 1964 HD

    Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.

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  • 1984
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    Ordeal by Innocence

    Ordeal by Innocence

    4.5 1984 HD

    Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed...

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  • 1967
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    Smashing Time

    Smashing Time

    6.25 1967 HD

    Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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  • 1984
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    Camille

    Camille

    5.7 1984 HD

    Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

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  • 1983
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    The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    6.8 1983 HD

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

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  • 1952
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    Three Installations

    Three Installations

    4 1952 HD

    Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.

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  • 1966
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    I Was Happy Here

    I Was Happy Here

    6.1 1966 HD

    Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return...

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  • 1988
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    The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    4 1988 HD

    In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous...

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  • 1981
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    The Man of Destiny

    The Man of Destiny

    1 1981 HD

    One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it...

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  • 1979
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    Measure for Measure

    Measure for Measure

    6 1979 HD

    When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is...

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  • 1965
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    The Uncle

    The Uncle

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his...

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  • 1959
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    The Giant Behemoth

    The Giant Behemoth

    5.886 1959 HD

    Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which...

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  • 1994
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    Doggin' Around

    Doggin' Around

    6 1994 HD

    The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years...

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  • 1986
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    Love with a Perfect Stranger

    Love with a Perfect Stranger

    6.5 1986 HD

    Beautiful wealthy American businesswoman meets eccentric Irishman on an Italian train, who sets out to woo her. What ensues is something neither...

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  • 1977
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    The Emperor's New Hat

    The Emperor's New Hat

    1 1977 HD

    For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniyear, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony.

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  • 1977
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    Risking It

    Risking It

    1 1977 HD

    "There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.

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  • 1984
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    The Country Girls

    The Country Girls

    1 1984 HD

    The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in...

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  • 1969
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    A Nice Girl Like Me

    A Nice Girl Like Me

    1 1969 HD

    Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for...

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  • 1969
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    A Nice Girl Like Me

    A Nice Girl Like Me

    1 1969 HD

    Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for...

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  • 1966
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    I Was Happy Here

    I Was Happy Here

    6.1 1966 HD

    Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return...

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  • 1952
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    The Big Frame

    The Big Frame

    3.8 1952 HD

    An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

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  • 1965
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    The Uncle

    The Uncle

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his...

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  • 1965
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    The Uncle

    The Uncle

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his...

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  • 1979
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    The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight

    The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight

    1 1979 HD

    British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson

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  • 1944
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    It's in the Bag

    It's in the Bag

    5.2 1944 HD

    Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a...

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  • 1944
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    Don't Take It to Heart

    Don't Take It to Heart

    5.9 1944 HD

    A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady...

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  • 1949
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    The Interrupted Journey

    The Interrupted Journey

    6 1949 HD

    When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife,...

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  • 1950
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    The Happiest Days of Your Life

    The Happiest Days of Your Life

    6.258 1950 HD

    Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The...

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  • 1950
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    No Trace

    No Trace

    6.5 1950 HD

    A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

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  • 1950
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    Blackout

    Blackout

    5.2 1950 HD

    A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.

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  • 1952
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    The African Queen

    The African Queen

    7.35 1952 HD

    At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

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  • 1952
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    The Frightened Man

    The Frightened Man

    6.2 1952 HD

    Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

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  • 1952
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    13 East Street

    13 East Street

    5.2 1952 HD

    When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewelry store, gets...

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  • 1952
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    Curtain Up

    Curtain Up

    7.7 1952 HD

    In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing...

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  • 1952
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    The Voice of Merrill

    The Voice of Merrill

    5.9 1952 HD

    A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to...

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  • 1953
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    Escape by Night

    Escape by Night

    6 1953 HD

    An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

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  • 1953
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    Love in Pawn

    Love in Pawn

    6.5 1953 HD

    A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him...

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  • 1953
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    Recoil

    Recoil

    5.5 1953 HD

    A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go...

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  • 1953
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    Wheel of Fate

    Wheel of Fate

    4 1953 HD

    Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over...

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  • 1953
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    Colonel March Investigates

    Colonel March Investigates

    6 1953 HD

    This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes)...

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  • 1953
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    The Steel Key

    The Steel Key

    5.5 1953 HD

    An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

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  • 1953
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    Rough Shoot

    Rough Shoot

    6.2 1953 HD

    An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...

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  • 1953
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    Deadly Nightshade

    Deadly Nightshade

    6.2 1953 HD

    Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

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  • 1953
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    Black Orchid

    Black Orchid

    4.9 1953 HD

    Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister,...

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  • 1953
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    3 Steps to the Gallows

    3 Steps to the Gallows

    6.3 1953 HD

    A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

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  • 1955
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    Tiger by the Tail

    Tiger by the Tail

    5.6 1955 HD

    On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...

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  • 1954
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    The Embezzler

    The Embezzler

    6 1954 HD

    Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

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  • 1955
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    No Smoking

    No Smoking

    9 1955 HD

    A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance...

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  • 1955
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    The Reluctant Bride

    The Reluctant Bride

    5 1955 HD

    A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose...

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  • 1955
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    Barbados Quest

    Barbados Quest

    4.5 1955 HD

    Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is...

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  • 1955
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    The Gilded Cage

    The Gilded Cage

    5.2 1955 HD

    Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's...

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  • 1955
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    The Gilded Cage

    The Gilded Cage

    5.2 1955 HD

    Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's...

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  • 1956
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    Breakaway

    Breakaway

    5.25 1956 HD

    When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to...

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  • 1956
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    Passport to Treason

    Passport to Treason

    5.8 1956 HD

    After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put...

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  • 1956
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    Bond of Fear

    Bond of Fear

    5.5 1956 HD

    An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.

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  • 1957
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    The Strange Case of Dr. Manning

    The Strange Case of Dr. Manning

    8 1957 HD

    A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.

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  • 1957
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    Man from Tangier

    Man from Tangier

    4.6 1957 HD

    International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a...

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  • 1957
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    Strangers' Meeting

    Strangers' Meeting

    1 1957 HD

    A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence...

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  • 1957
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    The Surgeon's Knife

    The Surgeon's Knife

    1 1957 HD

    A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

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  • 1957
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    Kill Me Tomorrow

    Kill Me Tomorrow

    5.2 1957 HD

    A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.

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  • 1957
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    Stranger in Town

    Stranger in Town

    6.5 1957 HD

    A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

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  • 1957
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    Hour of Decision

    Hour of Decision

    6 1957 HD

    A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.

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  • 1957
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    You Pay Your Money

    You Pay Your Money

    4.9 1957 HD

    Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.

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  • 1958
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    The Trollenberg Terror

    The Trollenberg Terror

    4.695 1958 HD

    An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and...

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  • 1958
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    Stormy Crossing

    Stormy Crossing

    4.8 1958 HD

    After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland...

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  • 1958
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    Tread Softly Stranger

    Tread Softly Stranger

    7.5 1958 HD

    Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

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  • 1958
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    High Hell

    High Hell

    1 1958 HD

    Tempers and sexual jealousies flare when five men and a woman share a mountain cabin while mining for gold.

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  • 1959
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    Make Mine a Million

    Make Mine a Million

    7.2 1959 HD

    Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his...

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  • 1960
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    Faces in the Dark

    Faces in the Dark

    6.2 1960 HD

    A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.

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  • 1961
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    A Taste of Honey

    A Taste of Honey

    7 1961 HD

    While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...

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  • 1961
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    Taste of Fear

    Taste of Fear

    7 1961 HD

    A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on...

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  • 1963
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    Tom Jones

    Tom Jones

    5.917 1963 HD

    Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

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  • 1962
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    Freud: The Secret Passion

    Freud: The Secret Passion

    6.449 1962 HD

    An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique...

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  • 1962
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    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    7.2 1962 HD

    A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance...

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  • 1956
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    High Terrace

    High Terrace

    1 1956 HD

    A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in...

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  • 1974
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    Back of Beyond

    Back of Beyond

    1 1974 HD

    Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper...

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  • 1988
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    Wall of Tyranny

    Wall of Tyranny

    7 1988 HD

    A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.

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  • 1970
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    6.936 1970 HD

    The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The...

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  • 1970
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    5.9 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The Chief is a British television crime drama series that aired on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995, starring Michael Cochrane, Tim...

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Follyfoot is a children's television series co-produced by the majority-partner British television company Yorkshire Television and the independent...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories written by novelist Thomas Hardy.

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  • 1970
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    8.5 1970 HD

    The trials and tribulations of a daring group of young pilots in the Royal Flying Corps as they prepare for battle in World War I. The lead character...

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  • 1970
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    6.667 1970 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A half-hour anthology series.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A half-hour anthology series.

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