J. Lee Thompson

J. Lee Thompson

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lee Thompson  (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Lee Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: J. Lee Thompson
  • Popularity: 5.202
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1914-08-01
  • Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Jack Lee Thompson, John Lee-Thompson, John Lee Thompson, Джей Ли Томпсон, Дж. Ли Томпсон, Джек Ли Томпсон, Джон Ли Томпсон
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J. Lee Thompson Movies

  • 1995
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    Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

    Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

    10 1995 HD

    There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his...

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  • 1990
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    Anthony Quinn: An Original

    Anthony Quinn: An Original

    6.5 1990 HD

    Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand...

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  • 1970
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    The Unforgettable Diana Dors

    The Unforgettable Diana Dors

    1 1970 HD

    Short documentary profiling the life of British 'Blonde Bombshell' Diana Dors, who died of cancer in 1984. Movie clips and TV footage are mixed with...

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  • 2001
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    The Making of 'Cape Fear'

    The Making of 'Cape Fear'

    1 2001 HD

    A short documentary with interviews explaining how the classic film "Cape Fear" was filmed.

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  • 1995
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    Empire of the Censors

    Empire of the Censors

    3.5 1995 HD

    The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

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  • 1998
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    Behind the Planet of the Apes

    Behind the Planet of the Apes

    7.1 1998 HD

    Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the...

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  • 1966
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    All Eyes on Sharon Tate

    All Eyes on Sharon Tate

    7.5 1966 HD

    Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil (1966).

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  • 1972
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    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    6.2 1972 HD

    In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities,...

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  • 1973
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    Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    5.7 1973 HD

    The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar...

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  • 1966
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    Eye of the Devil

    Eye of the Devil

    6 1966 HD

    A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

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  • 1961
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    The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone

    7.3 1961 HD

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range...

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  • 1962
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    Cape Fear

    Cape Fear

    7.4 1962 HD

    Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and...

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  • 1956
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    Yield to the Night

    Yield to the Night

    6.9 1956 HD

    Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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  • 1964
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    What a Way to Go!

    What a Way to Go!

    7 1964 HD

    A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be...

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  • 1980
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    Cabo Blanco

    Cabo Blanco

    5.3 1980 HD

    Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea...

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  • 1986
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    Firewalker

    Firewalker

    5.2 1986 HD

    A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

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  • 1988
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    Messenger of Death

    Messenger of Death

    6 1988 HD

    Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive....

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  • 1987
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    Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

    Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

    5.7 1987 HD

    After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.

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  • 1986
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    Murphy's Law

    Murphy's Law

    6 1986 HD

    A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and...

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  • 1985
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    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    5.4 1985 HD

    Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who...

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  • 1962
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    Taras Bulba

    Taras Bulba

    6.3 1962 HD

    Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for...

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  • 1959
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    Tiger Bay

    Tiger Bay

    7.2 1959 HD

    In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting...

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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  • 1976
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    St. Ives

    St. Ives

    5.7 1976 HD

    A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

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  • 1958
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    Ice Cold in Alex

    Ice Cold in Alex

    7.3 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Happy Birthday to Me

    Happy Birthday to Me

    6 1981 HD

    Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take...

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  • 1977
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    The White Buffalo

    The White Buffalo

    5.9 1977 HD

    In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of...

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  • 1969
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    Mackenna's Gold

    Mackenna's Gold

    6.5 1969 HD

    A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to...

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  • 1983
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    10 to Midnight

    10 to Midnight

    6.226 1983 HD

    Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills...

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  • 1983
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    10 to Midnight

    10 to Midnight

    6.226 1983 HD

    Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills...

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  • 1963
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    Kings of the Sun

    Kings of the Sun

    6.1 1963 HD

    In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the...

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  • 1984
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    The Evil That Men Do

    The Evil That Men Do

    5.8 1984 HD

    Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a...

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  • 1974
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    Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    5.9 1974 HD

    Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap...

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  • 1979
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    The Passage

    The Passage

    6.2 1979 HD

    During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being...

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  • 1965
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    Return from the Ashes

    Return from the Ashes

    6 1965 HD

    A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that...

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  • 1978
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    The Greek Tycoon

    The Greek Tycoon

    5.5 1978 HD

    A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.

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  • 1959
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    North West Frontier

    North West Frontier

    6.7 1959 HD

    In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an...

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  • 1989
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    Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

    Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

    5.5 1989 HD

    A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

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  • 1960
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    I Aim at the Stars

    I Aim at the Stars

    5.5 1960 HD

    The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von...

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  • 1950
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    Murder Without Crime

    Murder Without Crime

    5.6 1950 HD

    A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

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  • 1950
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    Murder Without Crime

    Murder Without Crime

    5.6 1950 HD

    A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

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  • 1975
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    The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

    The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

    5.9 1975 HD

    When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but...

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  • 1949
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    For Them That Trespass

    For Them That Trespass

    5.2 1949 HD

    In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

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  • 1969
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    The Chairman

    The Chairman

    5.5 1969 HD

    An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that...

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  • 1965
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    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

    3.4 1965 HD

    During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz,...

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  • 1970
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    Brotherly Love

    Brotherly Love

    5.9 1970 HD

    Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.

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  • 1954
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    The Weak and the Wicked

    The Weak and the Wicked

    5.9 1954 HD

    Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

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  • 1954
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    The Weak and the Wicked

    The Weak and the Wicked

    5.9 1954 HD

    Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

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  • 1957
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    Woman in a Dressing Gown

    Woman in a Dressing Gown

    6.4 1957 HD

    A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a...

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  • 1955
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    As Long as They're Happy

    As Long as They're Happy

    7.667 1955 HD

    The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

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  • 1985
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    The Ambassador

    The Ambassador

    5 1985 HD

    An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at...

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  • 1969
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    Before Winter Comes

    Before Winter Comes

    5.9 1969 HD

    Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and...

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  • 1953
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    The Yellow Balloon

    The Yellow Balloon

    5.6 1953 HD

    A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

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  • 1955
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    An Alligator Named Daisy

    An Alligator Named Daisy

    6.2 1955 HD

    Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and...

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  • 1972
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    A Great American Tragedy

    A Great American Tragedy

    7 1972 HD

    A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a...

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  • 1959
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    No Trees in the Street

    No Trees in the Street

    5.8 1959 HD

    Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the...

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  • 1957
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1957 HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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  • 1957
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1957 HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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  • 1975
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    The Blue Knight

    The Blue Knight

    1 1975 HD

    In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of...

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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  • 1976
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    Widow

    Widow

    1 1976 HD

    A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.

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  • 1965
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    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

    3.4 1965 HD

    During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz,...

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  • 1957
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    Woman in a Dressing Gown

    Woman in a Dressing Gown

    6.4 1957 HD

    A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a...

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  • 1965
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    Return from the Ashes

    Return from the Ashes

    6 1965 HD

    A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that...

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  • 1950
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    No Place for Jennifer

    No Place for Jennifer

    5.8 1950 HD

    A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

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  • 1941
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    East of Piccadilly

    East of Piccadilly

    5.5 1941 HD

    A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.

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  • 1940
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    The Middle Watch

    The Middle Watch

    5 1940 HD

    Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon,...

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  • 1986
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    Future Hunters

    Future Hunters

    4.6 1986 HD

    A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.

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  • 1939
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    Jamaica Inn

    Jamaica Inn

    6 1939 HD

    In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an...

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