Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on the stage.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in the sitcom Citizen Smith, Tom Hedden in Straw Dogs, Winston the Ogre in Time Bandits, Tom Franklin in Chancer and Mr. Stevens, Sr. in The Remains of the Day. His final role was as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2015). (wikipedia)
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.132 |
| Birthday | 1923-04-04 |
| Place of Birth | Wem, Shropshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter Ewart Ohm, |
1985
Brazil
7.7/3274
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...
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Brazil
1971
Straw Dogs
7.1/932
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David an...
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Straw Dogs
1993
The Remains of the Day
7.4/1302
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...
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The Remains of the Day
2007
Death at a Funeral
6.9/1710
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an...
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Death at a Funeral
1998
Les Misérables
7.195/619
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1994
Fatherland
6.2/117
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret....
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Fatherland
1983
Jamaica Inn
3.5/2
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and...
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Jamaica Inn
1960
Village of the Damned
7.2/428
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children h...
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Village of the Damned
1999
An Ideal Husband
6.418/190
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London w...
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An Ideal Husband
1973
The MacKintosh Man
6.1/89
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate...
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The MacKintosh Man
1981
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
0/0
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason
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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1970
Emma's Time
0/0
After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.
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Emma's Time
2000
Making Love
6.8/52
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not...
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Making Love
1981
Time Bandits
6.583/987
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purl...
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Time Bandits
1965
Fanatic
6.5/49
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
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Fanatic
1999
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
7.1/33
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1973
Massacre in Rome
6.1/23
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of...
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Massacre in Rome
1979
Porridge
6.7/37
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an es...
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Porridge
1959
Sapphire
7/43
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspec...
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Sapphire
1961
The Court Martial of Major Keller
0/0
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Co...
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
1968
The Drummer and the Bloke
0/0
Alf and Jack, two labourers hired to work in a quarry,have decided to go on strike because of the degrading nature of the job.
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The Drummer and the Bloke
2000
Longitude
7.3/29
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Longitude
2006
Care
0/0
'Mali' visits the homes of frail elderly people and provides the care they can no longer give to themselves. But when he enters the home of a new clie...
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Care
1973
The Blockhouse
6.3/13
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies...
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The Blockhouse
1969
Alfred the Great
4.3/16
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land...
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Alfred the Great
1962
I Thank a Fool
5.5/6
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
2003
The Mother
6.1/55
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
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The Mother
2007
Christmas at the Riviera
4.5/7
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
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Christmas at the Riviera
1974
Symptoms
6.2/52
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it...
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Symptoms
1972
A Warning to the Curious
6.9/33
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according...
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A Warning to the Curious
2004
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
6/6
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likenes...
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
1996
The Moonstone
7/3
Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective...
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The Moonstone
1986
Season's Greetings
0/0
Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests...
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Season's Greetings
1970
Eyewitness
6.344/16
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
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Eyewitness
1967
The Naked Runner
6/6
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to...
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The Naked Runner
1990
King of the Wind
6.4/5
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
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King of the Wind
1968
Hammerhead
5.3/10
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
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Hammerhead
1987
Coast to Coast
6/2
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gain...
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Coast to Coast
1964
Smokescreen
7.2/6
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
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Smokescreen
1973
The Return
5.7/5
Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the surprise of its solitary occupant, caretaker Mrs Par...
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The Return
2001
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
0/0
While hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of a black youth leader.
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Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2003
Margery and Gladys
7.4/5
When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a hous...
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Margery and Gladys
1974
11 Harrowhouse
5.7/23
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...
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11 Harrowhouse
1972
Savage Messiah
6.1/20
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is...
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Savage Messiah
2004
Beauty
6.6/8
Tom Fitzhenry is an ugly and reclusive aristocrat who lives on his own in a large mansion. He despairs of ever having a relationship with a woman... u...
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Beauty
1967
The Man Outside
6/1
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded...
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The Man Outside
1993
The Spot FX Man
0/0
The sound effects store for radio drama is a veritable museum of sound, but effects discs and CDs are more cost effective. The old storekeeper feels h...
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The Spot FX Man
1965
Rotten to the Core
6.2/10
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl...
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Rotten to the Core
1968
A Twist of Sand
4/7
A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly bei...
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A Twist of Sand
1973
You and Me and Him
0/0
A man has a three-way conversation between himself, his inner thoughts and as a psychiatrist. Part of the BBC Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
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You and Me and Him
1962
The Devil's Agent
6.2/3
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his...
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The Devil's Agent
1991
Prisoner of Honor
6.2/14
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment...
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Prisoner of Honor
1996
The Secret Agent
5.4/35
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a la...
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The Secret Agent
1998
The Legend of 1900
8.3/2244
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the o...
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The Legend of 1900
1984
The Razor's Edge
6.3/72
An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he dis...
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The Razor's Edge
1969
Taste of Excitement
5.9/6
A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young gi...
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Taste of Excitement
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
6.58/176
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc...
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2009
The Antiques Rogue Show
0/0
Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, who created fake paintings, antiques and sculpture...
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The Antiques Rogue Show
1979
Zulu Dawn
6/101
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Zulu Dawn
2001
Lorna Doone
5.9/20
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the thron...
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Lorna Doone
1975
Porridge: No Way Out
0/0
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
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Porridge: No Way Out
1970
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
0/0
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed...
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1978
Two Days That Shook the Branch
0/0
Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.
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Two Days That Shook the Branch
1972
A Man without Friends
0/0
A man can't account for his movements when a woman is discovered strangled.
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A Man without Friends
2003
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
6/0
Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional foota...
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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
8.6/33
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2011
Albatross
6.088/108
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that th...
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Albatross
1996
The Crucible
6.6/495
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
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The Crucible
1994
Hildegard
0/0
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Age...
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Hildegard
1997
Face
6.3/70
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-be...
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Face
1980
Fox
1/1
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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Fox
1988
The Bourne Identity
7/1
An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious strang...
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The Bourne Identity
1986
Haunted Honeymoon
5.4/155
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech...
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Haunted Honeymoon
2009
Is Anybody There?
6.2/68
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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Is Anybody There?
1986
Experiment IV
4/1
A top secret government project seeks to harness sound as the ultimate weapon. But the power they unleash proves to be far beyond their control.
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Experiment IV
1979
The Danedyke Mystery
0/0
In the village of Danedyke St Mary the Reverend Septimus Treloar, a former Chief Inspector, investigates mysterious goings on linked to his church.
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The Danedyke Mystery
1963
The Punch and Judy Man
7.8/16
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who g...
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The Punch and Judy Man
1980
The Crucible
1/1
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.
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The Crucible
1977
Valentino
5.9/38
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
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Valentino
2000
Hotel Splendide
5.6/25
The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa p...
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Hotel Splendide
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
6.42/207
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1979
Henry VIII
6.5/4
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powe...
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Henry VIII
1988
Codename: Kyril
0/0
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark...
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Codename: Kyril
1985
Forbidden
5/5
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the hom...
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Forbidden
1968
The Bofors Gun
5.7/3
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
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The Bofors Gun
1993
Circle of Deceit
7.5/1
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-act...
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Circle of Deceit
1973
Malachi's Cove
6.143/7
A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as...
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Malachi's Cove
1993
Heart of Darkness
5.7/35
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Heart of Darkness
1964
The Horse Without a Head
6/1
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,...
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The Horse Without a Head
1989
Countdown to War
5/2
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until...
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Countdown to War
1972
The Pied Piper
5.9/31
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter...
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The Pied Piper
1984
Under the Hammer
0/0
All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the...
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Under the Hammer
1987
When We Are Married
0/0
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth...
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When We Are Married
1973
The Eyes Have It
7/4
A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the a...
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The Eyes Have It
1963
The Victors
6.3/23
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to G...
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The Victors
1959
The 39 Steps
6.2/28
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
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The 39 Steps
2001
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
5.7/24
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.
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Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
1961
Two Living, One Dead
7/1
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one o...
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Two Living, One Dead
1982
Coming Out of the Ice
7/6
A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.
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Coming Out of the Ice
1960
Make Mine Mink
7.1/15
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of...
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Make Mine Mink
2003
Thursday the 12th
0/0
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their propert...
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Thursday the 12th
1990
Mountains of the Moon
6.4/71
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...
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Mountains of the Moon
1984
Czech Mate
6/1
Vicky's ex-husband, John, invites her on a trip to communist Prague. First John disappears, then her passport. Vicky finds herself alone and penniless...
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Czech Mate
1978
Freedom of the Dig
0/0
After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but th...
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Freedom of the Dig
1977
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
4.5/5
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
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