Quadrophenia
Sep 14, 1979Derrière la musique des Who, un film désespéré sur la jeunesse perdue dans la drogue et la violence.
Drama
John Phillips
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Le Village des damnés
Jun 16, 1960Une bourgade est victime d'un phénomène surnaturel. Quelques mois plus tard, douze têtes blondes naissent au même instant avec des intentions particulièrement hostiles.
Horror
Becket
Mar 11, 1964Au XIIe siècle, Thomas Becket est le chancelier du royaume et l'ami d'Henri II d'Angleterre. Celui-ci doit le promouvoir archevêque de Canterbury à la mort de ce dernier. Becket se sent alors investi par toutes les tâches qui lui incombent, mais ses activités font bientôt de lui un rival pour le roi…
Drama
Mission: Monte Carlo
Jan 01, 1974Les deux premiers épisodes de la série «Amicalement Vôtre» réunis pour faire un film !
Adventure
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Aug 21, 1968When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
TV Movie
Dans les griffes de la Momie
Mar 15, 1967Dans les années 1920, une expédition archéologique menée par Sir Basil Walden recherche la sépulture du pharaon Kah-To-Bey. Après une tempête de sable, l'équipe découvre la dépouille royale. Mais, une fois ramenée et exposée au musée, la momie revient à la vie grâce au pouvoir magique de son suaire. L'ancien pharaon va alors châtier ceux qui ont osé violer sa sépulture.
Horror
Man in the Moon
Oct 31, 1960William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Comedy
Le visage du plaisir
Dec 28, 1961Karen Stone, une comédienne de théâtre en fin de carrière, décide d'arrêter définitivement la comédie et de partir quelques temps en vacances en Italie avec son mari. Mais ce dernier meurt d'une crise cardiaque pendant le trajet en avion. Très atteinte par cette disparition, Karen prend le parti de refaire sa vie à Rome. Elle y rencontre une comtesse qui lui fait faire la connaissance de Paolo, un beau jeune-homme auquel elle succombe rapidement. Mais derrière les apparences, Paolo se révèle être un gigolo qui partage l'argent que lui donne Karen avec la comtesse...
Drama
We Joined the Navy
May 17, 1963Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Comedy
Sky High
Oct 19, 1951When he is told that he is to spend three more years as a tailgunner, goofball GI Herbert Pumice thinks that a promotion--which he has little to no chance of getting--will get him out of the job he hates. He asks his girlfriend Sally, who owns the base café, for help. She goes to the base commander, Col. Baker--who she knows has a crush on her--to help out Herbert. Col. Baker schedules a promotion hearing for Herbert that Friday. He naturally fails it miserably, and then learns that Col. Baker is going out on a date with Sally. Meanwhile, the base military intelligence officer discovers that Herbert is a dead-ringer for the head of a spy ring intending to sabotage a new automated plane, and gets Herbert assigned to infiltrate the gang. Complications ensue.
Comedy
Romanoff et Juliette
Jun 08, 1961satire politique a de Shakespeare histoire de Roméo et Juliette mis à jour à l'ère de la guerre froide, avec les enfants des ambassadeurs américains et russes de tomber amoureux.
Comedy
Fortune Is a Woman
Mar 13, 1957An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Thriller
Dial Red O
Mar 13, 1955The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
Crime
Les clés de la citadelle
Dec 11, 1962Trois criminels ont élaboré un plan qu'ils pensent imparable pour détourner la solde d'une unité militaire en partance pour le Moyen-Orient. Déguisés en soldats, ils parviennent à pénétrer dans la caserne pour commettre leur forfait. Il comptent quitter la base avec les billets cachés dans une roue de secours de leur véhicule. A quelques kilomètres à peine de la réussite, la situation leur échappe..
Crime
Dunkerque
Mar 20, 1958En 1940, après des victoires fulgurantes sur les fronts, l'armée allemande encercle les troupes à Dunkerque. Sous les bombardements et les feux d'artillerie, entre le 27 mai et le 7 juin, l'opération Dynamo consiste à rembarquer vers l'Angleterre les troupes britannique et françaises soit 330000 soldats.
Drama
The Hallelujah Handshake
Dec 17, 1970Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
Drama
Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
Oct 04, 1977During World War I Major Errol Phipps is determined to escape from Stalag Luft 112B but his attempts all fail. However all the other prisoners and the guards succeed, leaving him alone in the camp to make elaborate plans - including a tunnel system so extensive it becomes the Munich Underground. He is so obsessed with his escape plans he fails to realize that the war has ended and dies a disappointed man. He does however manage to escape from his grave after he has been buried though.
Mrs. Amworth
Jan 01, 1975
Ascendancy
Jan 01, 1983Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
Drama
Three Dangerous Ladies
Jun 05, 1977Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Horror
The Shiralee
Jul 11, 1957An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Drama
Joey Boy
Jan 01, 1965While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
Comedy
L'Affaire Dreyfus
Mar 05, 1958En 1894, le capitaine Alfred Dreyfus est accusé de haute trahison. Cet officier aurait livré à l'Allemagne des documents stratégiques de la plus haute importance. Reconnu coupable à l'issue d'un procès expéditif, le capitaine est dégradé publiquement puis exilé sur l'île du Diable. Cependant, des preuves de la culpabilité d'un autre officier, le commandant Esterhazy, font bientôt surface. Emile Zola prend alors la plume pour appeler à la révision du procès de Dreyfus et condamner l'antisémitisme qui a conduit à ce jugement inique. Il stigmatise l'attitude de l'armée, qui a fait condamner un bouc émissaire à la place des vrais coupables. L'opinion se déchire...
Drama
Offbeat
Jan 01, 1961When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
Crime
The Executioner
Apr 17, 1980Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.
Crime
La Souris sur la Lune
May 07, 1963Le duché du Grand Fenwick a un problème : son château n'a plus d'eau chaude. Afin de récolter les fonds nécessaires pour la réparation de la plomberie, le Grand Fenwick réclame de l'aide auprès des États-Unis, et en particulier son département de recherches spatiales. Les Russes envoient eux aussi de l'aide pour montrer qu'ils sont également partisans de l'internationalisation de l'espace. Tandis que le grand-duc rêve de bains chauds, le seul scientifique de l'État met tant bien que mal au point une fusée. États-Unis et Soviétiques ont vent du lancement imminent de l'engin et entrent alors dans une compétition pour être les premiers à atteindre la Lune.
Comedy
Angels One Five
Mar 19, 1952Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un jeune lieutenant de la Royal Air Force s'attire les foudres de son chef d'escadron quand il accidente gravement son avion de chasse, se blessant du même coup. Cloué au sol, c'est dans la salle des opérations qu'il va devoir participer à la bataille d'Angleterre. Le turbulent pilote n'aura de cesse de reprendre le combat aérien.
Drama
The Devil's Eggshell
Jun 28, 1966The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy.
Drama
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
Amicalement vôtre
Feb 25, 1972Lord Brett Sinclair, un aristocrate britannique, et Danny Wilde, un riche self-made-man américain, n'ont rien en commun, si ce n'est leur fortune, leur goût pour les femmes et leurs fonctions secrètes au service de la justice. Tous deux aident en effet le juge Fulton, un magistrat en retraite, à appréhender les bandits ayant échappé à la justice. Avec pour seules armes leurs poings et leur sens de l'humour, Brett et Danny finissent par intervenir dans toute l'Europe, de préférence sous le soleil de la Côte d'Azur ou dans les meilleurs palaces du continent, où pullulent margoulins, maîtres-chanteurs et espions.
Comedy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nov 27, 2011Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Drama
The Sentimental Agent
Dec 21, 1963The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated Television and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It stars Carlos Thompson as Argentinian Carlos Varela, a successful import-export agent based in London.
The series ran for 13 one-hour monochrome episodes. Some of the episodes were edited into a 1962 feature film Our Man in the Caribbean.
Action & Adventure
The Count of Monte Cristo
Nov 23, 1956The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree.
A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010.
ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
Drama
Lillie
Dec 17, 1978The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
Drama
One Step Beyond
Jul 04, 1961Produite en même temps que Twilight Zone, cette série a nourri l'intérêt croissant pour le paranormal d'une manière différente. Plutôt que de créer des histoires fictives avec des rebondissements surnaturels, ce programme cherchait des histoires réelles/surnaturelle, y compris des fantômes, des disparitions, des monstres, et les recréait pour chaque épisode. Aucune solution à ces mystères n'a jamais été trouvée, et les téléspectateurs ne pouvaient que se demander, et si c'était vrai ?
Mystery
The Old Men at the Zoo
Oct 13, 1983An incompetently managed zoo becomes a metaphor for the state of Britain as a nuclear crisis looms over Europe.
1990
Apr 10, 1978The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
Drama
Fall of Eagles
Jun 19, 1974"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
Drama
Sunday-Night Play
Sep 15, 1963BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Mystery and Imagination
Feb 23, 1970Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
Jésus de Nazareth
Apr 10, 1977L'évocation minutieuse de la vie de Jésus de Nazareth, de sa naissance à Bethléem à sa résurrection en passant par sa crucifixion sous l'ordre de Ponce Pilate.
Drama
The Caesars
Oct 27, 1968The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
Drama
Crime of Passion
Oct 15, 1973Drama
Z-Cars
Sep 20, 1978Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Drama
Ripping Yarns
Oct 24, 1979A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
Comedy
The Main Chance
Jul 11, 1975The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
Drama
Days of Hope
Oct 02, 1975Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach.
Drama
Manhunt
Jun 26, 1970Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
Drama
Bleak House
Dec 25, 1959Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959.
It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson and Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone. The complete series still exists.
Drama
The Wednesday Play
May 27, 1970The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Drama
The Onedin Line
Oct 26, 1980The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.
The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
Drama
The Onedin Line
Oct 26, 1980The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.
The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
Drama
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
May 07, 1973Sherlock Holmes n'était pas le seul détective au travail à la fin de l'Angleterre victorienne. D'autres, parfois honnêtes, parfois peu dignes de confiance, mais tous très compétents, étaient à l'œuvre dans toute l'Angleterre, et aussi dans la vieille Europe. Dans chacun des 26 épisodes de cette série, un nouveau crime est mis en scène et un nouveau détective (rival de Sherlock Holmes) est chargé de le résoudre.
Crime
Destination Danger
Jan 12, 1968John Drake (Patrick McGoohan), solitaire et non violent, jamais armé, préférant utiliser son intelligence. Néanmoins, tout comme James Bond, il est équipé de gadgets mis au point par le service pour lequel il travaille. Très apprécié par ses supérieurs pour son efficacité, il lui arrive cependant de s'opposer à eux et d'aller à l'encontre de leurs ordres, quand il estime qu'ils ont tort.
Action & Adventure
Dixon of Dock Green
May 01, 1976Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
Drama
The Wednesday Play
May 27, 1970The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Drama
The Wednesday Play
May 27, 1970The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Drama
