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Brideshead Revisited
1981 • Drama
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the fa…
Why matched: genres Drama
A Christmas Carol
1971 • Drama • Animation • Family
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Animation
Wilt
1989 • Crime • Comedy
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a comp…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Ordeal by Innocence
1984 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
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 for the murder of his mothe…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Leading Man
1996 • Thriller
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't e…
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Nostradamus
1994 • Drama • History
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his p…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Duellists
1977 • Drama • War
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a dec…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Saving Grace
2000 • Crime • Comedy
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for ye…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Big Sleep
1978 • Mystery • Crime
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
The Affair of the Necklace
2001 • Drama • Romance • History
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a pr…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Living and the Dead
2016 • Drama
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another.…
Why matched: genres Drama
Rasputin
1996 • Drama • History • TV Movie
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and myst…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 • Drama • History • War
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Death of Stalin
2017 • Drama • Comedy • History
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy