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Wendy Hiller was an accomplished British actress, known for her stage productions and film work. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Separate Tables" and also appeared in films like "Pygmalion," "Murder on the Orient Express," and "A Man for All Seasons."
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in Englan...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet....
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to contin...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mo...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the bu...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Le...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolp...
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