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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 8.1

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything...

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A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 8

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mist...

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 8

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. Bu...

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Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1947 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a sc...

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Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he m...

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I Know Where I'm Going!

I Know Where I'm Going!

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.4

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...

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The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7.4

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

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49th Parallel

49th Parallel

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.3

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross...

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The Tales of Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Ne...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1942 IMDB Rating: 7

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre word...

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