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Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 8.3

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in th...

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but C...

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Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 8

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soo...

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Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 7.8

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham...

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.8

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with...

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Hobson's Choice

Hobson's Choice

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploit...

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A Passage to India

A Passage to India

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her...

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This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.3

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Yea...

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The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

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