All the Queen's Men 2001  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Drama
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier, David Birkin, Oliver Korittke, Karl Markovics, Edward Fox, Gordon Catlin
British agents recruit American Special Agent Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) to join in a mission that involves breaking into a Berlin factory and stealing a decoding device that will enhance the Allies chance of winning World War II. The catch is that they must cross-dress in order to infiltrate the factory's all-women work force. Complications lie in wait–what a drag!
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Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna 1986  TV, 194 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast: Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland, Elke Sommer, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, Edward Fox, Claire Bloom, Jan Niklas, Nicolas Surovy, Susan Lucci, Jennifer Dundas, Christian Bale, Sydney Bromley, Arnold Diamond
Based on Peter Kurth's book, this story was presented as a two-part TV miniseries starring Amy Irving as Anna Anderson the woman who insisted she was Anastasia, the surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia. Anna fights to prove her claim that she is part of the royal family and should be recognized by the Romanov family. By story's end, she finally takes her case to the Romanovs now living in New York.
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 The Big Sleep 1978  R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, James Stewart, John Mills, Joan Collins, Oliver Reed, Edward Fox, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Diana Quick, Richard Todd, James Donald, John Justin
This version of "The Big Sleep" features Robert Mitchum in the role of private detective Philip Marlowe, and the setting is now in London during the 1970s. Marlowe is hired by elderly General Sternwood (James Stewart) to investigate a blackmail attempt. In the process, Marlowe becomes involved with Sternwood's daughters (Sarah Miles and Candy Clark), and, before the case is solved, several murders take place.
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The Bounty 1984 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tevaite Vernette, Philip Martin Brown, Simon Chandler, Malcolm Terris, Simon Adams, John Sessions
In this remake of the Clark Gable classic "Mutiny on the Bounty," Mel Gibson portrays seaman Fletcher Christian with Anthony Hopkins as a strict, but this time more humane, Captain Bligh. Bligh's cruelty, which includes flogging, results in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian as they sail around Cape Horn. After the mutiny, they seek refuge on Tahiti where even more problems lie ahead.
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A Bridge Too Far 1977  PG, 175 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Laurence Olivier, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Edward Fox, Hardy Kruger, Ryan O'Neal, Liv Ullmann, Denholm Elliott
This is a detailed examination of the logistical complications behind World War II's failed "Operation Market-Garden" that dropped Allied troops behind enemy lines in preparation for battle. The plan involves British Major General Robert Urquhart (Sean Connery) and American Brigadier General James Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) leading paratroopers on a mission to take over a road and five bridges through Holland to Germany. Meanwhile, Lt. Col. John Frost (Anthony Hopkins) will hold the critical bridge at Amhem so that British Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox) and Lt. Col. Joe Vandeleur (Michael Caine) will be able to lead troops across the bridge. However, plans go awry, and the mission turns into a disaster.
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The Cat and the Canary 1978 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Radley Metzger
Cast: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Carol Lynley, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey, Beatrix Lehmann, Daniel Massey, Peter McEnery, Wilfrid Hyde-White
In this remake of the classic old-dark-mansion-where- people-get-murdered-one-by-one story, Annabelle (Carol Lynley) is heiress to a fortune. But there are unhappy relatives with murder on their minds. Good cast and execution.
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The Crucifer of Blood 1991 TV, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Fraser Clarke Heston
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Simon Callow, Edward Fox, Clive Wood, John Castle, James Coyle, Kaleem Janjua, Stefan Kalipha, Kiran Shah, Lloyd McGuire, Sydney Livingstone, Roly Lamas
Based on Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of Four," this is a good mystery story of Sherlock Holmes (Charlton Heston) and Dr. Watson (Richard Johnson) solving the mystery of retired British soldiers who have become affected by a curse of a treasure that was stolen many years before. The answer may lie in a piece of a map that has a cross painted on it in human blood, and Sherlock must find that map.
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Daniel Deronda 2002 TV, 210 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville, Edward Fox, Amanda Root, David Bamber, Greta Scacchi, Barbara Hershey, Celia Imrie, Michael Attwell, Daniel Evans
George Eliot's classic novel was first telecast on BBC TV and then re-edited into a two-part, two-story series for Masterpiece Theater. One story involves beautiful, but spoiled, Gwendolen Harleth (Ramola Garai) who marries Henleigh Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville) to regain a family fortune. In the second story, Daniel Daronda (Hugh Dancy) is a young Jew who is attracted to Gwendolen and is influenced by Mordecai (Daniel Evans) who lectures Deronda to be true to his heritage. When Deronda finds his inner-self, he finds true love with Mordecai's sister, Mirah (Jodhi May).
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The Day of the Jackal 1973   PG, 144 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, David(2) Swift, Denis Carey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michel Lonsdale, Olga Georges-Picot, Derek Jacobi, Raymond Gerome
Conspiring French generals hire the Jackal (Edward Fox) to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) in the early 1960s. The French Security Force is suspicious when the French generals who hired the Jackal have gone into hiding. They kidnap the generals' errand boy, and when questioned he reveals the assassins name. The Security Force hires ace detective Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) to track down the Jackal before he kills DeGaulle. The Jackal now assumes a new identity that will make it even more difficult for Lebel to catch him before he completes the assassination. And the mystery deepens.
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The Dresser 1983  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Edward Fox, Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison, Betty Marsden, Sheila Reid, Lockwood West, Kevin Stoney, Ann Way, John Sharp, Kathy Staff, Joe Belcher
During World War II in war-torn England, temperamental Shakespearean actor "Sir" (Albert Finney) gets his every demand catered to by a faithful dresser, Norman (Tom Courtenay), who tries to get the aging "Sir" through a myriad of moods. The show must go on–despite bombs falling–and the devoted Norman, once again, provides the care necessary to get "Sir" onstage for his performance in "King Lear." Both Finney and Courtenay received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor; other nominations were received for Best Picture, Director, and Writing.
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The Duellists 1977 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Tom Conti, Alun Armstrong, John McEnery, Pete Postlethwaite, Robert Stephens
Based on a Joseph Conrad story, this film involves two Hussar officers, Armand d'Hubert (Keith Carradine) and Gabriel Feraud (Harvey Keitel), who cross swords time and again during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson 1978 TV, 270 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Waris Hussein
Cast: Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham, Marius Goring, Nigel Hawthorne, Cherie Lunghi, Kika Markham, Jessie Matthews, Andrew Ray, John Shrapnel, David Waller
In the sequel to the biography of King Edward VII, "Edward the King" (1975), this made-for-TV British miniseries is based on the life of King Edward VIII who gave up his throne to be with the woman he loved, the divorced American socialite Wallace Simpson.
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Galileo 1975 PG, 145 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill, Margaret Leighton, John Gielgud, Michael Gough, Michael Lonsdale, Richard O'Callaghan, Tim Woodward, Judy Parfitt
When his findings about planetary movement contradict teachings of the Church, 17th-century scientist Galileo (Topol) renounces his theory but privately continues to believe in it and hopes that time will prove him right.
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 Gandhi 1982 PG, 188 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Ian Charleson, Saeed Jaffrey, Nigel Hawthorne, Gunther Maria Halmer, Geraldine James, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Ian Bannen
This film was a highlight of the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Director, and Actor (Ben Kingsley). The power and passion of Gandhi (Kingsley), who preached nonviolent resistance to British rule, is the focus as the story follows Gandhi's life from a young South African lawyer to leader of an independent India. In all, the film collected nine Oscars and was nominated for three others.
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The Go-Between 1971 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard, Michael Gough, Edward Fox
Set in late 19th-century England, this drama centers on letters between an aristocrat, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates). The letters relate their love story in this very good film.
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Gulliver's Travels 1996 TV, 188 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, John Standing, Alfre Woodard, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter O'Toole, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Phoebe Nicholls, Karyn Parsons, Edward Petherbridge, John Wells
An all-star cast, Jim Henson's special effects, and good performances make this made-for-TV miniseries a joy to watch and is probably the most faithful retelling of the Jonathan Swift social satire. Lemuel Gulliver (Ted Danson) returns home to Mary (Mary Steenburgen) after a long absence and acts out his wild adventures that include the tiny Lilliputians, the huge Brobdingnags, the Laputas (the no-common-sense scientists), and the intelligent horses surrounded by wild humans.
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The Importance of Being Earnest 2002 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, Edward Fox, Patrick Godfrey, Charles Kay
Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) and Jack Worthing (Colin Firth) are two English friends who use the same imaginary soul, "Ernest Worthing," as an excuse to escape boring lives. All goes well until they both use the pseudonym with the same people at the same time resulting in a montage of mistaken identities.
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I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name 1967 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White, Norman Rodway, Harry Andrews, Peter Graves, Edward Fox, Frank Finlay, Michael Hordern, Wendy Craig
The foibles of modern society are the focus of this film involving Andrew Quint's (Oliver Reed) attempt to regain his dreams of youth.
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Lassie 2005 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Adventure
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Steve Pemberton, Jonathan Mason, Hester Odgers, Jemma Redgrave, Peter Dinklage, Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Kelly Macdonald, John Standing, Robert Hardy
After the financially troubled Carracloughs–Joe (Jonathan Mason), Sarah (Samantha Morton), and son Sam (John Lynch)–sell their pet dog, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole) on the eve of World War II, the Duke takes Lassie to his castle in Northern Scotland. With help from the Duke's niece Cilla (Hester Odgers), Lassie breaks free and takes off on an incredible 500-mile journey to reach the Carraclough family in Yorkshire in time for Christmas.
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The Mirror Crack'd 1980 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, Nigel Stock, Pierce Brosnan, Margaret Courtenay, Charles Lloyd Pack, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan, Marella Oppenheim, Maureen Bennett
In this Agatha Christie mystery, an American movie company is making a film in an old English village. One of the actresses, Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor), had suffered a mental breakdown but is now trying to make a comeback. Unfortunately, she is still plagued by her past and has been receiving death threats. When a pair of murders takes place, Scotland Yard Inspector Craddock (Edward Fox), arrives on the scene with his aunt, Miss Marple (Angela Lansbury), to investigate. Everyone thinks that Marina was the intended victim, but Miss Marple and Craddock look into others involved with the movie set including Marina's husband who is the film's director Jason Rudd (Rock Hudson). Also on the list of suspects are film producer Marty Fenn and his wife Lola Brewster (Tony Curtis and Kim Novak). Determination pays off as Craddock and Miss Marple finally uncover the evidence that identifies the guilty party.
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A Month by the Lake 1995 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Irvin
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Alessandro Gassman, Carlo Cartier, Natalia Bizzi, Paola Lombardi, Frances Nacman, Riccardo Rossi
This delightful film is about two Britons (Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox) on holiday at Lake Como and looking for, and finding, love.
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 Never Say Never Again 1983 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Barbara Carrera, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Kim Basinger, Edward Fox, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Michael Medwin, Ronald Pickup, Pamela Salem, Rowan Atkinson, Valerie Leon, Milos Kirek, Anthony Sharp
In this remake of "Thunderball" (1965), James Bond is back, and this time it is Sean Connery playing the indomitable Agent 007. SPECTRE has stolen two cruise missiles from the U.S. and is planning to use them in its plot to carry out nuclear blackmail against NATO countries. Bond's mission is to recover the missiles from the evil Maximilian Largo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), and he gets help from Largo's mistress Domino (Kim Bassinger) when he heads to the Bahamas in search of the missiles.
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 Nicholas Nickleby 2002 PG, 152 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas McGrath
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Bell, Edward Fox, Romola Garai, Tom Courtenay, Nathan Lane, Alan Cumming, Barry Humphries
After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam) and his family seek help from Uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer). But Uncle Ralph seems determined to split up the family members. He disposes of Nicholas by sending him to a boarding school for poor boys that is run by the dastardly Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent). All is not lost; Nicholas and his friend, Smike (Jamie Bell), escape and set out to reunite the Nicklebys.
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Nighthawks 1981  R, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Bruce Malmuth
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer, Nigel Davenport, Lindsay Wagner, Joe Spinell, Catherine Mary Stewart, Edward Fox, Persis Khambatta, Hilary Thompson, Walter Mathews, E. Brian Dean, Caesar Cordova, Charles Duval, Tony Munafo
Two N.Y.C. cops–Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams)–are recruited to track down international terrorist Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer) who has detonated a bomb in a department store and killed several children. DaSilva and Fox enter a cat-and-mouse game in their effort to catch Wulfgar and track him down via a variety of urban locations including subways, discos, and even a tram above Manhattan.
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The Republic of Love 2003 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Emilia Fox, Bruce Greenwood, Edward Fox, Martha Henry, Jackie Burroughs, Alec Stockwell, Lloyd Owen, Gary Farmer, Rebecca Jenkins, Kate Lynch, Brooke D'Orsay, David Huband
Based on a novel by Pulitzer-Prize-winner Carol Shields, this is a love story set during a Canadian winter. Talk-show host Tom (Bruce Greenwood) is on his way to his fourth marriage while his fiancee, Fay (Emilia Fox), has high expectations regarding love and marriage. After her parents' 40-year marriage breaks down, Fay's values are shaken and doubts arise as to whether or not love is worth the heartbreaks.
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 Robin Hood 1991 TV, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
Director: John Irvin
Cast: Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jeroen Krabbe, Jurgen Prochnow, Edward Fox, Owen Teale, Jeff Nuttal, David Morrissey, Alex Norton, Danny Webb, Conrad Asquith, Barry Stanton, Phelim McDermott, Carolyn Backhouse, Caspar De La Mare
This made-for-TV retelling of the classic tale is a good one– about as good as the other 1991 effort starring Kevin Costner. It stays close to historical accuracy in the tale of Robin Hood (Patrick Bergin) and his group of thieves who rob the rich and give to the poor. But, the film takes interesting liberties with some of the characters–including Uma Thurman's portrayal of Maid Marian as Marian is turned from the helpless maiden in distress into a bratty young woman. Good "mood" photography.
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The Shooting Party 1985 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Bridges
Cast: James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud, Cheryl Campbell, Gordon Jackson, Judi Bowker, Robert Hardy, Thomas Heathcote, Sarah Badel
Invited for a weekend shooting party as guests of their host (James Mason), members of the British aristocracy personify a myriad of destructive behaviors.
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 Stage Beauty 2004 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin, Hugh Bonneville, Zoe Tapper, Richard Griffiths, Edward Fox, Derek Hutchinson, Mark Letheren, Jack Kempton
During England's Puritan era, the roles of women on stage were played by men, and Ned (Billy Crudup) portrayed many women. But when Ned is beaten up and can't play "Desdemona," his dresser, Maria (Claire Danes), takes on the role. Now, the Puritans are out of power, and Charles II decides that women should be on stage. This leaves Ned out in the cold–until rising-star Maria finally catches his eye.
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The Wild Geese II 1985 R, 124 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Cast: Scott Glenn, Edward Fox, Barbara Carrera, Laurence Olivier, Robert Webber, Robert Freitag, Kenneth Haigh, Stratford Johns, Derek Thompson, Paul Antrim, John Terry, Ingrid Pitt, Patrick Stewart, David Lumsden, Michael N. Harbour
Brother and sister, Michael and Kathy Lukas (John Terry and Barbara Carrera)–along with his old comrade Alex Faulkner (Edward Fox)–aid John Haddad (Scott Glenn) who is hired by an American TV station to free Nazi war criminal Rudolph Hess (Laurence Olivier) from a Berlin prison and force Hess to reveal hidden Nazi secrets. German Heinrich Stroebling (Robert Freitag), who is working with the Russians and Palestinian terrorists, organizes assassination attempts on Haddad. Meanwhile, Kathy is kidnapped, and Haddad's assignment proves to be more and more dangerous.
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| 1. All the Queen's Men (2001)
2. Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
3. The Big Sleep (1978)
4. The Bounty (1984)
5. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
6. The Cat and the Canary (1978)
7. The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
8. Daniel Deronda (2002)
9. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
10. A Doll's House (1973)
11. The Dresser (1983)
12. The Duellists (1977)
13. Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
14. Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
15. Galileo (1975)
16. Gandhi (1982)
17. The Go-Between (1971)
18. Gulliver's Travels (1996)
19. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
20. I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name (1967)
21. Lassie (2005)
22. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
23. A Month by the Lake (1995)
24. Never Say Never Again (1983)
25. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
26. Nighthawks (1981)
27. The Republic of Love (2003)
28. Robin Hood (1991)
29. The Shooting Party (1985)
30. Soldier of Orange (1979)
31. Stage Beauty (2004)
32. The Wild Geese II (1985)
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