Ronald Neame
2) Hopscotch
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English
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One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
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Criterion collection volume 31
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English
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In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
4) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
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English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
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English
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In 1963, in Hamburg, Germany, a diary falls into the hands of freelance newspaperman Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller's personal manhunt to track down Roschmann leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the...
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English
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"[A] fascinating true story of a daring intelligence operation prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Lt. Commander Montagu plants letters regarding the British intention to land in Greece on a dead soldier outfitted to look like an English officer, knowing that the papers will ultimately fall into German hands. What follows is a taut cat-and-mouse game as British Intelligence races to stay one step ahead of the Nazi agent dispatched to verify...
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Criterion collection volume 154
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English
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Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
13) Gambit
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English
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Michael Caine rolls the dice but Shirley MacLaine could end up the big loser in this witty suspense yarn that finds the duo attempting to steal a priceless art treasure. Their foolproof scheme backfires and they must pull out all the stops in order to come out on top.
15) Scrooge
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English
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This well-produced musical adaptation of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' stars Albert Finney as skinflint Ebeneezer Scrooge. With engaging songs, played against authentic English settings, Scrooge is visited by three spirits who open his eyes to the inhumanity of his past and the joy of Christmas.
16) The magic box
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"The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler from the controversial biography by Ray Allister, Magic Box contends that Friese-Greene was the true father of motion pictures, and not such upstarts as W.K.L....
17) The Chalk garden
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English
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Tells the story of a family conflict over possession of an emotionally troubled child which comes to a climax after the hiring of a mysterious Nanny.
19) Scrooge
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English
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The classic Charles Dickens tale of the cold hearted miser who is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas.
20) Tunes of glory
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English
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Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion of a military family, enters the scene as Sinclair₂s replacement, the two men engage in a fierce struggle for control of both the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.






