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The Mill on the Floss

1978 ★ 6.7

The Mill on the Floss is a British television drama adaptation of George Eliot's 1860 novel of the same name about the lives of rural 19th century siblings Magg

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Crumbled Citadel

1957 ★ 6.3

This movie is a screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Horia Lovinescu. It follows a "bourgeois" family as it copes with the emerging communist regime. Diff

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The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson

1998 ★ 6.0

Classic saga of the merchant and his family shipwrecked on a South Seas island. This adaptation of the Johann David Wyss tale was one of the Pax network's initi

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The Bad Sleep Well

1960 ★ 7.7

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of

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The Four Aces

1970 ★ 7.0

An adaptation of "Romeo and Juliette" where the children of two rival shopkeepers fall in love and try to reconcile their fathers. The Four Aces is a 1970 comed

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Macbeth

2015 ★ 6.4

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the th

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The Roads to Freedom

1970 ★ 4.1

Taboo-busting adaptation for television of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy. The Roads to Freedom is a 1970 television drama series that serves as a taboo-busting ada

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Boris Godunov

1954 ★ 3.0

Russian filmmaker Vera Stroyeva specialized in cinematic adaptations of famous operas. One of the most successful of these was her 1955 film version of Mussorgs

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Something Is Out There

1988 ★ 7.8

A short-lived weekly series based on the miniseries of the same name. Something Is Out There is a short-lived weekly television series from 1988 that was create

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The Blizzard

1964 ★ 5.8

In the early 19th century a seventeen-year-old girl falls in love with a young officer and, despite her parents’ disapproval, decides to elope with him and beg

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The Bonfires of Kapela

1975 ★ 8.8

Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatia

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Casino Royale

1954 ★ 5.2

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. Casino Royale is a 1954 television movie and drama that re

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La virgen desnuda

1950 ★ 6.8

Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lo

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The Safety Match

1954 ★ 5.9

A man of big status disappears in a small provincial town. An old bored investigator and his young hyperactive assistant are on a trail of a bloody murderer. Th

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El malvado Carabel

1961 ★ 6.7

Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime. El malvado Carabel is a 1961 feature film directed by Rafael Baledón with a ru

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The Gamblers

1950 ★ 5.9

Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy. The Gamblers is a 1950 film directed by Claude Barma that adapts the classical comedy written by Russian

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Baddegama

1980 ★ 6.0

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people

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The Dick Tracy Show

1961 ★ 6.9

The Dick Tracy Show was an American animated television series based on Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter. The series was produced from 1961 to 1962 by

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Whale Nation

2023 ★ 5.8

A humpback whale is beached on a remote shore. During the fight to save its life, we will discover the story of these extraordinary creatures, denizens of the w

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The Merchant of Venice

1953 ★ 6.7

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has die

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Laverne & Shirley in the Army

1981 ★ 7.4

Laverne & Shirley in the Army is a 1981 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series based on the TV show Laverne & Shirley, with the title characters voiced by Penny Marshall

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Upper Paraná

1958 ★ 7.0

A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna. Upper Paran

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The Snow Woman

1968 ★ 6.9

Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men. She spares th

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Gypsy

1962 ★ 6.3

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of

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