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1) The mikado
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The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to whimsy. Ko-Ko (Eric Idle) is sentenced to death for the crime...
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"Iris Carr is travelling across Europe by train when she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a sinister Balkan plot. Feeling disoriented after a fall, Iris is befriended by Miss Froy, an elderly English woman sharing her carriage. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished without a trace. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris faces danger and intrigue as she fights to discover the fate of Miss Froy-- and...
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While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
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A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
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Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
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During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
11) Lillie
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Dramatizes the life of Lillie Langtry, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage who goes on to become one of the most sought after actresses in Britain and the United States, famous for her beauty and infamous for her scandals.
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Harm done: Detective Chief Inspector Wexford faces growing public unrest over the release of a pedophile, an odd series of abductions, and the disappearance of a wealthy couple's daughter from her bedroom.
The fallen curtain: Abducted briefly as a boy, Richard Clayton cannot remember what happened during those few fateful hours. The mystery dogs him until he reaches the verge of manhood himself.
15) Moonraker
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James Bond blasts into orbit in this pulse-pounding adventure that takes him from Venice, to Rio de Janeiro, and to outer space! Roger Moore stars for the fourth time as Agent 007 and joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying all human life on Earth.
16) Dr. No
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Investigation of a missing colleague in Jamaica leads James Bond to the island of Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program.
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"The Case of the Missing Will: Poirot is the executor of a revised will that disappears when its author dies suddenly. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: Hastings' decision to buy an elegant Italian car coincides with a case involving an Italian count. The Chocolate Box: A trip home to Belgium with Japp causes Poirot to reopen a case that he failed to solve 20 years earlier."--Container.
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Experience the crime-fighting prowess of Inspector Lynley and his partner Detective Sergeant Barabara Havers for the first time in a fully remastered collection. It features eight action-packed episodes of the detective series. Watch as Thomas ₁Tommy₂ Lynley, Eighth Earl of Asherton, is assigned to Scotland Yard and finds himself paired with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. The tensions of work won₂t be the only struggle for the pair.