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Audra McDonald, Tony Award-winner for Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime, appears live in concert from the Donmar Warehouse in London. In a program that blends the old and the new, McDonald presents ballads by Gershwin, Arlen, and Kern, along with songs by the next generation of music theatre composers. Her performance demonstrates why The New York Times has declared, "She has the vocal power and charisma to make you believe in a better musical future."
Art Direction
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
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In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
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Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe...
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Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!
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Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
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Un multimillonario moribundo ofrece a un físico 100.000 libras por investigar una mansión, presumiblemente una casa encantada, en la que varios científicos han muerto o perdido el juicio en exploraciones previas. Su misión será investigar averiguar qué sucedió y analizar la posibilidad de que exista vida después de la muerte. El físico contará con la ayuda de su mujer, una joven parasicóloga y el único superviviente de la anterior misión científica.
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Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
Production Design
El Dr Jekyll experimenta en mujeres recién fallecidas, determinado a descubrir un elixir para la inmortalidad. En sus investigaciones, fabrica un brebaje que le convierte en una hermosa mujer, que se hace pasar por su hermana Hyde, y que se dedica a asesinar mujeres jóvenes para, de ese modo, poder continuar sus investigaciones como Jekyll. Sin embargo, con cada transformación, la hermana Hyde se convierte en la personalidad más dominante, dispuesta a suprimir al Dr. Jekyll para siempre.
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Durante un safari por África, el experto cazador David Marchant es retenido por una tribu hostil en un templo custodiado por la estatua del rinoceronte blanco. Al abrirse una grieta luminosa en la pared del templo, Marchant aprovecha para escapar adentrándose en ella, y aparece en un mundo prehistórico. Allí conoce a la preciosa rubia Saria, esclavizada junto a sus compañeras por la morena y malvada reina Kari. El clan de Kari considera a los hombres seres inferiores, por lo que David se convierte en el juguete de las mujeres prehistóricas...
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En tiempos prehistóricos, los hombres se guian por sus instintos de supervivencia, compitiendo contra las grandes depredadores y las tribus rivales. En una de ellas, Tumak es expulsado de su clan, el Pueblo de las Piedras, por haberse peleado con su padre. Tras vagar durante días, es salvado por el pacífico Pueblo de las Conchas, y allá Tumak se enamora de Loana, una de sus miembros.
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Una expedición descubre un mundo perdido en el que el pueblo lleva cientos de años a las órdenes de una reina inmortal, "Ella". Pronto surge el amor entre el joven explorador Leo Vincey y la legendaria soberana, que cree descubrir en el explorador la reencarnación de su ancestral amado Callicrates.
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Edad Media, siglo XII. Inspirada en el relato homónimo de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Mientras una plaga devastadora -conocida como la Muerte Roja- diezma la población de una pequeña provincia italiana, el sádico y excéntrico príncipe Próspero se encierra con sus amigos en una de sus propiedades fortificadas para evitar el contagio. Para evadirse de la tragedia, decide organizar una fiesta de máscaras, en la que somete a los invitados a todo tipo de juegos depravados, de los que sólo podrán salir indemnes dos inocentes.
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An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
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Beckett es un tullido emocional que va de trabajo en trabajo, de mujer en mujer, incapaz incluso de amar a su madre. Por él se interesa Dyce, quien desea desembarazarse de su tía y piensa que él es el hombre adecuado para el trabajo...
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A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
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Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts
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Cuenta la persecución del criminal Don Starling recién escapado de la cárcel, tras dejar malherido a uno de sus carceleris, quien supuestamente tiene que pasar por Manchester, ya que allí deben estar guardadas las joyas que robó y que tratará de recuperar.
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During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
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Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
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Un intrépido noble se dedica a salvar las vidas de muchos partidarios del rey Carlos Estuardo, depuesto por Oliver Cromwell
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Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un grupo de soldados y enfermeras cruzan el desierto en una destartalada ambulancia con la intención de llegar hasta Alejandría. En el camino recogen a un misterioso personaje. (FILMAFFINITY)
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No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.
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Mary Price Hilton, una joven que ha sufrido muchos desengaños amorosos, encuentra por fin a un hombre que parece quererla de verdad, pero cuando lo sorprende con otra mujer, queda muy trastornada
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Los británicos están desesperados por acortar el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y proponen un atrevido bombardeo con el propósito de destrozar el corazón industrial de Alemania. Al principio, el objetivo parece imposible. Hasta que un científico británico inventa una ingeniosa arma capaz de destrozar al objetivo propuesto.
