Clive Donner
Nascimento : 1926-01-21, London, England, UK
Morte : 2010-09-06
História
Clive Stanley Donner was a British film director who was a defining part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing But the Best, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat? He also directed television movies and commercials through the mid-1990s.
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A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
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Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley Street physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat deploy their individual talents in elaborate stings to get back "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"
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Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
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11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in toys.
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Durante um jogo de caça ao assassino numa casa de campo, para a qual Hercule Poirot é convidado como o "especialista", ocorre um verdadeiro assassinato.
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A história do Rei Arthur e dos cavaleiros da Távola Redonda, contada pelo mago Merlin. Sua principal inimiga, Morgana, tudo faz para destruir a unidade do reino. Dragões, magia e espíritos malignos.
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Um senhor amargo e miserável revive momentos de sua vida para avaliar seus erros.
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Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
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Assassinato, falsidade, intriga e paixão... Scarlet Pimpernel se encontra no meio disto tudo. No calor da Revolução Francesa, Robespierre e o chefe da Polícia Secreta, Chauvelin estão mantendo as guilhotinas ocupadas.
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The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
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Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
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Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) é chamado ao serviço para ajudar a combater um vilão que ameaça detonar uma arma que destrói roupas. Em sua missão, o atrapalhado agente secreto irá contar com a ajuda da sexy Agente 34 (Sylvia Kristel).
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While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
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A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian (Culp) recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton (Young) to aid him in his current case. Anitra Cyon (Bell), the sister of prominent British businessman Geoffrey Cyon (Villiers), believes her brother is dabbling in the black arts. In turn, Geoffrey claims that she is mentally unfit. Sebastian and Hamilton travel to the Cyon estate to investigate the matter. Complicating the issue is Sebastian's debilitating heart condition that was induced by his own experimentations with the black arts.
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No início de 1939 Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) mirou em Adolf Hitler (Michael Sheard) com um rifle de alta potência, mas o tiro errou o alvo. Capturado e torturado pela Gestapo e deixado para morrer, Sir Robert faz o caminho de volta para a Inglaterra, onde descobre que a Gestapo o seguiu. Sabendo que seu governo o entregaria às autoridades alemãs, Sir Robert vai à clandestinidade em sua batalha contra seus perseguidores. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
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While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.
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Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
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Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
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Harry is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. His friend decides that Harry is the man to take his wife away from him so that Milt can be with his girlfriend. Ellen and Harry have an instant attraction and in a short while Harry is wearing Milt's suits and Milt is free. But, Ellen soon discovers that Harry is the world's worst roommate.
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Um playboy que se recusa a desistir de seu estilo de vida hedonista para se estabelecer e se casar com seu verdadeiro amor busca ajuda de um psicanalista demente que, por sua vez, está tendo seus próprios problemas românticos.
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Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!
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Enquanto reformava sua casa em Londres, Aston, por pena, aloja um sem-teto, mas o irmão de Aston insulta e assedia o velho rabugento.
Aston (Robert Shaw), um homem quieto e reservado, mora sozinho em um quarto desordenado no último andar de uma pequena casa abandonada em um bairro pobre de Londres. Ele faz amizade com Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), um velho sem-teto que foi demitido de um emprego em um café. Com o tempo, Aston lhe oferece um emprego como zelador da casa. O irmão de Aston, Mick (Sir Alan Bates), um sádico provocador, assedia o sem-teto quando seu irmão está fora, contradizendo suas ordens. Então, Aston, irritado pelo velho rabugento, o expõe. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
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When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
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A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
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A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
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Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
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Bill Forrester é um grande piloto de guerra em 1945, num acampamento na Ásia, na Birmânia, onde está um calor infernal. Ele é ágil, duro e cria muito desconforto no acampamento entre os outros oficiais pelo seu estilo independente, violento e por suas crises intempestivas. Ele realmente estava muito estressado. Quando um oficial pensa em pedir a transferência dele, um médico resolve levar o piloto para conhecer as comunidades na Birmânia, na tentativa de humanizá-lo um pouco.
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An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
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Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
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A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
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Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) é um velho rico, avarento e grosseiro. Na noite de Natal, ele recebe a visita de três espíritos, representando o passado, o presente e o futuro. Os espíritos mostram a Scrooge sua vida, os sonhos que já teve, seus erros e o que ele pode vir a ser. Com isso Scrooge percebe seu egoísmo e muda seu jeito de ser. Considerada a melhor dentre as adaptações do livro Contos de Natal, de Charles Dickens.
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The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
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A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
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Um grupo de recrutas é convocado para a infantaria durante a WW2. No início, eles parecem um bando sem esperança, mas seu sargento e seu tenente acreditam neles e os transformam em uma boa equipe. Quando eles entram em ação na África do Norte eles percebem qual que é o jogo.
