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Ethel & Ernest (2016)

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events. ...

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The Understudy (2012)

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price. ...

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Garbo (2005)

An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, p ...

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Promoted to Glory (2003)

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him. ...

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The Book of Eve (2002)

A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart. ...

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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary. ...

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The Great Gatsby (2000)

Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. ...

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The Greatest Store in the World (1999)

Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternative place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. Geraldine re ...

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Topsy-Turvy (1999)

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan's collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creati ...

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Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998)

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond. ...

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Universal Horror (1998)

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s. ...

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Le radeau de la Méduse (1998)

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs R ...

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An Audience with Charles Dickens (1996)

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens. ...

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Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, p ...

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The Return of the Native (1994)

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the ...

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George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)

Narrated by George Stevens Jr., this documentary by Oscar-winning director George Stevens trains its lens on World War II in a way that's rarely been seen before: in full color. The effect is nothing less than astounding, as viewers bear witness to the car ...

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Widows' Peak (1994)

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. ...

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Liberation (1994)

Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews. The World War II documentary uses film footage, radio broadcasts, and perio ...

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Genghis Cohn (1993)

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series o ...

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The Trial (1993)

Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his a ...

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Voyage (1993)

Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and live on the boat for a year. They have bought some real estate with an old ruin of a hotel on it, which th ...

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D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. ...

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Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol (1992)

The spirit of the season is overflowing in A Christmas Carol. As the clock strikes midnight join Ebenezer Scrooge on the journey of a lifetime to discover the true meaning of Christmas. Travel with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future through ...

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A Sense of History (1992)

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent te ...

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The Crucifer of Blood (1991)

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure. ...

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The Black Velvet Gown (1991)

In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah disco ...

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Echoes That Remain (1991)

Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The film's production team ...

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Separate But Equal (1991)

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation. ...

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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. ...

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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankens ...

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Crossing to Freedom (1990)

A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel. ...

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The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies. ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper (1989)

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband. ...

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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker. ...

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Somewhere to Run (1989)

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London. ...

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The Rainbow (1989)

Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she h ...

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Scandal (1989)

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a ...

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The Girl in a Swing (1988)

A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married ...

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Journey's End (1988)

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play. ...

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Hotel du Lac (1986)

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests. ...

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Silas Marner (1985)

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep. ...

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A Song for Europe (1985)

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare jour ...

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King David (1985)

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David. ...

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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son. ...

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Sakharov (1984)

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights. ...

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Champions (1984)

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National ...

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Down in the Valley (1984)

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead. ...

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The Aerodrome (1983)

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative ...

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The Weather in the Streets (1983)

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love. ...

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Macbeth (1983)

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down. ...

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Landscape (1983)

A dysfunctional couple remember a better time. ...

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Arms and the Man (1983)

A frightened Swiss soldier climbs into a young Bulgarian girl's room during wartime. ...

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Schoolgirl Chums (1982)

In the 1930s, Alison starts a new boarding school and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to dethrone the royal family of Bosnovia. ...

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Home Sweet Home (1982)

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner. ...

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L’Elegance (1982)

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman. ...

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Praying Mantis (1982)

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator. ...

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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the s ...

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The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls (1980)

The reputation of the Academy for the Daughters of Respectable Monarchs has, of course, always been of the highest order... then suddenly Signor Doloro de Lara— a Professor of Magic—puts in an unwelcome appearance, and the enchanting little world is tu ...

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Staying On (1980)

A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s. ...

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The Merchant of Venice (1980)

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 died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, ...

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Speed King (1979)

Biopic of Malcolm Campbell, detailing his tumultuous life and extreme drive as he attempts to break the world speed records on land and water. ...

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Birth of the Beatles (1979)

The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show. ...

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Brecht and Co (1979)

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life. ...

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The Light Princess (1978)

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness. ...

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Langrishe, Go Down (1978)

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric ...

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The Kiss of Death (1977)

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Trevor to ...

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The Lady of the Camellias (1976)

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town. ...

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Your Man from Six Counties (1976)

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle's farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past. ...

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Shuttlecock (1976)

Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops... ...

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Fast Hands (1976)

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the d ...

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Where Adam Stood (1976)

Based on the 1907 autobiography "Father and Son" by Christian fundamentalist and naturalist Edmund Gosse, but Dennis Potter adapted only one section of the book, adding much material of his own invention. With a literal belief in the Old Testament, Philip ...

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The Paradise Run (1976)

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever. ...

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The Naked Civil Servant (1975)

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2. ...

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Man Friday (1975)

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as any ...

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The Catholics (1973)

Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and re ...

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The Merchant of Venice (1973)

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier. ...

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The National Health (1973)

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the tele ...

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Rentadick (1972)

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detecti ...

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Up the Chastity Belt (1972)

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get ...

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I, Monster (1971)

Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth M ...

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Up Pompeii (1971)

A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate th ...

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Edward II (1970)

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthro ...

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The Bofors Gun (1968)

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him. ...

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Movies Starring Carl Davis (5)

Composing Napoleon (2016)

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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. ...

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The Understudy (2012)

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price. ...

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Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past (1991)

A look at Paul and Carl Davis as they complete work on the Liverpool Oratorio, and rehearse the musicians for the world premiere. Paul takes Carl on a tour of Liverpool, showing him places that appear in the Oratorio's libretto. ...

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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970)

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris. ...

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