Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery
An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count and unwillingly swaps identities with him
An ill behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6s echelons
A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomats wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot Papa Doc Duvalier
On the H M S Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second in command Lieutenant Scott Padget, whose heavy handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny
Monsieur Feydeau has writers block, and he needs a new play But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris, Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next door neglectful husband Henri with a beautifu
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise Father Brown has two goals to catch the thief and to save his soul
A psychiatrist, who falls in love with a patient, is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it
In Edwardian Staffordshire, charming rogue Edward Denry Machin Alec Guinness, the son of a washerwoman, believes he must give destiny a hand in order to rise in the world
After a lonely, unappreciated farm equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a posh resort
The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port
A seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers
A Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to anot
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons
In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate
After World War II, a Highland Regiments acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace time Oxford educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two
Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles policies, and the self interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperors son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul de sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians
A distant poor relative of the Duke DAscoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it
In Charles Dickens classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home
When a crown prince visits, the princesss mother tries to push the prince into marrying her daughter by presenting a rival at the ball her childrens handsome tutor
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitlers final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun
An American boy turns out to be the long lost heir of a British fortune He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental Lord, who oversees the trust
The story of T E Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks
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