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The Black Tent (1956)
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other title: Le secret des tentes noires / La tienda negra …
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.

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Danger Within (1959)
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other title: Verrat im Camp 127 / Danger intérieur …
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

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The Whisperers (1967)
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布莱恩·福布斯 actor: 伊迪斯·伊万斯
other title: 私语者 / 传播谣言的人 …
The Whisperers stars Dame Edith Evans as a lonely old woman whose imagination is getting the better of her sanity. She insists that she hears "whisperers" plotting and planning against her at all times; she also believes that these imaginary entities are spying on her. So suspicious is Ms. Evans of her nonexistent whisperers that she fails to notice the very real predators around her. She is robbed of her life's savings by a nasty "friend" (Avis Brunnage), and is exploited by her estranged con-artist husband (Eric Portman) and her no-good son (Ronald Fraser) Even when she catches on to the duplicity of others, Ms. Evans is so far gone with her "whisperers" that the authorities refuse to believe her. Seedy and sordid though it may be, The Whisperers won Edith Evans the Best Actress award from the New York Critics' Circle.

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King Rat (1965)
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other title: 鼠王 / 黑狱枭雄 …
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.

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人生的枷锁 (1964)
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肯·休斯 / 亨利·哈撒韦 … actor: 金·诺瓦克 / 劳伦斯·哈维 …
other title: Of Human Bondage / 孽债(港) …
青年菲利普(劳伦斯·哈维 Laurence Harvey 饰)曾经渴望能够成为一名伟大的艺术家,但很快,现实的捶打让他幡然醒悟,放弃了梦想之后,菲利普进入了一家药物学校学习,在那里,他邂逅了名为罗杰斯(金·诺瓦克 Kim Novak 饰)的女孩。 罗杰斯虽然没有读过什么书,但是却拥有美丽的皮囊,这一点深深吸引了菲利普。然而,菲利普先天患有残疾,这让他的个性非常的自卑。果不其然,罗杰斯拒绝了菲利普的追求,转而和一位富有的商人私奔了。之后,菲利普再度见到落魄的罗杰斯时,后者的腹中已经怀上了商人的孩子。善良的菲利普收留了罗杰斯,并且准备和她结婚。

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The League of Gentlemen (1960)
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★ 7.6 5 ratings
巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 奈吉尔·帕特里克 / 布莱恩·福布斯
other title: 绅士联盟 / 巴兹尔迪尔登的地下伦敦之绅士联盟 …
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

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International Velvet (1978)
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布莱恩·福布斯 actor: 塔图姆·奥尼尔 / 克里斯托弗·普卢默 …
other title: 新玉女神驹 / Alles Glück dieser Erde …
Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie. Under the watchful eye of her aunt and horse trainer Capt. Johnson, Sarah develops into a talented rider who might have a shot at the Olympics.

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The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
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★ 7.0 8 ratings
布莱恩·福布斯 actor: 杰玛·克雷文 / 理查德·查伯兰 …
other title: 水晶鞋与玫瑰花 / 灰姑娘 …
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the Prince to wed no matter what. When the Prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the Prince is determined to find and marry her.

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Hopscotch (1980)
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★ 7.0 5 ratings
other title: 跳房子 / 桥王之王 …
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

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The L-Shaped Room (1962)
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布莱恩·福布斯 actor: 莱斯莉·卡伦 / 安东尼·布思 …
other title: 陋室红颜 / 더 L-셰입트 룸 …
The L-Shaped Room follows a young French girl, Jane (Leslie Caron), who arrives alone at a boarding house in Fulham, London. Beautiful and withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house through the meandering first act of the film, each a social outsider in their own way. Jane is pregnant, we learn, and has no desire to marry the father. On her first visit to a doctor, she wants to find out if she really is pregnant and consider her options. The doctor's facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion so insults her that she determines to have the child.