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The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activists wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband

This story of a ship, the British destroyer H M S Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft

Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife

An all star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ

An intimate look at the career of David Lean, this 1971 documentary by Thomas Craven features an extensive interview with the director, who discusses his work and his approach to filmmaking

A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her fathers business A comedy with social commentary

Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesnt want to pay settlements, so theyll just have to outsmart him

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it

Madeleines middle class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man they know nothing about her long term affair with a Frenchman

A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight

In Charles Dickens classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer

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

An American spinsters dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome but married Italian man while vacationing in Venice