Guy Green

Guy Green

Green was born in Frome, Somerset, England. He began working in film in 1929 and became a noted film cinematographer and a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers. Green became a full-time director of photography in the mid-1940s, working on such films as David Lean's Oliver Twist in 1948. In about 1955, Green switched to directing, and he moved to Hollywood around 1962. In addition to directing A Patch of Blue (1965), Green also wrote and co-produced the film. After his death, his widow Josephine told AP that it was his proudest accomplishment. Among his other films as director are The Angry Silence (1960), The Mark (1961) (nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975), and The Devil's Advocate (1977). Green died in his Beverly Hills home from kidney and heart failure, aged 91. In addition to his wife of 57 years, he was survived by his son, Michael; his daughter, Marilyn Feldman; and two grandchildren.

  • Title: Guy Green
  • Popularity: 0.437
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1913-11-05
  • Place of Birth: Frome, Somerset, England, UK
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Guy Green Movies

  • 1965
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    A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

    A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

    7 1965 HD

    Describes how Elizabeth Hartman was auditioned and chosen for the part of Selina in "A Patch of Blue."

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  • 2000
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    A Profile of In Which We Serve

    A Profile of In Which We Serve

    1 2000 HD

    Documentary about the 1942 British film "In Which We Serve" directed by David Lean and Noël Coward.

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  • 1948
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    7.566 1948 HD

    When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

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  • 1958
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    Sea of Sand

    Sea of Sand

    6.5 1958 HD

    A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.

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  • 1968
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    The Magus

    The Magus

    5.5 1968 HD

    A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.

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  • 1965
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    A Patch of Blue

    A Patch of Blue

    7.551 1965 HD

    A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

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  • 1952
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    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    6.159 1952 HD

    Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.

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  • 1958
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    The Snorkel

    The Snorkel

    7.086 1958 HD

    On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.

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  • 1965
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    A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

    A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

    7 1965 HD

    Describes how Elizabeth Hartman was auditioned and chosen for the part of Selina in "A Patch of Blue."

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  • 1962
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    Light in the Piazza

    Light in the Piazza

    6.2 1962 HD

    A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?

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  • 1959
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    SOS Pacific

    SOS Pacific

    6.9 1959 HD

    A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.

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  • 1960
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    The Angry Silence

    The Angry Silence

    7.212 1960 HD

    When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.

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  • 1955
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    I Am a Camera

    I Am a Camera

    6 1955 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    River Beat

    River Beat

    5.917 1954 HD

    British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befriended an Inspector for the Thames River Patrol.

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  • 1975
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    Once Is Not Enough

    Once Is Not Enough

    5 1975 HD

    An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.

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  • 1970
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    A Walk in the Spring Rain

    A Walk in the Spring Rain

    5.5 1970 HD

    A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.

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  • 1956
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    House of Secrets

    House of Secrets

    5.9 1956 HD

    Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

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  • 1956
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    Lost

    Lost

    6.2 1956 HD

    U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.

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  • 1979
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    The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

    The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

    6 1979 HD

    A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.

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  • 1961
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    The Mark

    The Mark

    6.2 1961 HD

    A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

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  • 1962
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    Diamond Head

    Diamond Head

    5.4 1962 HD

    Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.

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  • 1955
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    Portrait of Alison

    Portrait of Alison

    6.2 1955 HD

    An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

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  • 1955
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    Portrait of Alison

    Portrait of Alison

    6.2 1955 HD

    An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

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  • 1974
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    Luther

    Luther

    5.6 1974 HD

    A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

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  • 1953
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    Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

    Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

    4.9 1953 HD

    After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English

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  • 1952
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    The Hour of 13

    The Hour of 13

    5.7 1952 HD

    1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.

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  • 1977
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    The Devil's Advocate

    The Devil's Advocate

    6.5 1977 HD

    A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.

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  • 1949
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    Adam and Evelyne

    Adam and Evelyne

    6.6 1949 HD

    A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

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  • 1955
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    The Dark Avenger

    The Dark Avenger

    6 1955 HD

    Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").

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  • 1944
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    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead

    6.526 1944 HD

    A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

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  • 1946
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    Carnival

    Carnival

    7.6 1946 HD

    A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all too aware of this.

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  • 1953
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    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera

    4.1 1953 HD

    Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

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  • 1965
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    A Patch of Blue

    A Patch of Blue

    7.551 1965 HD

    A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

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  • 1946
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    7.289 1946 HD

    In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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  • 1942
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    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve

    6.8 1942 HD

    The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

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  • 1950
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    Madeleine

    Madeleine

    6.742 1950 HD

    Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

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  • 1949
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    The Passionate Friends

    The Passionate Friends

    6.8 1949 HD

    A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.

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  • 1951
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    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

    6.9 1951 HD

    Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

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  • 1986
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    Strong Medicine

    Strong Medicine

    7 1986 HD

    TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business pharmaceutical industry can be.

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  • 1967
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    Pretty Polly

    Pretty Polly

    3.6 1967 HD

    Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in Singapore her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.

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  • 1965
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    A Patch of Blue

    A Patch of Blue

    7.551 1965 HD

    A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

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  • 1980
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    Jimmy B. & Andre

    Jimmy B. & Andre

    6 1980 HD

    Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.

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  • 1943
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    Escape to Danger

    Escape to Danger

    1 1943 HD

    During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.

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  • 1944
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    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed

    7.2 1944 HD

    A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

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  • 1948
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    Blanche Fury

    Blanche Fury

    6 1948 HD

    Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.

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  • 1947
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    Take My Life

    Take My Life

    7.571 1947 HD

    When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

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  • 1981
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    Isabel's Choice

    Isabel's Choice

    1 1981 HD

    When the boss she helped climb the corporate ladder is forced into early retirement, a widowed executive secretary must choose between his surprise marriage proposal or new challenges and continuing her career by helping his successor adjust to his company duties.

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  • 1979
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    Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

    Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

    1 1979 HD

    The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company. Based on British TV series "The Foundation." Pilot to a prospective series.

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  • 1951
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    Night Without Stars

    Night Without Stars

    6.7 1951 HD

    A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

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  • 1981
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    Inmates: A Love Story

    Inmates: A Love Story

    1 1981 HD

    Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business pharmaceutical industry can be.

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