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Filmography Highlights
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These Foolish Things
1990- Rated:
- TBC
This largely glum bit of domestic bother unites Tavernier with Bogarde, as a man who undergoes life-saving surgery and is subsequently brought closer to his estranged daughter (Birkin), quite unprepa
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Despair
1978- Rated:
- 15
The first screenplay for a Fassbinder film not written by himself, was an adaptation by Stoppard of a Vladimir Nabokov novella. On the eve of the Third Reich, a chocolate manufacturer (played by Boga
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Providence
1977- Rated:
- 15
Resnais' first English-language film is a complex but not especially rewarding exercise. Gielgud plays an old man lying ill in bed, drunk and dying, who desperately attempts to complete his last nove
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A Bridge Too Far
1977- Rated:
- 15
Innumerable stars from Britain, the US and beyond gather for this Second World War epic. Directed by Richard Attenborough and scripted by William Goldman
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The Night Porter
1974- Rated:
- X
Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling star in a dark exploration of the destructive love between a Nazi war criminal and a beautiful ex-concentration camp internee
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Death In Venice
1971- Rated:
- AA
Luchino Visconti's interpretation of Thomas Mann's novella. Dirk Bogarde plays the ageing composer who reassesses his life when his eyes alight on a beautiful teenage boy
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Justine
1969- Rated:
- TBC
Trimming the four volumes of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet into two-hour-film form proves impossible, even for a director of Cukor's talents. His task was complicated further in that he repla
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The Damned
1969- Rated:
- X
Luchino Visconti begins his study of German decadence with this 1930s-set tale of an industrialist family. Dirk Bogarde stars
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Fixer, The
1968- Rated:
- TBC
Frankenheimer's powerful film (taken from Bernard Malamud's equally hard-hitting novel) further illustrates the prejudices and anti-semitism of Czarist Russia. Bates stars as the poverty-stricken Jew
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Our Mother's House
1967- Rated:
- AA
Director Jack Clayton brings a similar sense of the heightened unease that marked his earlier The Innocents to this screen adaptation of Julian Gloag's novel about a group of young children (a
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Accident
1967- Rated:
- PG
A bunch of English intellectuals crash and burn in Joseph Losey's caustic drama starring Dirk Bogarde and scripted by Harold Pinter
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Modesty Blaise
1966- Rated:
- PG
Gloriously camp caper that superbly captures the mod-mad pop art times. The British government calls on the services of mini-skirted secret agent Modesty Blaise to help them destroy the crime network of a toupee-wearing master-criminal. Yeah, baby!
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Darling
1965- Rated:
- 15
As the 'kitchen sink' drama sank to be replaced by 'Swinging London', Schlesinger moved into the gilded world of fashionable society. The film was written by Raphael especially for Christie, who, as
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King and Country
1964- Rated:
- PG
Losey's wonderful direction is one of the many highlights in this, a companion piece to The Servant, featuring Bogarde as a different kind of champion of the working class. He plays Captain Hargreave
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The Servant
1963- Rated:
- TBC
Playboy James Fox employs Dirk Bogarde as his valet but gradually master and servant's roles are reversed. Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter's unsettling depiction of class war in swinging 1960s London
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I Could Go on Singing
1963- Rated:
- U
Judy's last movie contained autobiography within a fictional story. She plays a famous singer, in London for concerts, who visits her former lover (Bogarde), father of their son, Matt (who believes h
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Doctor In Distress
1963- Rated:
- A
Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice and Samantha Eggar star in the fifth instalment of the popular Doctor comedy series, based on Richard Gordon's best-selling novels
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The Mind Benders
1962- Rated:
- 12
Dirk Bogarde stars as a scientist unhinged by sensory depravation experiments in this British drama directed by Basil Dearden
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Victim
1961- Rated:
- PG
A successful barrister falls victim to blackmailers who are threatening to expose his homosexuality in this vintage drama starring Dirk Bogarde
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Singer Not the Song, The
1961- Rated:
- TBC
Unusual Western drama set in Mexico starring Dirk Bogarde as a bandit warlord embroiled in a battle for the hearts and minds of a village with crusading priest John Mills.
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Song Without End
1960- Rated:
- TBC
George Cukor finished directing this biopic of Franz Liszt after Vidor died while making it, so the rather ominous title carries extra portent. It is formulaic gubbins, really, an artist suffering fo
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Tale of Two Cities, A
1958- Rated:
- U
Slick, spiritless literary adaptation (the 1935 Colman version has more wallop), but Thomas' version of Dickens' account of revolution and terror boasts an engagingly understated performance by Bogar
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Ill Met by Moonlight
1957- Rated:
- TBC
Dirk Bogarde leads a WWII adventure directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. British troops and local Cretans embark on an audacious attempt to kidnap a Nazi General. Based on a true story
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Doctor At Large
1957- Rated:
- U
Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice star in this 1957 entry in the medical comedy series
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Campbell's Kingdom
1957- Rated:
- U
Terminally ill prospector Dirk Bogarde digs deep in the Canadian Rockies and strikes more than just oil in this 1950s adventure adapted from Hammond Innes' bestselling novel
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