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1. Roger Doesn't Live Here Any More (1981– )

30 min | Comedy

7.7

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Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Diane Fletcher, Kate Fahy, Alice Berry

Votes: 7

2. Little Dorrit (1987)

G | 357 min | Drama, Romance

7.2

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Arthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall

Votes: 1,237 | Gross: $1.03M

3. Evil Under the Sun (1982)

PG | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.0

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61 Metascore

Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Colin Blakely

Votes: 20,151 | Gross: $6.11M

4. Tales from a Flying Trunk (1979)

88 min | Animation, Fantasy, Musical

7.0

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Three shorts based on Hans Christian Anderson's tales. The Kitchen, in which household objects come to life, The Little Match Girl, updated to London's East End in the 1970s, and Little Ida, with dance featuring members of the Royal Ballet

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Murray Melvin, Ann Firbank, Tasneem Maqsood, John Tordoff

Votes: 15

5. Who Killed Kirsty MacColl? (2004 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary, Biography

6.6

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Jean MacColl, mother of the late Kirsty MacColl, searches for truth and justice from the people she believes are responsible for the death of her daughter.

Directors: Olivia Lichtenstein, Tom Anstiss | Stars: Jean MacColl, Hamish MacColl, Kirsty MacColl, Phil Rambow

Votes: 11

6. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

6.2

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47 Metascore

Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 9,425

7. The Fool (1990)

135 min | Crime, Drama

6.1

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Double life of a humble clerk which draws on interviews with street traders, beggars, thieves and performers from Henry Mayhew's book London Labour and the London Poor (1851), and letters and diaries of members of the upper classes.

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Paul Brooke, Julian Firth, John Tams

Votes: 125

8. Biddy (1985)

86 min | History

4.5

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Beginning in 1864 England, and moving through a number of years, a maid helps raise two children, a boy and a girl, all the time talking about her methods in doing so.

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Celia Bannerman, Sam Ghazoros, Luke Duckett, Miles Parsey

Votes: 11

9. But Seriously, It's Sheila Hancock (1972– )

30 min | Comedy

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Stars: Sheila Hancock, Moray Watson, Paul McDowell, Dudley Moore

10. The Nightingale (1981)

45 min | Fantasy

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A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Mandy Carlin, John Dalby, Richard Goolden