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Plot Summary:
The series entitled Capek's Pockets represents a novel and unique student project in which talented young directors and experienced scriptwriters came together to produced their rendering of Tales from One Pocket and Tales from the Other Pocket by the outstanding Czech writer Karel Capek. Rather than experimenting with the model, its authors sought to "put new life" into the classical piece of literature, and commemorate Capek's great mastery as a writer and thinker. The tales with crime plots of a humorous slant are situated in the 1920s and 1930s, and their protagonists are not big criminals but petty thieves or little crooks. And the detective is an ordinary man, too. The main focus is always on capturing the diversity of personality types - people whom their life situation forces to deal with things the way they do.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: anthology
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 430
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 786
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Plot tags: surreal
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 753
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 378
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 199
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IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 175
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 414
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 630 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 500
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: UK
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 651
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Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 40 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 315
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
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Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on the ITV Network. There were two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes; the first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. The programme presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes took its inspiration – and title – from a series of published anthologies by Hugh Greene, elder brother of author Graham Greene and the former director-general of the BBC. Hugh Greene is credited on the programme as a creative consultant. The authors and detectives featured on the programme include: ⁕Robert Barr ⁕Guy Boothby ⁕Ernest Bramah ⁕R. Austin Freeman ⁕Jacques Futrelle ⁕Adalbert Goldscheider, a.k.a. "Balduin Groller" ⁕George Griffith.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 334
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Crime
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