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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 • War & Politics • Drama • Mystery
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Al…
Matched on: Guinness
Smiley's People
1982 • Drama • Mystery
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to kno…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973 • Drama • History • War
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the going…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Ladykillers
1955 • Crime • Comedy
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Scapegoat
1959 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Father Brown
1954 • Mystery • Crime • Comedy
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Matched on: Guinness
The Horse's Mouth
1958 • Comedy
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Bee…
Matched on: Guinness
Barnacle Bill
1957 • Comedy
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Why matched: genres Comedy
Our Man in Havana
1960 • Thriller • Comedy
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy
Last Holiday
1950 • Drama • Comedy
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his saving…
Matched on: Guinness
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 • Crime • Comedy
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Man in the White Suit
1951 • Science Fiction • Comedy
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the mat…
Matched on: Guinness
H.M.S. Defiant
1962 • Adventure • History • War
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first off…
Why matched: genres Adventure, History
The Prisoner
1955 • Drama
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Card
1952 • Comedy
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Tunes of Glory
1960 • Drama
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Captain's Paradise
1953 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 • Adventure • History • War
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Why matched: genres Adventure, History
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 • Drama • History • War
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Murder by Death
1976 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, fals…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery