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Travels with My Aunt
1972 • Adventure • Comedy
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Personal Services
1987 • Comedy
Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedom: she opens a house of spa…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Witches
1966 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to reco…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Hanover Street
1979 • Drama • Romance • Adventure
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 • Drama
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long di…
Why matched: genres Drama
Frenzy
1972 • Thriller • Crime • Horror
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the poli…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Town on Trial
1957 • Mystery • Crime
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, a…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
Time Without Pity
1957 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Never Say Never Again
1983 • Thriller • Adventure • Action
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond ha…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
The Age of Innocence
1993 • Drama • Romance
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The One That Got Away
1957 • Drama • War
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Henry V
1989 • Drama • History • War
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Gangs of New York
2002 • Drama • Crime • History
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
A Night to Remember
1958 • Drama • History • Action
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's se…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965 • Drama • History
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculp…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Cruel Sea
1953 • Drama • History • War
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life mis…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Long Arm
1956 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a p…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Cry Freedom
1987 • Drama
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journal…
Why matched: genres Drama
David Copperfield
2001 • Drama • TV Movie
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie