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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
Sparrows Can't Sing
1963 • Drama • Comedy
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The L-Shaped Room
1962 • Drama • Romance
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960 • Drama • Romance
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Krays
1990 • Drama • Crime • History
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and R…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Whisperers
1967 • Drama • Thriller
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her so…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Tom Jones
1963 • Romance • Comedy • History
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
A Study in Terror
1965 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
The Wrong Box
1966 • Comedy
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Gandhi
1982 • Drama • History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with ar…
Why matched: genres Drama, History