1950 • Thriller

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government…

Why matched: genres Thriller

1953 • Drama

An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

Why matched: genres Drama

1959 • Thriller • Mystery

In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery

1950 • Thriller • Mystery

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeepe…

Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery

1954 • Music • Romance • Fantasy

Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and…

Why matched: genres Music, Romance

1956 • Drama • Adventure • History

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of th…

Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure

1955 • Music • Romance • Comedy

In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of her stepfamily to finding love with a prince.

Why matched: genres Music, Romance

1952 • Drama • Adventure • History

During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.

Matched on: Jones

1956 • Drama • Romance • History

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

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

1954 • Drama • Adventure • History

The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Calig…

Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure

1954 • Romance • Adventure • Action

A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

Why matched: genres Romance, Adventure

1957 • Drama • History

In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burn…

Why matched: genres Drama, History

1965 • Drama • War • Action

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in ru…

Why matched: genres Drama, War

1950 • Drama • Mystery • Crime

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery

1952 • Drama

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so…

Why matched: genres Drama

2008 • Comedy • Documentary

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low…

Why matched: genres Comedy, Documentary

2010 • Mystery • Science Fiction • Horror

Sherlock Holmes and Watson are on the trail of a criminal and scientific mastermind who seems to control monsters and creations which defy belief.

Why matched: genres Mystery, Science Fiction