Tip: try "cast:", "genre:", "director:", "writer:"…
Whistle Down the Wind
1961 • Drama • Crime
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Dunkirk
1958 • Drama • War
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civi…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Nowhere to Go
1958 • Thriller • Crime
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Kidnapped
1960 • Drama • Adventure • Family
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the H…
Matched on: Lee
A Christmas Carol
1977 • Drama • Family • TV Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Family
The Key
1958 • Drama • Romance • War
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Purple Plain
1954 • Drama • Adventure • War
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
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
The Angry Silence
1960 • Drama
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Why matched: genres Drama
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.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 • Drama • History • War
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great dange…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Gift Horse
1952 • Drama • Adventure • War
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Blue Lamp
1950 • Thriller • Crime • Action
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixo…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Fire Down Below
1957 • Drama • Romance • Adventure
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. The…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Odette
1950 • Drama • History • War
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Rave…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Across the Bridge
1957 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
From Russia with Love
1963 • Thriller • Adventure • Action
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
Moonraker
1979 • Thriller • Science Fiction • Adventure
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterio…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 • Thriller • Adventure • Action
With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a m…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
Goldfinger
1964 • Thriller • Adventure • Action
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure