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Quatermass 2
1957 • Science Fiction • Horror
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
The League of Gentlemen
1960 • Crime • Comedy
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Sea Devils
1953 • Adventure • Action
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Action
I Was Monty's Double
1958 • Drama • War
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
An Inspector Calls
1954 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any o…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
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
Yesterday's Enemy
1959 • Drama • War
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the mo…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Restless Natives
1985 • Crime • Comedy
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Colditz Story
1955 • Drama • War
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's e…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Wooden Horse
1950 • Drama • War
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Guns of Navarone
1961 • Thriller • Adventure • War
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the res…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
The Million Pound Note
1954 • Comedy
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million poun…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The World in His Arms
1952 • Romance • Adventure
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
Why matched: genres Romance, Adventure
A Shot in the Dark
1964 • Mystery • Crime • Comedy
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
King Rat
1965 • Drama • War
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisone…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Slipper and the Rose
1976 • Music • Romance • Fantasy
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the Prince to wed no matter what. When the Prince meets Cinderella at a…
Why matched: genres Music, Romance