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Gorgo
1961 • Science Fiction • Horror • Action
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
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
Betrayed
1954 • Drama • Romance • War
When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Devent…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
El Cid
1961 • Drama • Romance • History
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Becket
1964 • Drama • History
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 • Adventure • War • Action
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Why matched: genres Adventure, War
They Who Dare
1954 • War
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied fo…
Why matched: genres War
Tiger Bay
1959 • Thriller • Crime
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. In…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
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
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 • Drama • History • War
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
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