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Les Misérables
1978 • Drama • Romance • History
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Fahrenheit 451
1966 • Drama • Science Fiction
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book…
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Gone to Earth
1950 • Drama • Romance
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin, a fox hunting squir…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Rising of the Moon
1957 • Drama • Comedy
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 • Drama • Science Fiction
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into thr…
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
The Tenth Man
1988 • Drama • TV Movie
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoner…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Harold and Maude
1971 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Danny the Champion of the World
1989 • Drama • Family • TV Movie
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local de…
Why matched: genres Drama, Family
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 • Romance • Comedy
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, ann…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
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
The Secret of Convict Lake
1951 • Western
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed…
Why matched: genres Western
Far and Away
1992 • Drama • Romance • Adventure
In director Ron Howard’s period epic, a young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner gypped by her family’s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
True Confessions
1981 • Drama • Crime
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Gideon's Day
1958 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" con…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Day of the Jackal
1973 • Thriller • Action
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 • Drama • Thriller
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
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
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989 • Drama
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a m…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Man Who Never Was
1956 • Drama • Thriller • History
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted wit…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 • Drama
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Why matched: genres Drama