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A Bridge Too Far
1977 • Drama • History • War
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Servant
1963 • Drama
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.
Why matched: genres Drama
Hot Enough for June
1964 • Thriller • Comedy
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy
Despair
1978 • Drama • Thriller
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every da…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Providence
1977 • Drama • Comedy
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which c…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Accident
1967 • Drama • Romance
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the b…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Doctor in the House
1954 • Comedy
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hos…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Libel
1959 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actual…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
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
Our Mother's House
1967 • Drama • Thriller
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Victim
1961 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Sleeping Tiger
1954 • Drama • Thriller
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
King and Country
1964 • Drama • War
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out…
Why matched: genres Drama, 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
The Password Is Courage
1962 • Drama • Comedy • War
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his e…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Hunted
1952 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Doctor at Large
1957 • Romance • Comedy
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going f…
Matched on: Bogarde
The Mind Benders
1963 • Drama • Thriller
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sen…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955 • Thriller
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to p…
Why matched: genres Thriller
Doctor at Sea
1955 • Comedy
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practic…
Why matched: genres Comedy