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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
Return from the River Kwai
1989 • War
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and de…
Why matched: genres War
A Month by the Lake
1995 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only oth…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Cat and the Canary
1978 • Mystery • Comedy • Horror
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Comedy
The Shooting Party
1985 • Drama • Romance • History
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Shaka Zulu
1986 • War & Politics • Drama • Action & Adventure
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
Gandhi
1982 • Drama • History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with ar…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Go-Between
1971 • Drama • Romance
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-be…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Wild Geese II
1985 • Thriller • Action
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
The Dresser
1983 • Drama
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorat…
Why matched: genres Drama
Force 10 from Navarone
1978 • Drama • Adventure • War
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Mirror Crack'd
1980 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Duellists
1977 • Drama • War
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a dec…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Robin Hood
1991 • Adventure • TV Movie
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
Why matched: genres Adventure, TV Movie
Prince Valiant
1997 • Adventure • Fantasy
An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to secure the aid of King Arth…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Fantasy
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
Oliver Twist
2007 • Drama
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, you…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Big Sleep
1978 • Mystery • Crime
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
The Dresser
2015 • Drama • TV Movie
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Never Say Never Again
1983 • Thriller • Adventure • Action
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond ha…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure