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The Professionals
1977 • Drama • Crime • Action & Adventure
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and simila…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971 • Drama
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s…
Why matched: genres Drama
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
The Ipcress File
1965 • Thriller
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when…
Why matched: genres Thriller
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 • Drama
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Why matched: genres Drama
Danger Route
1967 • Thriller • Action
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination o…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
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
Blind Date
1959 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had tu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Greyfriars Bobby
1961 • Drama • Family
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be ado…
Why matched: genres Drama, Family
The Love Lottery
1954 • Comedy
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 • Drama • Adventure • History
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Whistle Blower
1986 • Thriller • Action
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of dece…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
Kidnapped
1971 • Adventure • History
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. Th…
Why matched: genres Adventure, History
Tunes of Glory
1960 • Drama
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental…
Why matched: genres Drama
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
The Medusa Touch
1978 • Thriller • Mystery • Science Fiction
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had pow…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Great Escape
1963 • Drama • Adventure • War
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966 • Drama • War
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab n…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Long Ships
1964 • Drama • Adventure
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical tr…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Hell Drivers
1957 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller