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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
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 • Drama
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighb…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Omen
1976 • Thriller • Horror
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Horror
The Blue and the Gray
1982 • Drama
The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982. Set during the American Civil…
Matched on: Peck
Moby Dick
1956 • Drama • Adventure
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who ex…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Big Country
1958 • Drama • Romance • Western
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Ha…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Cape Fear
1962 • Drama • Thriller
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clev…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 • Drama • History • TV Movie
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large…
Matched on: Peck
The Boys from Brazil
1978 • Drama • Mystery • Science Fiction
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
On the Beach
1959 • Drama • Romance • Science Fiction
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Bravados
1958 • Western
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them int…
Why matched: genres Western
Marooned
1969 • Drama • Science Fiction • Adventure
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they…
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Mackenna's Gold
1969 • Adventure • Western • Action
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undi…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Western
The Million Pound Note
1954 • Comedy
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million poun…
Why matched: genres Comedy
I Walk the Line
1970 • Drama
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love…
Why matched: genres Drama
Shoot Out
1971 • Western
Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attenti…
Why matched: genres Western
Arabesque
1966 • Thriller • Mystery • Comedy
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Mirage
1965 • Thriller • Mystery
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
MacArthur
1977 • Drama • History • War
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, when he was removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The World in His Arms
1952 • Romance • Adventure
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
Why matched: genres Romance, Adventure