1990 • War & Politics • Drama • Comedy

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the P…

Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama

1993 • War & Politics • Drama • Comedy

Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama

1995 • War & Politics • Drama • Comedy

Seasoned politician Francis Urquhart tries to establish his legacy before retirement by negotiating an end to the Cyprus, but the island hides secrets from his past that could d…

Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama

1983 • Mystery • Crime • TV Movie

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime

1983 • Mystery • Adventure • Crime

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

Why matched: genres Mystery, Adventure

1967 • Music • Drama • History

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Mar…

Why matched: genres Music, Drama

1996 • Drama • History • TV Movie

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.

Why matched: genres Drama, History

1997 • Drama • Thriller • Romance

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's…

Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller

1990 • Drama • TV Movie • War

A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.

Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie

1997 • Comedy

Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant.

Why matched: genres Comedy

1972 • Music • Drama • Adventure

In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They're accused of pre…

Why matched: genres Music, Drama

2001 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic nove…

Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery

1991 • Drama • Comedy

Rosencrantz and Guildensterm, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a b…

Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy

1998 • Mystery • Science Fiction

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls o…

Why matched: genres Mystery, Science Fiction

1993 • Drama • Romance • History

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

1985 • Science Fiction • Comedy

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a…

Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy

1997 • Thriller

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woma…

Why matched: genres Thriller

1998 • Adventure • Comedy • Family

Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her la…

Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy

1987 • Thriller • Action

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed un…

Why matched: genres Thriller, Action

2007 • Drama • Romance

Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity…

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance