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The Long Arm
1956 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a p…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Land of the Pharaohs
1955 • Drama • History
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Cruel Sea
1953 • Drama • History • War
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life mis…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The League of Gentlemen
1960 • Crime • Comedy
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Gideon's Day
1958 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" con…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Angels One Five
1952 • Drama • War
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunat…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Tales That Witness Madness
1973 • Science Fiction • Comedy • Horror
Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each pat…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
Zulu
1964 • Drama • History • War
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's D…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Mandy
1952 • Drama
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother,…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Third Secret
1964 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Guns at Batasi
1964 • Drama • War
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Prisoner
1955 • Drama
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 • Drama • History • War
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Shalako
1968 • Western
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Why matched: genres Western
Ben-Hur
1959 • Drama • Adventure • History
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Waterloo
1970 • Drama • History • War
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Black Rose
1950 • Adventure • History • War
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular Ge…
Why matched: genres Adventure, History
When Eight Bells Toll
1971 • Mystery • Adventure • Crime
Phillip Calvert is a British Treasury secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of millions in gold bullion off the western coast of the Scottish highlands. Hi…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Adventure
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 • Adventure • History • War
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Why matched: genres Adventure, History
Lord Jim
1965 • Drama • Romance • Adventure
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Picture…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance