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Performance
1970 • Drama • Crime
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 • Music • Romance • Comedy
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and we…
Why matched: genres Music, Romance
The Servant
1963 • Drama
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.
Why matched: genres Drama
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
King Rat
1965 • Drama • War
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisone…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Mighty Quinn
1989 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Altho…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Lost World
2001 • Science Fiction • Adventure • TV Movie
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a…
Matched on: Fox
Afraid of the Dark
1991 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Gulliver's Travels
1996 • Drama • Action & Adventure • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Dr. Gulliver has returned from his journey to his family after a long absence - and tells them the story of his travels.
Why matched: genres Drama, Action & Adventure
The Remains of the Day
1993 • Drama • Romance
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. T…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965 • Comedy
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the…
Matched on: Fox
Isadora
1968 • Music • Drama • History
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitu…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Magnet
1950 • Comedy
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Absolute Beginners
1986 • Music • Drama • Romance
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relat…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Russia House
1990 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Heart of Darkness
1993 • Drama • TV Movie
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
A Passage to India
1984 • Drama • Adventure • History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Mister Lonely
2008 • Drama • Comedy
In Paris, a young American working as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Up at the Villa
2000 • Drama • Romance
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence i…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller