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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952 • Drama • Crime
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 • Adventure • War • Action
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Why matched: genres Adventure, War
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 • Drama • Romance
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psych…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Circle of Danger
1951 • Thriller • Mystery
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Odette
1950 • Drama • History • War
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Rave…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Barefoot Contessa
1954 • Drama
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinc…
Why matched: genres Drama
Zeppelin
1971 • Drama • Adventure • War
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocrati…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
I Was Monty's Double
1958 • Drama • War
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951 • Drama • Romance • Fantasy
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Exodus
1960 • Drama • War
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Magic Box
1952 • Drama
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so…
Why matched: genres Drama