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The Conquest of Everest
1953 • Drama • History • Documentary
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest in 1953.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Magnet
1950 • Comedy
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Why matched: genres Comedy
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 Last Page
1952 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Dunkirk
1958 • Drama • War
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civi…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Gift Horse
1952 • Drama • Adventure • War
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Blue Lamp
1950 • Thriller • Crime • Action
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixo…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Town on Trial
1957 • Mystery • Crime
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, a…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 • Drama • History
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Only Two Can Play
1962 • Comedy
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever m…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Tiger Bay
1959 • Thriller • Crime
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. In…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Mad About Men
1954 • Romance • Comedy • Fantasy
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
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
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 • Crime • Comedy
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
1966 • Crime • Comedy • Family
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy