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The One That Got Away
1957 • Drama • War
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Jigsaw
1962 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigatio…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961 • Drama • Science Fiction
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
The Gorgon
1964 • Horror • Fantasy
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths wa…
Why matched: genres Horror, Fantasy
Sea Devils
1953 • Adventure • Action
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Action
633 Squadron
1964 • Drama • War
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to de…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
To the Devil a Daughter
1976 • Horror
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of t…
Why matched: genres Horror
The Battle of the Sexes
1960 • Comedy
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a busin…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The 39 Steps
1959 • Thriller • Mystery
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Camp on Blood Island
1958 • Drama • Thriller • War
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out su…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Wooden Horse
1950 • Drama • War
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Peeping Tom
1960 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the react…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Sink the Bismarck!
1960 • Drama • War
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship,…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 • Drama • History • War
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great dange…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Woman of Straw
1964 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
A Night to Remember
1958 • Drama • History • Action
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's se…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Man in the Middle
1964 • Drama • War
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colon…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Fixer
1968 • Drama
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “…
Why matched: genres Drama
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972 • Drama • History
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many lo…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973 • Drama • History • War
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the going…
Why matched: genres Drama, History