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The Night My Number Came Up
1955 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crash…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Time Without Pity
1957 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 • Drama
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long di…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952 • Comedy
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Browning Version
1951 • Drama
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not on…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Quiet American
1958 • Drama • Romance • War
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fow…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Dam Busters
1955 • Drama • Thriller • History
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
A Christmas Carol
1971 • Drama • Animation • Family
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Animation
1984
1956 • Drama • Science Fiction
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969 • Music • Drama • Romance
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O…
Matched on: Redgrave
The Heroes of Telemark
1965 • Drama • War • Action
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in ru…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Go-Between
1971 • Drama • Romance
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-be…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Innocents
1961 • Drama • Mystery • Horror
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Young Cassidy
1965 • Drama
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social…
Why matched: genres Drama
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 • Drama • History • War
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Mr. Arkadin
1955 • Thriller • Mystery
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Hill
1965 • Drama • War
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manm…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Battle of Britain
1969 • History • War • Action
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
Why matched: genres History, War
Alice in Wonderland
1966 • Family • TV Movie • Fantasy
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for hi…
Why matched: genres Family, TV Movie
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 • Music • Comedy • War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Why matched: genres Music, Comedy