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A Taste of Honey
1961 • Drama
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother rem…
Why matched: genres Drama
David Copperfield
2001 • Drama • TV Movie
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
The Boy Friend
1971 • Music • Romance • Comedy
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.
Why matched: genres Music, Romance
The Devils
1971 • Drama • History • Horror
Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns a…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001 • Drama • Comedy
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will r…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
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
Barry Lyndon
1975 • Drama • Romance • History
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Ly…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Sparrows Can't Sing
1963 • Drama • Comedy
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Phantom of the Opera
2004 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
H.M.S. Defiant
1962 • Adventure • History • War
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first off…
Why matched: genres Adventure, History
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970 • Comedy • History
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, ar…
Why matched: genres Comedy, History
Alfie
1966 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Prince and the Pauper
1977 • Drama • Adventure
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the cour…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Lisztomania
1975 • Music • Comedy • History
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
Why matched: genres Music, Comedy
Slipstream
1989 • Science Fiction • Adventure
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police offi…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Adventure
The Criminal
1960 • Crime
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to vio…
Why matched: genres Crime
Shout at the Devil
1976 • Adventure • War
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting…
Why matched: genres Adventure, War
The Lost City of Z
2017 • Drama • Adventure • History
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disapp…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Let Him Have It
1991 • Drama
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek'…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Krays
1990 • Drama • Crime • History
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and R…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime