1957 • Drama • Comedy

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for…

Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy

1956 • Drama • Adventure

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who ex…

Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure

1958 • Drama • Romance • War

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs.…

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

1956 • Drama • History

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Suppor…

Why matched: genres Drama, History

1952 • Adventure • Comedy

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted…

Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy

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

1960 • Romance • Comedy

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian p…

Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy

1962 • Drama • Adventure • History

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means t…

Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure

1963 • Drama • Thriller • Crime

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.

Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller

1955 • Comedy

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practic…

Why matched: genres Comedy

1965 • Drama • Romance • Adventure

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Picture…

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

1973 • Thriller

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expo…

Why matched: genres Thriller

1963 • Thriller • Mystery

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without a…

Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery

1970 • Drama • War • Action

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

Why matched: genres Drama, War

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

1954 • Comedy

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hos…

Why matched: genres Comedy

1957 • Romance • Comedy

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going f…

Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy