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Sea of Sand
1958 • Drama • War
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of San…
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
Guns at Batasi
1964 • Drama • War
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Angry Silence
1960 • Drama
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Why matched: genres Drama
10 Rillington Place
1971 • Thriller • Crime • Horror
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Miracle on 34th Street
1994 • Drama • Family • Fantasy
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a specia…
Why matched: genres Drama, Family
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965 • Drama • Adventure
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping of…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Sand Pebbles
1966 • Drama • War
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His icono…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
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
Conduct Unbecoming
1975 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charge…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Brannigan
1975 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Private's Progress
1956 • Comedy • War
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends w…
Why matched: genres Comedy, War
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asth…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Human Factor
1979 • Thriller
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Why matched: genres Thriller
The Great Escape
1963 • Drama • Adventure • War
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
And Then There Were None
1974 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1999 • Family
Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and fai…
Why matched: genres Family
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003 • Documentary
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowne…
Why matched: genres Documentary
The Third Secret
1964 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Jurassic Park
1993 • Science Fiction • Adventure
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager gr…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Adventure