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Where Eagles Dare
1968 • Adventure • War • Action
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up t…
Why matched: genres Adventure, War
The Robe
1953 • Drama • History
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but wh…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 • Horror
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican invest…
Why matched: genres Horror
The Wild Geese
1978 • Action
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the vi…
Why matched: genres Action
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 • Drama • Thriller
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Klansman
1974 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retal…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Night of the Iguana
1964 • Drama • Romance
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 • Drama • Romance • History
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Equus
1977 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Becket
1964 • Drama • History
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Alexander the Great
1956 • Drama • Adventure • History
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Under Milk Wood
1972 • Drama • Comedy
The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Villain
1971 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Bluebeard
1972 • Thriller • Comedy • Horror
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a va…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy
Absolution
1978 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Medusa Touch
1978 • Thriller • Mystery • Science Fiction
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had pow…
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Bitter Victory
1957 • Drama • War
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicate…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Comedians
1967 • Drama
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Desert Rats
1953 • War • Action
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle grou…
Why matched: genres War, Action
Raid on Rommel
1971 • War • Action
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
Why matched: genres War, Action