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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 • Mystery • Adventure • Crime
When a bored Sherlock eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon following an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary mons…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Adventure
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 • Drama
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Asphyx
1972 • Science Fiction • Horror • Fantasy
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a cur…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966 • Comedy
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divo…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Travels with My Aunt
1972 • Adventure • Comedy
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
The Shout
1978 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Wings of Fame
1990 • Drama • Comedy • Fantasy
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Ne…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
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
The Duellists
1977 • Drama • War
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a dec…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Afraid of the Dark
1991 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Pirates of Tortuga
1961 • Adventure • Action
After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been w…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Action
Romeo and Juliet
1968 • Drama • Romance
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suff…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993 • Drama
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Why matched: genres Drama
Comrades
1987 • Drama • History
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Holocaust
1978 • War & Politics • Drama
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
The Pope Must Die
1991 • Comedy
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Cleopatra
1963 • Drama • Romance • History
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vo…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 • Documentary
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as th…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Empire of the Sun
1987 • Drama • History • War
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990 • Drama • Comedy
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy