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The Day of the Jackal
1973 • Thriller • Action
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
The One That Got Away
1957 • Drama • War
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The League of Gentlemen
1960 • Crime • Comedy
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Square Peg
1958 • Comedy • War
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and…
Why matched: genres Comedy, War
The Internecine Project
1974 • Drama • Thriller
Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
1981 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger to solve…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
On the Beat
1962 • Crime • Comedy
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Mind Benders
1963 • Drama • Thriller
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sen…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Waterloo
1970 • Drama • History • War
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Carry On Regardless
1961 • Comedy
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tas…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Vault of Horror
1973 • Horror
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment,…
Why matched: genres Horror
The Long Duel
1967 • Drama • Adventure • Action
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Fast Lady
1962 • Comedy
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Claudine
1974 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white commu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance