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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 • Drama • History • War
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic deb…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Outcast of the Islands
1951 • Drama • Adventure
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 • War
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Why matched: genres War
Von Ryan's Express
1965 • Thriller • Adventure • War
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
The Count of Monte-Cristo
1975 • Drama • Adventure • TV Movie
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Mutiny on the Bounty
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
Ryan's Daughter
1970 • Drama • Romance • History
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Who?
1974 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal i…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Offence
1973 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Run for the Sun
1956 • Thriller • Adventure
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
Sons and Lovers
1960 • Drama
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Night Visitor
1971 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Roots of Heaven
1958 • Drama • Adventure
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characte…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Odette
1950 • Drama • History • War
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Rave…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
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 Clouded Yellow
1950 • Thriller • Mystery
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeepe…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Liquidator
1965 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depen…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Battle of Britain
1969 • History • War • Action
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.
Why matched: genres History, War
The Key
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
Ludwig
1973 • Drama • History
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his…
Why matched: genres Drama, History