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The Brothers

The Brothers

The Brothers
IMDb: 6.8
98

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Genre: Uncategorized
Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
IMDb: 6.7
72

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his…

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Bunny Lake Is Missing
IMDb: 7.3
107

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Genre: Mystery
West 11

West 11

West 11
IMDb: 6.5
93

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, ‘an emotional leper’. He decides…

Genre: Crime
The Three Lives of Thomasina

The Three Lives of Thomasina

The Three Lives of Thomasina
IMDb: 7.2
97

Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when…

Billy Liar

Billy Liar

Billy Liar
IMDb: 7.2
98

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid…

Genre: Comedy
The Inspector

The Inspector

The Inspector
IMDb: 6.7
112

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Genre: Uncategorized
Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi
IMDb: 6.3
105

In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned…

Genre: History
Five Golden Hours

Five Golden Hours

Five Golden Hours
IMDb: 5.6
90

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all…

Genre: Comedy
Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
IMDb: 6.6
97

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading…

Genre: Adventure, Family
Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand
IMDb: 7.4
73

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends “forever and ever and can’t be parted for never and never”. Unfortunately,…

Genre: Family
The Angel Wore Red

The Angel Wore Red

The Angel Wore Red
IMDb: 5.8
95

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

Genre: War
Solomon and Sheba

Solomon and Sheba

Solomon and Sheba
IMDb: 6.1
139

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other…

Genre: History
Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
IMDb: 8.1
222

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he…

Corridors of Blood

Corridors of Blood

Corridors of Blood
IMDb: 6.4
86

An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific…

Genre: Crime, Horror
6.5 Special

6.5 Special

6.5 Special
IMDb: 5.9
85

A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight ‘6.5 Special’…

Genre: Music
Zarak

Zarak

Zarak
IMDb: 5.5
99

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

Genre: Adventure
Abandon Ship

Abandon Ship

Abandon Ship
IMDb: 7.5
100

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship’s officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured…

Genre: Adventure
Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
IMDb: 6.7
182

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short…

King’s Rhapsody

King’s Rhapsody

King’s Rhapsody
IMDb: 4.7
93

Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.

Genre: Uncategorized
Footsteps in the Fog

Footsteps in the Fog

Footsteps in the Fog
IMDb: 7
90

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

Genre: Uncategorized
Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot
IMDb: 6.2
92

In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel “Captain Thunderbolt” and becomes…

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
IMDb: 6.3
82

After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to…

Genre: Adventure, War
Walk East on Beacon

Walk East on Beacon

Walk East on Beacon
IMDb: 5.7
98

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

Genre: Uncategorized
Stars and Stripes Forever

Stars and Stripes Forever

Stars and Stripes Forever
IMDb: 7.1
90

A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Genre: Music
Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe
IMDb: 6.7
106

Sir Walter Scott’s classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis
IMDb: 7.1
171

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Genre: History
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
IMDb: 6.9
96

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number…

Genre: Adventure, Family
The Black Rose

The Black Rose

The Black Rose
IMDb: 6.2
116

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but…

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Sleeping Car to Trieste
IMDb: 6.6
95

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

Genre: Uncategorized
School for Secrets

School for Secrets

School for Secrets
IMDb: 6.4
108

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of…

Genre: War
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
IMDb: 7.8
118

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham,…

Genre: Uncategorized
I Know Where I’m Going!

I Know Where I’m Going!

I Know Where I’m Going!
IMDb: 7.4
91

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and…

Genre: Comedy
Warn That Man

Warn That Man

Warn That Man
IMDb: 5.7
82

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.6
89

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz…

Genre: War
Thunder Rock

Thunder Rock

Thunder Rock
IMDb: 6.5
112

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn’t cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the…

Genre: Fantasy, War
The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn
IMDb: 6.1
98

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German…

Genre: War
The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World
IMDb: 7.3
75

A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

Genre: Uncategorized
Command Performance

Command Performance

Command Performance
IMDb: 5.8
84

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930’s British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer “The Street Singer” (Tracy) parts company with the…

Genre: Music