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Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood
IMDb: 7.1
104

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Tales That Witness Madness

Tales That Witness Madness

Tales That Witness Madness
IMDb: 5.6
90

Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why…

Young Winston

Young Winston

Young Winston
IMDb: 6.7
149

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with…

Genre: Adventure, War
When Eight Bells Toll

When Eight Bells Toll

When Eight Bells Toll
IMDb: 6
94

In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

Genre: Adventure
Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
IMDb: 6.2
100

Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The…

Waterloo

Waterloo

Waterloo
IMDb: 7.3
134

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…

Genre: History, War
The Adventures of Gerard

The Adventures of Gerard

The Adventures of Gerard
IMDb: 4.8
92

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he’s the best soldier…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Monte Carlo or Bust!

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Monte Carlo or Bust!
IMDb: 6.1
122

Sequel to “Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines”. This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Twinky

Twinky

Twinky
IMDb: 5.2
98

A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get…

Genre: Comedy
Shalako

Shalako

Shalako
IMDb: 5.6
113

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.

Genre: Western
The Poppy Is Also a Flower

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
IMDb: 5.1
100

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Judith

Judith

Judith
IMDb: 5.6
109

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.

Genre: War
Masquerade

Masquerade

Masquerade
IMDb: 5.5
102

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Lord Jim

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
IMDb: 6.7
154

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment…

Genre: Adventure
Zulu

Zulu

Zulu
IMDb: 7.7
138

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke’s Drift from tribal…

Genre: History, War
The Third Secret

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
IMDb: 6.5
103

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this…

Genre: Mystery
Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi
IMDb: 7.1
103

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d’etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Genre: War
Rampage

Rampage

Rampage
IMDb: 5.5
98

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot’s mistress, Anna.

Genre: Adventure
Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
IMDb: 8.3
228

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic…

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen
IMDb: 7.2
116

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 is a service-trained…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
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…

The Two-Headed Spy

The Two-Headed Spy

The Two-Headed Spy
IMDb: 6.9
93

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland’s autobiography “The London Cage”. The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P….

Genre: War
Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day
IMDb: 6.6
91

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his ‘typical day” consists…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman
IMDb: 6.8
95

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband’s art-forgery/arson scam.

Genre: Crime
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDb: 8.1
161

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…

Genre: History, War
The Long Arm

The Long Arm

The Long Arm
IMDb: 7
96

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Man in the Sky

The Man in the Sky

The Man in the Sky
IMDb: 6.7
87

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Prisoner

The Prisoner

The Prisoner
IMDb: 6.8
95

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when…

Genre: Uncategorized
Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs
IMDb: 6.6
105

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Genre: History
The Intruder

The Intruder

The Intruder
IMDb: 6.7
84

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief…

Genre: Crime, War
The Seekers

The Seekers

The Seekers
IMDb: 5.6
90

A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

Genre: Adventure
Angels One Five

Angels One Five

Angels One Five
IMDb: 6.4
98

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain….

Genre: War
Malta Story

Malta Story

Malta Story
IMDb: 6.5
99

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.

Genre: History, War
The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea
IMDb: 7.4
126

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make…

Genre: History, War
Mandy

Mandy

Mandy
IMDb: 7.4
93

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy’s…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Planter’s Wife

The Planter’s Wife

The Planter’s Wife
IMDb: 5.9
88

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

Genre: Adventure
Home at Seven

Home at Seven

Home at Seven
IMDb: 6.8
85

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky
IMDb: 7.1
98

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but…

Genre: Uncategorized
Fortune in Diamonds

Fortune in Diamonds

Fortune in Diamonds
IMDb: 5.5
86

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where…

Genre: Adventure
State Secret

State Secret

State Secret
IMDb: 7
104

Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When…

Genre: Mystery