Search results for "Cedric Hardwicke"
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater
IMDb: 7.1
118

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly…

Genre: Drama
Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon
IMDb: 5.7
101

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson
IMDb: 6.3
85

Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
IMDb: 7.9
220

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his…

Genre: Drama, History
Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.4
155

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against…

Genre: Drama, History
The Power and the Prize

The Power and the Prize

The Power and the Prize
IMDb: 6.1
98

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.

Genre: Drama
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
IMDb: 6.1
121

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal…

Bait

Bait

Bait
IMDb: 5.9
79

A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them “in the act” and kill him…

Genre: Thriller
The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds
IMDb: 7
85

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing…

Salome

Salome

Salome
IMDb: 5.8
103

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Botany Bay

Botany Bay

Botany Bay
IMDb: 6.1
93

Based on the story of the start of Australia’s colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to…

Caribbean

Caribbean

Caribbean
IMDb: 5.8
91

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid…

Genre: Adventure
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
IMDb: 6.9
88

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
The White Tower

The White Tower

The White Tower
IMDb: 6
98

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
IMDb: 6.5
106

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy
IMDb: 7.6
117

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Genre: Drama
Rope

Rope

Rope
IMDb: 7.9
81

Two longtime friends attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party with the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama
IMDb: 7.9
134

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family…

Genre: Drama, Family
A Woman’s Vengeance

A Woman’s Vengeance

A Woman’s Vengeance
IMDb: 6.9
96

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Tycoon

Tycoon

Tycoon
IMDb: 6.1
128

Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
IMDb: 6.9
108

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Genre: Drama
Lured

Lured

Lured
IMDb: 7
102

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes…

Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey
IMDb: 6.3
94

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides…

Genre: Drama
Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer
IMDb: 6.6
97

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Wilson

Wilson

Wilson
IMDb: 6.4
154

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to…

Genre: Drama
The Lodger

The Lodger

The Lodger
IMDb: 7
84

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom
IMDb: 7.2
137

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as…

Genre: Drama
The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down
IMDb: 7
90

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

Genre: Drama
The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine
IMDb: 6.6
90

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Genre: Drama, War
Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn
IMDb: 6.6
98

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

Genre: Drama, War
Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent
IMDb: 6
81

The Invisible Man’s grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein
IMDb: 6.1
68

Frankenstein’s unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor’s brain so he can rule the world using the monster’s body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and…

Suspicion

Suspicion

Suspicion
IMDb: 7.3
99

A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to…

Sundown

Sundown

Sundown
IMDb: 5.6
90

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
IMDb: 6.5
81

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia
IMDb: 6
116

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England….

Genre: Drama, History, War
Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone
IMDb: 7
101

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 7.8
117

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo’s protege and bell-ringer of…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines
IMDb: 6.3
80

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Things to Come

Things to Come

Things to Come
IMDb: 6.6
100

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.