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The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower
IMDb: 6.2
100

A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a…

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch
IMDb: 6.9
109

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man…

Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette
IMDb: 5.7
93

An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is kidnapped, the officer…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Madame Sin

Madame Sin

Madame Sin
IMDb: 5.7
90

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman’s plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

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…

Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free
IMDb: 6.3
100

A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named “Lady”.

Genre: Drama, Family
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
IMDb: 7.6
116

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

Genre: Drama
Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet
IMDb: 7
117

Tony Richardson’s Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing…

Genre: Drama
Danger Route

Danger Route

Danger Route
IMDb: 5.5
92

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a…

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Fighting Prince of Donegal

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

The Fighting Prince of Donegal
IMDb: 6
110

Ireland 1587. Hugh O’Donnell inherits the title of The O’Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Cast a Giant Shadow

Cast a Giant Shadow

Cast a Giant Shadow
IMDb: 6.3
146

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each…

Genre: Drama, War
The Ipcress File

The Ipcress File

The Ipcress File
IMDb: 7.2
109

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a…

Genre: Thriller
The Long Ships

The Long Ships

The Long Ships
IMDb: 6
126

Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the “Mother of Voices.” Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
IMDb: 8.2
173

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security ‘escape-proof’ camp to sit out…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty
IMDb: 7.2
185

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…

Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby
IMDb: 7.2
87

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to…

Genre: Drama, Family
Cone of Silence

Cone of Silence

Cone of Silence
IMDb: 6.5
88

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory
IMDb: 7.5
106

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his…

Genre: Drama
Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.1
95

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines…

Genre: Drama, War
The Bridal Path

The Bridal Path

The Bridal Path
IMDb: 6.8
95

Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins…

Genre: Comedy
Hell Drivers

Hell Drivers

Hell Drivers
IMDb: 7.2
108

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment
IMDb: 6.6
82

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and is found to contain…

Passage Home

Passage Home

Passage Home
IMDb: 6.2
102

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony…

Genre: Drama
The Delavine Affair

The Delavine Affair

The Delavine Affair
IMDb: 5.5
64

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life’s mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Meet Mr. Lucifer

Meet Mr. Lucifer

Meet Mr. Lucifer
IMDb: 5.9
83

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
The Love Lottery

The Love Lottery

The Love Lottery
IMDb: 5.4
89

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won’t leave him alone, he relocates…

Genre: Comedy
Happy Go Lovely

Happy Go Lovely

Happy Go Lovely
IMDb: 6.4
97

B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Bitter Springs

Bitter Springs

Bitter Springs
IMDb: 6.1
89

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!
IMDb: 7.1
82

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Eureka Stockade

Eureka Stockade

Eureka Stockade
IMDb: 6.4
103

Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.

Genre: Drama, History
Against the Wind

Against the Wind

Against the Wind
IMDb: 6.3
96

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London
IMDb: 6.7
97

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart
IMDb: 7
104

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany…

Genre: Drama, War
Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax
IMDb: 6.7
89

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Nine Men

Nine Men

Nine Men
IMDb: 6.3
68

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian…

Genre: Drama, War
Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us
IMDb: 6.8
103

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Foreman Went to France

The Foreman Went to France

The Foreman Went to France
IMDb: 6.8
87

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Genre: Drama, War