Search results for "Peter Vaughan"
Silicon Glen: From Ships to Microchips

Silicon Glen: From Ships to Microchips

Silicon Glen: From Ships to Microchips
IMDb: 6.4
59

Whatever happened to Scotland’s Silicon Glen? US giant IBM arrived at Spango Valley in post-war Greenock, attracted as part of a government effort to replace industrial jobs. For decades the…

Genre: Documentary
Albatross

Albatross

Albatross
IMDb: 6.3
90

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth’s father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama
The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls
IMDb: 5.4
123

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys’ rural family home on the eve of young Jack’s 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack’s mother, Emily, who…

Genre: Drama
The Mother

The Mother

The Mother
IMDb: 6.7
112

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious
IMDb: 7.2
50

Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion….

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
IMDb: 7.9
100

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Hotel Splendide

Hotel Splendide

Hotel Splendide
IMDb: 6.2
98

The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program…

Genre: Comedy
An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband
IMDb: 6.8
97

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900
IMDb: 8
170

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world…

Genre: Drama, Music
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
IMDb: 7.4
134

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself…

The Crucible

The Crucible

The Crucible
IMDb: 6.8
124

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover’s wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Genre: Drama, History
Fatherland

Fatherland

Fatherland
IMDb: 6.4
106

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler…

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
IMDb: 7.8
134

A rule-bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor
IMDb: 6.6
88

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted…

Mountains of the Moon

Mountains of the Moon

Mountains of the Moon
IMDb: 7.1
136

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton’s and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. The…

Haunted Honeymoon

Haunted Honeymoon

Haunted Honeymoon
IMDb: 5.6
82

Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional…

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil
IMDb: 7.8
143

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led…

The Razor’s Edge

The Razor’s Edge

The Razor’s Edge
IMDb: 6.4
129

An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is…

Genre: Drama
The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
IMDb: 6.9
124

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in…

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
IMDb: 6.6
117

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Porridge

Porridge

Porridge
IMDb: 7.2
93

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what’s more, an escape plan is hatching from…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Valentino

Valentino

Valentino
IMDb: 6.1
128

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide…

Genre: Drama, History
Symptoms

Symptoms

Symptoms
IMDb: 6.5
91

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn’t quite what it seems–and neither is…

Genre: Horror
11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse
IMDb: 6.2
94

A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he…

Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome
IMDb: 6.5
99

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man
IMDb: 6.3
99

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor;…

Genre: Thriller
The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse
IMDb: 5.8
93

A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on…

Genre: Drama, War
Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah
IMDb: 6.9
103

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age,…

Genre: Drama
The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper
IMDb: 6.3
90

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Eyewitness

Eyewitness

Eyewitness
IMDb: 6.1
91

A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?

Genre: Thriller
Taste of Excitement

Taste of Excitement

Taste of Excitement
IMDb: 5.4
95

A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young girl in her…

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great
IMDb: 6.2
122

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away…

Genre: History
A Twist of Sand

A Twist of Sand

A Twist of Sand
IMDb: 5.4
90

A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly being caught by the authorities in…

Genre: Adventure
Hammerhead

Hammerhead

Hammerhead
IMDb: 5.1
100

An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).

Genre: Thriller
Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core
IMDb: 5.7
89

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke’s girl Sara gives them the…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Fanatic

Fanatic

Fanatic
IMDb: 6.3
97

A young woman is terrorized by her fiance’s demented mother who blames her for her son’s death.

Smokescreen

Smokescreen

Smokescreen
IMDb: 6.9
70

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man
IMDb: 6.2
96

Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Sapphire

Sapphire

Sapphire
IMDb: 7.2
92

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects — including the…