Search results for "John Gielgud"
Caligula

Caligula

Caligula
IMDb: 5.3
156 min

Pagan Rome 37 A.D. The reign of half-mad, frail Emperor Tiberius is ending. Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula) is summoned on Capri to visit the palace of sin, the…

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Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8.1
191 min

Mohandas K. Gandhi, an Indian traveler in the first class compartment of a South African train is kicked off for his Indianness. Gandhi discovers the biases of South African laws…

Genre: Drama, History
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.1
124 min

Victorian London’s Dr. Frederick Treves comes across “The Elephant Man”, a sideshow circus run by Bytes. The actual creature is actually Joseph Merrick, a twenty-one year-old man with several physical…

Genre: Drama, History
Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Elizabeth
IMDb: 7.4
124 min

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred…

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Genre: Drama, History
DragonHeart

DragonHeart

DragonHeart
IMDb: 6.4
103 min

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco….

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Becket

Becket

Becket
IMDb: 7.8
148 min

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome…

Genre: Drama, History
Shining Through

Shining Through

Shining Through
IMDb: 6.4
132 min

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Plenty

Plenty

Plenty
IMDb: 6.0
121 min

Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Arthur

Arthur

Arthur
IMDb: 6.9
97 min

Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death
IMDb: 6.2
102 min

Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), stepmother to the three Boynton children, and mother to Ginevra (Amber Bezer), blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope (David Soul), into destroying the second will of…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie)
IMDb: 6.4
102 min

Quasimodo (Sir Anthony Hopkins), the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda (Lesley-Anne Down), and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the…

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
IMDb: 7.3
120 min

Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man,…

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Genre: Drama, History
Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree
IMDb: 6.9
124 min

Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places. —John Vogel <[email protected]>

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert
IMDb: 8.3
173 min

In Fascist Italy pre-World War II, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Benito Mussolini to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab nation….

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Genre: Action, History, War
Shine (1996)

Shine (1996)

Shine (1996)
IMDb: 7.7
105 min

As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist…

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Genre: Drama
Gold

Gold

Gold
IMDb: 5.7
120 min

Rod Slater is the newly appointed General Manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake,…

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Haunted

Haunted

Haunted
IMDb: 6.2
108 min

Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Sphinx

Sphinx

Sphinx
IMDb: 5.2
118 min

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

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Romeo and Juliet (1954)

Romeo and Juliet (1954)

Romeo and Juliet (1954)
IMDb: 6.1
138 min

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the…

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Genre: Romance
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
IMDb: 4.6
113 min

In this sequel to the 1981 hit movie, Arthur manages to lose his entire $750 million fortune. Will the former millionaire playboy be able to survive as a broke, unemployable…

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Genre: Romance
Priest of Love

Priest of Love

Priest of Love
IMDb: 6.3
125 min

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they…

Genre: Romance
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady
IMDb: 4.8
98 min

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her…

Genre: Drama
Richard III (1955)

Richard III (1955)

Richard III (1955)
IMDb: 7.4
161 min

Richard's military skills have helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England. But jealousy and resentment cause Richard to seek the crown for himself, and he…

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Genre: History
Prospero’s Books

Prospero’s Books

Prospero’s Books
IMDb: 6.9
124 min

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling…

Genre: Fantasy
Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight
IMDb: 7.8
115 min

Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black
IMDb: 7.6
143 min

Fr. Hugh O&#39;Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian Resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country…

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Genre: History, TV Movie, War