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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
When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows
IMDb: 7.7
84 min

An elderly couple in Britain builds a shelter with the aid of pamphlets issued by the government. They prepare to face a nuclear attack. –Andy Bogursky

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Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson
IMDb: 7.1
126 min

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but…

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Genre: Adventure, Family
Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice
IMDb: 7.8
108 min

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow
IMDb: N/A
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Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2…

Genre: Action, War
The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps
IMDb: 6.6
102 min

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel…

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Genre: Mystery
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
IMDb: 5.8
99 min

Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster. This neo-noir remake of the…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Town on Trial

Town on Trial

Town on Trial
IMDb: 6.4
96 min

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…

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Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden
IMDb: 7.4
106 min

A grandmother (Dame Edith Evans) seeks a governess for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel (Hayley Mills), who manages to drive away everyone so far by exposing her past, with a record…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
King Rat

King Rat

King Rat
IMDb: 7.5
134 min

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied P.O.W.s, mostly British, but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a P.O.W. camp like no…

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Genre: Drama, War
Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter
IMDb: 7.4
200 min

World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy (Sarah Miles) goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a…

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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
IMDb: 6.8
105 min

In 1818, England, a tontine i(lottery) is established for 20 boys by their parents. Each parent put £1000 into the pot, the winner being the last surviving boy, will recieve…

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In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve
IMDb: 7.2
115 min

This is the story of a British Naval ship, H.M.S. Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and…

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Genre: Drama, War
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
IMDb: 7.0
94 min

Colditz castle was used by the Nazis to hold the "bad boys", (those who regularly tried to escape from other camps). At all times, the guards outnumbered the prisoners and,…

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Genre: Drama, War
Cats

Cats

Cats
IMDb: 7.4
120 min

Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS, the most famous musical of all time, first exploded onto the West End stage in 1981. 'Memory', one of its many classic songs, became an instant…

Genre: Music
Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
IMDb: 6.8
90 min

A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in….

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A Black Veil for Lisa

A Black Veil for Lisa

A Black Veil for Lisa
IMDb: 5.9
95 min

While trying to solve a series of murders, a possessive narcotics detective hires a hit-man to kill his unfaithful wife, but the hunter and the hunted soon begin an affair.

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Genre: Thriller
Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
98 min

In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. To that end, the British present…

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory
IMDb: 7.5
106 min

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During World War II, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the…

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Genre: Drama
I Was Monty’s Double

I Was Monty’s Double

I Was Monty’s Double
IMDb: 6.9
101 min

The true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the Normandy campaign. —Steve Crook <[email protected]>

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
IMDb: 7.7
86 min

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the…

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Genre: Documentary
Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl
IMDb: 4.8
92 min

Four years unjustly jailed haven't dampened the spirits or determination of Nikki Finn (Madonna). The spunky parolee sets out to clear her name, and sets the Big Apple spinning in…

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Genre: Romance
Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay
IMDb: 7.5
105 min

Gille Jenkins (Hayley Mills), a twelve-year-old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement with her single parent mother, witnesses the murder of an immigrant Polish woman living in…

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Genre: Thriller
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
IMDb: 7.8
118 min

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife "Mrs. Joe". When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys…

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Genre: Romance
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
IMDb: 7.9
114 min

An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life. —David Levene <[email protected]>

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Genre: Romance
The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars
IMDb: 7.3
87 min

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber…

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Genre: Romance, War
Chuka

Chuka

Chuka
IMDb: 6.3
105 min

While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort, a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers, try to come…

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Genre: Drama, Western
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk
IMDb: 7.1
135 min

Two stories in one, an easygoing British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back…

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Genre: War
The Family Way

The Family Way

The Family Way
IMDb: 7.3
115 min

Married life is proving to be difficult for newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett). With well meaning, but interfering parents, nosey neighbors, and a town that thrives on…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dulcima

Dulcima

Dulcima
IMDb: 6.4
98 min

Mr. Parker (Sir John Mills), a farmer who has the reputation of drinking most of his money away, lives on a farm which is in a poor state of repair….

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Genre: Drama
Oklahoma Crude

Oklahoma Crude

Oklahoma Crude
IMDb: 6.3
108 min

It&#39;s oil boom time in Oklahoma, and Lena Doyle (Faye Dunaway), a hard-bitten, cyncial feminist has a fight on her hands. The big oil companies don&#39;t like the fact that…

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Genre: Drama, Western
This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed
IMDb: 7.3
115 min

Episodic telling of 20 years of the working-class Gibbons family in their South London rental house from 1919 to 1939–from just after the conclusion of WWI to just before the…

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Genre: Drama, Family