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Cleopatra (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)
IMDb: 7.0
192 min

Julius Caesar (Sir Rex Harrison), 48 B.C. pursues Pompey, from Pharsalia into Egypt. After deposing Cleopatra VII (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII(Richard O’Sullivan) is now the supreme ruler. He…

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDb: 7.1
113 min

Winston Smith, a lowly bureaucrat in the Ministry of Truth longs for freedom and writes down all his desires in his secret journal. Smith is silently serving the autocratic, grim…

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Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare
IMDb: 7.6
158 min

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s…

Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
IMDb: 8.0
131 min

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

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Genre: Drama
The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese
IMDb: 6.8
134 min

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the…

Genre: Action, War
The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana
IMDb: 7.6
125 min

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days
IMDb: 7.5
145 min

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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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
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch
IMDb: 6.9
109 min

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…

Sea Wife

Sea Wife

Sea Wife
IMDb: 5.7
81 min

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator,…

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger
IMDb: 7.0
98 min

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

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Genre: Drama
Candy (1968)

Candy (1968)

Candy (1968)
IMDb: 5.3
115 min

Candy Christian is an innocent young girl when she first hears MacPhisto, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Candy narrowly escapes MacPhisto's attempt to rape her, only…

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My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel
IMDb: 7.1
98 min

When Philip Ashley's much-loved (and rich) cousin Ambrose dies, he is convinced that Ambrose was murdered by his new wife Rachel to inherit his wealth. But when he meets Rachel…

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Waterfront Women

Waterfront Women

Waterfront Women
IMDb: 6.4
80 min

A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter,…

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Genre: Drama
Absolution (1978)

Absolution (1978)

Absolution (1978)
IMDb: 6.5
95 min

At a Catholic public school, Benjamin "Benjie" Stanfield (Dominic Guard) is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard…

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
IMDb: 7.6
112 min

Alec Leamas (Richard Burton), a British spy, is sent to East Germany, supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Klansman

The Klansman

The Klansman
IMDb: 5.2
112 min

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Villain

Villain

Villain
IMDb: 6.6
98 min

Of East London, Vic Dakin dotes on his aged and largely bedridden mother. He is also the leader of a criminal gang whose proceeds are largely from the regular collection…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.2
137 min

Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Bluebeard (1972)

Bluebeard (1972)

Bluebeard (1972)
IMDb: 5.6
125 min

Baron Kurt Von Sepper (Richard Burton) is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne (Joey…

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Thursday’s Children

Thursday’s Children

Thursday’s Children
IMDb: 7.4
21 min

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children…

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Genre: Documentary
The Robe

The Robe

The Robe
IMDb: 6.8
135 min

Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the…

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Genre: History
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
IMDb: 7.1
122 min

Baptista (Sir Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish…

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Genre: Romance
Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel
IMDb: 5.6
99 min

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand-picked commandos, but a mix-up leaves him with a medical unit containing a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with…

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Genre: War
Boom!

Boom!

Boom!
IMDb: 5.6
110 min

Movie version of playwright Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" involves very wealthy Flora "Sissy" Goforth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), supposedly dying, and living in a large mansion…

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Genre: Thriller
Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory
IMDb: 6.7
82 min

In North Africa during World War II, Major David Brand is assigned to lead a British commando raid into German-held Benghazi to retrieve whatever documents they can lay their hands…

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Genre: War
The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur
IMDb: 5.9
104 min

Rich American socialite Lady Edwina Esketh, who obtained her title by marrying English Lord Albert Esketh, travels to Ranchipur where Albert hopes to buy a prize stallion from the Maharani….

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Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
IMDb: 5.6
93 min

Faustus (Richard Burton) is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to…

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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
IMDb: 5.8
141 min

An epic movie that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King that conquered all of the ancient Greek tribes and led the Macedonian Army against the vast…

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