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The Railway Children Return

The Railway Children Return

The Railway Children Return
IMDb: 5.6
95 min

Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from…

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Quartet (2012)

Quartet (2012)

Quartet (2012)
IMDb: 6.8
98 min

The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Summerland

Summerland

Summerland
IMDb: 7.0
99 min

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago
IMDb: 8.0
197 min

During the Russian Revolution Dr. Yuri Zhivago is a young physician who was raised by his aunt after his father committed suicide. Yuri is in love with Lara Guishar, played…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
IMDb: 7.3
124 min

Juliet Ashton (Lily James), and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society begin a correspondence, where they share their stories of Nazi-occupied Guernsey Island. Juliet is inspired to write…

The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts
IMDb: 6.6
100 min

In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking…

King of Thieves

King of Thieves

King of Thieves
IMDb: 5.5
108 min

London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton…

Genre: Crime, Drama
45 Years

45 Years

45 Years
IMDb: 7.1
91 min

There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Gambit (2012)

Gambit (2012)

Gambit (2012)
IMDb: 5.7
89 min

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon
IMDb: 6.8
111 min

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring…

The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson
IMDb: 6.2
96 min

Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle), is an unhappy sack of man. His primary occupation is that of a barber at Hendersons Barbers, a neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland. He has been working…

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
King and Country

King and Country

King and Country
IMDb: 7.5
86 min

During World War I, the British troops are entrenched at Passchendaele, Belgium. Amongst the volunteers, there is a young British soldier, Private Arthur James Hamp (Sir Tom Courtenay), who is…

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Genre: Drama, War
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
Flood

Flood

Flood
IMDb: 4.8
110 min

Timely, yet terrifying, this movie predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and…

A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic
IMDb: 6.2
107 min

Double-Agent Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It
IMDb: 7.2
115 min

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster movies. Chris and Derek's…

Genre: Drama
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
IMDb: 7.6
104 min

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary…

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Genre: Drama
Billy Liar

Billy Liar

Billy Liar
IMDb: 7.3
98 min

Going nowhere fast, Billy Fisher, an incorrigible fantasizer, dreams incessantly of escaping his drab existence and humdrum routine work as an undertakers' clerk in Yorkshire. Seeking refuge from his working-class…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year
IMDb: 5.9
85 min

Small time crooksters Nick (Peter Falk) and Charlie (Charles Durning) have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old…

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Genre: Crime, Romance
Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army
IMDb: 5.2
100 min

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

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Genre: Comedy
The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals
IMDb: 7.2
148 min

In 1942 Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Major Grau (Omar Sharif), an Agent from German Intelligence who believes in justice, is in charge of the…