This lavishly mounted adaptation of the play by William Nicholson tells the true story of the doomed love affair between...
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1993
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1992
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Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable...
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1991
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1989
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1982
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In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a...
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1978
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1978
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1977
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In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish...
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1972
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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1972
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The Darwin Adventure stars Nicholas Clay as 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin. The film covers the whole of...
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1972
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The Firechasers, a British film, was given what was assumed to be an added boxoffice boost by having an American star,...
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1970
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1969
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Produced by Britain's Trigor Pictures, Thin Air stars Patrick Allen as Bob Megan, an investigator called in to solve a...
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1969
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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1967
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Set during the Victorian era, the film stars Peter Cushing as a Holmeslike detective on the trail of a serial killer. The...
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Prof. Mallinger
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1967
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Previously adapted for British television in 1957, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair underwent the...
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Lord Steyne
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1967
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An organization specializing in extortion manages to extract money from nervous millionaires by demonstrating how easy it...
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1967
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This spy saga differs from the usual Bond-styled fare that was popular at the time. There are plenty of gadgets but the hero...
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1966
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When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea...
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1966
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This routine wartime drama is set at sea and involves a British convoy trying to elude a group of German U-Boats. After one...
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1963
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Dr. Bernard Hichcock
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1962
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Italian director Mario Bava took a brief hiatus from horror films to make this fairly interesting Viking-themed adventure....
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1961
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In this British comedy, a formerly rakish submarine captain is transferred to a desk job. His reputation as a hero and...
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Larkin
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1960
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Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty...
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Sir Brian Lewis
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1959
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Let's Be Happy is an updated remake of Jeannie (1941), one of the most likable British comedies of the 1940s. The premise is...
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Lord James MacNairn
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1957
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Peter Finch plays Dr. Alec Windom, a British medico working in the remote Far Eastern island village of Selim. Feeling a...
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George Hasbrook
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1957
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire,...
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Paul Duval
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1957
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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Lt. George Acres
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1956
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Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his...
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Phillip Mortimer
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1955
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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed,...
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1954
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a...
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Dr. Giles Freeman
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1951
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Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda...
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Capt. Hugh Ladholme
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1949
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The Blue Lamp was an immensely popular British crime film (and the winner of the BFA Award), concentrating on interrelated...
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Sgt. Roberts
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1949
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Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative...
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Nigel Lorraine
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1948
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This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical"...
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1948
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Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The...
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Pierre
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1937
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1914
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