A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that...
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Grandfather
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1989
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Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the...
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1988
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Archbishop Mosley (Hal Holbrook) assigns Father Michael (Ben Cross) to a church in New Orleans in this supernatural horror...
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Father Silva
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1988
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This French-Belgian co-production is set in a remote, squalid South African farm. Jane Birkin stars as Magda, the "proper"...
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Father
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1986
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Victor Banerjee, the India-born star of David Lean's A Passage to India, is the central figure of director Ronald L. Neame's...
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1986
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Christmas Eve was actually first telecast on December 22, 1986, but nobody cared about the "error" then, so why should we?...
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1986
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Originally aired as a British mini-series, Shaka Zulu follows the rise of Shaka (Henry Cele) to the king of the Zulus during...
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1986
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1985
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Presented by Britain's Granada Television, the weekly anthology Time for Murder consisted of six hour-long dramas with the...
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1985
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This bold, brash biopic of George Frideric Handel, which originally aired on Britain's Channel Four in 1985, was produced to...
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1985
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Based on a novel by Molly Keane, this literary drama focuses on the mutually antagonistic lives of three aging Irish sisters...
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1985
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The role of media manipulation of the news is also the starring role in this political drama involving a female broadcast...
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1984
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In this uneven dramatization of a legendary sword-and-sorcery tale, the Green Knight (Sean Connery) is a magician who appears...
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King Arthur
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1983
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Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder...
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1982
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Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to...
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Lord Ames
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1982
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi...
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Judge Broomfield
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1982
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The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical...
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1982
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Trevor Howard, of all people, stars as the titular Native American chief in Windwalker. Told in flashback, the film relates...
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Windwalker
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1981
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Set in India during World War II, this fair action drama relies heavily on the good acting talent gathered to convey its...
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Jack Cartwright
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1981
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The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie,...
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1981
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In this quirky drama, a young man gets involved with an eccentric, elderly man attempting to build a one-man flying machine...
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Yoshka Poliakeff
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1980
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Trevor Howard is virtually the whole show in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End. He plays an eccentric-to-the-point-of-insanity...
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Sir Henry Rawlinson
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1980
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1980
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An old-fashioned drama about old-fashioned values in an old-fashioned town called Shillingbury, this conventional film may...
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Dan "Saltie" Wicklow
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1980
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1979
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This film showed up on TV as Forbidden Paradise, but you can't fool us. It's really The Hurricane, producer Dino De...
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Father Malone
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1979
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An early aviation story of a lost young pilot searches for answers to immortality, values and decisions as based on a novel...
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1979
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The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley...
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1979
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1978
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South Africa provides the setting for this dark tale of racial unrest and turmoil. The story centers upon a policeman out to...
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1978
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1978
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Stevie is not a he but a she--famed British poet Stevie Smith. As portrayed by Glenda Jackson, Stevie escapes her dull...
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Man
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1978
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Beau Geste, the classic adventure story of a young man's dangerous journeys as part of the French Foreign Legion, becomes the...
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1977
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Set in 19th-century Africa, this film chronicles the horrors of the slave trade and the relationship between an Arab...
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Alec Mackenzie
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1977
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The Australian Eliza Fraser tries for the wig-and-bodice bawdiness of Tom Jones. The title character, played by...
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1976
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An albino terrorist stalks Africa in this violent action film from the director of the similar Slavers. Terrick...
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Johannes
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1976
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This is not the same kind of film as the 1962 production, Tom Jones. In fact, it is a "nudie musical", as evidenced by the...
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Squire Western
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1976
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Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a...
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1976
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In 1970, Elliot Gould was the hottest male star in Hollywood; by 1975, he was making do with indifferent projects like Who?....
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Col. Azarin
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1975
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Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a sexual violation--which may or may not...
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Col. Benjamin Strang
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1975
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Commander Rice
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1975
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Another slice of processed cheese from Herman Cohen, producer of Trog and other such wonders. This cheap occult programmer...
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1974
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Abbe Faria
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1974
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Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns...
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Clyde Massey
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1974
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Originally titled Persecution, the British Terror of Sheba represents Lana Turner's entree into the "fading stars in horror...
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Paul Bellamy
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1974
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Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand...
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Richard Wagner
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1973
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This Joseph Losey-directed 1973 version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House marks one of two cinematizations of the story...
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Dr. Rank
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1973
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In The Offence, Sean Connery plays Johnson, a normally unflappable British police inspector who is emotionally shaken by a...
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Cartwright
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1973
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In this drama, a conservative Catholic priest representing the Pope is sent to Ireland to settle down a few influential...
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The Abbot
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1973
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Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo...
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Pope Leo
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1972
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1971
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Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing...
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Lord Grant
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1971
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Sir Trevor
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1971
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The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to...
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Father Collins
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1970
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In this suspense thriller, Max von Sydow is Selem, who inconveniences his sister Esther (Liv Ullman) and her husband, Dr....
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1970
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A quartet of bizarre British blue bloods get their kicks by kidnapping male victims and bringing them to their estate in the...
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Sonny
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1970
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Air Vice Marshal Keith Park
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1969
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A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic...
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Grandfather
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1969
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Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third...
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1969
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During the ill-fated charge of British troops at Balaclava in the Crimean War, loyal soldiers who blindly followed orders...
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Lord Cardigan
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1968
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Robert Hook
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1968
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Adapted from his autobiography The Eddie Chapman Story, this is the story of a British safecracker who was in prison when...
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Freddie Young
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1967
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A lawmen who is sworn to bring a rebel to justice finds himself developing a great respect and admiration for his quarry in...
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Freddy Young
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1967
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This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original...
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1966
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This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot...
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Col. Mostyn
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1966
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Von Ryan's Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a...
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Maj. Eric Fincham
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1965
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Prof. Lindemann
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1965
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Col. Statler
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1965
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Based on Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India and chronicles the attempts of...
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Maj. Kensington
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1964
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Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds, Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and...
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Commodore Frank Houghton
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1964
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Trevor Howard stars as 19th-century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, in this videotaped, 90-minute color special....
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1963
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1963
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A saga about growing up, relationships, and romantic love, this entertaining drama set in Africa has all the added visual...
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John Bullitt
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1962
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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Capt. William Bligh
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1962
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This routine crime drama with a dash of romance begins with a tense opening, a jewel theft is carried out almost without a...
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John Bain
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1960
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The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't...
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Walter Morel
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1960
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Chris Ford
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1958
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Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer...
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Merel
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1958
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Victor Mature stars in this European-based crime thriller. Mature is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation,...
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Frank McNally
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1957
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Released in the US as Stowaway Girl, Manuela top-bills Trevor Howard as Prothero, the stalwart middle-aged skipper of a tramp...
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James Prothero
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1957
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Filmed in Mexico, Run for the Sun was the second official remake of Richard Connell's classic suspense yarn...
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Browne
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Jose Ferrer was both star and director of the British WW2 drama Cockleshell Heroes. Ferrer is cast as Major Stringer, the...
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Capt. Thompson
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1955
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Inspector Lewis
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1955
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This mystery is adapted from a Graham Greene novel and begins as a British spy arranges a meeting with his son, whom he...
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Maj. Court
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1954
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1954
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Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra...
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Harry Scobie
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1953
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Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of...
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Peter Willems
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1952
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Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in...
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Lt. Cmdr. Hugh Fraser
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1952
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Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests....
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1951
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In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he...
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David Redfern
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1950
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This espionage drama was based on the true story of Odette Sansom Churchill, who became an unlikely hero during WWII. Born in...
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Capt. Peter Churchill
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1950
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The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war,...
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David Somers
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1950
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Steven Stratton
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1949
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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Maj. Calloway
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1949
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Clem Morgan (Trevor Howard), an embittered ex-RAF pilot, mistakenly believes the life of crime is for him in this...
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Clem Morgan
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1947
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At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses...
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Dr. Barney Barnes
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1947
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So Well Remembered was the first of a proposed series of Anglo-American co-productions underwritten by Hollywood's RKO Radio...
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Dr. Whiteside
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1947
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I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre....
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Lt. David Baynes
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1946
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Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain...
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Squadron Leader Carter
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1945
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Dr. Alec Harvey
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1945
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The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44...
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1944
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