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Far and Away

Far and Away

Far and Away
IMDb: 6.6
140

A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord’s daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When…

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
IMDb: 7.8
103

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event…

Genre: Drama
Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World
IMDb: 6.7
99

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of…

Genre: Drama
The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man
IMDb: 6.9
100

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit
IMDb: 7.2
357

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose…

Genre: Drama
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDb: 7.1
113

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors
IMDb: 6.9
109

Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared…

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
True Confessions

True Confessions

True Confessions
IMDb: 6.3
108

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
IMDb: 7.3
150

Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

Fear in the City

Fear in the City

Fear in the City
IMDb: 5.8
94

The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off…

Genre: Action, Crime
The Abdication

The Abdication

The Abdication
IMDb: 6.2
103

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.

Genre: Drama, History
The Homecoming

The Homecoming

The Homecoming
IMDb: 6.8
111

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men – father, uncle…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal
IMDb: 7.8
143

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Genre: Action, Thriller
Execution Squad

Execution Squad

Execution Squad
IMDb: 7
98

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands….

Genre: Crime, Drama
All the Way Boys

All the Way Boys

All the Way Boys
IMDb: 6.6
106

The “Trinity” crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America….

The Ballad of Tam Lin

The Ballad of Tam Lin

The Ballad of Tam Lin
IMDb: 5.7
106

Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl,…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Sacco & Vanzetti

Sacco & Vanzetti

Sacco & Vanzetti
IMDb: 7.8
125

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchic political convictions.

Genre: Drama, History
King Lear

King Lear

King Lear
IMDb: 7.2
137

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly…

Genre: Drama
Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude
IMDb: 7.9
91

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
IMDb: 7.1
117

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
IMDb: 7.2
113

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag…

Where the Spies Are

Where the Spies Are

Where the Spies Are
IMDb: 5.6
110

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
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: 7.5
112

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects
IMDb: 6
113

A doctor’s already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Genre: Drama
Waltz of the Toreadors

Waltz of the Toreadors

Waltz of the Toreadors
IMDb: 5.8
105

General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the…

Genre: Comedy
I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool
IMDb: 6.1
100

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted…

Genre: Drama
Johnny Nobody

Johnny Nobody

Johnny Nobody
IMDb: 6.4
88

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty
IMDb: 6
90

In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O’Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get…

Genre: Drama, War
Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hands with the Devil
IMDb: 7
111

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O’Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded…

Genre: Action, Drama
Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day
IMDb: 6.6
91

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his ‘typical day” consists…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon
IMDb: 6.6
81

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In “The Majesty of the Law,” a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow…

Genre: Comedy
The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was
IMDb: 7.4
103

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted…

Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight
IMDb: 6.5
104

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island’s German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Passage Home

Passage Home

Passage Home
IMDb: 6.2
102

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony…

Genre: Drama
The March Hare

The March Hare

The March Hare
IMDb: 5
85

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is ‘pulled’, and Sir Charles is forced to sell his…

Genre: Comedy
Soldiers Three

Soldiers Three

Soldiers Three
IMDb: 6
92

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
The Secret of Convict Lake

The Secret of Convict Lake

The Secret of Convict Lake
IMDb: 6.9
83

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was…

Genre: Western
Gone to Earth

Gone to Earth

Gone to Earth
IMDb: 6.9
111

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room
IMDb: 7.1
106

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Esther Waters

Esther Waters

Esther Waters
IMDb: 6.1
108

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer’s daughter. Left alone to bring up…

Genre: Drama