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The Agatha Christie Code

The Agatha Christie Code

The Agatha Christie Code
IMDb: 6.7
50

What makes Agatha Christie such a successful writer? On the 75th anniversary of the creation of her immortal character Miss Marple, this documentary introduces viewers to new fields of scientific…

Red Monarch

Red Monarch

Red Monarch
IMDb: 6.1
101

British comedy satirising Stalin’s inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the…

Genre: Comedy
Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected
TMDb: 7
25,30 min

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Legend of the Champions

Legend of the Champions

Legend of the Champions
IMDb: 7.3
92

A secret agent is interrogated by his superiors on suspicion of being a double agent and being involved with a Tibetan guru who has supernatural powers.

Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun
IMDb: 7
117

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

Nijinsky

Nijinsky

Nijinsky
IMDb: 6.6
129

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Loophole

Loophole

Loophole
IMDb: 6
105

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy
IMDb: 7.4
103

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric’s grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned…

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War
IMDb: 6.3
118

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Genre: Thriller
Antony & Cleopatra

Antony & Cleopatra

Antony & Cleopatra
IMDb: 6.4
170

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to…

Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.1
137

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, 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 stable…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
IMDb: 7.2
103

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau’s antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins
IMDb: 7.8
100

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is…

Galileo

Galileo

Galileo
IMDb: 6.6
145

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the…

Genre: Drama, History
The National Health

The National Health

The National Health
IMDb: 6
98

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that’s as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling…

Genre: Comedy
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
IMDb: 7
125

Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle,…

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great
IMDb: 6.2
122

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away…

Genre: History
The Vengeance of She

The Vengeance of She

The Vengeance of She
IMDb: 4.6
97

Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She, who must be obeyed” – and led to the lost city of Kuma, where she is…

Genre: Fantasy
Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles
IMDb: 6.3
89

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer’s basic tool – the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Day the Fish Came Out

The Day the Fish Came Out

The Day the Fish Came Out
IMDb: 5.3
109

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually…

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons
IMDb: 7.7
120

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head…

Genre: Drama, History
This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life
IMDb: 7.5
134

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

Genre: Drama
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
IMDb: 7.5
90

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

Genre: Drama, Romance