Search results for "John Gielgud"
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
Romance on the Orient Express

Romance on the Orient Express

Romance on the Orient Express
IMDb: 6.5
96

Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Assignment to Kill

Assignment to Kill

Assignment to Kill
IMDb: 6
102

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited
TMDb: 8.1
60 min

In this acclaimed eleven-hours British television miniseries, Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost
IMDb: 6.7
98

A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of…

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet
IMDb: 6.1
141

In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
IMDb: 6.1
117

All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert
IMDb: 8.4
173

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this…

Genre: Action, History, War
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black
IMDb: 7.6
143

Fr. Hugh O’Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country…

Prospero’s Books

Prospero’s Books

Prospero’s Books
IMDb: 6.9
120

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Loved One

The Loved One

The Loved One
IMDb: 7.1
122

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle’s interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught…

Genre: Comedy
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady
IMDb: 4.6
98

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Priest of Love

Priest of Love

Priest of Love
IMDb: 6.4
125

Following the banning and burning of his novel, “The Rainbow,” D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they…

Genre: Drama
Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight
IMDb: 7.8
115

The career of Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet
IMDb: 6.7
167

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth…

Providence

Providence

Providence
IMDb: 7.7
110

Clive Langham spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower
IMDb: 6.2
100

A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a…

Genre: Action, Thriller
11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse
IMDb: 6.3
94

A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he…

The Formula

The Formula

The Formula
IMDb: 5.6
117

A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil–and oil companies. A major…

Genre: Thriller
Sphinx

Sphinx

Sphinx
IMDb: 5.2
118

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs – murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy’s curse!

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 6.4
102

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame’s cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo’s guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and…

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
IMDb: 7
72

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his…

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
IMDb: 7.3
120

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

Genre: Drama, History
Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree
IMDb: 6.9
124

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London’s East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned…

Plenty

Plenty

Plenty
IMDb: 6
124

David Hare’s account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death
IMDb: 6.2
102

Emily Boynton, stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She…

Shining Through

Shining Through

Shining Through
IMDb: 6.5
132

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
IMDb: 4.6
113

Arthur, that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up and get a job. Meanwhile, Ralph Marolla is conniving to trick the hapless boozer into marrying his daughter so he can gain…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Haunted

Haunted

Haunted
IMDb: 6.2
108

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8.0
191 min

From the first years of this 20past century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the reason for Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance…

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Genre: History
Arthur

Arthur

Arthur
IMDb: 6.9
97 min

Arthur is your very quotable drunk millionaire that’s very likely to steal the heart. Dudley Moore depicts Arthur, a half year-old kid who’ll inherit 750 million bucks when he participates…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.1
124 min

A Victorian surgeon enrolls a greatly disfigured guy being abused by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his colossal façade, there’s shown a man of excellent intellect and sensitivity….

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Genre: History
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6.0
115 min

A low-ranking Secret Service representative is tricked into providing advice to Eastern Bloc states. Though he isn’t a defendant owing to his immaterial position, if his workplace spouse is hauled…

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Genre: Thriller
Caligula

Caligula

Caligula
IMDb: 5.4
156 min

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic tale of Rome’s angry Emporer. All of the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: his unholy sexual passion for…

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Genre: History, Romance
Gold

Gold

Gold
IMDb: 5.7
120 min

Rod Slater is the newly appointed basic supervisor of the Sonderditch gold mine, however he stumbles throughout an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake,…

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade
IMDb: 6.7
139 min

A chronicle of occasions that led to the British involvement in the Crimean Battle towards Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman
IMDb: 7.1
162 min

Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L’viv, freed after twenty five years at the Soviet Gulag, journeys to Rome where conditions conspire to watch him raised to the Papacy. Inspired by the…

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Genre: Drama
Becket

Becket

Becket
IMDb: 7.8
148 min

King Henry II of England has difficulty with the Church. As soon as the Archbishop of Canterbury expires, he’s got a fantastic idea. Instead of appoint another pious cleric faithful…

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Genre: History
Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.4
161 min

Having aided his brother King Edward IV accept the throne of England, the covetous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to grab power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and discriminated against…

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Genre: History
DragonHeart

DragonHeart

DragonHeart
IMDb: 6.5
103 min

In an early time when imperial fire-breathers jumped through the heavens, a knight called Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco….

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