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In the Cool of the Day

In the Cool of the Day

In the Cool of the Day
IMDb: 5.1
89

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband’s ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
IMDb: 6.8
110

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he’s feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him….

Genre: Drama
Windom’s Way

Windom’s Way

Windom’s Way
IMDb: 5.9
108

A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force…

Genre: Drama
The Miniver Story

The Miniver Story

The Miniver Story
IMDb: 6.4
104

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.

Genre: Drama
The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare
IMDb: 5.9
130

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Genre: Drama
Passage Home

Passage Home

Passage Home
IMDb: 6.1
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
Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura
IMDb: 6.4
91

Bickering married performers agree to star in a “Mr. and Mrs.” TV show. Director Muriel Box’s 1956 British comedy also stars Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham and Richard Wattis.

Genre: Comedy
Eureka Stockade

Eureka Stockade

Eureka Stockade
IMDb: 6.5
103

Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.

Genre: Drama, History
The Sins of Rachel Cade

The Sins of Rachel Cade

The Sins of Rachel Cade
IMDb: 5.9
124

A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.

Genre: Drama, Romance
I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool
IMDb: 6.1
100

A physician is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Genre: Drama
Operation Amsterdam

Operation Amsterdam

Operation Amsterdam
IMDb: 6.4
104

Operation Amsterdam is a 1959 adventure film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, and Tony Britton. It is based on a true story as described in…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
IMDb: 6.8
109

The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fifteen operettas between 1871…

The Shiralee

The Shiralee

The Shiralee
IMDb: 6.6
99

An Australian “swagman” finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to…

Genre: Drama
Judith

Judith

Judith
IMDb: 5.6
109

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.

Genre: Drama, War
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater
IMDb: 7.2
118

The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes…

Genre: Drama
Elephant Walk

Elephant Walk

Elephant Walk
IMDb: 6.3
103

The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse
IMDb: 7
101

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

Genre: Drama, War
Robbery Under Arms

Robbery Under Arms

Robbery Under Arms
IMDb: 6.2
96

During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their…

Genre: Drama, Western
The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger
IMDb: 6
85

Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Father Brown

Father Brown

Father Brown
IMDb: 6.8
91

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter
IMDb: 6.8
105

Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.

Genre: Drama
Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe
IMDb: 6.8
145

Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
IMDb: 6.6
97

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading…

The Abdication

The Abdication

The Abdication
IMDb: 6
103

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

Genre: Drama, History
Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes
IMDb: 7
91

Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix
IMDb: 7.5
142

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with…

Genre: Adventure
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
IMDb: 7.1
130

The flamboyant Victorian wit (Peter Finch) sues the Marquess of Queensberry for a sodomy slur, but it boomerangs.

Genre: Drama, History
Network

Network

Network
IMDb: 8.1
121 min

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale has been made to retire his own 25-year pole due to his era, he admits to audiences that he’ll kill himself throughout his farewell broadcast….

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Genre: Drama
Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
IMDb: 5.4
150 min

This retelling of this traditional narrative of James Hilton’s Utopian dropped globe performs uneasily amid music production amounts and Bacharach pop songs. While speeding war-torn China, a bunch of Europeans…

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Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday
IMDb: 7.1
110 min

Recently divorced career girl Alex Greville starts a romantic relationship with glamorous mod performer Bob Elkin, completely aware he’s also intimately connected with mid-range doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex…

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Genre: Drama
Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd
IMDb: 7.2
168 min

Bathsheba Everdine, a deliberate, flirtatious, youthful girl, suddenly inherits a huge farm also becomes romantically involved in three widely dominating guys.

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Genre: Romance
The Nun’s Story

The Nun’s Story

The Nun’s Story
IMDb: 7.6
149 min

Gabrielle Van Der Mal gave up everything to be a nun. However, her religion and her vows are being analyzed: first at the Congo hospital in which she aids the…

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Genre: Drama
A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
IMDb: 7.2
117 min

In 1941, ” The advancing Japanese military captures a good deal of British land speedily. The guys are sent to labour camps, however they don’t have any plan about how…

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Genre: Romance, War