Search results for "John Gielgud"
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
IMDb: 4.7
113

Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way to get his…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death
IMDb: 6.1
102

Emily Boynton, the 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….

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
The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost
IMDb: 6.6
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…

Romance on the Orient Express

Romance on the Orient Express

Romance on the Orient Express
IMDb: 6.2
100

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
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
Camille

Camille

Camille
IMDb: 6.2
100

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand’s father begs her not to ruin his hope of…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady
IMDb: 4.9
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
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black
IMDb: 7.5
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 activities become so large that the…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 6.3
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…

Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8
192

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance…

Genre: Drama, History
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!

Priest of Love

Priest of Love

Priest of Love
IMDb: 6
98

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, Romance
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire
IMDb: 7.1
123

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries…

Genre: Drama, History
Arthur

Arthur

Arthur
IMDb: 6.9
97

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family’s demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert
IMDb: 8.2
173

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6.1
115

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

Genre: Thriller
The Formula

The Formula

The Formula
IMDb: 5.6
117

While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War…

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.2
124

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and…

Genre: Drama, History
Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree
IMDb: 6.8
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…

The Conductor

The Conductor

The Conductor
IMDb: 6.8
101

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As…

Genre: Drama, Music
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
IMDb: 7.3
150

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself…

Providence

Providence

Providence
IMDb: 7.4
110

On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Aces High

Aces High

Aces High
IMDb: 6.6
114

The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation’s favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Galileo

Galileo

Galileo
IMDb: 6.5
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
Gold

Gold

Gold
IMDb: 5.7
120

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake,…

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse
IMDb: 6.2
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…

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
IMDb: 5.3
147

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

Probe

Probe

Probe
IMDb: 7.1
95

That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It’s a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It’s also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other…

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
The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman
IMDb: 7
162

Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope,…

Genre: Drama
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade
IMDb: 6.6
139

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a…

Genre: Drama, History, War
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, Mystery
The Loved One

The Loved One

The Loved One
IMDb: 6.9
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
Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight
IMDb: 7.6
115

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry’s heir, Prince Hal, is…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Becket

Becket

Becket
IMDb: 7.7
148

Thomas Becket, Henry II’s longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty…

Genre: Drama, History
Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.3
155

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against…

Genre: Drama, History
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet
IMDb: 6
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: 7.2
121

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both…

Genre: Drama, History