Search results for "Richard Attenborough"
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
Rosebud

Rosebud

Rosebud
IMDb: 5.2
127

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming
IMDb: 6.6
107

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brannigan

Brannigan

Brannigan
IMDb: 6.1
111

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of…

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None
IMDb: 5.7
98

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the…

A Severed Head

A Severed Head

A Severed Head
IMDb: 5.4
98

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband’s best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in…

Genre: Comedy
10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place
IMDb: 7.5
111

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

Loot

Loot

Loot
IMDb: 5.3
101

Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian
IMDb: 5.8
92

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone–and anything–can be bought.

Genre: Comedy
Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf
IMDb: 5.9
104

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
IMDb: 5.6
93

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who’d rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet’s sewing machine breaks, so…

Genre: Comedy
Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle
IMDb: 6.2
151

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles
IMDb: 7.5
196

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and…

Genre: Drama, War
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, Drama
The Third Secret

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
IMDb: 6.5
103

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this…

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon
IMDb: 7.5
116

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi
IMDb: 7.1
103

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d’etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Genre: Drama, War
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
IMDb: 8.2
173

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security ‘escape-proof’ camp to sit out…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
All Night Long

All Night Long

All Night Long
IMDb: 7.1
91

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence
IMDb: 7.2
95

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.

Genre: Drama
SOS Pacific

SOS Pacific

SOS Pacific
IMDb: 6.3
91

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness…

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen
IMDb: 7.2
116

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Jet Storm

Jet Storm

Jet Storm
IMDb: 6.5
99

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Genre: Thriller
I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.1
105

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom,…

Genre: Comedy
Danger Within

Danger Within

Danger Within
IMDb: 6.8
101

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in…

Genre: War
The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs
IMDb: 6.5
88

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can’t live with himself after he accidently kills…

Genre: Drama
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk
IMDb: 7.1
134

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British…

Genre: Drama, War
Sea of Sand

Sea of Sand

Sea of Sand
IMDb: 6.7
97

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African…

Genre: Drama, War
The Scamp

The Scamp

The Scamp
IMDb: 6.5
87

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

Genre: Drama
Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law
IMDb: 6.4
94

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge…

Genre: Comedy
Private’s Progress

Private’s Progress

Private’s Progress
IMDb: 6.4
97

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship
IMDb: 5.4
96

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails…

Genre: Comedy
The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame
IMDb: 6.7
95

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Gift Horse

Gift Horse

Gift Horse
IMDb: 6.3
95

Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Father’s Doing Fine

Father’s Doing Fine

Father’s Doing Fine
IMDb: 5
80

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Eight O’Clock Walk

Eight O’Clock Walk

Eight O’Clock Walk
IMDb: 6.7
87

Only a British cabdriver’s (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O’Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Magic Box

The Magic Box

The Magic Box
IMDb: 7
118

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that…

Genre: Drama
Morning Departure

Morning Departure

Morning Departure
IMDb: 7
102

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

Genre: Drama
Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown
IMDb: 6.1
84

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where…

Genre: Crime
The Guinea Pig

The Guinea Pig

The Guinea Pig
IMDb: 6.8
97

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

Genre: Drama