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The History of Love

The History of Love

The History of Love
IMDb: 6.3
134

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother’s loneliness.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Guantanamero

Guantanamero

Guantanamero
IMDb: 4.9
89

After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They’ll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Ivan, a local Cuban, takes Ali to…

Endgame

Endgame

Endgame
IMDb: 6.2
109

The time is the late ’80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Nothing Is Truer than Truth

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

Nothing Is Truer than Truth
IMDb: 7.4
75

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and…

Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich
IMDb: 7.3
240

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler’s young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer’s own monograph of the same…

Basil

Basil

Basil
IMDb: 5.9
113

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Allelujah

Allelujah

Allelujah
IMDb: 5.9
99

Set in a geriatric ward within a small hospital, when news of its closure begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning…

Genre: Drama
Richard II

Richard II

Richard II
IMDb: 8
157

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is…

Genre: Drama, History
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
IMDb: 6.8
109

The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Genre: Drama
The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man
IMDb: 6.9
100

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Say Your Prayers

Say Your Prayers

Say Your Prayers
IMDb: 5.3
84

Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Three Sisters
IMDb: 6.2
165

Laurence Olivier’s film of Chekhov’s play.

Genre: Drama
My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn
IMDb: 6.9
99

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Come Away

Come Away

Come Away
IMDb: 5.8
94

Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their…

Ironclad

Ironclad

Ironclad
IMDb: 6.1
121

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the…

Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco
IMDb: 5.7
103

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Effie Gray

Effie Gray

Effie Gray
IMDb: 6
104

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Genre: Drama
The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech
IMDb: 8
118

The King’s Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George (‘Bertie’) reluctantly assumes the throne….

Genre: Drama, History
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
IMDb: 6.5
92

Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

Genre: Drama
Henry V

Henry V

Henry V
IMDb: 7.5
137

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare’s play about the English King’s bloody conquest of France.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Odessa File

The Odessa File

The Odessa File
IMDb: 7
130

After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
IMDb: 5.3
92

Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to “miserable, cold, wet Britain” where…

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
IMDb: 4.6
102

The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.

Genre: Drama, History
Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet
IMDb: 7.8
242

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer… his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Genre: Drama
Othello

Othello

Othello
IMDb: 7.1
165

The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.

Genre: Drama
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit
IMDb: 7.2
357

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose…

Genre: Drama
Enigma

Enigma

Enigma
IMDb: 5.9
122

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain…

Blue Blood

Blue Blood

Blue Blood
IMDb: 4.6
86

A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to…

Genre: Drama, Horror
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6
115

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is…

Genre: Thriller
There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons
IMDb: 5.7
112

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and…

Genre: Drama, War
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
IMDb: 6.5
114

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tolkien

Tolkien

Tolkien
IMDb: 6.8
112

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Host

The Host

The Host
IMDb: 4.8
102

A chance opportunity arises for Robert Atkinson, a London banker who risks his bank’s money to leave the mundane behind and start a new life. To take advantage, he unwittingly…

Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella
IMDb: 6.9
105

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella’s fortunes begin to…

The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH
IMDb: 7.5
82

A widowed field mouse must move her family — including an ailing son — to escape a farmer’s plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab…

Stratton

Stratton

Stratton
IMDb: 4.8
94

A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.

Genre: Action, Thriller
Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider
IMDb: 6.3
118

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.

Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution
IMDb: 6.7
106

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael,…

Gladiator

Gladiator

Gladiator
IMDb: 8.5
155

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army’s most capable and trusted generals and a…

Muse of Fire

Muse of Fire

Muse of Fire
IMDb: 7.4
83

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as…

Genre: Documentary