Search results for "John Mills"
We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
98

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from…

Genre: War
The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring
IMDb: 6.4
102

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with…

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair
IMDb: 6.6
105

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 5.6
95

After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade
IMDb: 5.4
73

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Genre: Drama, War
Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets
IMDb: 6.7
93

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in…

Genre: Drama
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
Dulcima

Dulcima

Dulcima
IMDb: 6.3
98

Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of…

Genre: Drama
Night of the Fox

Night of the Fox

Night of the Fox
IMDb: 6.1
200

An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars
IMDb: 7.3
109

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows
IMDb: 7.7
81

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed…

Chuka

Chuka

Chuka
IMDb: 6.3
105

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
IMDb: 5.7
100

Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster. This neo-noir remake of the…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
A Black Veil for Lisa

A Black Veil for Lisa

A Black Veil for Lisa
IMDb: 5.9
95

Franz Bulon is a police inspector intent on bringing down a major drug ring operating in Hamburg. Thwarted at every turn by an assassin who is systematically killing informants, jealous…

Genre: Thriller
Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter
IMDb: 7.4
206

An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow
IMDb: 6.6
115

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2…

Genre: Action, War
The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
IMDb: 6.7
105

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory
IMDb: 7.5
106

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his…

Genre: Drama
Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson
IMDb: 7.1
126

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but…

Genre: Adventure, Family
I Was Monty’s Double

I Was Monty’s Double

I Was Monty’s Double
IMDb: 6.9
101

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German’s about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
IMDb: 6.9
94

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Genre: Drama, War
Town on Trial

Town on Trial

Town on Trial
IMDb: 6.4
95

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice
IMDb: 7.8
107

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve
IMDb: 7.2
115

The story of the HMS Torrin, from it’s construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain…

Genre: Drama, War
Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
IMDb: 6.7
90

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
IMDb: 7.9
114

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Family Way

The Family Way

The Family Way
IMDb: 7.3
115

Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newlyweds are subjected to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps
IMDb: 6.6
102

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel…

Genre: Mystery
Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl
IMDb: 4.8
92

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he’s asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Above Us the Waves

Above Us the Waves

Above Us the Waves
IMDb: 6.6
99

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means,…

Genre: War
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
Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free
IMDb: 6.3
100

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children’s film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and…

Genre: Drama, Family
Young Winston

Young Winston

Young Winston
IMDb: 6.7
149

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with…

The Rocking Horse Winner

The Rocking Horse Winner

The Rocking Horse Winner
IMDb: 7.3
91

A strange and ultimately tragic tale of a young boy who learns how to pick winners at the racetrack by riding his rocking horse to aid his parents out of…

Genre: Drama
Murder with Mirrors

Murder with Mirrors

Murder with Mirrors
IMDb: 6.3
94

When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there’s time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is…

The Singer Not the Song

The Singer Not the Song

The Singer Not the Song
IMDb: 6.2
132

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Long Memory

The Long Memory

The Long Memory
IMDb: 7
96

1953 British noir thriller, starring John Mills. An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. Based on…

Genre: Crime
The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
IMDb: 6.7
80

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

Genre: Comedy
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
IMDb: 7.8
125

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8.1
191

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