Search results for "Peter Finch"
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
IMDb: 6.6
84

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King’s palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of…

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Rats of Tobruk

The Rats of Tobruk

The Rats of Tobruk
IMDb: 5.4
96

Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel’s forces.

Genre: Action, War
Bequest to the Nation

Bequest to the Nation

Bequest to the Nation
IMDb: 6.5
118

Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.

Genre: Drama, History
Network

Network

Network
IMDb: 8.1
122

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network…

Genre: Drama
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday
IMDb: 7
110

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he’s also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both…

Genre: Drama
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
Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes
IMDb: 6.9
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 Abdication

The Abdication

The Abdication
IMDb: 6.1
103

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

Genre: Drama, History
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…

Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe
IMDb: 6.7
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…

Father Brown

Father Brown

Father Brown
IMDb: 6.7
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
Robbery Under Arms

Robbery Under Arms

Robbery Under Arms
IMDb: 6.1
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 Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse
IMDb: 6.9
101

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

Genre: Drama, War
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 Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater
IMDb: 7.2
118

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly…

Genre: Drama
A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
IMDb: 7.2
117

In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to…

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

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
IMDb: 7
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…

Genre: Drama
The Shiralee

The Shiralee

The Shiralee
IMDb: 6.7
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
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
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
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
Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
IMDb: 5.2
150

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. Hidden from the…

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
IMDb: 6.9
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
I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool
IMDb: 6.1
100

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted…

Genre: Drama
The Sins of Rachel Cade

The Sins of Rachel Cade

The Sins of Rachel Cade
IMDb: 5.8
124

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Passage Home

Passage Home

Passage Home
IMDb: 6.2
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
The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare
IMDb: 5.8
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
Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura
IMDb: 6.3
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: 6.4
103

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

Genre: Drama, History
The Nun’s Story

The Nun’s Story

The Nun’s Story
IMDb: 7.5
149

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Genre: Drama, War
The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter
IMDb: 6.7
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
In the Cool of the Day

In the Cool of the Day

In the Cool of the Day
IMDb: 5
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
The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger
IMDb: 5.8
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