Search results for "Dirk Bogarde"
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema

Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema

Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
IMDb: 6.8
91

Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many…

Genre: Documentary
Despair

Despair

Despair
IMDb: 6.9
117

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing…

Genre: Uncategorized
Providence

Providence

Providence
IMDb: 7.5
110

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

Genre: Comedy
A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far
IMDb: 7.4
175

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access…

Genre: History, War
Permission to Kill

Permission to Kill

Permission to Kill
IMDb: 5.6
93

Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Night Porter

The Night Porter

The Night Porter
IMDb: 6.6
118

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his…

Genre: War
Death in Venice

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
IMDb: 7.3
131

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his…

Genre: Uncategorized
Justine

Justine

Justine
IMDb: 5.4
116

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker….

Genre: Mystery
The Damned

The Damned

The Damned
IMDb: 7.4
158

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

Genre: History
Our Mother’s House

Our Mother’s House

Our Mother’s House
IMDb: 7.2
105

Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.

Genre: Uncategorized
Accident

Accident

Accident
IMDb: 6.8
105

Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is…

Genre: Crime
Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise
IMDb: 5
120

Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June
IMDb: 6.1
98

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

Genre: Comedy
Darling

Darling

Darling
IMDb: 7
122

The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men…

Genre: Uncategorized
King and Country

King and Country

King and Country
IMDb: 7.5
85

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is…

Genre: History, War
The Servant

The Servant

The Servant
IMDb: 7.8
116

Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee….

Genre: Uncategorized
The Mind Benders

The Mind Benders

The Mind Benders
IMDb: 6.4
109

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique,…

Genre: Uncategorized
I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing
IMDb: 6.9
99

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with…

Genre: Music
The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage
IMDb: 6.8
116

Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he’s thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape….

Genre: Comedy, War
H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant
IMDb: 7.1
101

Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant’s first…

Victim

Victim

Victim
IMDb: 7.7
100

Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr’s career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However,…

Genre: Crime
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: Western
Song Without End

Song Without End

Song Without End
IMDb: 6
141

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Angel Wore Red

The Angel Wore Red

The Angel Wore Red
IMDb: 5.8
95

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

Genre: War
Libel

Libel

Libel
IMDb: 7.2
100

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and…

Genre: Mystery
The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma
IMDb: 5.8
99

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

Genre: Comedy
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
IMDb: 7.1
115

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue…

Genre: History
Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow
IMDb: 7
83

Edward “Teddy” Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he’s hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don’t go…

Genre: Uncategorized
Campbell’s Kingdom

Campbell’s Kingdom

Campbell’s Kingdom
IMDb: 6.3
102

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim “Campbell’s Kingdom”, the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather’s name…

Genre: Adventure
Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight
IMDb: 6.5
104

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island’s German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Genre: Adventure, War
Simba

Simba

Simba
IMDb: 6.1
99

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger
IMDb: 6.5
89

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor’s wife who…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them
IMDb: 6.3
91

During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and…

Genre: War
For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
IMDb: 5.7
85

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a…

Genre: Comedy
Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House
IMDb: 6.6
92

The first of the seven “Doctor” films, based on Richard Gordon’s novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin’s hospital…

Genre: Comedy
They Who Dare

They Who Dare

They Who Dare
IMDb: 5.5
107

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied…

Genre: War
Appointment in London

Appointment in London

Appointment in London
IMDb: 6.5
96

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is…

Genre: War
Hunted

Hunted

Hunted
IMDb: 7.3
84

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Genre: Crime
The Gentle Gunman

The Gentle Gunman

The Gentle Gunman
IMDb: 6.4
86

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question
IMDb: 6.8
88

Agnes “Astra” Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks…

Genre: Mystery