Search results for "John Gielgud"
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
IMDb: 6.5
178

Follows Caligula as he kills his devious adoptive grandfather and takes control of the decadent Roman Empire, spiralling into depravity, devastation, and madness.

Genre: History, Mystery
Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame
IMDb: 7.4
80

BBC Arena’s documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they…

Genre: Documentary
A Diary for Timothy

A Diary for Timothy

A Diary for Timothy
IMDb: 7
39

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

Genre: Documentary
Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Elizabeth
IMDb: 7.4
124

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred…

Genre: History
Shine

Shine

Shine
IMDb: 7.6
105

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady
IMDb: 6.2
144

Ms. Isabel Archer isn’t afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father’s will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle…

Genre: Uncategorized
Haunted

Haunted

Haunted
IMDb: 6.2
108

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
First Knight

First Knight

First Knight
IMDb: 6
134

The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is…

Genre: Adventure
Shining Through

Shining Through

Shining Through
IMDb: 6.4
132

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love,…

Genre: War
Prospero’s Books

Prospero’s Books

Prospero’s Books
IMDb: 6.8
120

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling…

Genre: Fantasy
Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death
IMDb: 6.1
102

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence….

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
IMDb: 4.7
113

Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way to get his…

Genre: Comedy
The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower
IMDb: 6.2
100

A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost
IMDb: 6.6
98

A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of…

Romance on the Orient Express

Romance on the Orient Express

Romance on the Orient Express
IMDb: 6.2
100

Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance…

Genre: Uncategorized
Plenty

Plenty

Plenty
IMDb: 6
124

David Hare’s account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Genre: Uncategorized
Camille

Camille

Camille
IMDb: 6.2
100

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand’s father begs her not to ruin his hope of…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady
IMDb: 4.8
98

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her…

Genre: Adventure
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black
IMDb: 7.5
143

Fr. Hugh O’Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the…

Genre: History, TV Movie, War
Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich
IMDb: 7.2
323

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…

Genre: History, TV Movie, War
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 6.3
102

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame’s cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo’s guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and…

Genre: Horror, TV Movie
Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8
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: History
Sphinx

Sphinx

Sphinx
IMDb: 5.1
118

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs – murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy’s curse!

Priest of Love

Priest of Love

Priest of Love
IMDb: 6
98

Following the banning and burning of his novel, “The Rainbow,” D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they…

Genre: Uncategorized
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire
IMDb: 7.1
123

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries…

Genre: History
Arthur

Arthur

Arthur
IMDb: 6.9
97

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family’s demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Genre: Comedy
Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert
IMDb: 8.2
173

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this…

Genre: History, War
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6.1
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: Uncategorized
The Formula

The Formula

The Formula
IMDb: 5.6
117

While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.2
124

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and…

Genre: History
Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree
IMDb: 6.8
124

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London’s East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Conductor

The Conductor

The Conductor
IMDb: 6.9
101

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As…

Genre: Music
Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet
IMDb: 6.6
167

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth…

Genre: TV Movie
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
IMDb: 7.3
150

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself…

Genre: History, TV Movie
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: History
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
Aces High

Aces High

Aces High
IMDb: 6.5
114

The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation’s favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the…

Genre: War
Galileo

Galileo

Galileo
IMDb: 6.6
145

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the…

Genre: History
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
IMDb: 7.2
128

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Genre: Mystery
Gold

Gold

Gold
IMDb: 5.7
120

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake,…

Genre: Adventure