A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Dresser (1983) Peter Yates, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand, the dresser, Norman (Sir Tom Courtenay) Read More »
Downfall (1964) John Llewellyn Moxey, Anthony Ashdown, Peter Barkworth, Victor Brooks
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife. Read More »
The Steel Key (1953) Robert S. Baker, Terence Morgan
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend. Read More »
Conspiracy (2001) Frank Pierson, Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci
In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. Read More »
The Criminal (1960) Joseph Losey, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
An ex-con who’s taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison Read More »
Staying On (1980) Silvio Narizzano, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Saeed Jaffrey
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s. Read More »
The Mouse That Roared (1959) Jack Arnold, Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the smallest country in the world, is nestled in the French Alps. Read More »
Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world’s wealthiest men Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood
In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »