During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. Read More »
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Robbery Under Arms (1957) Jack Lee, Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum
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. Read More »
The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) Christian-Jaque, Guy Casaril, Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers. Read More »
Anchoress (1993) Chris Newby, Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary Read More »
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) Lewis Gilbert, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War II. Read More »
Violent Playground (1958) Basil Dearden, Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum
Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac. Read More »
Tower of Terror (1941) Lawrence Huntington, Wilfrid Lawson, Movita, Michael Rennie
A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper Read More »
The Deadly Affair (1966) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret
After Charles Dobbs, a security officer, has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man commits suicide. Read More »
River Beat (1954) Guy Green, Phyllis Kirk, John Bentley, Robert Ayres
A London police inspector is patrolling the river looking for smugglers, when he becomes attracted to a woman working as a ship’s radio operator. Read More »
Decameron Nights (1953) Hugo Fregonese, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio’s own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. Read More »