Search results for "Dirk Bogarde"
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: Drama, Thriller
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….

Once a Jolly Swagman

Once a Jolly Swagman

Once a Jolly Swagman
IMDb: 6.4
100

A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

Genre: Drama, Romance
I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing

I Could Go on Singing
IMDb: 6.9
100

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: Drama, Music
Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight
IMDb: 6.6
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.

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: Drama, Thriller
The Damned

The Damned

The Damned
IMDb: 7.5
156

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

Genre: Drama, War
The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma
IMDb: 5.9
99

About a young artist, his wife and a doctor who, when the artist suffers from consumption, uses his limited serum on a more worthwhile case. (BFI Website)

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Song Without End

Song Without End

Song Without End
IMDb: 6.1
141

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
IMDb: 5.8
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, Romance
Dear Mr. Prohack

Dear Mr. Prohack

Dear Mr. Prohack
IMDb: 6
91

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett’s novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Night Porter

The Night Porter

The Night Porter
IMDb: 6.7
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: Drama, Romance
Death in Venice

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
IMDb: 7.4
130

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: Drama
Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June
IMDb: 6.1
98

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

Genre: Comedy
Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise
IMDb: 5.1
119

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…

Accident

Accident

Accident
IMDb: 6.9
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, Drama
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: Drama, War
The Servant

The Servant

The Servant
IMDb: 7.9
116

A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift…

Genre: Drama
Darling

Darling

Darling
IMDb: 7.1
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: Drama, Romance
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…

Campbell’s Kingdom

Campbell’s Kingdom

Campbell’s Kingdom
IMDb: 6.4
102

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits “Campbell’s Kingdom” in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather. He has…

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them
IMDb: 6.4
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: Drama, War
The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp
IMDb: 6.9
84

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat….

Genre: Crime, Drama
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: Drama, War
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
Providence

Providence

Providence
IMDb: 7.7
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, Drama, Fantasy
Hunted

Hunted

Hunted
IMDb: 7.4
84

An unusual relationship develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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: Action, Drama, Romance, War
The Singer Not the Song

The Singer Not the Song

The Singer Not the Song
IMDb: 6.4
132

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

Genre: Drama, Western
They Who Dare

They Who Dare

They Who Dare
IMDb: 5.6
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
Esther Waters

Esther Waters

Esther Waters
IMDb: 6.2
108

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer’s daughter. Left alone to bring up…

Genre: Drama
Permission to Kill

Permission to Kill

Permission to Kill
IMDb: 5.7
93

An unsavory intelligence agent (Dirk Bogarde) plots the downfall of a Third World political leader (Bekim Fehmiu).

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown
IMDb: 6.1
84

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where…

Genre: Crime
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,…

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far
IMDb: 7.4
175

Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Victim

Victim

Victim
IMDb: 7.8
100

In early 1960s London, 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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage
IMDb: 6.8
116

Based on a true story, this film follows Sergeant-Major Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde), a brave British soldier captured by German forces during World War II. When he’s thrown into a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Libel

Libel

Libel
IMDb: 7.1
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: Drama, Mystery
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…

Our Mother’s House

Our Mother’s House

Our Mother’s House
IMDb: 7.3
100

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

Genre: Drama