Search results for "Frank Finlay"
Stalin

Stalin

Stalin
IMDb: 7
166

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

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
The Sins

The Sins

The Sins
TMDb: 0.5
55,50 min

Len Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertakers run by his uncle. However, his resolve to stay…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
The Statement

The Statement

The Statement
IMDb: 6.2
120

The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Count Dracula

Count Dracula

Count Dracula
IMDb: 7.5
150

For those familiar with Bram Stoker’s novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to…

The Return of the Soldier

The Return of the Soldier

The Return of the Soldier
IMDb: 6.8
99

The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn’t even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together….

Genre: Drama
How Do You Want Me?

How Do You Want Me?

How Do You Want Me?
TMDb: 8
30 min

Following their marriage, Ian and Lisa move back to the village where she grew up, a village still dominated by her family. In order to try to fit in, Ian…

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Lifeforce

Lifeforce

Lifeforce
IMDb: 6.2
102

A space shuttle mission investigating Halley’s Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London’s population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and…

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese
IMDb: 6.8
134

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the…

Genre: Action, War
Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree
IMDb: 6.9
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…

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
IMDb: 7.2
105

The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to…

Inspector Clouseau

Inspector Clouseau

Inspector Clouseau
IMDb: 4.9
96

Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Robbery

Robbery

Robbery
IMDb: 6.8
110

A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a ‘how to’, it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.

The Deadly Bees

The Deadly Bees

The Deadly Bees
IMDb: 4.1
83

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm’s owner grows deadly bees.

The Martins

The Martins

The Martins
IMDb: 5.5
87

Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family – long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman
IMDb: 7
162

All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Sitting Target

Sitting Target

Sitting Target
IMDb: 6.6
93

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his…

Genre: Action, Crime
Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve
IMDb: 7.1
112

Hywel Bennett stars as Martin Durnley, a rich but damaged Oxford University drop-out with a hatred of his banker stepfather, played by Frank Finlay. His mum babies the boy, a…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Othello

Othello

Othello
IMDb: 7.1
165

The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.

Genre: Drama
Enigma

Enigma

Enigma
IMDb: 6
122

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain…

A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror
IMDb: 6.5
95

When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes’ sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method…

The Pianist

The Pianist

The Pianist
IMDb: 8.5
150

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman’s experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing…

Genre: Drama, War
The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers
IMDb: 5.9
102

It’s 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D’Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with…

Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa
IMDb: 5.9
112

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Gumshoe

Gumshoe

Gumshoe
IMDb: 6.5
88

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Assault

Assault

Assault
IMDb: 5.5
91

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are…

The Ploughman’s Lunch

The Ploughman’s Lunch

The Ploughman’s Lunch
IMDb: 6.4
107

As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to…

Genre: Drama
Cthulhu Mansion

Cthulhu Mansion

Cthulhu Mansion
IMDb: 3.7
95

An aging magician harboring a terrible occult secret and his daughter are taken hostage in their isolated mansion by teenage scumbags needing a place to hide out. When the captors…

Genre: Horror
The Molly Maguires

The Molly Maguires

The Molly Maguires
IMDb: 6.9
120

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining…

The Key

The Key

The Key
IMDb: 5.4
110

After twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa’s conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter’s fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man
IMDb: 7
92

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it…

Genre: Drama
Cromwell

Cromwell

Cromwell
IMDb: 6.9
139

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into…

Genre: Drama, History