Search results for "Peter Vaughan"
Silicon Glen: From Ships to Microchips

Silicon Glen: From Ships to Microchips

Silicon Glen: From Ships to Microchips
IMDb: 6.1
59

Whatever happened to Scotland’s Silicon Glen? US giant IBM arrived at Spango Valley in post-war Greenock, attracted as part of a government effort to replace industrial jobs. For decades the…

Genre: Documentary
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
IMDb: 7.9
100

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Hotel Splendide

Hotel Splendide

Hotel Splendide
IMDb: 6.2
98

The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program…

Genre: Comedy
The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man
IMDb: 6.3
99

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor;…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Smokescreen

Smokescreen

Smokescreen
IMDb: 6.8
70

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse
IMDb: 6
93

A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on…

Genre: Drama, War
Taste of Excitement

Taste of Excitement

Taste of Excitement
IMDb: 5.4
95

A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young girl in her…

I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool
IMDb: 6.1
100

A physician is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Genre: Drama
Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome
IMDb: 6.5
99

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral
IMDb: 7.4
90

A myriad of outrageous calamities befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death. Soon, every complication imaginable…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Mother

The Mother

The Mother
IMDb: 6.8
112

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
IMDb: 7.4
134

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of…

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband
IMDb: 6.8
97

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900
IMDb: 8.1
170

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Fatherland

Fatherland

Fatherland
IMDb: 6.5
106

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler…

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil
IMDb: 7.9
143

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led…

Valentino

Valentino

Valentino
IMDb: 6.1
128

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide…

Genre: Drama, History
Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great
IMDb: 6.3
122

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away…

Genre: History
A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious
IMDb: 7.3
50

The tale tells the story of Paxton, an amateur archeologist who travels to “Seaburgh” (a disguised version of Aldeburgh, Suffolk) and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of…

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse
IMDb: 6.3
94

A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he…

Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core
IMDb: 5.8
89

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke’s girl Sara gives them the…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Sapphire

Sapphire

Sapphire
IMDb: 7.1
92

Two Scotland Yard detectives (Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig) investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate…

Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor
IMDb: 6.6
88

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted…

Hammerhead

Hammerhead

Hammerhead
IMDb: 5.1
100

An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).

A Twist of Sand

A Twist of Sand

A Twist of Sand
IMDb: 5.6
90

A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly being caught by the authorities in…

Genre: Adventure
Fanatic

Fanatic

Fanatic
IMDb: 6.3
97

A young woman is terrorized by her fiance’s demented mother who blames her for her son’s death.

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs
IMDb: 7.5
116

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
IMDb: 7.8
134

A rule bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Haunted Honeymoon

Haunted Honeymoon

Haunted Honeymoon
IMDb: 5.7
82

Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up…

Symptoms

Symptoms

Symptoms
IMDb: 6.5
91

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn’t quite what it seems–and neither is…

Genre: Horror
The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper
IMDb: 6.4
90

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man
IMDb: 6.3
96

Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Razor’s Edge

The Razor’s Edge

The Razor’s Edge
IMDb: 6.6
129

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp…

Genre: Drama
Eyewitness

Eyewitness

Eyewitness
IMDb: 6.1
91

A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?

Genre: Thriller
Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
117

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Albatross

Albatross

Albatross
IMDb: 6.4
90

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth’s father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama
The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
IMDb: 7
124

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Porridge

Porridge

Porridge
IMDb: 7.2
93

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what’s more, an escape plan is hatching from…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah
IMDb: 6.9
103

The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”

Genre: Drama
The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls
IMDb: 5.3
123

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys’ rural family home on the eve of young Jack’s 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack’s mother, Emily, who…

Genre: Drama