Search results for "Ralph Richardson"
The Volunteer

The Volunteer

The Volunteer
IMDb: 6
45

World War II propaganda film.

School for Secrets

School for Secrets

School for Secrets
IMDb: 6.4
108

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of…

Genre: Drama, War
The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn
IMDb: 6.1
98

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German…

Genre: Drama, War
Java Head

Java Head

Java Head
IMDb: 6.5
85

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Passionate Stranger

The Passionate Stranger

The Passionate Stranger
IMDb: 6.1
97

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith…

Genre: Comedy
The Silver Fleet

The Silver Fleet

The Silver Fleet
IMDb: 6.8
88

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a…

Genre: Drama, War
The Looking Glass War

The Looking Glass War

The Looking Glass War
IMDb: 5.8
108

From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City
IMDb: 6.2
87

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Q Planes

Q Planes

Q Planes
IMDb: 6.5
82

An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
IMDb: 7
82

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night
IMDb: 7.6
174

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest…

Genre: Drama, History
Outcast of the Islands

Outcast of the Islands

Outcast of the Islands
IMDb: 6.9
102

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer
IMDb: 6.7
108

The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon in order to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed in accordance to a pact…

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask
IMDb: 6.7
100

The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe’s rescue by…

Watership Down

Watership Down

Watership Down
IMDb: 7.6
88

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe…

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt
IMDb: 6.9
92

Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.

Genre: Horror
The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
IMDb: 6.8
105

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw
IMDb: 6.8
122

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Heiress

The Heiress

The Heiress
IMDb: 8.2
115

Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris…

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol
IMDb: 7.7
96

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father’s butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers
IMDb: 7.5
129

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Things to Come

Things to Come

Things to Come
IMDb: 6.7
100

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man!
IMDb: 7.7
183

This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.

The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy
IMDb: 7.7
83

An English clergyman’s neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

Genre: Drama
The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X
IMDb: 6.6
92

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Give My Regards to Broad Street

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Give My Regards to Broad Street
IMDb: 5.2
109

When the mastertape of McCartney’s latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr….

Genre: Drama, Music
Smiley

Smiley

Smiley
IMDb: 6.7
97

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is…

Genre: Comedy
Home at Seven

Home at Seven

Home at Seven
IMDb: 6.7
85

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago
IMDb: 8
200

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Return of Bulldog Drummond

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

The Return of Bulldog Drummond
IMDb: 5.6
73

The retired British captain forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Genre: Crime
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
IMDb: 6.2
91

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre “Hansel and Gretel” twist.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Exodus

Exodus

Exodus
IMDb: 6.7
208

Based on Leon Uris’ novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari…

Genre: Action, History, War
The Sound Barrier

The Sound Barrier

The Sound Barrier
IMDb: 6.8
118

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Ghoul

The Ghoul

The Ghoul
IMDb: 5.9
80

Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.5
155

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against…

Genre: Drama, History
The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans
IMDb: 6.6
114

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
IMDb: 7.2
111

Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offer from the British Secret Service to recruit a network of…

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
IMDb: 6.4
143

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their…

The Bed Sitting Room

The Bed Sitting Room

The Bed Sitting Room
IMDb: 6.2
91

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into…