Search results for "Richard Attenborough"
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
IMDb: 5.6
93

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who’d rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet’s sewing machine breaks, so…

Genre: Comedy
Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law
IMDb: 6.4
94

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge…

Genre: Comedy
The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship
IMDb: 5.4
96

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails…

Genre: Comedy
The Magic Box

The Magic Box

The Magic Box
IMDb: 7
118

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that…

Genre: Drama
The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame
IMDb: 6.8
95

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Dancing with Crime

Dancing with Crime

Dancing with Crime
IMDb: 6.6
83

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf
IMDb: 6
104

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Genre: Action, Comedy
The Scamp

The Scamp

The Scamp
IMDb: 6.6
87

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

Genre: Drama
Eight O’Clock Walk

Eight O’Clock Walk

Eight O’Clock Walk
IMDb: 6.7
87

Only a British cabdriver’s (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O’Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Guinea Pig

The Guinea Pig

The Guinea Pig
IMDb: 6.8
97

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

Genre: Drama
Father’s Doing Fine

Father’s Doing Fine

Father’s Doing Fine
IMDb: 5.3
80

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk
IMDb: 7.1
134

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British…

Genre: Drama, War
The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles
IMDb: 7.6
182

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and…

Genre: Adventure, War
Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Elizabeth
IMDb: 7.4
124

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred…

Genre: Drama, History
I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.2
105

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the…

Genre: Comedy
Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming
IMDb: 6.5
107

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brannigan

Brannigan

Brannigan
IMDb: 6.1
111

Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up…

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place
IMDb: 7.5
106

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian
IMDb: 6
92

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone–and anything–can be bought with money.

Genre: Comedy
Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle
IMDb: 6.2
152

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon
IMDb: 7.6
111

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Third Secret

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
IMDb: 6.5
103

A prominent London Psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence
IMDb: 7.3
95

A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.

Genre: Drama
All Night Long

All Night Long

All Night Long
IMDb: 7.1
91

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear…

Genre: Drama, Music
Sea of Sand

Sea of Sand

Sea of Sand
IMDb: 6.8
97

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African…

Genre: Drama, War
Morning Departure

Morning Departure

Morning Departure
IMDb: 7
102

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

Genre: Drama
SOS Pacific

SOS Pacific

SOS Pacific
IMDb: 6.2
90

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Jet Storm

Jet Storm

Jet Storm
IMDb: 6.5
99

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Genre: Thriller
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6.1
115

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is…

Genre: Thriller
Private’s Progress

Private’s Progress

Private’s Progress
IMDb: 6.5
97

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends…

Genre: Comedy, War
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
IMDb: 7.3
76

A humorously musical retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph.

Genre: Family
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
A Severed Head

A Severed Head

A Severed Head
IMDb: 5.3
98

Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and…

Genre: Comedy
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
IMDb: 6.6
129

Four years after Jurassic Park’s genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret…

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street
IMDb: 6.5
114

Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood’s most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store…

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park
IMDb: 8.1
127

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to…

Loot

Loot

Loot
IMDb: 5.5
101

Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi
IMDb: 7.1
103

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d’etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death
IMDb: 8.1
104

When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world…

The Great Escape

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
IMDb: 8.2
173

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security ‘escape-proof’ camp to sit out…