Movies found: 14, viewing from 1 to 14
Year: 1963
Country: UK
Actors: Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, George Innes, Mona Washbourne, Leonard Rossiter
Director: John Schlesinger
Available Quality: Hi Def
Country: UK
A young British clerk in a gloomy North Country undertaker's office, Billy is bombarded daily by the propaganda of the media that all things are for the asking. This transparently false doctrine, coupled with the humdrum job and his wild imagination, leads him on frequent flights to "Ambrosia," a mythical kingdom where he is crowned king, general, lover or any idealized hero the real situation of the moment makes him desire. His vacillating commitment and post-adolescent immaturity have created situations which make Ambrosia all the more attractive. He's succeeded in becoming engaged to two different girls, simultaneously, while in love with ...
Year: 1959
Country: USA
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Charlton Heston, Sam Jaffe
Director: William Wyler
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Country: USA
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them. During the welcome parade a brick falls down from Judah's house and barely misses the governor. Although Messala knows that they are not guilty he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge.
Year: 1937
Country: UK
Actors: Niall MacGinnis, Finlay Currie, John Laurie, Grant Sutherland, Eric Berry
Director: Michael Powell
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Country: UK
A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it to the others... It is ten years earlier, and the way of life on the island is dying; steam trawlers from the mainland threaten its survival as a fishing port. Peter Manson, one of the community's leaders, resists evacuating to the mainland, though his son Robbie is about to leave the island himself. Meanwhile, Robbie's twin sister plans to marry his best friend, Andrew Gray. Andrew and Robbie argue over evacuation and decide to settle ...
Year: 1961
Country: Italy, UK
Actors: Sydney Tafler, John Le Mesurier, Martin Benson, Cyd Charisse, Dennis Price
Director: Mario Zampi
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: Italy, UK
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes. The crook evolves an ingenious swindle geared to the time differential between New York and Rome and works it on his string of widows, but the baroness takes off with the dough. The crook flees to a mental home to escape the wrath of his victims.
Year: 1945
Country: UK
Actors: Finlay Currie, Wendy Hiller, Walter Hudd, John Laurie, Pamela Brown
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined to move forward since her childhood. She meets her father in a fancy restaurant to tell him that she will marry the wealthy middle-aged industrial Robert Bellinger in Kiloran island, in Hebricles, Scotland. She travels from Manchester to the island of Mull, where she stays trapped due to the windy weather. While in the island, she meets Torquil McNeil and along the days they fall in love for each other.
Year: 1957
Country: UK
Actors: Barbara Murray, Sid James, James Robertson Justice, Robert Brown, Stanley Baker
Director: Ralph Thomas
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
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...
Year: 1961
Country: UK
Actors: Martin Lawrence, Barbara Hicks, Arnold Diamond, Finlay Currie, Kathleen Byron
Director: Philip Leacock
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become fast friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Actors: Peter Ustinov, Deborah Kerr, Norman Wooland, Robert Taylor, Peter Miles
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Country: USA
Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior. Though she grew up Roman, the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia resents this, but somehow falls in love with Marcus anyway. Meanwhile Nero's atrocities get more outrageous. When he burns Rome and blames the Christians, Marcus goes off to save Lygia and her family. Nero captures them and all the Christians, and throws them to the lions.
Year: 1964
Country: USA
Actors: Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Stephen Boyd, John Ireland
Director: Anthony Mann
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA
Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome. Here is the story of personal lust for power, and the shattering effects of that power's loss. Here is the tale of the plight of a people living on the brink of a political abyss.
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Actors: Hume Cronyn, Cary Grant, Finlay Currie, Basil Ruysdael, Sidney Blackmer
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Country: USA
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. Fuel is added to the fire when Praetorius befriends young Deborah Higgins, who has become suicidal at the prospect of having a baby by a lover who has left her.
Year: 1959
Country: USA
Actors: David Farrar, John Crawford, Laurence Naismith, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews
Director: King Vidor
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Country: USA
Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah is unhappy and vows to attain the throne. Meanwhile the Egyptian Pharoah agrees to cede a Red Sea port to the Queen of Sheba is she can find a way to destroy Solomon, whose wisdom and benevolent rule is seen as a threat to more tyrannical monarchs in the region. Sheba, Pharoah, Adonijah, the leaders of the Twelve Tribes and his own God make life difficult for Solomon who is tempted by Sheba to stray.
Year: 1962
Country: USA, UK
Actors: Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence, Neil McCallum, Robert Stephens, Leo McKern
Director: Philip Dunne
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA, UK
When the end came for World War II, many Jews were spread around the free world and desired to return to Palestine. Lisa Held has been promised to be returned to her native land. Inspector Peter Jongman of the Dutch secret police compassionately makes the arrangements for her to be smuggled into her home land.
Year: 1946
Country: UK
Actors: Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons, Ivor Barnard, Freda Jackson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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Country: UK
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally...
Year: 1964
Country: USA, UK
Actors: Laurence Naismith, Francis De Wolff, Patrick McGoohan, Jean Anderson, Wilfrid Brambell
Director: Don Chaffey
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA, UK
A young Scottish girl's cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious "witch" who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.
Movies found: 14, viewing from 1 to 14