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The Longest Day

(1962)

War

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the...

Runtime:

178 min

Director:

Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton

Cast:

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery, Richard Burton

7.8

87%

75

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Moby Dick

(1956)

Adventure, Drama

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will st...

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

John Huston

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews

7.3

83%

N/A

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Quo Vadis

(1951)

Drama, History, Romance

Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero...

Runtime:

171 min

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann

Cast:

Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Bud Spencer

7.2

83%

N/A

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Pygmalion

(1939)

Comedy, Romance

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman fat...

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith

Cast:

Leslie Howard, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr

7.8

94%

N/A

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The Snake Pit

(1948)

Drama, Mystery

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict ...

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Cast:

Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan

7.7

100%

N/A

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Henry V

(1944)

Action, Drama, History

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Runtime:

137 min

Director:

Laurence Olivier

Cast:

Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Ralph Truman, Ernest Thesiger, Frederick Cooper

7.1

100%

N/A

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55 Days at Peking

(1963)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Runtime:

154 min

Director:

Nicholas Ray, Guy Green

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Burt Kwouk, Flora Robson

6.8

57%

N/A

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Green for Danger

(1946)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Sidney Gilliat

Cast:

Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John

7.6

75%

N/A

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Ten Little Indians

(1965)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

George Pollock

Cast:

Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Dennis Price

6.7

N/A

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The Way Ahead

(1944)

Drama, War

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Carol Reed

Cast:

David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer

7.1

100%

N/A

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The Wooden Horse

(1950)

Drama, War

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

Runtime:

101 min

Director:

Jack Lee

Cast:

Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Peter Burton

7.0

N/A

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The Magic Box

(1952)

Drama

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 it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pic...

Runtime:

118 min

7.1

N/A

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Endless Night

(1972)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ti...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Sidney Gilliat

Cast:

Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson

6.0

N/A

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Plymouth Adventure

(1952)

Adventure, Drama, History

During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.

Runtime:

105 min

6.4

N/A

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

(1968)

TV Movie, Thriller

In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.

Runtime:

120 min

Director:

Charles Jarrott

Cast:

Jack Palance, Jack Palance, Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Leo Genn

6.8

N/A

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The Velvet Touch

(1948)

Drama, Thriller

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Runtime:

100 min

6.8

N/A

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The Silent One

(1973)

Drama, Thriller

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?

Runtime:

117 min

Director:

Claude Pinoteau

Cast:

Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy, Lea Massari

6.9

N/A

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Escape by Night

(1960)

Drama, War

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.

Runtime:

151 min

7.4

N/A

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Connecting Rooms

(1970)

Drama

Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart, exploring the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house owned by dour Mrs. Brent. Among them are busker Wanda Fleming, who is flattered by the attention paid her by rebellious pop songwriter wannabe Mickey Hollister, and former schoolmaster James Wallraven, who has be...

Runtime:

103 min

7.6

N/A

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The Miniver Story

(1950)

Drama

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.

Runtime:

104 min

6.4

N/A

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Circus of Fear

(1966)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast:

Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache

5.4

N/A

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I Accuse!

(1958)

Drama, History

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the milita...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

José Ferrer

Cast:

José Ferrer, Viveca Lindfors, Emlyn Williams, Anton Walbrook, Leo Genn

7.2

N/A

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The Bloody Judge

(1970)

History, Horror

Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes 'traitors', who ...

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

Jesús Franco

Cast:

Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Hans Hass Jr., Maria Rohm

5.2

N/A

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Personal Affair

(1953)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

A British girl (Glynis Johns) disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife (Gene Tierney) of a Latin teacher (Leo Genn) she loves.

Runtime:

82 min

Director:

Anthony Pelissier

Cast:

Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Glynis Johns, Walter Fitzgerald, Pamela Brown

6.6

N/A

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Too Hot to Handle

(1960)

Crime, Drama

A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Terence Young

Cast:

Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Christopher Lee, Kai Fischer

6.6

N/A

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Tunisian Victory

(1944)

Documentary, War

Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.

Runtime:

75 min

Director:

Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart, John Huston

Cast:

Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Bernard Miles

6.9

N/A

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No Time to Die

(1958)

Drama, War

During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Terence Young

Cast:

Victor Mature, Leo Genn, Bonar Colleano, Anthony Newley, Alfred Burke

5.8

N/A

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Die Screaming Marianne

(1971)

Horror, Thriller

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. Wh...

Runtime:

99 min

4.8

N/A

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The Girls of Pleasure Island

(1953)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Haly...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

F. Hugh Herbert, Alvin Ganzer

Cast:

Don Taylor, Leo Genn, Gene Barry, Elsa Lanchester, Dorothy Bromiley

6.6

N/A

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

(1955)

Drama, Romance

Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the ga...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Marc Allégret

Cast:

Danielle Darrieux, Erno Crisa, Leo Genn, Berthe Tissen, Janine Crispin

6.1

N/A

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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

(1964)

Crime, Thriller

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

Runtime:

87 min

Director:

Hugo Fregonese

Cast:

Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse, Yvonne Furneaux, Walter Rilla, Ernst Schröder

4.7

N/A

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The Steel Bayonet

(1958)

Drama, War

Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of...

Runtime:

85 min

5.9

N/A

24 Hours of a Woman's Life

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24 Hours of a Woman's Life

(1952)

Drama

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Victor Saville

Cast:

Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray, Peter Reynolds

5.3

N/A

The Green Scarf

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The Green Scarf

(1954)

Mystery

A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

George More O'Ferrall

Cast:

Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Richard O'Sullivan

8.1

N/A

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The Rat

(1937)

Crime, Drama

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.

Runtime:

72 min

Director:

Jack Raymond

Cast:

Ruth Chatterton, Anton Walbrook, René Ray, Beatrix Lehmann, Mary Clare

6.8

N/A

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No Place for Jennifer

(1950)

Drama

A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

Runtime:

89 min

5.9

N/A

Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak

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Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak

(1975)

Drama

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Aleksander Ford

Cast:

Leo Genn, Carlos Werner, Volker Brandt, Albert Bessler

6.4

N/A

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The Red Beret

(1953)

Drama, War

Steve MacKendrick (Alan Ladd) resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He ...

Runtime:

88 min

N/A

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