Search results for "Jack Hawkins"
Twinky

Twinky

Twinky
IMDb: 5.2
98

A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shalako

Shalako

Shalako
IMDb: 5.6
113

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.

Genre: Western
The Poppy Is Also a Flower

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
IMDb: 5.1
100

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Judith

Judith

Judith
IMDb: 5.6
109

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.

Genre: Drama, War
Masquerade

Masquerade

Masquerade
IMDb: 5.5
102

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Lord Jim

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
IMDb: 6.7
154

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment…

Zulu

Zulu

Zulu
IMDb: 7.7
138

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke’s Drift from tribal…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
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…

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: Drama, War
Rampage

Rampage

Rampage
IMDb: 5.5
98

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot’s mistress, Anna.

Genre: Adventure
Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
IMDb: 8.3
228

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic…

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen
IMDb: 7.2
116

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
IMDb: 8.1
222

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he…

The Two-Headed Spy

The Two-Headed Spy

The Two-Headed Spy
IMDb: 6.9
93

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland’s autobiography “The London Cage”. The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P….

Genre: Thriller, War
Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day
IMDb: 6.6
91

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his ‘typical day” consists…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman
IMDb: 6.8
95

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband’s art-forgery/arson scam.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDb: 8.1
161

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Long Arm

The Long Arm

The Long Arm
IMDb: 7
96

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a…

The Man in the Sky

The Man in the Sky

The Man in the Sky
IMDb: 6.7
87

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the…

Genre: Drama
The Prisoner

The Prisoner

The Prisoner
IMDb: 6.8
95

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when…

Genre: Drama
Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs
IMDb: 6.6
105

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Genre: Drama, History
The Intruder

The Intruder

The Intruder
IMDb: 6.7
84

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief…

Genre: Crime, War
The Seekers

The Seekers

The Seekers
IMDb: 5.5
90

A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

Angels One Five

Angels One Five

Angels One Five
IMDb: 6.5
98

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain….

Genre: Drama, War
Malta Story

Malta Story

Malta Story
IMDb: 6.5
99

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea
IMDb: 7.4
126

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Mandy

Mandy

Mandy
IMDb: 7.4
93

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy’s…

Genre: Drama
The Planter’s Wife

The Planter’s Wife

The Planter’s Wife
IMDb: 5.9
88

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Home at Seven

Home at Seven

Home at Seven
IMDb: 6.8
85

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

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky
IMDb: 7.1
98

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Fortune in Diamonds

Fortune in Diamonds

Fortune in Diamonds
IMDb: 5.5
86

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where…

Genre: Adventure
State Secret

State Secret

State Secret
IMDb: 7
104

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in…

The Black Rose

The Black Rose

The Black Rose
IMDb: 6.2
116

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but…

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room
IMDb: 7.1
106

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol
IMDb: 7.6
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 Next of Kin

The Next of Kin

The Next of Kin
IMDb: 6.8
102

Lots of slogans such as “Be like Dad, Keep Mum” and “Keep it under your Hat” are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this…

The Flying Squad

The Flying Squad

The Flying Squad
IMDb: 5.9
64

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

Genre: Crime
Death at Broadcasting House

Death at Broadcasting House

Death at Broadcasting House
IMDb: 5.8
75

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

Genre: Mystery
I Lived with You

I Lived with You

I Lived with You
IMDb: 6.3
100

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still…

Genre: Comedy, Romance