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Leonard Part 6

Leonard Part 6

Leonard Part 6
IMDb: 2.1
85

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career…

Genre: Action, Comedy
I Heard the Owl Call My Name

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

I Heard the Owl Call My Name
IMDb: 7.2
90

A young priest named mark is sent as a vicar to a native American village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
The Railway Children Return

The Railway Children Return

The Railway Children Return
IMDb: 5.5
95

Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from…

Catch Me a Spy

Catch Me a Spy

Catch Me a Spy
IMDb: 5.3
94

While on vacation, a woman’s husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for…

Summerland

Summerland

Summerland
IMDb: 7
100

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts
IMDb: 6.6
101

In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking…

45 Years

45 Years

45 Years
IMDb: 7.1
95

There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson
IMDb: 6.3
96

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon
IMDb: 6.8
111

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring…

Quartet

Quartet

Quartet
IMDb: 6.8
98

The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the…

Gambit

Gambit

Gambit
IMDb: 5.7
89

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals
IMDb: 7.2
148

An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and…

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow
IMDb: 6.6
115

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2…

Genre: Action, War
King and Country

King and Country

King and Country
IMDb: 7.5
85

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is…

Genre: Drama, War
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
IMDb: 7.4
124

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they…

Grandpa’s Great Escape

Grandpa’s Great Escape

Grandpa’s Great Escape
IMDb: 6.5
64

Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he…

The Dresser

The Dresser

The Dresser
IMDb: 7.5
118

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand – the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star…

Genre: Drama
Otley

Otley

Otley
IMDb: 6.2
91

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.

Genre: Comedy
The Day the Fish Came Out

The Day the Fish Came Out

The Day the Fish Came Out
IMDb: 5.3
109

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually…

Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army
IMDb: 5.2
100

A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad’s Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws…

Genre: Comedy
King of Thieves

King of Thieves

King of Thieves
IMDb: 5.5
108

London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago
IMDb: 8
197

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 Golden Compass

The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass
IMDb: 6.1
113

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it’s…

King Rat

King Rat

King Rat
IMDb: 7.5
134

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King,…

Genre: Drama, War
Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year
IMDb: 5.9
85

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they…

Billy Liar

Billy Liar

Billy Liar
IMDb: 7.3
98

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid…

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
IMDb: 7.6
104

A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs,…

Genre: Drama
Flood

Flood

Flood
IMDb: 4.8
110

Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England’s East Coast and…

A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic
IMDb: 6.2
107

Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It
IMDb: 7.2
115

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek’s…

Genre: Drama
Last Orders

Last Orders

Last Orders
IMDb: 7
109

Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his…

Genre: Comedy, Drama