Search results for "John Mills"
Bean

Bean

Bean
IMDb: 6.4
85

Bean works as a caretaker at Britain’s formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can’t because the…

Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl
IMDb: 4.7
92

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he’s asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows
IMDb: 7.8
80

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed…

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice
IMDb: 7.7
107

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
IMDb: 7.9
118

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham,…

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…

Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8.1
191

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance…

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson
IMDb: 7.2
126

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but…

Genre: Adventure, Family
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
IMDb: 7.8
114

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people touched his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
King Rat

King Rat

King Rat
IMDb: 7.6
134

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like…

Genre: Drama, War
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk
IMDb: 7.0
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, History, War
The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden
IMDb: 7.6
105

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange
IMDb: 5.4
93

A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
IMDb: 7.8
125

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
IMDb: 7.8
86

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the…

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic
IMDb: 7.1
111

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole – only to find…

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
IMDb: 5.7
117

In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune…

Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free

Run Wild, Run Free
IMDb: 6.2
100

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children’s film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and…

Genre: Drama, Family
Town on Trial

Town on Trial

Town on Trial
IMDb: 6.5
95

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
IMDb: 7.2
100

The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.

The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring
IMDb: 7.5
102

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with…

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
IMDb: 6.5
105

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other… or can be made to have seemed to do so!

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter
IMDb: 7.4
206

An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
IMDb: 7.3
94

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Genre: War
Sahara

Sahara

Sahara
IMDb: 4.7
111

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.