Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

The Browning Version

1951

English

8.0

♡ 17

89%

95%

Action

Drama

Anthony Asquith Director

Michael Redgrave as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Frobisher

Nigel Patrick as Frank Hunter

Jean Kent as Millie Crocker-Harris

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

A Diary for Timothy

1945

English

7.0

♡ 4

56%

Humphrey Jennings Director

John Gielgud as Hamlet

Jennifer as Herself - 5 year-old girl

Elvin Jenkins as Himself - Tim's father

Michael Redgrave as Narrator

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

The Importance of Being Earnest

1952

English

7.4

♡ 6

88%

83%

based on play or musical

Anthony Asquith Director

Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew

Michael Redgrave as Ernest Worthing

Edith Evans as Lady Augusta Bracknell

Richard Wattis as Seton

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

Secret Beyond the Door...

1947

English

6.6

♡ 10

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

Romance

Thriller

Fritz Lang Director

Joan Bennett as Celia Lamphere

Natalie Schafer as Edith Potter

Michael Redgrave as Mark Lamphere

Virginia Brissac as Sarah

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Confidential Report

1955

English

7.1

♡ 8

Orson Welles Director

Michael Redgrave as Burgomil Trebitsch

Robert Arden as Guy Van Stratten

Jack Watling as Marquis of Rutleigh

Eduard Linkers as Second Policeman - Munich

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.