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6.4

♡ 6

Duncan Lamont as 3rd Engineer On Ship

Michael Brennan as Engineer

Robert Newton as Peter McCabe

Arthur Hambling as Police Sergeant

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

6.3

♡ 6

57%

Senta Berger as Inge Lindt

Max von Sydow as Oktober

Philip Madoc as Oktober's Man

Robert Helpmann as Weng

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

Operation Crossbow

1965

6.6

♡ 15

75%

John Le Mesurier as British Army Officer

Carl Duering as German Officer Arriving at Rocket Plant

Trevor Howard as Professor Frederick Lindemann

Gordon Jackson as R.A.F. Pilot

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 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Will Any Gentleman...?

1953

5.8

♡ 2

Comedy

Brian Wilde as 1st Clerk

Joan Sims as Beryl

Brian Oulton as Mr. Jackson

Peter Butterworth as Stage Manager

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.

Dominique

1979

5.5

♡ 5

50%

gaslight

Horror

last will and testament

rich wife

suicide

Thriller

Jenny Agutter as Ann Ballard

Michael Jayston as Arnold Craven

Cliff Robertson as David Ballard

Jack McKenzie as John, 1st Chauffeur

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

ira (irish republican army)

7.0

♡ 3

75%

ireland

irish

irish history

John Le Mesurier as British General

Walter Gotell as Sergeant 'Black &Tans'

Godfrey Quigley as Soldier

Richard Harris as Terence O'Brien

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

The Dam Busters

1955

7.4

♡ 14

100%

84%

air force

based on a true story

Patrick Jordan as Attendant in Officers' Quarters

George Baker as Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.

Robert Shaw as Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.

Nigel Stock as Flying / Off. F. M. Spafford, D.F.C., D.F.M.

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.

Orca

1977

newfoundland and labrador

5.8

♡ 20

10%

ship

Thriller

whale

Bo Derek as Annie

Richard Harris as Captain Nolan

Keenan Wynn as Novak

Wayne Heffley as Priest

After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959

6.7

♡ 8

56%

Noel Drayton as Charlie Bell

Jean Del Val as Javot

John Le Mesurier as M.O.A. Lawyer

Ron Nyman as Seaman

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

Flight from Ashiya

1964

5.4

♡ 1

29%

Robert Dunham as Air Rescue Service Crew Member in Plane

Shirley Knight as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

Paul Frees as Narrator

Eiko Taki as Tomiko

Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.

Millennium

1989

5.7

♡ 16

20%

Daniel J. Travanti as Arnold Mayer

Timothy Webber as Audio Technician

Philip Akin as Briley

Thomas Hauff as Ron Kennedy

An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968

7.0

♡ 13

43%

74%

Niall MacGinnis as Capuchin Monk

Leo McKern as Cardinal Leone

Barbara Jefford as Dr. Ruth Faber

Laurence Olivier as Premier Piotr Ilyich Kamenev

Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, he must face a challenging destiny that will put the future of the entire world in his hands.

The Sea Wolf

1993

6.0

♡ 6

30%

Charles Bronson as Capt. Wolf Larsen

Garry Chalk as Chandler

Bill Croft as Donovan

Christopher Reeve as Humphrey Van Weyden

Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.

Conduct Unbecoming

1975

6.5

♡ 7

63%

James Faulkner as 2nd Lt. Edward Millington

Stacy Keach as Capt. Harper

Trevor Howard as Col. Benjamin Strang

Susannah York as Mrs. Marjorie Scarlett

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

1975

5.4

♡ 11

55%

Michael Anderson Director Ron Ely

Ron Ely as Clark Savage Jr. aka Doc

Michael Berryman as Coroner

Bob Harks as Pedestrian

William Lucking as Renny

In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc's father's death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold.

Logan's Run

1976

6.8

♡ 35

58%

67%

Adventure

dystopia

escape

killer robot

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

teleportation

Michael Anderson Jr. as Doc

Richard Jordan as Francis

Farrah Fawcett as Holly

Jenny Agutter as Jessica

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1997

5.1

♡ 9

37%

Adventure

Michael Jayston as Admiral Sellings

Paul Gross as Ned Land

Richard Crenna as Professor Aronnax

Julie Cox as Sophie

In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.

1984

1956

6.9

♡ 9

70%

Walter Gotell as Guard

Jan Sterling as Julia of the Outer Party

Michael Ripper as Outer Party Orator

Edmond O'Brien as Winston Smith of the Outer Party

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Hatching

2014

4.0

♡ 40

30%