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Libel 1959 A Canadian commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden Sir Dirk Bogarde at his home The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look alike actor named Frank Welney Sir Dirk Bogarde The Canadian, the baronet, and the acto

The Singer Not the Song 1961 During the 1950s, in a small isolated Mexican village, the local Roman Catholic priest, Father Gomez Leslie French, is an older man with a broken spirit During his tenure in the village of Quantano, he fought hard to keep his flock of parishioners, in spite of threats an

Raiders in the Sky 1953 Wing Commander Tim Mason Sir Dirk Bogarde leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England Having flown eighty seven missions, he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their

The Gentle Gunman 1952 I R A member Terry Sir John Mills modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London When his co conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt Sir Dirk Bogarde escapes back to Ireland Terry follows and the local group have to decide what to do

The Executioner 1975 When the exiled leader of a free party decides to return to his own country, and attempts to remove the dictator currently in place there, several western governments are determined to stop him A group is assembled, consisting of old friends, former lovers, and hired assassins i

Sebastian 1968 British mathematician Sebastian Sir Dirk Bogarde, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with decrypter Rebecca Howard Susannah York This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers

The Sleeping Tiger 1954 Psychotherapist Dr Clive Esmond Alexander Knox attempts to rehabilitate convict Frank Clemmens Sir Dirk Bogarde in his house after Frank tries to hold him up The criminal cooperates rather than being handed over to the Police The therapists wife Glenda Alexis Smith becomes in

La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) (1969) The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost World War I, and during the depression that followed. Now it's 1934, and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi

Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a decision of 'accidental death', our crafty killer discovers that his late wife's 'fortune' is not what he thoug

Five Angles on Murder (1950) A woman is murdered, but she is seen in different ways by different people.

Daddy Nostalgia (1990) The setting is the Riviera in autumn. A retired English businessman has just been through heart surgery but it has, apparently, done little to relieve his constant pain or improve his long-term survival prospects. During his recuperation Caroline, his adult daughter, comes fro

Doctor at Large (1957) Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surge

The Serpent (2020–) Story of con-man and mass-murderer, Charles Sobhraj, who is discovered and trailed by a young embassy official in mid-70's southeast Asia.

Our Mothers House (1967) When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...

Justine (1969) In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is invol

Damn the Defiant! (1962) Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

Song Without End (1960) The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

The Mind Benders (1963) A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn't know if someone really can be convinced to act against t

Victim (1961) A plea for reform of England's anti-sodomy statutes, this film pits Melville Farr, a married lawyer, against a blackmailer who has photos of Farr and a young gay man (who is being blackmailed and later commits suicide) in Farr's car. After the suicide, Farr tracks down other gay men be

Campbells Kingdom (1957) Bruce Campbell arrives in Canada to take over his grandfather's inheritance, an area on the Rockies know as Campbell's Kingdom. Told by doctors he has a short time to live he just a wants to live quietly up at his grandfathers house in peace. But he soon learns that a dam is

Agent 8 3/4 (1964) Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he's got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent

The Blue Lamp (1950) We follow the daily activities of two London bobbies, veteran George Dixon and rookie Andy Mitchell. Meanwhile, young hoods Tom and Spud plan a series of robberies with Tom's girl Diana, a discontented beauty, as inside worker. But in their second crime, one of our heroes is sho

Death in Venice (1971) In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a tr

Despair (1978) Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sle

Night Ambush (1957) Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Modesty Blaise (1966) Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick

The Oxford professor of philosophy Stephen has two favorite pupils, the athletic aristocrat William and the Austrian Anna von Graz. Stephen is a frustrated man, with a negligent wife, ...

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awa

Night Ambush (1957) Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

The Doctors Dilemma (1958) Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is worth saving, but is convinced that Louis' artistic tal

The Servant (1963) The aristocratic Tony moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett for all services at home. Barrett seems to be a loyal and competent employee, but Tony's girlfriend Susan does not like him and asks Tony to send him away. When Barrett brings his sister Vera to work and live

King & Country (1964) During World War One, the British troops are entrenched at Passchendaele, Belgium. Among the volunteers there is a young British soldier, Arthur Hamp, who is the sole survivor of his original company. Hamp spent three years in the trenches and this makes him a veteran. He h

The Night Porter (1974) Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father...

In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bog, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.

A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.