Search results for "Michael Hordern"
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
IMDb: 7.3
98

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III’s taxmen.

Futtocks End

Futtocks End

Futtocks End
IMDb: 6.3
49

Entirely silent, with a musical score, sound effects and incoherent mutterings, the story revolves around a weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric and lewd General Futtock…

Genre: Comedy
The Spaniard’s Curse

The Spaniard’s Curse

The Spaniard’s Curse
IMDb: 5.7
80

A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Paddington

Paddington

Paddington
TMDb: 7.109
30,5 min

Paddington Bear is a series of British animated shorts based on the Paddington Bear book series by Michael Bond produced by FilmFair. This was the first television series based on…

Status: Ended
Genre: Animation
Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World
IMDb: 6.7
99

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of…

Genre: Drama
The Trouble with Spies

The Trouble with Spies

The Trouble with Spies
IMDb: 4.4
91

George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Comrades

Comrades

Comrades
IMDb: 7.3
183

The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Genre: Drama, History
Lady Jane

Lady Jane

Lady Jane
IMDb: 7.1
142

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the…

Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard
IMDb: 5.9
96

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he’s sentenced to 20 years in St….

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows
IMDb: 7.6
79

One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a…

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
IMDb: 6.7
103

The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

Genre: Crime, Drama
King Lear

King Lear

King Lear
IMDb: 7.6
185

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly…

Genre: Drama
Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe
IMDb: 6.7
137

Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and…

The Missionary

The Missionary

The Missionary
IMDb: 6.2
90

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment – to minister to…

Genre: Comedy
All’s Well That Ends Well

All’s Well That Ends Well

All’s Well That Ends Well
IMDb: 6.9
141

Helena loves Bertram, but he’s of noble birth, while she’s just a doctor’s daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet
IMDb: 6.6
167

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth…

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch
IMDb: 6.9
109

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man…

Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews
IMDb: 5.6
99

Lady Booby alias ‘Belle’, the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Slipper and the Rose

The Slipper and the Rose

The Slipper and the Rose
IMDb: 6.9
146

Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the prince…

Lucky Lady

Lucky Lady

Lucky Lady
IMDb: 5.3
118

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood
IMDb: 7.1
104

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Genre: Comedy, Horror
The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man
IMDb: 6.3
99

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor;…

Genre: Thriller
The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper
IMDb: 6.4
90

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Possession of Joel Delaney

The Possession of Joel Delaney

The Possession of Joel Delaney
IMDb: 5.7
105

Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.

Genre: Horror
Girl Stroke Boy

Girl Stroke Boy

Girl Stroke Boy
IMDb: 6.1
86

Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.

Genre: Comedy
Demons of the Mind

Demons of the Mind

Demons of the Mind
IMDb: 5.3
89

A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare
IMDb: 7.6
155

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s…

Genre: Adventure, War
Some Will, Some Won’t

Some Will, Some Won’t

Some Will, Some Won’t
IMDb: 5.8
90

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Genre: Comedy
The Bed Sitting Room

The Bed Sitting Room

The Bed Sitting Room
IMDb: 6.1
91

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into…

Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days
IMDb: 7.4
145

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

How I Won the War

How I Won the War

How I Won the War
IMDb: 5.5
109

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Genre: Comedy, War
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
TMDb: 6.8
50 min

An alcoholic pub landlord has visions of a 17th-century doctor of the occult, beginning a monumental clash between good and evil. Adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amis.

Status: Ended
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
IMDb: 7.1
117

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
IMDb: 6.8
99

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
IMDb: 7.5
112

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan
IMDb: 5.8
127

This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and…

El Cid

El Cid

El Cid
IMDb: 7.2
182

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (“El Cid” to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving…

Sink the Bismarck!

Sink the Bismarck!

Sink the Bismarck!
IMDb: 7.2
97

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz,…

Genre: Drama, War
Windom’s Way

Windom’s Way

Windom’s Way
IMDb: 5.9
108

A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force…

Genre: Drama