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Henry V

Henry V (1944) more movies like this

directed by Laurence Olivier
featuring Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Renée Ashershon, Esmond Knight, Leslie Banks, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, Janet Burnell

Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the newly crowned king of England who fights the French for possession of Normandy. Olivier's direction is inventive, beginning the film as if it were a performance ...

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Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus (1947) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Esmond Knight, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons

British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered existence is disturbed by the presence of a handsome ...

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Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom (1960) more movies like this

directed by Michael Powell
featuring Karl Heinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Esmond Knight, Shirley Ann Field

Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first released, but later generations have come to regard it as a masterpiece. Karl Heinz Boehm stars as Mark, the son of a psychologist who kept a video journal of the boy's upbringing for research purposes. The constant intrusions ...

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The River

The River (1951) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Thomas E. Breen, Patricia Walters, Suprova Mukerjee

The River must be seen in its original Technicolor; it is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine anyone fully enjoying this wonderful film while watching a black-and-white TV print. Adapted by director Jean Renoir and Rumer Godden from Godden's own novel, the film is set on the banks of West Bengal. The central character is teenaged British girl ...

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Contraband

Contraband (1940) more movies like this

directed by Michael Powell
featuring Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight

The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is compelled to ascede to British demands, but dreads the delay, pointing out that the medical supplies in ...

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The Element of Crime

The Element of Crime (1984) more movies like this

directed by Lars von Trier
featuring Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai

A detective plagued by headaches goes to a hypnotist and relives his investigation into a serial killer case in Lars von Trier's first feature, The Element of Crime. Fisher (Michael Elphick), a retired policeman, returns to Europe at the behest of his mentor, Osborne (Esmond Knight of The Red Shoes). Osborne, the author of an influential textbook ...

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This England (1941) more movies like this

directed by David MacDonald
featuring Emlyn Williams, John Clements, Constance Cummings, Frank Pettingell, Esmond Knight

The pageantlike This England was designed by the Anglo-American film corporation to boost the morale of the war-besieged island nation. The story unfolds in the ancient British community of Claverly Village, which has already weathered serveral centuries of political upheavals, both foreign and domestic. A.R. Rawlinson and Bridge Boland's ...

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The Silver Fleet (1943) more movies like this

directed by Gordon Wellesley, Vernon Campbell Sewell
featuring Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell

In this war drama set during WW II, an engineer in a Dutch shipyard assists the Nazis with the construction of two new kinds of submarines and finds himself a social pariah. Even his wife turns against her apparently traitorous husband. During the maiden voyage of one of the subs, the engineer talks high-ranking Nazis into joining him aboard their ...

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