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The Nun's Story

The Nun's Story (1959) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger

Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one point she is nearly killed by a mental patient (Colleen Dewhurst) -- Sister Luke perseveres. Sent as a nurse to the Belgian Congo, an assignment she'd been hoping for, Sister ...

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The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) more movies like this

directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine

Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for survival in the desert wastes. Some of those who appear ...

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Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe (1977) more movies like this

directed by Irvin Kershner
featuring Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden

Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, Uganda, where President-for-life Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto) struts about feigning concern, ...

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Elephant Walk

Elephant Walk (1954) more movies like this

directed by William Dieterle
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer, Abner Biberman

Elephant Walk was several weeks into production when the film's original leading lady, Vivien Leigh, was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor (you can still see Leigh in a few long shots). Based on a novel by Robert Standish, the film casts Taylor as Ruth Wiley, the new bride of solemn plantation owner John Wiley (Peter Finch). At first thrilled at the ...

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Network

Network (1976) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy

A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting System, is put out to pasture because he "skews old." Network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad news. Beale can ...

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Operation Amsterdam

Operation Amsterdam (1959) more movies like this

directed by Michael McCarthy
featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen

One of the covert operations at the beginning of World War II is enacted in this fast-paced docudrama about a government-approved diamond heist. A Major from the British army (Tony Britton) joins up with a Dutch diamond expert (Alexander Knox) and another adventurous Dutchman (Peter Finch) to steal a fortune in diamonds from a bank vault in ...

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) more movies like this

directed by John Schlesinger
featuring Cindy Burrows, Emma Schlesinger, Kimi Tallmadge, Patrick Thornberry, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham

This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding but does not offer them everything they want. In this sympathetic and psychologically precise drama, Alexandra Greville (Glenda Jackson), "Alex" to her friends, has a younger man as her sometime lover, the young sculptor Bob ...

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The Red Tent

The Red Tent (1969) more movies like this

directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
featuring Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Massimo Girotti

The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and Russian co-production. Peter Finch stars as General Umberto Nobile, who is visited in Rome by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken in his ill-fated mission forty years earlier. In flashback, Nobile recalls the attempt to ...

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Kidnapped

Kidnapped (1960) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie

Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. James MacArthur stars as David Balfour, a wealthy lad cheated out of his inheritance and sold into servitude by his duplicitous and greedy uncle, Ebenezer (John Laurie). Aboard the ship where he's been made cabin boy, David meets Alan ...

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Far From the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) more movies like this

directed by John Schlesinger
featuring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Prunella Ransome

This 1967 version of Thomas Hardy's novel should have done better at the box office than it did, given the star power of Julie Christie and the visual and aural fidelity to its source material. Julie Christie plays Bathsheba Everdene, a country heiress who is loved by three different men: Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates. Convinced that ...

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10:30 p.m. Summer (1966) more movies like this

directed by Jules Dassin
featuring Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Julián Mateos

Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up between him and Schneider. But it doesn't just stop ...

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Girl With Green Eyes (1964) more movies like this

directed by Desmond Davis
featuring Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean, Julian Glover

Rita Tushingham was propelled into stardom with The Girl with Green Eyes. She plays a gawky young rural Irish girl who takes a room with a wise-cracking Dublin lass (Lynn Redgrave). Enter a middle-aged writer (Peter Finch), who makes a beeline for the shy, lonely Tushingham--completely ignoring her more worldly roommate. Girl with Green Eyes was ...

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) more movies like this

directed by Ken Hughes
featuring Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries

Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a great extent from actual court records, recounts Wilde's late 19th century libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury. The author loses, whereupon he himself is tried for sodomy due to his homosexual affair with the ...

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Fighting Rats of Tobruk (1945) more movies like this

directed by Charles Chauvel
featuring Grant Taylor, Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch

Peter Finch enjoyed one of his first major screen successes with this wartime drama from Australia. Milo Trent (Chips Rafferty) and Bluey Donkin (Grant Taylor) are two Aussie infantrymen who are fighting in North Africa during World War II when they meet Peter Linton (Peter Finch), a slightly pretentious British soldier with a fondness for poetry. ...

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A Town Like Alice (1956) more movies like this

directed by Jack Lee
featuring Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Marie Lohr, Renee Houston, Jean Anderson

A harrowing WWII drama that was a huge critical and commercial success in England, this British production was based on a novel by Nevil Shute. During the war, a group of prisoners, mostly women and children, are led by Japanese soldiers on a brutal march through Malaysia. Some die by the roadside and others are sadistically tortured. One of the ...

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Train of Events (1949) more movies like this

directed by Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Sidney Cole
featuring Jack Warner, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Irina Baronova, Peter Finch, Joan Dowling, John Gregson

The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner plays the engine driver, whose daughter's boy friend is responsible for the crash. Peter Finch plays a homicidal actor whose "perfect murder" of his wife is thwarted by the wreck. Lonely orphan girl Joan Dowling is killed while ...

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The Warriors (1955) more movies like this

directed by Henry Levin
featuring Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Holt

The Dark Avenger was the European-release title of the Errol Flynn swashbuckler The Warriors; 20th Century-Fox handled European distribution, while Allied Artists released the film stateside. Lensed on location in Hertfordshire, England, the film stars Flynn as Edward, the "Black Prince" of England. At the end of the Hundred Years' war, Edward ...

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Windom's Way (1957) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry, Robert Flemyng, Michael Hordern

Peter Finch plays Dr. Alec Windom, a British medico working in the remote Far Eastern island village of Selim. Feeling a strong bond with the natives, Dr. Windom champions their cause during a tense period of romantic upheaval. Eventually, he is forced to quell a native uprising--and to try to convince the colonial government and the local ...

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Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee

Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the story of Britain's first significant naval victory in WW2. John Gregson heads the cast as Captain Bell, skipper of the Exeter, one of several vessels engaged in pursuit of the "indestructable" Geman battleship Graf Spee. Taking ...

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Eureka Stockade (1949) more movies like this

directed by Harry Watt
featuring Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Peter Finch, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing

Released in the U.S. as Massacre Hill, the Australian Eureka Stockade was one of that country's biggest and most expensive postwar productions (it was nearly two years in the making!) Set during the 19th-century Australian gold rush, the film top-bills Chips Rafferty as boisterous prospector Peter Lallor. The gold bonanza is threatened by the ...

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A Son Is Born (1946) more movies like this

directed by Eric Porter
featuring Ron Randell, Muriel Steinbeck, Peter Finch, John McCallum

A Son is Born was the maiden directorial effort of Australian producer Eric Porter. Future international star Peter Finch heads the cast of this sprawling drama, dealing with the rivalry between a headstrong father and his rebellious son. Ron Randell and Muriel Steinbeck, who like Finch were big favorites "down under" in 1946, also appear. ...

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