The Pianist (
2002) | IMDb:
8.5
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Starring:
Adrien Brody
,
Thomas Kretschmann
,
Frank Finlay
,
Maureen Lipman
,
Emilia Fox
,
Ed Stoppard
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (
1999) | IMDb:
6.3
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
Starring:
Rupert Graves
,
Samantha Morton
,
Nicholas Woodeson
,
Lee Ross
,
Felix Billson
,
Vernon Dobtcheff
The Voyeur (
1994) | IMDb:
5.5
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
Lifeforce (
1985) | IMDb:
6.1
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.
Starring:
Steve Railsback
,
Peter Firth
,
Frank Finlay
,
Mathilda May
,
Patrick Stewart
,
Michael Gothard
Directed by:
Tobe Hooper
The Wild Geese (
1978) | IMDb:
6.8
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Starring:
Roger Moore
,
Richard Harris
,
Hardy Krüger
,
Richard Burton
,
Stewart Granger
,
John Kani
The Three Musketeers (
1973) | IMDb:
7.1
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the King. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the Cardinal.
Starring:
Michael York
,
Oliver Reed
,
Richard Chamberlain
,
Frank Finlay
,
Faye Dunaway
,
Raquel Welch
Shaft in Africa (
1973) | IMDb:
5.9
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Starring:
Richard Roundtree
,
Frank Finlay
,
Vonetta McGee
,
Neda Arnerić
,
Debebe Eshetu
,
Marne Maitland
Cromwell (
1970) | IMDb:
6.9
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Starring:
Richard Harris
,
Alec Guinness
,
Robert Morley
,
Dorothy Tutin
,
Frank Finlay
,
Timothy Dalton
The Molly Maguires (
1970) | IMDb:
6.8
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
Starring:
Sean Connery
,
Richard Harris
,
Samantha Eggar
,
Frank Finlay
,
Anthony Zerbe
,
Bethel Leslie
The Shoes of the Fisherman (
1968) | IMDb:
7
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.
Starring:
Anthony Quinn
,
Laurence Olivier
,
Oskar Werner
,
David Janssen
,
Vittorio De Sica
,
Leo McKern
The Longest Day (
1962) | IMDb:
7.7
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"