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1. The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)

R | 94 min | Comedy

Tom Jones, a maid's son adopted by the nobleman she worked for, now all grown up must run away from home when he is set up by his jealous cousin. He has several adventures and women on his way to town where his possible salvation awaits.

Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe

Votes: 174

2. Great Performances (1971– )
Episode: The Collection (1976)

TV-G | 64 min | Music, Musical

Did Bill sleep with Stella? Or was it her husband, James? And where does the much older Harry fit into this triangle (or is it quadrangle?) situation?

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Laurence Olivier

Votes: 226

3. Brief Encounter (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach

Votes: 702

4. Fallen Angels (1974 TV Movie)

51 min | Comedy

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Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Sacha Distel, Joan Collins, Susannah York, Ronald Fraser

5. A Doll's House (I) (1973)

G | 105 min | Drama

Years ago, Nora Helmer (Claire Bloom) committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald (Sir Anthony Hopkins). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Garland | Stars: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 1,400 | Gross: $0.31M

6. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)

G | 105 min | Family, Drama, Comedy

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, Johnny Doran, George Rose

Votes: 816 | Gross: $0.11M

7. The Merchant of Venice (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, demands his due of a pound of flesh for a forfeited loan.

Director: John Sichel | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Michael Jayston

Votes: 296

8. X, Y & Zee (1972)

PG | 110 min | Drama

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton

Votes: 1,418 | Gross: $1.36M

9. Great Performances (1971– )

TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical

Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.

Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo

Votes: 903

10. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

GP | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie

Votes: 2,804

11. Tam Lin (1970)

PG-13 | 106 min | Horror, Mystery

An older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.

Director: Roddy McDowall | Stars: Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 739

12. Three Sisters (1970)

G | 165 min | Drama, Romance

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.

Directors: Laurence Olivier, John Sichel | Stars: Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 494

13. The Last Grenade (1970)

M | 94 min | Drama, War

Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough

Votes: 241 | Gross: $0.04M

14. The Assassination Bureau (1969)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens

Votes: 3,338

15. Guns in the Heather (1969)

144 min | Adventure, Family

Walt Disney's 3-part made-for-TV feature, The Secret of Boyne Castle (1969), originally shown on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (the new title for "Disneyland"), re-edited into feature film form for European theatrical release.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Barr

Votes: 130

16. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Secret of Boyne Castle: Part 1 (1969)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young American studying in Ireland, Rich Evans, becomes involved with Russian agents and a defecting scientist, after he hears a warning from a dying man.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Dawson

Votes: 51

17. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Secret of Boyne Castle: Part 2 (1969)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

It seems that Rich's brother, Tom, is an American agent trying to meet a defecting scientist, and the Russians are trying to stop the meeting before it happens.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Dawson

Votes: 45

18. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Secret of Boyne Castle: Part 3 (1969)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

After using considerable ingenuity to evade their pursuers, Rich Evans and his school chum arrive at Boyne Castle.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Dawson

Votes: 53

19. Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)

G | 110 min | Comedy, Musical

Friends Herman, Karl, Keith, Derek, and Barry are working-class Manchester lads who aren't getting far in their working lives. That fact is epitomized by Herman's failure to get the ... See full summary »

Director: Saul Swimmer | Stars: Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood, Derek Leckenby

Votes: 578

20. Only When I Larf (1968)

G | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart, Nicholas Pennell

Votes: 313

21. Accident (1967)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York

Votes: 4,993

22. NET Playhouse (1964–1972)
Episode: Uncle Vanya (1967)

Biography, Drama, History

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Max Adrian, Lewis Casson, Fay Compton, Rosemary Harris

23. Modesty Blaise (1966)

119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews

Votes: 3,187

24. Promise Her Anything (1966)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 621

25. Where the Spies Are (1965)

Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 907

26. Masquerade (1965)

Not Rated | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Comedy

The British secret service hire a WWII veteran to voluntarily kidnap and smuggle a 13-year-old Arab prince into Spain. Once there, a gullible American mercenary is hired to protect him, but greed threatens to spoil the operation.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 567

27. Life at the Top (1965)

117 min | Drama

In this sequel to Room at the Top (1958), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig

Votes: 704

28. The Intelligence Men (1965)

103 min | Comedy, Mystery

Coffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent Garden, aided by MI5 friend.

Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, William Franklyn, April Olrich

Votes: 514

29. Woman of Straw (1964)

Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tyrannical, but ailing, tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria. The nurse, in turn, falls in love with Charles' ne'er-do-well nephew Anthony, who plots ways to gain control of his uncle's fortune.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox

Votes: 2,934

30. Of Human Bondage (1964)

Approved | 100 min | Drama

A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.

Directors: Ken Hughes, Henry Hathaway, Bryan Forbes | Stars: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna

Votes: 1,101 | Gross: $3.82M

31. Contest Girl (1964)

82 min | Comedy, Drama

On a seaside holiday, pretty Bristol typist Shirley meets Dan Mackenzie from her local paper. He persuades her that she has what it takes in the world of beauty contests, and so it proves. ... See full summary »

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser, Edmund Purdom

Votes: 239

32. NET Playhouse (1964–1972)

90 min | Biography, Drama, History

American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

Stars: Irene Dailey, Rene Auberjonois, George Voskovec, Richard Dysart

Votes: 52

33. The Servant (1963)

Unrated | 116 min | Drama

Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox

Votes: 13,847 | Gross: $0.04M

34. I Could Go on Singing (1963)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Music

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon

Votes: 1,713

35. Stolen Hours (1963)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

Dying English jet-setter marries her doctor and lives the best year of her life.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd

Votes: 423

36. Uncle Vanya (1963)

120 min | Drama

Retired Professor Alexander Serebryakov has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased. Her mother ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Robert Lang, Max Adrian, Lewis Casson

Votes: 194

37. The L-Shaped Room (1962)

126 min | Drama, Romance

A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix

Votes: 2,233

38. Term of Trial (1962)

Approved | 130 min | Drama

A British high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher, but after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.

Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Roland Culver, Frank Pettingell

Votes: 868

39. Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy

This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed ... See full summary »

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, John Fraser

Votes: 741

40. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: Escape (1962)

30 min | Adventure, Family

Drake is held prisoner by a sadistic Governor and after a failed escape attempt, ends up in front of a firing squad.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Terence Morgan, Brian Bedford, Martin Boddey, Charles Heslop

Votes: 12

41. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: The Gypsies (1962)

30 min | Adventure, Family

Drake rescues a boatload of gypsies, who, by their own account, were mercilessly abandoned in the sea by a ruthless Spanish ship's captain. However when Drake discovers the Spanish captain ... See full summary »

Director: John Lemont | Stars: Terence Morgan, Sarah Branch, Eileen Way, Harry Lockart

Votes: 14

42. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Romance

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

Director: José Quintero | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne, Jill St. John

Votes: 2,986

43. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe

Votes: 6,211

44. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)

25 min | Adventure, Family

The adventures of Sir Francis Drake during the 1500's. Sir Francis is probably one of the most famous explorers of the high seas. The twenty six episodes of the series are about his ... See full summary »

Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Michael Crawford, Milton Reid

Votes: 150

45. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: Bold Enterprise (1961)

30 min | Adventure, Family

Drake tries to persuade Elizabeth to let him raid Santo Domingo where the fort is not yet fully armed and is loaded with gold and treasure.

Directors: Harry Booth, Anthony Bushell | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Richard Pearson, Patrick Holt

Votes: 18

46. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: Doctor Dee (1961)

Adventure, Family

An astrologer by the name of Doctor Dee is adviser to Queen Elizabeth, but his advice on the stars is not good news for Drake, who wants to sail to Ostend to rescue English prisoners. The ... See full summary »

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Patrick McLoughlin, Ewan Roberts

Votes: 21

47. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: Mission to Paris (1961)

Adventure, Family

Queen Elizabeth is in love with the French Duke Alencon, and hopes to receive a marriage proposal. However since his return to France she has heard nothing further from him and suspects ... See full summary »

Director: David Greene | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Richard Warner, Ewan Roberts

Votes: 16

48. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: Queen of Scots (1961)

Adventure, Family

Spymaster Francis Walsingham forges letters plotting against Queen Elizabeth to incriminate the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots. Suspicious of his motives, Elizabeth sends Drake undercover to investigate.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Ewan Roberts, Alfred Burke

Votes: 23

49. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: The English Dragon (1961)

30 min | Adventure, Family

The queen sends Drake to Calais to rescue Lord Oakeshott, an English gentleman being held there on a charge of murder, but when Drake gets there he finds that Oakeshott is not a prisoner ... See full summary »

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Richard Warner, Ewan Roberts

Votes: 21

50. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode: The Garrison (1961)

30 min | Adventure, Family

Drake takes provisions to Belgian garrison of Blankenberge where there are supposed to be 500 English soldiers ordered to keep the Spanish at bay. On arrival he finds that most of the men ... See full summary »

Director: David Greene | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Patrick McLoughlin, Michael Crawford

Votes: 19