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1. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
PG | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel
Votes: 44,995 | Gross: $16.06M
2. Murderers' Row (1966)
Approved | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Handsome top-secret American agent Matt Helm must recover a laser-weapons inventor who has been kidnapped by arch-villain Julian Wall.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv
Votes: 2,474
3. The Wrecking Crew (1968)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Gold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini. The US government sends Matt Helm, one of its top agents, to investigate and recover the gold.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan
Votes: 3,740
4. The Long Ships (1964)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama
A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino
Votes: 3,132
5. The Silencers (1966)
TV-PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Retired agent Matt Helm is re-activated in order to stop an evil organization from exploding an atom bomb over the USA and starting WWIII.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Victor Buono
Votes: 3,805
6. The Ambushers (1967)
Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Secret agent Matt Helm must battle foreign spies and a rogue nation's exiled ruler in order to recover a hijacked U.S. government experimental flying saucer.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, James Gregory
Votes: 2,316
7. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,970 | Gross: $1.37M
8. Genghis Khan (1965)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach
Votes: 2,547 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Fire Down Below (1957)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The friendship between two tramp boat owners is threatened by the arrival of a beautiful and seductive passenger.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,976
10. The Gamma People (1956)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla
Votes: 821
11. The Black Knight (1954)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, History
During King Arthur's time, a sword maker wishes to win Lady Linet's heart but first he must become a noble knight.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, André Morell, Harry Andrews
Votes: 846
12. Matt Helm (1975–1976)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former secret agent gives up the spy business to become a private investigator with an eye for women and a fast car, in the employ of a beautiful blond attorney who is also a lover.
Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Laraine Stephens, Gene Evans, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 145
13. Pickup Alley (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano
Votes: 644
14. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Unrated | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller
French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.
Directors: Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,027
15. Safari (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure
During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver
Votes: 672
16. Hammerhead (1968)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Vince Edwards, Judy Geeson, Peter Vaughan, Diana Dors
Votes: 562
17. The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Christopher Lee
Votes: 1,998
18. Timewatch (1982– )
50 min | Documentary, History
BBC investigative documentary series noted for its new perspectives on historical events.
Stars: Michael Praed, Peter France, Christopher Andrew, John Tusa
Votes: 156
19. The Man Inside (1958)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An English bookkeeper (Nigel Patrick) who works for a jeweler steals a priceless jewel, and kills a man in the process. He flees to the continent, where he embarks on the life of his dreams... See full summary »
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Nigel Patrick, Anthony Newley
Votes: 337
20. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 1,122
21. Sudden Terror (1970)
PG | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young bystander even under the spectre of martial law.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 759
22. The Desperados (1969)
M | 91 min | Western
During the Civil War, ex-parson Josiah Galt and his sons are Confederate raiders but they become common robbers after the war, save for son David who goes straight.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Vince Edwards, Sylvia Syms, Benjamin Edney, Jack Palance
Votes: 597
23. Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
91 min | Adventure
In the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 408
24. Tank Force (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, War
During WW2 in North Africa, an American sergeant serving with the British 8th Army is captured by the Germans but he hatches various plans of escape from the POW camp.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Leo Genn, Anthony Newley, Bonar Colleano
Votes: 392
25. Paratrooper (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
In 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Harry Andrews
Votes: 803 | Gross: $5.19M
26. New Mexico (1951)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western
A cavalry captain has great difficulty keeping the peace between his tyrannical colonel and an Indian chief bent on revenge.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton
Votes: 216
27. Zarak (1956)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An Afghan outlaw finally saves a British officer at the cost of his own life.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg, Bonar Colleano
Votes: 447
28. A Prize of Gold (1955)
98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
World War II sergeant Joe Lawrence falls for refugee aiming to relocate German orphans. He conspires with comrades to fund relocation through heist. Plot follows daring robbery plan and blossoming romance amidst wartime challenges.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick, George Cole
Votes: 355
29. Johnny Nobody (1961)
TV-PG | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A small Irish town: atheist writer shot by a man claiming amnesia. Miracle or murder? Local priest discovers it's a plot: revenge killing. Gets to trial too late - the jury have acquitted. JN gloats - to be struck dead in the courtroom.
Director: Nigel Patrick | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, William Bendix, Aldo Ray
Votes: 326
30. How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
79 min | Comedy, Crime
The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry, seizes upon news of the impending arrival of their rich ... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Patrick | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller, Katie Johnson
Votes: 274
31. High Flight (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, War
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh, Anthony Newley
Votes: 291
32. Hell Below Zero (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The captain of an Antarctic whaling ship falls overboard in mysterious circumstances and his daughter, aided by a sympathetic American, decides to investigate the accident.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker
Votes: 549
33. Jazz Boat (1960)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical
An electrician is summoned to assist a gang in a big robbery.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge
Votes: 148
34. The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure
In India, the 19th century, the rebellious Kasim Khan fought the English.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley, Norman Wooland
Votes: 151
35. High Conquest (1947)
79 min | Romance, Drama
A mountain climber from America (Warren Douglas) is obsessed by his fear of the Matterhorn, where his father had died on an ascent. Other than begging the question of why he was pursuing ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Allen | Stars: Anna Lee, Gilbert Roland, Warren Douglas, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 24
36. The Hellions (1961)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement in search of revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis. Hargis knows he cannot outgun the five outlaws and ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Jamie Uys, Marty Wilde
Votes: 179
37. Idol on Parade (1959)
88 min | Comedy
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 202
38. Slaughter Trail (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Western
Fort Marcy's commandant has a dilemma when 3 outlaws, who killed a few Navajo for their horses, request protection from the vengeful Indians.
Director: Irving Allen | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Gig Young, Virginia Grey, Andy Devine
Votes: 297
39. 16 Fathoms Deep (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 Florida, a former Navy diver is hired by Greek-American sponge divers who are at the mercy of a crooked sponge-exchange owner.
Director: Irving Allen | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Arthur Lake, Eric Feldary
Votes: 110
40. In the Nick (1960)
105 min | Comedy
A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The leader of the gang plans to use this to his advantage and take control of the place through manipulation.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, James Booth
Votes: 31
41. Can a Woman Love Twice? (1923)
70 min | Drama
Mary Grant, whose husband was killed in the war, has to support herself and her young son Tom by working in a cabaret because her husband's parents disapprove of and won't help her--but they want to adopt Tom. Complications ensue.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Ethel Clayton, Muriel Frances Dana, Kate Lester, Fred Esmelton
42. Avalanche (1946)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two Treasury agents after an income-tax evader track him to a ski resort high in the mountains, and wind up getting involved in a series of murders.
Director: Irving Allen | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Karns, Helen Mowery, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 69
43. Strange Voyage (1946)
80 min | Adventure, Drama
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
Director: Irving Allen | Stars: Eddie Albert, Forrest Taylor, Ray Teal, Matt Willis
Votes: 19
44. Climbing the Matterhorn (1947)
21 min | Short, Documentary
Iring Allen was filming High Conquest when he shot this short film. Locale villagers rescue a couple trapped om the mountain.
Director: Irving Allen | Star: Warren Douglas
Votes: 21
45. Forty Boys and a Song (1941)
Passed | 10 min | Short, Music, Documentary
A tribute to the Robert Mitchell Choir School of Hollywood, which trains talented young boys in the musical arts in addition to regular academic studies.
Director: Irving Allen | Stars: The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, Robert Mitchell, Ken Carpenter
Votes: 171
47. The Return of Gilbert & Sullivan (1952)
32 min | Short, Music
Directors: Irving Allen, Sid Kuller | Stars: The Sportsmen Quartet, Melville Cooper, Billy Gray, Tudor Owen
Votes: 7
48. April in Portugal (1956)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Beautiful Jocelyn Lane goes sightseeing in Portugal accompanied by bandleader George Melachrino and his orchestra. Featuring Portugal's top singing star Amália Rodrigues and the world-famous Tagide Club Dancers of Lisbon.
Director: Euan Lloyd | Stars: Jocelyn Lane, Antonio Dos Santos, Amália Rodrigues, Trevor Howard
Votes: 11
49. The Road to War (1989 Video)
TV-PG | 76 min | Documentary
"The Road to War" uses elaborate re-enactments, fascinating Computer Generated Imagery and previously unseen archive footage to examine how the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 came about ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Phenpimon | Stars: Charles Champlin, Herbert Bregstein, Irving Allen, David Ross
Votes: 17
50. Land of Laughter (1957)
Approved | 15 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A screen tour of Trinidad at fiesta time, which highlights the Mardi Gras street carnival, famed for its spontaneity, brilliant costumes and steelband music.
Director: Euan Lloyd | Star: Leo Genn