Alan MacNaughtan

7.507

Patton

Jan 25, 1970

Patton

1970 172 min 1071 vues

Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, la vie d'un général, rebelle dans l'armée américaine mais reconnu comme un génie de la stratégie. En 1943, le général Patton est envoyé à Tunis afin de reprendre une situation difficile, l'armée US ayant du mal à prendre le pas sur l'Africa Korps nazi. Il enchaîne les succès mais refuse de laisser les lauriers de sa victoire au maréchal Montgomery, des forces armées britanniques. Il est alors relevé de son commandement et va attendre plusieurs mois avant de se retrouver à la tête d'une division.

War

1

The Russian Soldier

Mar 09, 1986

The Russian Soldier

1986 80 min 1 vues

What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it is, one thing is certain. Life will never be the same again for him and his family.

Drama

1

Here Is the News

Mar 05, 1989

Here Is the News

1989 70 min 1 vues

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.

Drama

6.2

The Insurance Man

Feb 22, 1986

The Insurance Man

1986 76 min 5 vues

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he goes to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.

Drama

1

Remember the Germans

Jul 28, 1969

Remember the Germans

1969 137 min 1 vues

The conflict of a German man, Robert, who worked during the war for U.S Intelligence and now has been drawn back to his country to be honoured by his old University.

6

The Double

Apr 01, 1963

The Double

1963 56 min 1 vues

A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.

Mystery

7

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

Dec 15, 1985

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

1985 82 min 2 vues

Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?

Drama

7.2

Family Life

Nov 17, 1971

Family Life

1971 108 min 51 vues

Dans un hôpital psychiatrique, la jeune Janice Baildon, 19 ans, répond aux questions du docteur Donaldson. Oui, son foyer est agréable. Oui, son père est un brave homme. Certes, sa mère est un peu autoritaire, mais, dans le fond, elle n'est pas méchante. Mais pourquoi, alors, Janice quitte-t-elle emploi sur emploi, sans jamais se fixer ? Pourquoi erre-t-elle dans les rues, inerte et pensive, jusqu'à intriguer la police ? Ses parents s'inquiètent, puis croient trouver la réponse à leurs tourments en apprenant que Janice est enceinte. Sa mère la contraint à avorter. Bouleversée, la jeune fille se réfugie chez son ami, Tim...

Drama

1

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Feb 26, 1982

How Many Miles to Babylon?

1982 111 min 1 vues

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

Drama

6.357

Patton : Né pour être soldat

Dec 15, 1986

Patton : Né pour être soldat

1986 146 min 7 vues

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le général Patton est grièvement blessé dans un accident de la route. Hospitalisé, il se souvient des moments importants de sa vie. Sa carrière militaire a débuté durant la 1ère Guerre Mondiale. Puis, il sera présent sur les champs de bataille de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, participant au Débarquement de Normandie et à la libération de l'Europe.

War

6.4

Frankenstein créa la femme

Mar 15, 1967

Frankenstein créa la femme

1967 92 min 120 vues

Le docteur Frankenstein vient de réussir à "battre la mort". Il s'est conservé lui-même pendant une heure en état de mort cardiaque. Il prouve ainsi qu'à la mort, l'esprit ne quitte pas le corps, au moins pas avant une heure. Il est assisté dans ses recherches par Hans, un jeune homme du village dont le père vu guillotiné pour meurtre, et le docteur Hertz, médecin du village dont il occupe le logis et les fonds financiers. Christina est la fille du patron du restaurant, très belle mais brûlée au visage, et souffrant d'un corps déformé qui l'empêche de marcher, Hans en est amoureux. Un soir, trois jeunes riches "gentlemen" se croyant tout permis font irruption dans le restaurant.

Horror

5.5

Bond of Fear

Apr 01, 1956

Bond of Fear

1956 66 min 2 vues

An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.

Drama

6.2

The Secret Place

Feb 06, 1957

The Secret Place

1957 98 min 4 vues

British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.

Crime

7.4

La victime

Aug 01, 1961

La victime

1961 100 min 126 vues

Grand avocat londonien et père de famille, Melville Farr est sur le point d'embrasser une carrière de juge. Il est rattrapé par son passé lorsque " Boy " Barrett, son ancien amant victime de chantage, l'appelle à l'aide. Farr refuse de l'aider, craignant pour sa carrière, et peu de temps après Barrett est retrouvé pendu dans sa cellule. Bouleversé pas cette nouvelle, l'avocat décide alors de retrouver la trace des maîtres-chanteurs. Il accepte de participer à l'enquête aux côtés de la police, malgré le scandale qui s'annonce et malgré le danger que cela représente pour sa famille, sa vie intime et sa carrière...

Drama

5.1

Glace bleue

Oct 09, 1992

Glace bleue

1992 105 min 25 vues

Un ancien agent des services secrets britanniques tombe pour une femme américaine et devient empêtré dans une toile d'espionnage.

Action

5.8

The Commissioner

Feb 22, 1998

The Commissioner

1998 108 min 9 vues

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles upon a chemical weapons outrage that points to a sinister political-industrial conspiracy.

Drama

7

The Scold's Bridle

Apr 10, 1998

The Scold's Bridle

1998 147 min 5 vues

Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.

Crime

7.5

The Dark Angel

Feb 01, 1987

The Dark Angel

1987 148 min 2 vues

The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.

Horror

4.875

Département S

Mar 17, 1970

Département S

1970 min 11 vues

Cette série met en scène les aventures du flamboyant Jason King, auteur à succès de romans policiers et collaborateur au Département S, une cellule d'Interpol dirigée par l'énigmatique Sir Curtis Seretse et destinée à régler les affaires que les autres agences de services secrets n'ont pu résoudre. Les autres membres en sont Stewart Sullivan, un Américain qui chapeaute l'équipe, et Annabelle Hurst, une spécialiste en informatique.

Action & Adventure

7.689

Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir

May 21, 1969

Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir

1969 min 132 vues

John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...

Action & Adventure

7.333

Jason King

Apr 28, 1972

Jason King

1972 min 9 vues

Ancien héros de Département S, Jason King a quitté Interpol. Auteur à succès de romans policiers et infatigable playboy menant grand train de vie, ses démêlés avec le fisc l'obligent à travailler régulièrement pour les services secrets britanniques. Désormais, il s'affaire en solo (et en dilettante) à des affaires d'espionnage…

Action & Adventure

4.333

Out of This World

Sep 22, 1962

Out of This World

1962 min 3 vues

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.

7.369

Les Professionnels

Feb 06, 1983

Les Professionnels

1983 min 42 vues

Cette série met en scène les aventures de William Bodie et Raymond Doyle deux des meilleurs agents du CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), une organisation secrète chargée de maintenir la sécurité en Angleterre dont le patron est l'irascible George Cowley.

Action & Adventure

7.3

Le Saint

Feb 09, 1969

Le Saint

1969 min 106 vues

Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.

Action & Adventure

6.029

Les Champions

Apr 30, 1969

Les Champions

1969 min 17 vues

Les Champions (The Champions) est une série télévisée britannique en 30 épisodes de 50 minutes, créée par Monty Berman et Dennis Spooner et diffusée entre le 25 septembre 1968 et le 30 avril 1969 sur le réseau ITV. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du 17 juillet 1971 sur la deuxième chaîne de l'ORTF et rediffusée en 1993 sur M6. Craig, Richard et Sharon, trois agents secrets appartenant à une organisation appelée Nemesis, s'écrasent en avion dans l'Himalaya lors d'une mission. Recueillis par des moines tibétains, qui sont en réalité des êtres issus d'une civilisation très avancée, les trois héros se retrouvent dotés de pouvoirs surhumains qu'ils vont mettre au service du renseignement britannique et, ainsi, affronter des ennemis hors du commun.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8

The Sandbaggers

Jul 28, 1980

The Sandbaggers

1980 min 9 vues

The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.

Drama

6.3

Journey to the Unknown

Jan 30, 1969

Journey to the Unknown

1969 min 3 vues

A British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, very similar to the American television series The Twilight Zone, and deals with normal people whose everyday situations somehow become extraordinary. It featured both British and American actors.

Drama

3.7

No Hiding Place

Jun 22, 1967

No Hiding Place

1967 min 3 vues

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

Crime

7.875

The Duchess of Duke Street

Dec 24, 1977

The Duchess of Duke Street

1977 min 8 vues

Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James's.

Drama

10

The Expert

Nov 26, 1976

The Expert

1976 min 1 vues

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.

Drama

5

Yanks Go Home

Sep 12, 1977

Yanks Go Home

1977 min 1 vues

Yanks Go Home is a British sitcom about U.S. Army Air Forcemen stationed in Lancashire, England in the Second World War. It was produced and directed by Eric Prytherch for Granada Television and broadcast on ITV between 1976 and 1977. The series ran for 2 series and 13 episodes in total before its cancellation.

Comedy

6.909

Maigret

Dec 24, 1963

Maigret

1963 min 11 vues

Maigret (titre original) est une série télévisée policière britannique, en quatre saisons et cinquante-deux épisodes (+ un épisode pilote), diffusée originellement de 1960 à 1963. Les enquêtes du commissaire Jules Maigret, basées sur les romans de Georges Simenon.

Crime

7.5

Game, Set, and Match

Dec 19, 1988

Game, Set, and Match

1988 min 4 vues

Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.

Drama

6.8

Agatha Christie - Dix brèves rencontres

Nov 16, 1982

Agatha Christie - Dix brèves rencontres

1982 min 12 vues

Dix brèves rencontres est un recueil de dix drames basés sur des nouvelles de la romancière la plus populaire de l'histoire. Mettant en vedette un mélange enivrant de romance, d'aventure surnaturelle et passionnante, les épisodes mettent tous en valeur le flair inégalé de Christie pour le dramatique. Avec des stars invitées telles que John Nettles, Roy Kinnear, Amanda Redman, Rupert Everett et Cherie Lunghi, les épisodes de cet ensemble sont:

Action & Adventure

1

Conjugal Rites

Jun 17, 1994

Conjugal Rites

1994 min 1 vues

6.714

Minder

Mar 10, 1994

Minder

1994 min 21 vues

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.

Comedy

5.5

The Glory Boys

Oct 03, 1984

The Glory Boys

1984 min 4 vues

Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own novel. A visiting Israeli scientist was targeted for assassination by two different terrorist organizations: one Irish, one Arab. After working at cross-purposes for an extended length of time, the hired killers from both factions decided to join forces to carry out their murderous assignment.

Drama

6.438

Bergerac

Dec 26, 1991

Bergerac

1991 min 16 vues

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.

Drama

7.7

To Serve Them All My Days

Jan 16, 1981

To Serve Them All My Days

1981 min 3 vues

After barely surviving the trenches of World War I, an embittered young soldier takes a teaching post at Bamfylde, an elite boarding school in the uplands of West Devon. It is an unlikely job for a Welsh miner's son without a degree, but David Powlett-Jones (John Duttine) proves to be a rare schoolmaster, as passionate about learning as he is about teaching. Through two tumultuous decades, Powlett-Jones inspires his students with his courage and idealism, qualities that help prepare him to send another generation of young men off to fight yet another war.

Drama

6

Justice

Aug 16, 1974

Justice

1974 min 2 vues

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.

Drama

5.5

The Hanged Man

Apr 05, 1975

The Hanged Man

1975 min 2 vues

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

Drama

4

Time for Murder

Dec 14, 1985

Time for Murder

1985 min 1 vues

Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.

Mystery

7.8

A Very British Coup

Jul 03, 1988

A Very British Coup

1988 min 13 vues

A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.

War & Politics

6.167

Soldier Soldier

Dec 09, 1997

Soldier Soldier

1997 min 12 vues

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

Drama

7.689

Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir

May 21, 1969

Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir

1969 min 132 vues

John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...

Action & Adventure

7.369

Les Professionnels

Feb 06, 1983

Les Professionnels

1983 min 42 vues

Cette série met en scène les aventures de William Bodie et Raymond Doyle deux des meilleurs agents du CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), une organisation secrète chargée de maintenir la sécurité en Angleterre dont le patron est l'irascible George Cowley.

Action & Adventure

7.8

Hamish Macbeth

May 04, 1997

Hamish Macbeth

1997 min 10 vues

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.

Drama