Beth Rogan

Movies15

• Movie7.6

  DramaAction

  The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

  A Night to Remember

  1958 · 302 votes

• Movie6.6

  AdventureScience Fiction

  During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .

  Mysterious Island

  1961 · 213 votes

• Movie5.3

  ComedyCrime

  After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?

  Salt & Pepper

  1968 · 26 votes

• Movie

  DocumentaryScience Fiction

  Documentary on the evolution of Giant Monsters in cinema from the original 1933 King Kong onward.

  Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

  2021

• Movie6.7

  DramaCrime

  The daughter of a textile company owner falls in love with a young illustrator with a secret criminal past.

  Innocent Meeting

  1959 · 3 votes

• Movie6.4

  Comedy

  Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

  Up in the World

  1956 · 16 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.

  The Captain's Table

  1959 · 6 votes

• Movie5.7

  ComedyRomance

  Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).

  Doctor at Large

  1957 · 25 votes

• Movie5.6

  Comedy

  In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

  Sands of the Desert

  1960 · 7 votes

• Movie7.7

  Comedy

  Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.

  True as a Turtle

  1957 · 3 votes

• Movie5.6

  WarDrama

  Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company.

  Count Five and Die

  1957 · 9 votes

• Movie6.1

  Comedy

  Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

  Just My Luck

  1957 · 12 votes

• Movie6.0

  CrimeDrama

  An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before the gone-straight baddie finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in a major jewelry theft.

  Compelled

  1960 · 2 votes

• Movie4.3

  Crime

  A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.

  The Big Chance

  1957 · 4 votes

• Movie6.0

  CrimeComedy

  A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.

  Operation Cupid

  1960 · 2 votes