Cast: Leo Genn

Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton

Synopsis England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers are dropped inland to take key towns and bridges. On...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Synopsis Quo Vadis (1951) is an epic historical drama set in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. The story follows Marcus Vinicius, a Roman military commander, who falls in love with Lygia, a Christian hostage. As their romance blossoms,...

Direction John Huston

Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Leo Genn · Giovanna Ralli · Sergei Bondarchuk · Hannes Messemer

Synopsis In the tumult of Nazi-occupied Rome, a sympathetic bootlegger, already accustomed to living outside the law, opens her home to a trio of escaped Allied prisoners of war--an American, a Russian, and a Briton--jeopardizing her safety and that of her...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Leo Genn · Mark Stevens · Celeste Holm

Synopsis The Snake Pit is a startling and stark drama about mental illness, anchored by Olivia de Havilland's extraordinary, Oscar-nominated performance as Virginia, a newlywed succumbing to emerging psychosis. Even by today's standards, this powerful 1948 film, based on an autobiographical...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Synopsis In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · David Niven · Robert Helpmann

Synopsis 55 Days at Peking (1963) is a historical epic set during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The film follows the harrowing siege of foreign legations in Peking (now Beijing) by the Boxers, a Chinese nationalist movement. As the international community,...

Direction Claude Pinoteau

Cast Lino Ventura · Leo Genn · Suzanne Flon · Robert Hardy

Synopsis A russian nuclear physicist is abducted by the British security services. But him is in truth Clément Tibère, a French scientist who was coerced into working for the Russians some years ago. The British agents compel Tibère to work for...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Conrad Veidt · Valerie Hobson · Hay Petrie · Joss Ambler

Synopsis Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Sally Gray · Trevor Howard · Alastair Sim · Rosamund John

Synopsis Set in August 1944 during the V-1 Doodlebug offensive on London, a murder takes place in Heron's Park Emergency Hospital, a rural British hospital somewhere in the South-east of England. Inspector Cockrill is asked to investigate when the head nurse...

Direction John Huston

Cast Paul Newman · Dominique Sanda · James Mason · Harry Andrews

Synopsis Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept...

Direction Jack Gage

Cast Rosalind Russell · Leo Genn · Claire Trevor · Sydney Greenstreet

Synopsis Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival...

Direction José Ferrer

Cast José Ferrer · Anton Walbrook · Viveca Lindfors · Leo Genn

Synopsis The famous "Dreyfus Case" where a Jewish captain in the French Army is falsely accused of treason. He is sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island. When the real traitor is found the French Army tries to hide the truth.

Direction George Pollock

Cast Hugh O´Brian · Shirley Eaton · Fabian · Leo Genn

Synopsis Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Spencer Tracy · Gene Tierney · Van Johnson · Leo Genn

Synopsis The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" to the New World. En route, Captain Jones tries to seduce the wife of William Bradford, will she remain faithful?

Direction Lucio Fulci

Cast Florinda Bolkan · Jean Sorel · Alberto de Mendoza · George Rigaud

Synopsis Set in London, the film follows Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan), the daughter of a respected politician, who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares consisting of depraved sex orgies and LSD use. In the dream she commits a graphic murder...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast David Niven · Stanley Holloway · James Donald · Peter Ustinov

Synopsis A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould them into a good team. When they go into action...

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Cathy O'Donnell · Greer Garson · John Hodiak · Leo Genn

Synopsis The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Michael Redgrave · Raymond Massey · Kirk Douglas

Synopsis Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter (Lavinia). But Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam Brant, has become Christine's lover,...

Direction Terence Young

Cast Victor Mature · Leo Genn · Bonar Colleano · Anthony Newley

Synopsis Daniel Thatcher is an American sergeant serving with a British tank corps in North Africa. He and most of his unit are captured by the Germans, who learn his identity as a man who once tried to assassinate Josef Goebbels,...