Soundtrack: Malcolm Arnold
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Malcolm Arnold. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
The Night My Number Came Up
1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Norman
Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott
Plot A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream...
6.1
31 votes
6.1
31 votes
Britannia Mews
1949 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Dana Andrews · Maureen O'Hara · Sybil Thorndike · Fay Compton
Plot A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.
6.0
31 votes
6.0
31 votes
Tiger in the Smoke
1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast Donald Sinden · Muriel Pavlow · Tony Wright · Bernard Miles
Plot An escaped killer heads for the French coast to find a mysterious treasure reportedly buried in a widow's mansion. The lonely widow is preparing to marry a man she doesn't...
6.0
43 votes
6.0
43 votes
Stolen Face
1952 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Paul Henreid · Lizabeth Scott · André Morell · Susan Stephen
Plot A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, then she leaves him to go back to her previous boyfriend. In order to "keep" her, he operates on...
5.9
99 votes
5.9
99 votes
David Copperfield (TV)
1969 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Laurence Olivier · Robin Phillips · Michael Redgrave · Ralph Richardson
5.9
38 votes
5.9
38 votes
Four Sided Triangle
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast James Hayter · Barbara Payton · Stephen Murray · John Van Eyssen
Plot Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to...
5.9
62 votes
5.9
62 votes
I Am a Camera
1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cornelius
Cast Julie Harris · Laurence Harvey · Shelley Winters · Ron Randell
Plot A young English writer, exploring the hedonism of 1930's Berlin, becomes involved with a joyfully amoral nightclub singer. The extravagant thoughtlessness of their world, with its champagne and... A young...
5.8
113 votes
5.8
113 votes
The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Joyce Grenfell · Hermione Baddeley · George Cole
Plot The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to...
5.8
34 votes
5.8
34 votes
Island in the Sun
1957 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Robert Rossen
Cast James Mason · Joan Fontaine · Dorothy Dandridge · Joan Collins
5.7
120 votes
5.7
120 votes
The Constant Husband
1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Gilliat
Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Leighton · Kay Kendall · Cecil Parker
Plot Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life...
5.7
30 votes
5.7
30 votes
The Roots of Heaven
1958 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Errol Flynn · Juliette Greco · Trevor Howard · Eddie Albert
Plot Set in French Equatorial Africa, the film tells the story of Morel (Trevor Howard), a crusading environmentalist who sets out to preserve the elephants from extinction as a lasting symbol...
5.6
333 votes
5.6
333 votes
Nine Hours to Rama
1963 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Horst Buchholz · José Ferrer · Valerie Gearon · Don Borisenko
Plot "Nine hours to Rama" depicts the life of Nathuram Godse the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. How Godse planned the assassination is shown in the film. How he became a Hindu...
5.6
42 votes
5.6
42 votes
Wings of Danger
1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Zachary Scott · Robert Beatty · Naomi Chance · Kay Kendall
Plot When Richard Van Ness tries to ground dashing pilot Nick Talbot, his girlfriend's brother, from flying an unimportant cargo run in foul weather, he is blackmailed into allowing it because...
5.6
28 votes
5.6
28 votes
The Captain's Paradise
1953 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast Alec Guinness · Yvonne De Carlo · Celia Johnson · Charles Goldner
Plot Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organised - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Nita in Tangiers....
5.6
37 votes
5.6
37 votes
A Prize of Gold
1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Richard Widmark · Mai Zetterling · Nigel Patrick · George Cole
Plot Stolen Gold ... for the girl with the golden flesh! In this Taut post-war thriller Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American army sergeant who steals a shipment of Nazi...
5.4
78 votes
5.4
78 votes
The Lion
1962 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Cardiff
Cast William Holden · Trevor Howard · Capucine · Pamela Franklin
Plot Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her...
5.2
125 votes
5.2
125 votes
A Hill in Korea
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Julian Amyes
Cast George Baker · Harry Andrews · Stanley Baker · Michael Medwin
4.6
83 votes
4.6
83 votes
Africa: Texas Style
1967 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andrew Marton
Cast Hugh O´Brian · John Mills · Nigel Green · Tom Nardini
Plot An American cowboy is hired to work on a ranch in Africa, and winds up having to fight predators, both the four- and two-legged kinds.
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Your Witness
1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Montgomery
Cast Robert Montgomery · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer · Andrew Cruickshank
Plot Adam Hayward (Robert Montgomery), a successful New York City defense lawyer, receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble...
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
1960 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Cecil Parker · George Cole · Joyce Grenfell · Eric Barker
Plot When the school burns to the ground there's clearly been some arson around. The pupils are found guilty and the judge hands them into the care of a pretty dubious...
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