The best Albert Lieven’s movies
Today we present the best Albert Lieven’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Albert Lieven’s movies.
The Guns of Navarone
7.5/10
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
8/10
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Night Train to Munich
7.2/10
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
The Victors
6.9/10
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
Convoy
6/10
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Traitor's Gate
5.7/10
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
The Devil's Daffodil
5.6/10
An unknown murderer who wears a black stocking to disguise his face, leaves a bunch of daffodils at his crime scenes.
The Devil's Daffodil is the seventh Edgar Wallace film produced by Rialto and is based on Wallace’s novel The Daffodil Mystery. This film is a special case in that it was a co-production with the British company Omnia Pictures Ltd. Filmed at Shepperton Studios in Middlesex, there were two versions of the film made, a German-language version and an English version, both shot at the same time.
Anna Karenina
5.8/10
Adaptation from Tolstoy's novel.
Yellow Canary
6.4/10
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Death Drums Along the River
4.9/10
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
Hotel Sahara
6.2/10
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
The Gorilla Gang
5.3/10
In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace.
Brainwashed
6.9/10
Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
The Seventh Veil
6.7/10
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
The Young Mr. Pitt
6.8/10
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Let George Do It!
6.4/10
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Loser Takes All
5/10
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Foxhole in Cairo
5.8/10
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Victoria the Great
6.3/10
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Geliebtes Leben
6.7/10
