The best Leo Genn’s drama movies

Leo Genn

Leo Genn

09/08/1905- 26/01/1978
Today we present the best Leo Genn’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 Leo Genn’s movies.
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Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis
7.1/10
Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them.

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
7.3/10
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking
6.7/10
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

The Silent One

The Silent One
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 10/02/1973
  • Character: Chief of M.I.5
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?

No Time To Die

No Time To Die
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/04/1958
  • Character: Sgt. Kendall
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra
6.2/10
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Pygmalion

Pygmalion
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/03/1939
  • Character: Prince (uncredited)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/06/1944
  • Character: Captain Edwards
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

Henry V

Henry V
7/10
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 04/11/1948
  • Character: Doctor Mark Kik
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure
6.2/10
The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. The passenger list includes John Alden and Priscilla Mullins among those who made the 96-day storm-filled crossing. Along the way the Captain has an ill-starred romance with the wife of a religious fanatic that ends in a sudden, dramatic way off the coast of Cape Cod.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1955
  • Character: Sir Clifford Chatterley
Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the gamekeeper, a man of a lower class.

The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 16/10/1950
  • Character: Peter Howard
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

The Magic Box

The Magic Box
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1952
  • Character: Maida Vale Doctor
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Personal Affair

Personal Affair
6.5/10
A British girl (Glynis Johns) disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife (Gene Tierney) of a Latin teacher (Leo Genn) she loves.

The Red Beret

The Red Beret
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 11/08/1953
  • Character: Major J. Snow
Steve MacKendrick (Alan Ladd) resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1960
  • Character: Johnny Solo
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1947
  • Character: Adam Brant
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.

The Velvet Touch

The Velvet Touch
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 13/07/1948
  • Character: Michael Morrell
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

I Accuse!

I Accuse!
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/03/1958
  • Character: Maj. Picquart
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.

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