The best Martin Benson’s drama movies

Martin Benson

Martin Benson

10/08/1918- 28/02/2010
Today we present the best Martin Benson’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 Martin Benson’s movies.
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Cleopatra

Cleopatra
7/10
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.

The Message

The Message
8.1/10
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

The King and I

The King and I
7.4/10
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1999
  • Character: Christian Brother
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

Behold a Pale Horse

Behold a Pale Horse
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/08/1964
  • Character: Priest
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/05/1960
  • Character: George Alexander
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

Sea of Sand

Sea of Sand
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/11/1958
  • Character: German Half-track Officer
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.

Young Toscanini

Young Toscanini
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/10/1988
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Interpol

Interpol
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/04/1957
  • Character: Captain Varolli
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

Istanbul

Istanbul
6.1/10
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?

Pope Joan

Pope Joan
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1972
  • Character: Lothair
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.

A Matter of WHO

A Matter of WHO
6.2/10
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

The Two-Headed Spy

The Two-Headed Spy
6.9/10
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.

Passage Home

Passage Home
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/03/1955
  • Character: Gutierres
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.

Satan Never Sleeps

Satan Never Sleeps
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/03/1962
  • Character: Kuznietsky
A priest (William Holden) arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest (Clifton Webb), who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realise that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.

The Strange World of Planet X

The Strange World of Planet X
4.8/10
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge. Released in USA as THE COSMIC MONSTER.

Mystery Junction

Mystery Junction
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1951
  • Character: Steve Harding
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
6.2/10
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

The Flesh is Weak

The Flesh is Weak
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/08/1957
  • Character: Angelo Giani
Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.

Recoil

Recoil
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1953
  • Character: Farnborough
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.

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