The best Noel Purcell’s drama movies

Noel Purcell

Noel Purcell

23/12/1900- 03/03/1985
Today we present the best Noel Purcell’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 Noel Purcell’s movies.
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Moby Dick

Moby Dick
7.3/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 27/06/1956
  • Character: Ship's Carpenter
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.

The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate
7.1/10
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.

Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty
7.2/10
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Lust for Life

Lust for Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1956
  • Character: Anton Mauve
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man
6.3/10
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

The Running Man

The Running Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1963
  • Character: Miles Bleeker
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.

The Key

The Key
6.7/10
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

The Seekers

The Seekers
5.6/10
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out
7.6/10
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/03/1949
  • Character: Paddy Button
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.

The Ceremony

The Ceremony
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1963
  • Character: Finigan
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.

Flight of the Doves

Flight of the Doves
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 02/04/1971
  • Character: Rabbi
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.

Rooney

Rooney
6.4/10
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

Ferry to Hong Kong

Ferry to Hong Kong
5.5/10
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.

Svengali

Svengali
5.5/10
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Where's Jack?

Where's Jack?
6.5/10
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.

The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/08/1957
  • Character: The Old Man
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece is called "1921" and is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape. Tyrone Power introduces each story.

Encore

Encore
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/06/1951
  • Character: Tom, Captain
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.

Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 26/08/1947
  • Character: Daniel McGinty
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/06/1956
  • Character: Mr. Owen, the Parson
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.

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