The best Patrick Allen’s drama movies

Patrick Allen

Patrick Allen

17/03/1927- 28/07/2006
Today we present the best Patrick Allen’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 Patrick Allen’s movies.
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Dunkirk

Dunkirk
7.1/10
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

Threads

Threads
8/10
  • Genre: DramaScience FictionWar
  • Release: 23/09/1984
  • Character: Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals
7.2/10
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler

1984

1984
6.9/10
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Domino Principle

The Domino Principle
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 23/03/1977
  • Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
7.4/10
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy
6.4/10
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination

I Was Monty's Double

I Was Monty's Double
6.9/10
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

Bullet to Beijing

Bullet to Beijing
5.4/10
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.

The Long Haul

The Long Haul
6.7/10
An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.

World for Ransom

World for Ransom
5.8/10
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.

Wicked as They Come

Wicked as They Come
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/05/1956
  • Character: Willie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.

Tread Softly Stranger

Tread Softly Stranger
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1958
  • Character: Paddy Ryan
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 08/12/1984
  • Character: King Simonides
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.

Churchill and the Generals

Churchill and the Generals
7.6/10
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1958
  • Character: Jim Kennedy
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder. Zsa Zsa Gabor plays one of the CIA agents.

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