The Third Man (1949), The Fallen Idol (1948), This Gun for Hire (1942), Our Man in Havana (1960), Across the Bridge (1957), The End of the Affair (1999), The Quiet American (2002), The Quiet American (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Graham Greene movies.
Storyline: An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
Plot Keywords: film noir, mystery, thriller, crime, conspiracy, moral dilemma, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Philippe, an ambassador's son and good friend of Baines, major domo of the embassy, is confused by the complexities and evasions of adult life. He tries to keep secrets but ends up telling them. He lies to protect his friends, even though he knows he should tell the truth. Confusion reigns when Baines is suspected of murdering his wife and Philippe flips back and forth with the police.—<P.M.Laws@education.leeds.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: suspense, drama, film noir, british film, classic, child's perspective, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, thriller, mystery, revenge, betrayal, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: spy, cold war, comedy, black comedy, novel adaptation, british film, antihero ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the run from the US police after being charged with embezzlement, a billionaire attempts to flee to Mexico by stealing the identity of a stranger. However, his life is made much more difficult when he finds out that that man is a wanted Mexican criminal.—themadmovieman
Plot Keywords: suspense, crime, drama, film noir, fugitive, british film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british, adaptation, novel adaptation, 1940s, extramarital affair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: British Thomas Fowler enjoys his life in Saigon working as a reporter for the London Times, covering the war in Vietnam between the colonial French powers and the Communists, who seem to be winning the war. In the later stages of his career, he takes his job lightly now, filing stories only on occasion, and no longer doing field work. But most importantly, this posting allows him to escape from what he considers a dreary life in London, including an unsatisfying marriage to a Catholic woman, who will never grant him a divorce, which in turn allows him to have an affair with a young Vietnamese ex-taxi dancer named Phuong, whom he loves and would marry if he were able. Phuong's sister doesn't much like Fowler, if only because he cannot provide a stable future for her. His idyllic life is threatened when the head office suggests he go back to London. In this way, he decides to write a major story to prove to his superiors that he should stay in Saigon. In 1952, Fowler is called into the ...
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam, espionage, romance, love triangle, politics, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Sir Michael Redgrave. They play out their widely different views on the prospects struggle for the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people in their competition over a young woman. Murphy wants to reform her and make her a typical middle class American housewife; Redgrave accepts her inability to formulate or retain a political ideal and while promising her no real future, he objects to Murphy's attempts to change her. It's not clear whether Murphy is just what he appears - a bungling Yankee do-gooder, or a deliberate agent of U.S. covert operations.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam, espionage, love triangle, political intrigue, colonialism, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. Slowly he rejects the intimidating tactics of his fellow FBI agents, who are not so interested in solving the crime as covering up an incriminating situation with the locals, and as he becomes more tuned to his heritage, the locals begin trusting him. Based on actual Reservation occurrences of the '70s.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, drama, action, american, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, moral dilemma, redemption, religion, catholicism, mexico, fugitive ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In war-torn London, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson) falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr). They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.—Robert Bole <rjbmbv@teleport.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british, 1950s, novel adaptation, extramarital affair, psychological conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets his Aunt Augusta Bertram (Dame Maggie Smith), an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, adventure, travel, family, adaptation, literary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before the trial and if the man is found guilty then Larry will give himself up and prevent an innocent man going to the gallows.—Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british film, black and white, 1930s, marriage, emotional conflict ...
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