British films based on plays

Summertime

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in rom...

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Bent

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in...

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My Boy Jack

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

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Taking Sides

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.1

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazificatio...

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Stage Beauty

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females,...

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The Entertainer

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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The Green Man

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dicta...

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Libel

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor n...

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The Merchant of Venice

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 7

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad,...

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