Sylvia Syms Movies

Asylum

65/100

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Ice Cold in Alex

78/100

During WW2 in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

Victim

78/100

The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against a number of gay men in 1960s London.

The World of Suzie Wong

70/100

A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.

The Big Job

64/100

An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they ... See full summary »

Conspiracy of Hearts

71/100

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Ferry to Hong Kong

56/100

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 ... See full summary »

The Desperados

47/100

During the Civil War, ex-parson Josiah Galt and his sons are Confederate raiders but they become common robbers after the war, save for son David who goes straight.

Woman in a Dressing Gown

73/100

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

Expresso Bongo

63/100

Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny ... See full summary »

The Fiction-Makers

61/100

The Saint is asked to act as a bodyguard to the best-selling adventure author Amos Klein, a young woman who uses a male pen-name.

Run Wild, Run Free

62/100

Philip Ransome, a northern English boy about 10 years old, has been mute since age 3 and spends his days roaming the moors alone. His parents despair of a cure. One day he sees a singular ... See full summary »

Hostile Witness

64/100

When the daughter of Simon Crawford, a successful barrister, is killed in what seems to be a hit and run accident, and the police are unable to find the culprit, Crawford swears that he ... See full summary »

The Moonraker

60/100

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl... See full summary »

The Quare Fellow

68/100

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined...

The Punch and Judy Man

66/100

Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.

Danger Route

57/100

During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.

Flame in the Streets

66/100

During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene and the society at large.

East of Sudan

51/100

During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial private Baker teams up with freshly arrived gentleman Murchison, trying to evacuate from southern Barash the ... See full summary »

Amazons of Rome

51/100

A warrior chieftain dashes between his barbaric allies and a beleaguered city that's being defended by embattled women warriors.

Bachelor of Hearts

62/100

German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann.

Booked Out

75/100

Booked Out follows the quirky exploits of the Polaroid loving artist Ailidh as she spies and photographs the occupants of her block of flats. Jacob, the boy next door who comes and goes ... See full summary »

Neville's Island

70/100

Give Us Tomorrow

63/100

Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

The Birthday Present

67/100

A top salesman with a U.K. toy firm foolishly brings an expensive watch back from a German trip for his wife's birthday. This is illegal in 1950's Britain and when Customs discover the ... See full summary »