The movie's only real attempts to drum up excitement involve gratuitous violence. [04 Apr 1977, p.73]
The Eagle Has Landed
✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
United Kingdom · 1976
Rated PG · 2h 15m
Director John Sturges
Starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Adolf Hitler.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Washington Post by Gary Arnold
Eagle flops around trying to sustain a premise that defies suspenseful elaboration from the outset. No one with his wits about him believes the conspirators will succeed in capturing or shooting Churchill. More to the point, who would want them to? We're asked to suspend disbelief for the sake of a gimmick that not only insults common sense and general knowledge but also betrays old loyalties and convictions. [26 Mar 1977, p.B5]
Michael Caine as a Nazi and Donald Pleasance as Himmler...what more could you want?
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
A good old-fashioned adventure movie that is so stuffed with robust incidents and characters that you can relax and enjoy it without worrying whether it actually happened or even whether it's plausible.
Users who liked this film also liked
The Man Who Would Be King
Two British explorers, who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meet with tragedy through their desire for a native girl.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1975
- Director John Huston
- Cast Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi, Jack May
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV
The Fourth Protocol
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1987
- Director John Mackenzie
- Cast Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy, Julian Glover, Michael Gough
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Wild Geese
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, United Kingdom • 1978
- Director Andrew V. McLaglen
- Cast Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger, John Kani
- Genre Action
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, FlixFling, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Midnight Pulp, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Cineverse, Plex, Plex Channel, FlixHouse, Darkroom
A Sound of Thunder
Some Rules Should Never Be Broken.
- ✭
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany • 2005
- Director Peter Hyams
- Cast Heike Makatsch, Armin Rohde, David Oyelowo, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Edward Burns, Jemima Rooper
- Genre Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Mickey Blue Eyes
A romantic comedy you can't refuse
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1999
- Director Kelly Makin
- Cast Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Burt Young, James Fox, Joe Viterelli
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(トラ・トラ・トラ!)
The incredible attack on Pearl Harbor.
- ✭ ✭
- Japan, United States • 1970
- Director Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
- Cast Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Great Train Robbery
Never have so few taken so much from so many.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1978
- Director Michael Crichton
- Cast Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris, Robert Lang
- Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee
Flight of the Phoenix
Out of the ashes, hope will rise.
- ✭ ✭
- Namibia, United States • 2004
- Director John Moore
- Cast Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Sticky Fingaz
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Amazing Hour
(La Hora Chanante)
Hosted by a different celebrity guest each episode, “The Amazing Hour” features a series of sketches and stories.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 2002
- Creator Joaquín Reyes
- Cast Joaquín Reyes
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dead of Night
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1945
- Director Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti
- Cast Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers, Frederick Valk, Anthony Baird
- Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Screambox Amazon Channel, IndieFlix, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Heroes of Telemark
Unarmed and outnumbered, they stunned the world with their incredible victory.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1965
- Director Anthony Mann
- Cast Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Anton Diffring
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
The Big Picture
(L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)
Getting the Life You Want Means Losing the Life You Have.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2010
- Director Eric Lartigau
- Cast Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Catherine Deneuve, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katić
- Genre Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
(L'une chante, l'autre pas)
This story of friendship and reproductive rights chronicles 14 years in the lives of two very dissimilar women.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Soviet Union • 1977
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadies, Mona Mairesse, Francis Lemaire, Ali Rafie
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max