Here we've displayed a list of the best English Channel films : The Glenn Miller Story(1953), The Wreck of the Mary Deare(1959), The War Lover(1962), Dangerous When Wet(1953), The Silent Passenger(1935), Attack on the Iron Coast(1968), Brandy for the Parson(1950), The Elusive Pimpernel(1950), Red(1994), Cross Channel(1955), Black Tide(1956), Welcome(2009) ... ...
Biography
USA
1953
116 Minutes
James Stewart June Allyson Charles Drake George Tobias Harry Morgan Katharine Warren Marion Ross Irving Bacon Barton MacLane Sig Ruman Phil Garris
musician band leader wife soldier uplifting melodramatic moving new york city europe english channel stage music world war ii glenn miller success rise love 1940s
Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
Adventure
UK|USA
1959
105 Minutes
Gary Cooper Charlton Heston Michael Redgrave Emlyn Williams Cecil Parker Alexander Knox Virginia McKenna Richard Harris
ship captain lawyer shipmate daughter emotional suspenseful ship shipwreck courtroom high seas english channel seafaring deception schemes trial sabotage mystery discovery 1950s
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
War
UK|USA
1962
105 Minutes
Steve McQueen Robert Wagner Shirley Anne Field Gary Cockrell Michael Crawford Bill Edwards Chuck Julian Robert Easton Al Waxman Tom Busby George Sperdakos
bomber pilot copilot captain lieutenant girlfriend sergeant brash confident thrilling melodramatic england air force base english channel love triangle world war ii aviation friendship mission rivalry transformation
In 1943, while stationed in Britain, arrogant Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, but his recklessness is endangering everyone around him.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1953
95 Minutes
Esther Williams Fernando Lamas Jack Carson Charlotte Greenwood Denise Darcel William Demarest Donna Corcoran Barbara Whiting Bunny Waters Henri Letondal Paul Bryar
salesman swimmer frenchman farmer beautiful woman amusing campy charming lighthearted english channel farm france swimming farming cartoons love triangle love growing up rivalry 1950s
A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1935
75 Minutes
lord peter wimsey killer detective husband murder suspect blackmailer engaging tense intricate train crime scene great britain english channel seaside murder investigation blackmail crime false accusations frame-up
A really well made British murder mystery. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
War
UK|USA
1968
89 Minutes
Lloyd Bridges Andrew Keir Sue Lloyd Mark Eden Maurice Denham Glyn Owen Howard Pays George Mikell Simon Prebble Keith Buckley Bill Henderson
major captain lieutenant commander lieutenant nazi commando thrilling emotional england france english channel battleship coast port world war ii d-day vendetta troubled past suicide mission tragic death
During World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.
Comedy
1950
78 Minutes
couple vacationer smuggler customs agent fugitive customs official witty amusing madcap lighthearted spirited engaging english channel smuggling yachting fugitives on the run misunderstanding good deeds adventure
Adventure
1950
109 Minutes
David Niven Emeric Pressburger Margaret Leighton Cyril Cusack Jack Hawkins Robert Coote Edmond Audran Danielle Godet Arlette Marchal Charles Victor David Hutcheson
aristocrat hero revolutionary englishman prisoner brother-in-law spectacular brash gutsy paris london court english channel inn prison rescue french revolution secret identity heroism scarlet pimpernel
London dandy Sir Percy (David Niven) dons disguises to rescue French nobles from the Reign of Terror guillotine.
Drama
1994
99 Minutes
Irène Jacob Jean-Louis Trintignant Frédérique Feder Jean-Pierre Lorit Juliette Binoche Julie Delpy Benoît Régent Zbigniew Zamachowski
model judge boyfriend neighbor girlfriend dreamy emotional playful geneva english channel father/daughter relationship french resistance fate fraternity redemption discovery rescue transformation 1990s
Tapped phone lines connect a Swiss law student, a model (Irène Jacob) and an ex-judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops.
Crime, Drama
1955
61 Minutes
ship captain deck hand jewel thief smuggler police officer sister confident engaging gutsy intricate spirited suspenseful thrilling english channel france dover jewel smuggling crime boats romance
The owner of a small charter boat becomes involved with a gang of smugglers who force him to ferry them to France.
Mystery & Thriller
1956
79 Minutes
John Ireland Derek Bond Joy Webster
swimmer missing person police officer gripping engaging english channel sea swimming mystery missing persons investigation mystery 1950s
When a channel swimmer mysteriously drowns, a fellow swimmer investigates and almost becomes the second victim.
Drama
2009
109 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Firat Ayverdi Audrey Dana Derya Ayverdi Thierry Godard Selim Akgül Firat Celik Murat Subasi Olivier Rabourdin Yannick Renier Mouafaq Rushdie
teen boy refugee swimming instructor wife girlfriend kurd emotional powerful touching france seaside english channel house love swimming divorce overcoming the odds immigration unlikely friendship love
Stranded in France, a Kurdish refugee (Firat Ayverdi) takes swimming lessons as part of a plan to cross the English Channel.