Movie: Boys in Brown

Top 10 Billed Cast

Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde

Alfie Rawlins

Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough

Jackie Knowles

Jack Warner
Jack Warner

Governor

Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley

Bill Foster

Barbara Murray
Barbara Murray

Kitty Hurst

Andrew Crawford
Andrew Crawford

Casey

Patrick Holt
Patrick Holt

Tigson

Thora Hird
Thora Hird

Mrs. Knowles

Michael Medwin
Michael Medwin

Alf "Sparrow" Thompson

John Blythe
John Blythe

Bossy Phillips

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.

  • Release Date

    1949-12-01

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
  • Tagline

    Can Bad Boys Make Good?

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds
73%

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds(ja)

2008-08-02

A mysterious group of ninjas makes a surprise attack on the Konohagakure, which takes great damage. The nightmare of another Shinobi World War could become a reality. Sasuke, who was still a missing nin from Konoha trying to kill his brother, Itachi, appears for the second time in front of Naruto at an unknown location to prevent it from happening.

Please Stand By
68%

Please Stand By(en)

2018-01-26

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on her journey into the unknown.

Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods
76%

Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods(ja)

1988-03-12

In Siberia, Hyōga saves a man that is being attacked. Injured, the man manages only to say something about Asgard. Some days later, Saori, Seiya, Shiryū and Shun are wondering about Hyōga and decide to go to Asgard to investigate. At Valhalla, the Lord of Asgard, Dolbar, says he has not heard of any Hyōga and neither has his right hand, Loki. However, at all times Seiya and the others can feel an evil cosmo emanating from Loki and the other Odin Saints called God Warriors. Shiryū, in particular, notices a familiar cosmo coming from Midgard, a mysterious, masked God Warrior. Dolbar makes it clear that he is trying to take control of both Asgard and the Sanctuary, imprisoning Athena in a strange dimension within the giant statue of Odin. Midgard reveals himself as Hyōga and tries to kill Shiryū to prove himself to Dolbar. Thus, it is the task of the Bronze Saints to defeat Dolbar, Loki and the rest of the God Warriors, to save Athena and Hyōga.

Aftermath
57%

Aftermath(en)

2017-02-28

A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret.

¿Y Cómo Es Él?
75%

¿Y Cómo Es Él?(en)

2022-04-07

Thomas is a meek man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite his situation he decides to fake a work trip to go to Vallarta to confront Jero, a taxi driver who is sleeping with his wife.

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
64%

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora(en)

2010-02-07

The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

Venom
68%

Venom(en)

2018-09-28

Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.

Escape Plan 2: Hades
51%

Escape Plan 2: Hades(en)

2018-06-05

Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.

Beckett
62%

Beckett(it)

2021-08-04

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

Target Number One
63%

Target Number One(en)

2020-07-10

Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.

Sweet Girl
66%

Sweet Girl(en)

2021-08-18

A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

The Colony
54%

The Colony(en)

2013-04-12

Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

YES DAY
67%

YES DAY(en)

2021-03-11

A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.

Catman
74%

Catman(zh)

2021-05-18

Liang Qu is a chic, confident and cold but charming half cat, half human due to a magic spell and he has the ability to melt/heal broken hearts. He lives with Miao Xiaowan, an honest, confident woman who's created an app that translates cats' sounds and language.

Monster High: Great Scarrier Reef
78%

Monster High: Great Scarrier Reef(en)

2016-02-12

Join your favourite ghoulfriends in an all-new aquatic adventure! When the ghouls get pulled into the school pool, they're transported to the gore-geous underwater world of the Great Scarrier Reef. Lagoon realizes she's come home and, in a fintastic mission of the heart, decides to come to terms with her own freaky flaws. Of course she'll need help from the most creeperific firends ever as she confronts a frenemy from her past, competes in a scaretastic dance extravaganze, and fights a terrible beast from the deep!

You Keep the Kids
72%

You Keep the Kids(es)

2021-12-17

Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.

Suck Me Shakespeer 2
64%

Suck Me Shakespeer 2(de)

2015-09-10

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

How It Ends
53%

How It Ends(en)

2018-07-13

A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.

The Adam Project
70%

The Adam Project(en)

2022-03-11

After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star
68%

The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star(en)

2021-11-18

A priceless relic is stolen from identical royals Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy, who enlist the help of their sketchy look-alike cousin Fiona Pembroke to retrieve it.

Similar Movies

Blackmail
65%

Blackmail(en)

1929-07-11

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

Angels with Dirty Faces
75%

Angels with Dirty Faces(en)

1938-11-26

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

West Side Story
72%

West Side Story(en)

1961-12-13

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.

Paranoid Park
65%

Paranoid Park(en)

2007-07-12

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

Made
58%

Made(en)

2001-07-13

Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Bad Boys
68%

Bad Boys(en)

1995-04-07

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical
0%

Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical(en)

2025-05-01

Filmed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane during its two scheduled performances on January 17-18, 2022, tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde. At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies in West Texas to America's most renowned folk heroes and the Texas law enforcement's worst nightmares. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, Bonnie & Clyde is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country.

Half Baked
63%

Half Baked(en)

1998-01-16

Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.

Lantana
67%

Lantana(en)

2001-10-04

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

Violent Cop
72%

Violent Cop(ja)

1989-08-12

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

Transporter 3
61%

Transporter 3(en)

2008-11-26

Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

Hero Wanted
54%

Hero Wanted(en)

2008-03-28

Liam Case is a garbage man whose life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected it would. In order to impress the girl of his dreams, Liam plans an elaborate heist that will culminate with him jumping in to save the day at the last minute. When the day of the heist arrives, however, the plan takes an unexpected turn and Liam winds up in the hospital.

Antitrust
60%

Antitrust(en)

2001-01-11

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

Flickering Lights
72%

Flickering Lights(da)

2000-11-03

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Bangkok Dangerous
58%

Bangkok Dangerous(th)

2000-11-24

Kong, a deaf-mute, lives a life of quiet desperation working for Bangkok mobsters. Despite his disability, Kong's mentor Joe trains him to be a stone-cold assassin. After a brutal hit abroad, Kong returns to Bangkok and falls in love with young pharmacy clerk. But when Joe's girlfriend Aom is raped, the duo risk everything for revenge.

Drive Hard
43%

Drive Hard(en)

2014-10-03

A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.

Hard Eight
69%

Hard Eight(en)

1996-05-15

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

We're No Angels
61%

We're No Angels(en)

1989-06-02

Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

The American Friend
72%

The American Friend(de)

1977-06-24

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

Spider's Web
74%

Spider's Web(en)

1982-12-26

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.