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Dirk Bogarde has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s.
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An indolent aristocrat gets more than he bargained for when he hires a competent but silently devious manservant.
Dir. Joseph Losey · With Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Dir. Basil Dearden · With Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Dir. Richard Attenborough · With Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Romolo Valli

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
Dir. Liliana Cavani · With Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
Dir. Joseph Losey · With Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
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