Best movies of Alan Badel

The Day of the Jackal(1973)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.



This Sporting Life(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.



Arabesque(1966)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.



Children of the Damned(1964)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Scientists discovers that there are six children who each have an enormous intelligence. The children are flown to London to be studied, but they each escape their embassy and gather in a ...



Nijinsky(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier...



The Riddle of the Sands(1979)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of ...



The Adventurers(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his ...



Bitter Harvest(1963)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?



Otley(1969)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds that he is wanted by the police for murder. And that is only the ...



Where's Jack?(1969)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The adventures and the exploits of notorious English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard in 1720s London.