Watch When the Whales Came 1989 subtitles. Director by Clive Rees, Starring Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren,
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.