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British cinema: 1960s

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick

Millions of years ago, a tribe of herbivorous apelike hominids discover a mysterious black monolith which immediately exerts a strange influence over them...   [More...]

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Anthony Mann

Eberlin, a British intelligence operative, is surprised when his superiors assign him to find and assassinate a troublesome KGB agent named Krasnevin...   [More...]

A Kind of Loving (1962)
John Schlesinger

Vic Brown is a draftsman at an engineering factory in a Lancashire town in the northwest of England. In his early twenties, he still lives with his parents in their terraced house but has hopes of moving away and making his fortune elsewhere...   [More...]

A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Fred Zinnemann

England, 1527. King Henry VIII needs to divorce his barren wife Catherine of Aragon so that he can marry Anne Boleyn and ensure the Tudor succession...   [More...]

A Taste of Honey (1961)
Tony Richardson

Jo is a 17-year-old schoolgirl who lives with her alcoholic mother, Helen, in the industrial northwest English town of Salford...   [More...]

Alfie (1966)
Lewis Gilbert

Alfie likes women, he likes them a lot. In fact, you could say that women are his main interest in life, his raison d'être so to speak...   [More...]

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Charles Jarrott

England, 1525. King Henry VIII is anxious to produce a male heir to secure the Tudor lineage but his queen, Katherine of Aragon, has passed child-bearing age and has borne him only a daughter and dead sons...   [More...]

The Anniversary (1968)
Roy Ward Baker

Mrs Taggart runs her late husband's house building business with an iron hand and an implacable ruthlessness, and she manages her three grown-up sons in much the same way...   [More...]

Battle of Britain (1969)
Guy Hamilton

In the spring of 1940, British fighter pilots are waging a losing battle against the Nazis in continental Europe. Seeing that the fall of France to Germany is inevitable, Air Chief Marshal Dowding advises the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to withdraw all RAF fighters and prepare for a German attack on mainland Britain...   [More...]

Becket (1964)
Peter Glenville

In 12th Century England, the young King Henry II is more preoccupied with the hedonistic pursuits of youth than with matters of state, and in this he is aided and abetted by his good friend Thomas Becket...   [More...]

Billy Liar (1963)
John Schlesinger

Billy Fisher is 19, lives with his parents in a glum north English town and works as a desk clerk for a firm of undertakers...   [More...]

The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Terence Fisher

Count Dracula may have been destroyed but his legacy of vampiric evil endures, lingering like a poisonous cloud of death over the bleak Transylvanian landscape...   [More...]

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Otto Preminger

A few days after arriving in London, American Ann Lake leaves her four-year old daughter Bunny at a school for toddlers before rushing off to meet the removal men at her new apartment...   [More...]

Captain Clegg (1962)
Peter Graham Scott

In 1792, Captain Collier arrives in an English coastal town to investigate a possible smuggling operation. He soon begins to suspect that the local vicar, Dr Blyss, may be implicated, although his attempts to uncover any evidence of smuggling are thwarted...   [More...]

Carry on Cabby (1963)
Gerald Thomas

Charlie Hawkins is the owner of a successful taxi firm, Speedee Cabs. His job has become the main passion in his life and, understandably, his wife Peggy feels neglected...   [More...]

Carry on Cleo (1964)
Gerald Thomas

Hengist Pod and Horsa are two Ancient Britons who enjoy a peaceful life between hunting the odd Brontosaurus and knocking out the occasional labour-saving invention, such as the square wheel...   [More...]

Carry on Doctor (1967)
Gerald Thomas

Immediately after giving a lecture in which he argues that medical treatment would be unnecessary if everyone thought positively, Francis Bigger falls off the stage and breaks his coccyx...   [More...]

Carry On Screaming (1966)
Gerald Thomas

Something sinister is afoot in Edwardian England. One misty evening, a young couple, Albert and Doris, are disturbed whilst courting in Hocombe Woods...   [More...]

Carry on Spying (1964)
Gerald Thomas

When a top secret formula is stolen from a government laboratory, the British secret services hastily set about recovering it...   [More...]

Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)
Gerald Thomas

1895, the height of the British Raj in India. The Khyber Pass, gateway to the East, is guarded by the 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment of her Majesty Queen Victoria, who has been on the throne longer than anyone can remember (thanks to the kebabs)...   [More...]

The Collector (1965)
William Wyler

Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside...   [More...]

Cul-de-sac (1966)
Roman Polanski

Two American gangsters, Dickie and Albie, are on the run after a robbery that has gone disastrously awry. Both men are in a bad way, and Albie needs treatment for a serious gunshot wound he has sustained...   [More...]

Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Roman Polanski

For years, Professor Abronsius has devoted himself to obtaining tangible proof of the existence of vampires, and finally he believes he has found just that...   [More...]

Darling (1965)
John Schlesinger

In swinging sixties London, Diana Scott is a beautiful young model who appears to be on a perpetual quest to find meaning in her life...   [More...]

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Val Guest

In a deserted London bathed in a scorching heat, journalist Peter Stenning returns to his desk at the vacated offices of the newspaper the Daily Express to compose what may well be his final report...   [More...]

The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Terence Fisher

When his protégé, Simon Aron, fails to turn up for a reunion, the wealthy Duc de Richleau decides to visit him at his home...   [More...]

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich

England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment...   [More...]

Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
Gerald Thomas

In the early 1790s, a bloody tide of revolution sweeps across France. Supporters of the old order, the châteauneuf-swigging aristocrats, are losing their heads by the cartload, thanks to a new nifty little device called the guillotine (the world's first disposable razor)...   [More...]

Dr. No (1962)
Terence Young

When John Strangways, a British intelligence operative, goes missing in Jamaica, MI6 agent James Bond is sent to investigate...   [More...]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick

Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR...   [More...]



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