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British cinema: Thriller

10 Rillington Place (1971)
Richard Fleischer

In 1948, Tim and Beryl Evans, a young married couple, move into a top floor flat at 10, Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, London...   [More...]

The 39 Steps (1935)
Alfred Hitchcock

Not long after arriving in London, the Canadian Richard Hannay visits a music hall theatre to watch the star act, Mr Memory, a man who startles his audience with his infallible recollection of trivial facts...   [More...]

49th Parallel (1941)
Michael Powell

Early in WWII, a German U-boat surfaces off the east coast of Canada. Only six members if its crew survive when RCAF bombers destroy the submarine in a fierce raid...   [More...]

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick

Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies...   [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 Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...   [More...]

The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Val Guest

Dr John Rollason leads a botanical expedition to the Himalayas, accompanied by his wife Helen and colleague Peter Fox. Staying at a Tibetan monastery, Rollason becomes excited when he learns that another expedition, led by the American Tom Friend, will soon arrive, on a mission to find the Yeti, a prehistoric near-relation of modern man that has so far eluded discovery...   [More...]

Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women - is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure...   [More...]

Aliens (1986)
James Cameron

57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth...   [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...   [More...]

And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Roy Ward Baker

In 1790s England, Charles Fengriffen takes up residence at his large family estate with his new bride Catherine. Almost immediately after she has entered the old gothic mansion Catherine begins to experience a bizarre series of hallucinations, some involving a bloody severed hand, and she is strangely drawn to the portrait of Charles' grandfather...   [More...]

Asylum (1972)
Roy Ward Baker

Dr Martin arrives at a remote asylum which houses a number of dangerously insane inmates, to attend a job interview conducted by Dr Rutherford...   [More...]

Beat the Devil (1953)
John Huston

Billy Dannreuther and his wife Maria are on their way to make their fortune in Africa, but are held up in an Italian port whilst their steamboat undergoes some repair work...   [More...]

Blackmail (1929)
Alfred Hitchcock

Alice is unimpressed when her boyfriend Frank, a Scotland Yard detective, fails to keep their appointment one evening. After a slight quarrel, they decide not to go to the pictures together...   [More...]

Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott

Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans...   [More...]

Blind Terror (1971)
Richard Fleischer

Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house...   [More...]

The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Piers Haggard

In England of the 17th century, ploughman Ralph Gower finds the decomposed remains of a creature, part animal, part human, buried in a field...   [More...]

Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam

Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information...   [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...]

Brighton Rock (1947)
John Boulting

Beneath its quaint, tourist-friendly surface impression, Brighton of the 1930s is a squalid town where gangland crime is rampant...   [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...]

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 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...]

Children of the Stones [TV] (1977)
Peter Graham Scott

Adam Brake, an astrophysicist whose wife has recently died, arrives in the small English village of Milbury with his teenage son Matthew...   [More...]

Cloudburst (1951)
Francis Searle

London, 1946. A former resistance operative during the war, John Graham now runs a code-breaking department that deciphers coded messages which may result in the prosecution of war criminals...   [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...]

Cottage to Let (1941)
Anthony Asquith

When Mrs Barrington puts her cottage up for let she gets far more than she bargained for. It is wartime and the cottage serves as a military hospital, although the only patient being treated on the premises is Flight Lieutenant Perry, who injured himself when he parachuted from his Spitfire...   [More...]

The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Freddie Francis

In the late 19th century, Professor Emmanuel Hildern believes he is about to make a major scientific breakthrough that will change mankind's destiny forever...   [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...]



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