Film Index

British cinema: 1970s

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...]

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Richard Attenborough

September, 1944. D-Day has come and gone but the allied advance has slowed to a crawl owing to over-extended supply lines...   [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 Touch of Class (1973)
Melvin Frank

Vicky Allessio is an English dress designer, a happily divorced mother of two. Steve Blackburn is an American insurance broker, happily married with two children...   [More...]

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Robert Fuest

England, 1925. When several eminent doctors die in mysterious and horrific circumstances it soon becomes clear that the murders are linked...   [More...]

Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)
Stanley A. Long

Even though Bob West has been assistant to private detective Judd Blake for only a few weeks, he already thinks he has a feel for the job and is eager to prove himself...   [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...]

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...]

Arabian Adventure (1979)
Kevin Connor

The ancient city of Jadur is ruled by the tyrannical Caliph Alquazar, an evil sorcerer who employs mystical powers to prevent his people from rising up against him...   [More...]

The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
Joseph Losey

Leon Trotsky, one of the principal architects of the Soviet Revolution, has been forced into exile. It is 1940 and the present Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin has come to regard Trotsky as a dangerous threat to his authority, one that must be eliminated at any cost...   [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...]

The Beast in the Cellar (1970)
James Kelley

Somewhere in rural Lancashire, a soldier from an army base is savagely murdered, although it is unclear whether he was killed by a man or a wild animal...   [More...]

The Black Windmill (1974)
Don Siegel

Major Tarrant is a British intelligence officer who is attempting to infiltrate an arms smuggling ring which is supplying weaponry to terrorists in Northern Ireland...   [More...]

Bless This House (1972)
Gerald Thomas

Sid and Jean Abbott are a happily married middle-aged couple who live in a respectable suburban neighbourhood with their teenage children, Mike and Sally...   [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...]

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Seth Holt

On her 21st birthday, Margaret Fuchs receives a ring set with a huge ruby from her father, Professor Fuchs. Unbeknown to Margaret, the ring is an ancient artefact which her father found on the severed hand of an evil Egyptian princess, Tera...   [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...]

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Brian Clemens

Accompanied by his hunchback assistant Professor Hieronymus Grost, Captain Kronos arrives in a remote village in search of vampires...   [More...]

Carry on Abroad (1972)
Gerald Thomas

Pub landlord Vic Flange has booked a Wundators package holiday to the Spanish resort Elsbels, which is coincidentally where the buxom beauty Sadie Tomkins intends to spend her holiday...   [More...]

Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)
Gerald Thomas

William C. Boggs is the appropriately named owner of a factory that manufactures lavatories. The firm's productivity is jeopardised by Vic Spanner, a Bolshie union representative, who routinely calls his fellow workers out on strike at the least provocation, especially on days when the football team he supports is playing at home...   [More...]

Carry on Behind (1975)
Gerald Thomas

The renowned archaeologist Professor Roland Crump arrives at a British caravan site to excavate the remains of a Roman settlement...   [More...]

Carry on Dick (1974)
Gerald Thomas

In 1750, England is succumbing to a crime-wave against which the forces of law and order are apparently impotent. Most notorious of all the malefactors is the highwayman Richard Turpin, better known as Big Dick (on account of the size of his weapon)...   [More...]

Carry on Emmannuelle (1978)
Gerald Thomas

The French ambassador, Emile Prevert, is taken by surprise when his sexy young wife Emmannuelle suddenly turns up on the doorstep of his London residence...   [More...]

Carry on England (1976)
Gerald Thomas

England, 1940. A mixed sex anti-aircraft battery has been set up somewhere in England but, despite the best efforts of the military commanders, no one has yet succeeded in converting the unruly ensemble of male and female privates into an effective fighting force...   [More...]

Carry on Girls (1973)
Gerald Thomas

Fircombe is a dreary English seaside resort which is having difficulty attracting tourists. In the hope of reviving the glum little town, district councillor Sid Fiddler suggests that a beauty contest be held on the pier...   [More...]

Carry on Henry (1971)
Gerald Thomas

King Henry VIII is having a bad heir day. When his present queen fails to provide him with a male offspring, he has her beheaded and takes Marie of Normandy as his new bride...   [More...]

Carry on Loving (1970)
Gerald Thomas

Sidney Bliss and his long-term girlfriend Sophie Plummett run a marriage agency that prides itself on bringing together lonely hearts and setting them on the path to matrimonial success...   [More...]

Carry on Matron (1972)
Gerald Thomas

Small-time crook Sid Carter plans to steal a stock of contraceptive pills from Finisham Maternity Hospital, although his friends Ernie and Freddy and son Cyril are far from sold on the idea...   [More...]

Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)
Gerald Thomas

The world-renowned ornithologist Professor Inigo Tinkle has one ambition: to capture a live specimen of the rare Oozalum bird...   [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...]



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