Film Index

British cinema: Comedy/Thriller

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...]

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Danny Boyle

Robert Lewis is a lowly Scottish janitor who scrapes a meagre living by cleaning the offices of multimillionaire American businessman Elliott Naville...   [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...]

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...]

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
Basil Dearden

Will Davis is the proprietor of a correspondence college that prides itself on its academic excellence, even if it has difficulty competing with the better known academic institutions...   [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...]

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...]

Casino Royale (1967)
Val Guest

Against his will, the original James Bond is brought out of retirement to foil a dastardly plot by SMERSH, an enemy organisation run by the evil Dr Noah...   [More...]

Contraband (1940)
Michael Powell

November, 1939. Captain Andersen is on his way back to Denmark when his cargo ship is impounded by British Contraband Control...   [More...]

Dead of Night (1945)
Alberto Cavalcanti

Wanting to make some changes to his farmhouse, Eliot Foley invites the architect Walter Craig to spend the weekend with him and his family...   [More...]

Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Roy Ward Baker

In East London of the 1880s, the young Dr Henry Jekyll is diligently engaged on finding vaccines for man's most feared diseases...   [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...]

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Freddie Francis

During a rail journey, five men who have never met before share a railway compartment with a strange mystic who introduces himself as Dr Schreck (which, as luck would have it, is the German word for Terror)...   [More...]

George and Mildred (1980)
Peter Frazer-Jones

The Ropers' adventure of a lifetime begins when Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their wedding anniversary in one of London's top hotels...   [More...]

The Ghost Train (1941)
Walter Forde

When a party of rail passengers bound for Cornwall miss their connection they find themselves stranded at a railway station, four miles from the nearest village...   [More...]

Green for Danger (1946)
Sidney Gilliat

August 1944. A postman injured in a V1 bombardment of southern England dies during an operation at a country hospital. No one takes seriously the suggestion that foul play is involved until a second murder is committed...   [More...]

The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Jimmy Sangster

Victor Frankenstein is a precocious young man whose passion for science is matched only by his interest in the female sex, which is good because it helps him in his understanding of human anatomy...   [More...]

The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Peter Duffell

Investigating the mysterious disappearance of a temperamental film star named Paul Henderson, a Scotland Yard detective arrives at a house which, according to the records at the local police station, has had a troubled past...   [More...]

Hue and Cry (1947)
Charles Crichton

Joe Kirby, a 15 year-old lad living in London's East End, has a passion for adventure stories. When he notices the similarity between a car parked in the street with one he has and seen in his favourite comic, he suspects foul play is afoot...   [More...]

The Intelligence Men (1965)
Robert Asher

Eric, the owner of a London coffee bar, ends up being recruited by MI5 when his path accidentally cross that of an enemy agent...   [More...]

The Italian Job (1969)
Peter Collinson

Within hours of being released from prison, small-time mobster Charlie Croker is visited by the wife of a former associate, Roger Beckermann, who has recently been murdered by the Italian Mafia...   [More...]

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Alfred Hitchcock

A group of British travellers are stranded in a hotel in a remote European country. After holidaying with some friends, Iris Henderson is on her way back home to get married...   [More...]

The Ladykillers (1955)
Alexander Mackendrick

Old Mrs Wilberforce is delighted when she finds a respectable-looking gentleman to rent one of the rooms in her dilapidated London guesthouse...   [More...]

The Monster Club (1980)
Roy Ward Baker

One evening, the author Chetwynd-Hayes is walking the streets when he runs into a courteous old vampire named Eramus. In return for a small blood donation, the vampire invites the writer to his favourite night-time haunt, the Monster Club, a place where fiends of all persuasion gather to let their hair down after a hard day's monstering...   [More...]

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
John Gilling

Baron Van Housen has grand ambitions. He intends to build an army of killer robots and take over the world. He is also quite mad and believes he is descended from a vampire, which is why he sleeps in a coffin and has been busy abducting pretty young women...   [More...]

Murder at the Gallop (1963)
George Pollock

Whilst collecting money for a charity, Miss Marple and her friend Mr Stringer pay a call on the reclusive Mr Enderby. They are amazed when the old man suddenly appears at the top of his staircase and drops dead at their feet...   [More...]

Number Seventeen (1932)
Alfred Hitchcock

On entering a seemingly abandoned old house one night, a detective discovers a Cockney tramp named Ben and a dead body. An attractive young girl named Rose suddenly falls in through a skylight...   [More...]

The Old Dark House (1963)
William Castle

American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day...   [More...]

Ooh... You Are Awful (1974)
Cliff Owen

Charlie Tully and Reggie Peek are a pair of confidence tricksters whose latest scam, to con an Italian businessman Vittorio Ferruchi into believing his son will marry into the British royal family, looks set to earn them half a million pounds...   [More...]



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