Film Index
American cinema: Thriller
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Henry Hathaway
During the later years of WWII, Bob Sharkey has the job of training spies in the American Strategic Services. His boss informs him that one of his latest recruits, Bill O'Connell, is a Nazi agent...
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Henry Hathaway
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Henry Hathaway
Philip Hannon is a successful American playwright who is settling into a humdrum bachelor life in London when his former fiancée Jean Lennox decides to walk back into his life...
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Henry Hathaway
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...
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Stanley Kubrick
A Double Life (1947)
George Cukor
Anthony John is a renowned stage actor who, against his better judgement, allows himself to be coaxed into playing the lead role in Shakespeare's Othello...
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George Cukor
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...
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Charles Crichton
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...]
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...]
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Archie Mayo
A gang of Nazis in Casablanca are planning to secure the management of a hotel so that they can get their hands on the priceless art treasures hidden in one of its rooms... [More...]
Archie Mayo
A gang of Nazis in Casablanca are planning to secure the management of a hotel so that they can get their hands on the priceless art treasures hidden in one of its rooms... [More...]
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven
Tina and Nancy, two teenagers in a cosy American suburb, experience the same terrifying dream in which they are attacked by a disfigured man in a hat, with razor-sharp knives attached to his fingers... [More...]
Wes Craven
Tina and Nancy, two teenagers in a cosy American suburb, experience the same terrifying dream in which they are attacked by a disfigured man in a hat, with razor-sharp knives attached to his fingers... [More...]
A View to a Kill (1985)
John Glen
When it is discovered that the Soviets have managed to duplicate a revolutionary microchip capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, British Intelligence suspects that the chip's manufacturer, Zorin Industries, has been infiltrated by Russian agents... [More...]
John Glen
When it is discovered that the Soviets have managed to duplicate a revolutionary microchip capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, British Intelligence suspects that the chip's manufacturer, Zorin Industries, has been infiltrated by Russian agents... [More...]
The Ace of Hearts (1921)
Wallace Worsley
The members of a secret society meet and agree to execute a man who has become a danger to the civilised world. A pack of playing cards is dealt, the member who draws the ace of hearts being the one who will carry out the assassination with a bomb disguised as a cigar case... [More...]
Wallace Worsley
The members of a secret society meet and agree to execute a man who has become a danger to the civilised world. A pack of playing cards is dealt, the member who draws the ace of hearts being the one who will carry out the assassination with a bomb disguised as a cigar case... [More...]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Alfred L. Werker
When Professor Moriarty is acquitted of a murder charge, his arch-nemesis Sherlock Holmes vows to bring him to book. Moriarty rises to this challenge by concocting what he believes will be the crime of the century... [More...]
Alfred L. Werker
When Professor Moriarty is acquitted of a murder charge, his arch-nemesis Sherlock Holmes vows to bring him to book. Moriarty rises to this challenge by concocting what he believes will be the crime of the century... [More...]
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Vincent Sherman
Chris Emery is a nightclub dancer and singer in Trinidad. When she learns that her husband has been murdered, she agrees to act as an agent of the British secret service, who believe the culprit to be Max Fabian, a wealthy man with a criminal past... [More...]
Vincent Sherman
Chris Emery is a nightclub dancer and singer in Trinidad. When she learns that her husband has been murdered, she agrees to act as an agent of the British secret service, who believe the culprit to be Max Fabian, a wealthy man with a criminal past... [More...]
Airport (1970)
George Seaton
Airport manager Mel Bakersfeld has his work cut out when a snow blizzard threatens to close his airport. As he deals with the small problem of an airliner stuck in a snowdrift, blocking a runaway, his wife threatens to divorce him, but that's fine because he's had enough of her social ambitions and he'd rather be with his public relations officer, Tanya Livingston... [More...]
George Seaton
Airport manager Mel Bakersfeld has his work cut out when a snow blizzard threatens to close his airport. As he deals with the small problem of an airliner stuck in a snowdrift, blocking a runaway, his wife threatens to divorce him, but that's fine because he's had enough of her social ambitions and he'd rather be with his public relations officer, Tanya Livingston... [More...]
Aleksandr's Price (2013)
Pau Masó
When his mother commits suicide, Aleksandr, an illegal Russian immigrant, finds himself alone and friendless in New York... [More...]
Pau Masó
When his mother commits suicide, Aleksandr, an illegal Russian immigrant, finds himself alone and friendless in New York... [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...]
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...]
Alien 3 (1992)
David Fincher
When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space... [More...]
David Fincher
When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space... [More...]
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
It has been 200 years since Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the Alien queen that was growing within her. Scientists on a United Systems Military spaceship have succeeded in creating a clone of Ripley and were then able to allow the Alien in her body to be born... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
It has been 200 years since Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the Alien queen that was growing within her. Scientists on a United Systems Military spaceship have succeeded in creating a clone of Ripley and were then able to allow the Alien in her body to be born... [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...]
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...]
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Bert I. Gordon
A plutonium bomb is to be detonated in the middle of the Nevada desert. For some reason, the bomb's explosion is delayed and when a light aircraft crashes in the vicinity of the bomb Colonel Glenn Manning feels impelled to leap out of the protective trench and go to the aid of the crash survivors... [More...]
Bert I. Gordon
A plutonium bomb is to be detonated in the middle of the Nevada desert. For some reason, the bomb's explosion is delayed and when a light aircraft crashes in the vicinity of the bomb Colonel Glenn Manning feels impelled to leap out of the protective trench and go to the aid of the crash survivors... [More...]
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
Edgar G. Ulmer
No sooner has Joey Faust broken out of jail than he finds himself a prisoner of Paul Krenner, a former major in the U.S. army who plans to create an army of invisible soldiers... [More...]
Edgar G. Ulmer
No sooner has Joey Faust broken out of jail than he finds himself a prisoner of Paul Krenner, a former major in the U.S. army who plans to create an army of invisible soldiers... [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...]
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...]
Analyze This (1999)
Harold Ramis
Paul Vitti is a New York gangster boss who fears that his reputation as one of the city's most notorious hoodlums may be undermined when he starts to suffer from panic attacks... [More...]
Harold Ramis
Paul Vitti is a New York gangster boss who fears that his reputation as one of the city's most notorious hoodlums may be undermined when he starts to suffer from panic attacks... [More...]
And Then There Were None (1945)
René Clair
Eight men and women, all unknown to each other, accept a mysterious invitation to an island estate. They are welcomed by two domestic servants, Mr and Mrs Rogers, who appear to be as ignorant of the reason for the meeting as the guests are... [More...]
René Clair
Eight men and women, all unknown to each other, accept a mysterious invitation to an island estate. They are welcomed by two domestic servants, Mr and Mrs Rogers, who appear to be as ignorant of the reason for the meeting as the guests are... [More...]
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Sidney Lumet
Once he has completed a ten year stretch in prison for burglary, John Anderson returns to his girlfriend Ingrid, who now resides in an upmarket New York apartment block, at the expense of her latest admirer... [More...]
Sidney Lumet
Once he has completed a ten year stretch in prison for burglary, John Anderson returns to his girlfriend Ingrid, who now resides in an upmarket New York apartment block, at the expense of her latest admirer... [More...]
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Robert Wise
Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico... [More...]
Robert Wise
Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico... [More...]
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Michael Curtiz
Jerry Connolly and Rocky Sullivan are two kids growing up in a poor area of New York. Their first attempt at robbery ends in failure - Jerry escapes but Rocky is caught and sent to a reform school... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
Jerry Connolly and Rocky Sullivan are two kids growing up in a poor area of New York. Their first attempt at robbery ends in failure - Jerry escapes but Rocky is caught and sent to a reform school... [More...]
Die Another Day (2002)
Lee Tamahori
James Bond's mission to assassinate rogue Korean colonel Tan-Sun Moon ends in a frantic chase in which 007's target appears to fall to his death... [More...]
Lee Tamahori
James Bond's mission to assassinate rogue Korean colonel Tan-Sun Moon ends in a frantic chase in which 007's target appears to fall to his death... [More...]
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Richard Fleischer
Dave Purvis leads a gang of hardened criminals who plan to ambush an armoured car when it makes a collection outside a baseball station in Los Angeles... [More...]
Richard Fleischer
Dave Purvis leads a gang of hardened criminals who plan to ambush an armoured car when it makes a collection outside a baseball station in Los Angeles... [More...]
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Frank Capra
Mortimer Brewster returns to Brooklyn to visit his elderly aunts Abby and Martha with the news that he has just got married... [More...]
Frank Capra
Mortimer Brewster returns to Brooklyn to visit his elderly aunts Abby and Martha with the news that he has just got married... [More...]
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
John Huston
Within hours of leaving prison, criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is preparing his next robbery. To clean up on a million dollars' worth of jewels, he recruits a safecracker, Louis Ciavelli, getaway-driver Gus Minissi and hoodlum Dix Handley... [More...]
John Huston
Within hours of leaving prison, criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is preparing his next robbery. To clean up on a million dollars' worth of jewels, he recruits a safecracker, Louis Ciavelli, getaway-driver Gus Minissi and hoodlum Dix Handley... [More...]