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Duel (1971)
Steven Spielberg

David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction...   [More...]

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Irvin Kershner

The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance is followed by a swift retaliation from the Galactic Empire, with Darth Vader leading the offensive...   [More...]

The End of the World (1916)
August Blom

In a Scandinavian mining town, two sisters, Dina and Edith, live with their aged father. Dina is engaged to a miner Flint, but decides to elope with a wealthy capitalist, Stoll...   [More...]

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Don Taylor

In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge...   [More...]

Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading...   [More...]

Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Richard Fleischer

American and Soviet scientists have both discovered how to miniaturise matter but the technique is of limited value since shrunken objects return to their full size within sixty minutes...   [More...]

Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949)
Robert Vernay

Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed...   [More...]

Fata Morgana (1971)
Werner Herzog

A barren desert landscape, a wilderness that looks as if it has been devoid of life for an eternity... Yet, there are signs of civilisation, signs that once life existed here...   [More...]

Fiddlers Three (1944)
Harry Watt

England, 1943. Tommy and the Professor, two sailors in the Royal Navy, are on their way back to their Portsmouth base when they see a WREN, Lydia, being molested by a man...   [More...]

First Men in the Moon (1964)
Nathan Juran

In 1964, the United Nations Space Agency successfully lands a manned rocket on the moon, but the astronauts are surprised to discover a British flag and a note from someone named Katherine Callender claiming the moon for Her Majesty Queen Victoria...   [More...]

The Fly (1958)
Kurt Neumann

One evening, François Delambre receives a telephone call from his sister-in-law, Hélène, who confesses to having just killed her husband, André...   [More...]

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Fred M. Wilcox

In the year 2200, a United Planets expedition led by Commander Adams arrives on Altair-4 to investigate the unexplained disappearance of an Earth colony...   [More...]

Frankenstein (1931)
James Whale

For years, the scientist Dr Henry Frankenstein has devoted himself to the creation of artificial life. With the help of his hunchback assistant Fritz, he has assembled a man-like creature from the body parts of corpses stolen from graveyards...   [More...]

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Terence Fisher

Baron Frankenstein believes he has perfected a means of extracting the soul of a human being from a corpse and transferring it into another body...   [More...]

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Terence Fisher

Dr Frankenstein's experiments in brain transplant surgery are temporarily suspended when the scientist's cellar laboratory is discovered by an enterprising burglar...   [More...]

Frau im Mond (1929)
Fritz Lang

For some time, engineers Wolf Helius and Hans Windegger have been working on a project to send a manned rocket to the moon...   [More...]

Goldfinger (1964)
Guy Hamilton

James Bond is enjoying a well-deserved break in Miama when he is requested by his superiors in MI6 to look into the activities of a wealthy businessman named Auric Goldfinger...   [More...]

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jack Arnold

During a boating holiday with his wife Louise, Scott Carey is enveloped in a strange mist which causes his body to glisten mysteriously...   [More...]

L'Inhumaine (1924)
Marcel L'Herbier

Claire Lescot is a world famous opera singer who revels in the power she exerts over men. To her grand residence on the outskirts of Paris, she invites her many admirers, all of whom are determined to make her their own...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Don Siegel

Dr Miles Bennell is attending a conference when anxious calls from his patients compel him to return to his home town of Santa Mira in California...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Philip Kaufman

Government scientist Elizabeth Driscoll becomes concerned when her partner starts to behave strangely, doing odd things like getting up early and emptying the dustbins...   [More...]

The Invisible Man (1933)
James Whale

One winter's day, a stranger arrives at a small village inn and demands a room. His appearance causes consternation amongst the locals...   [More...]

Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Erle C. Kenton

When the liner he is travelling on is wrecked in the South Pacific, Edward Parker is picked up by a cargo vessel laden with wild animals...   [More...]

It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Jack Arnold

Amateur astronomer John Putnam is spending a pleasant evening stargazing with his girlfriend Ellen Fields when a ball of fire appears in the night sky and crashlands into the desert ground, not far from the town of Sand Rock...   [More...]

J'accuse! (1938)
Abel Gance

After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades...   [More...]

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
Alain Resnais

Leaving hospital after a failed suicide attempt, Claude Ridder is accosted by two strangers, who make him a bizarre proposal...   [More...]

La Jetée (1962)
Chris Marker

The world lies in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help...   [More...]

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Henry Levin

On the day the eminent Edinburgh geologist Professor Oliver Lindenbrook receives his knighthood, his favourite student Alex McEwen gives him a lump of volcanic rock as a present...   [More...]

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Robert Aldrich

In the dead of night, a young woman clad only in a trench coat runs for her life along a deserted stretch of highway. Suddenly, she sees a flashy sports car racing towards her and desperately signals to the driver to stop...   [More...]

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Frank Oz

Mr Mushnik is the owner of a far from thriving florist shop in Skid Row, a less than salubrious district of New York. He tyrannises his two employees, Seymour Krelborn and Audrey Fulquard, but knows he is heading for ruin...   [More...]



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