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British cinema: 1960s
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Roger Corman
12th Century Europe is being scourged by many plagues, the most fearsome of which is the Red Death. When Prince Prospero learns that this plague has reached the villages surrounding his castle, he orders his men to burn them to the ground...
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Roger Corman
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...
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George Pollock
Murder She Said (1961)
George Pollock
Whilst returning to her home village by train one afternoon, Miss Marple witnesses a woman being strangled in a passing train...
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George Pollock
Mysterious Island (1961)
Cy Endfield
During the American Civil War, a party of Union soldiers manage to escape from a Confederate prison via a hot air balloon...
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Cy Endfield
The Nanny (1965)
Seth Holt
Joey Fane is the ten-year old son of a wealthy middle class couple living in an affluent part of London. For the past two years, he has been confined to an institution for children with mental disorders...
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Seth Holt
Never Let Go (1960)
John Guillermin
John Cummings is an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman who barely earns enough money to keep his wife and two children. He can just about afford the repayments on the new car he has recently purchased but is unable to pay for the insurance... [More...]
John Guillermin
John Cummings is an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman who barely earns enough money to keep his wife and two children. He can just about afford the repayments on the new car he has recently purchased but is unable to pay for the insurance... [More...]
Nightmare (1964)
Freddie Francis
17-year-old Janet is attending a boarding school when she begins suffering a series of nightmares in which she ends up imprisoned in a padded cell with her mother... [More...]
Freddie Francis
17-year-old Janet is attending a boarding school when she begins suffering a series of nightmares in which she ends up imprisoned in a padded cell with her mother... [More...]
Oliver! (1968)
Carol Reed
England, in the 19th century. Oliver Twist is one of numerous abandoned orphan boys who live a wretched life in a provincial workhouse... [More...]
Carol Reed
England, in the 19th century. Oliver Twist is one of numerous abandoned orphan boys who live a wretched life in a provincial workhouse... [More...]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Peter R. Hunt
James Bond is in Europe, pursuing Ernst Blofeld, the infamous head of the crime syndicate SPECTRE, when he becomes distracted by another kind of prey, the beautiful Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, known as Tracy to her friends... [More...]
Peter R. Hunt
James Bond is in Europe, pursuing Ernst Blofeld, the infamous head of the crime syndicate SPECTRE, when he becomes distracted by another kind of prey, the beautiful Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, known as Tracy to her friends... [More...]
On the Beat (1962)
Robert Asher
Norman Pitkin has one ambition in life: to become a policeman, just like his dear old dad. Unfortunately, he is too short for the job and so has to content himself with being a parking attendant at Scotland Yard... [More...]
Robert Asher
Norman Pitkin has one ambition in life: to become a policeman, just like his dear old dad. Unfortunately, he is too short for the job and so has to content himself with being a parking attendant at Scotland Yard... [More...]
On the Fiddle (1961)
Cyril Frankel
Incorrigible spiv Horace Pope is not one to let a small thing like World War II get in the way of his money making exploits... [More...]
Cyril Frankel
Incorrigible spiv Horace Pope is not one to let a small thing like World War II get in the way of his money making exploits... [More...]
Paranoiac (1963)
Freddie Francis
Since the tragic death of their parents in a plane crash, Simon and Eleanor Ashby have lived under the care of their kindly Aunt Harriet at their large country house... [More...]
Freddie Francis
Since the tragic death of their parents in a plane crash, Simon and Eleanor Ashby have lived under the care of their kindly Aunt Harriet at their large country house... [More...]
Peeping Tom (1960)
Michael Powell
Mark Lewis is a shy young man who works as a focus puller at a film studio but has aspirations of becoming a film director... [More...]
Michael Powell
Mark Lewis is a shy young man who works as a focus puller at a film studio but has aspirations of becoming a film director... [More...]
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
John Gilling
Sir James Forbes, a distinguished professor of medicine, is surprised when he receives a letter from a former pupil, Dr Peter Thompson, inviting him to look into a spate of mysterious deaths in a small Cornish village... [More...]
John Gilling
Sir James Forbes, a distinguished professor of medicine, is surprised when he receives a letter from a former pupil, Dr Peter Thompson, inviting him to look into a spate of mysterious deaths in a small Cornish village... [More...]
The Plank (1967)
Eric Sykes
Two workmen have almost finished laying the floorboards in a new house when they realise that they are short by one plank... [More...]
Eric Sykes
Two workmen have almost finished laying the floorboards in a new house when they realise that they are short by one plank... [More...]
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Jack Clayton
As middle-age steals over her, Jo Armitage finds herself trapped in a stale marriage and, in a state of profound melancholia, she looks back on her life... [More...]
Jack Clayton
As middle-age steals over her, Jo Armitage finds herself trapped in a stale marriage and, in a state of profound melancholia, she looks back on her life... [More...]
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Roy Ward Baker
Whilst workmen are building an extension to the London Underground, a prehistoric human skull is discovered. Palaeontologist Matthew Roney is called in and he concludes that the skull is over five million years old... [More...]
Roy Ward Baker
Whilst workmen are building an extension to the London Underground, a prehistoric human skull is discovered. Palaeontologist Matthew Roney is called in and he concludes that the skull is over five million years old... [More...]
The Rebel (1961)
Robert Day
Tired of the unending monotony of his life as a lowly office clerk, Anthony Hancock Esq. sets out for Paris to make a name for himself as an artist... [More...]
Robert Day
Tired of the unending monotony of his life as a lowly office clerk, Anthony Hancock Esq. sets out for Paris to make a name for himself as an artist... [More...]
The Reptile (1966)
John Gilling
On the death of his brother, Harry Spalding and his wife Valerie elect to move into his cottage, in a remote Cornish village... [More...]
John Gilling
On the death of his brother, Harry Spalding and his wife Valerie elect to move into his cottage, in a remote Cornish village... [More...]
Repulsion (1965)
Roman Polanski
Carol and Helen Ledoux are two Belgian sisters who live in London and share a mansion apartment near to the South Kensington beauty parlour where Carol works as a manicurist... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Carol and Helen Ledoux are two Belgian sisters who live in London and share a mansion apartment near to the South Kensington beauty parlour where Carol works as a manicurist... [More...]
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Franco Zeffirelli
The peace of 15th century Verona is disturbed by the on-going feud between the houses of Montague and Capulet. At a lavish banquet, Romeo, Montague's young son, is captivated by 14-year-old Juliet and, not knowing that she is Capulet's daughter, he proceeds to court her... [More...]
Franco Zeffirelli
The peace of 15th century Verona is disturbed by the on-going feud between the houses of Montague and Capulet. At a lavish banquet, Romeo, Montague's young son, is captivated by 14-year-old Juliet and, not knowing that she is Capulet's daughter, he proceeds to court her... [More...]
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Karel Reisz
Contemptuous of his working class milieu, hostile to all forms of authority, Arthur Seaton is doing his damnedest not to be ground down by life... [More...]
Karel Reisz
Contemptuous of his working class milieu, hostile to all forms of authority, Arthur Seaton is doing his damnedest not to be ground down by life... [More...]
School for Scoundrels (1960)
Robert Hamer
Tired of being put down by others, mild-mannered and thoroughly decent Henry Palfrey decides to enrol at Mr Potter's School for Lifemanship... [More...]
Robert Hamer
Tired of being put down by others, mild-mannered and thoroughly decent Henry Palfrey decides to enrol at Mr Potter's School for Lifemanship... [More...]
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Bryan Forbes
Myra Savage is a professional medium who holds regular seances at her dank Victorian home in London. Her submissive husband, Billy, is unable to find work owing to his asthma, so the couple are dependent on Myra's meagre earnings from her seances... [More...]
Bryan Forbes
Myra Savage is a professional medium who holds regular seances at her dank Victorian home in London. Her submissive husband, Billy, is unable to find work owing to his asthma, so the couple are dependent on Myra's meagre earnings from her seances... [More...]
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
John Gilling
Anxious to get his hands on his wife Ella's fortune, Walter Venable murders her in cold blood with the help of his servants Clara and Andrew... [More...]
John Gilling
Anxious to get his hands on his wife Ella's fortune, Walter Venable murders her in cold blood with the help of his servants Clara and Andrew... [More...]
She (1965)
Robert Day
1918. Immediately after WWI, three ex-servicemen - Leo, Holly and Job - are enjoying a brief holiday in the Middle East before resuming their lives in England... [More...]
Robert Day
1918. Immediately after WWI, three ex-servicemen - Leo, Holly and Job - are enjoying a brief holiday in the Middle East before resuming their lives in England... [More...]
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Martin Ritt
Having failed to get one of his key operatives out of East Berlin, spy administrator Alec Leamas is recalled to London and is immediately demoted to a desk job... [More...]
Martin Ritt
Having failed to get one of his key operatives out of East Berlin, spy administrator Alec Leamas is recalled to London and is immediately demoted to a desk job... [More...]
Taste of Fear (1961)
Seth Holt
Not long after the dead body of a young woman is fished out of a lake in Switzerland, Penny Appleby arrives at her father's house in the south of France, hoping to make a reconciliation with her estranged father Penny is surprised to learn that her father is away, but her stepmother, Jane, gives her a friendly welcome... [More...]
Seth Holt
Not long after the dead body of a young woman is fished out of a lake in Switzerland, Penny Appleby arrives at her father's house in the south of France, hoping to make a reconciliation with her estranged father Penny is surprised to learn that her father is away, but her stepmother, Jane, gives her a friendly welcome... [More...]
This Sporting Life (1963)
Lindsay Anderson
Frank Machin is a young coal miner in the Yorkshire town of Wakefield, but he has big ambitions. With the help of an elderly football scout, he makes such an impression on the owners of the local rugby league club that they cannot resist signing him up for the season... [More...]
Lindsay Anderson
Frank Machin is a young coal miner in the Yorkshire town of Wakefield, but he has big ambitions. With the help of an elderly football scout, he makes such an impression on the owners of the local rugby league club that they cannot resist signing him up for the season... [More...]
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Ken Annakin
In 1910, newspaper magnate Lord Rawnsley organises an aeroplane race between London and Paris in the hope of allowing Great Britain to claim supremacy of the skies... [More...]
Ken Annakin
In 1910, newspaper magnate Lord Rawnsley organises an aeroplane race between London and Paris in the hope of allowing Great Britain to claim supremacy of the skies... [More...]