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British cinema: All genres
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Roman Polanski
Two American gangsters, Dickie and Albie, are on the run after a robbery that has gone disastrously awry. Both men are in a bad way, and Albie needs treatment for a serious gunshot wound he has sustained...
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Roman Polanski
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Terence Fisher
Whilst in prison, awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein relates his tragic life story to a priest...
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Terence Fisher
Cymbeline [TV] (1982)
Elijah Moshinsky
In Ancient Britain, King Cymbeline reigns at a time of fragile peace with the Roman Empire. Since his two sons were stolen from him in childhood, Cymbeline has but one surviving heir, his daughter Imogen...
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Elijah Moshinsky
The Dam Busters (1955)
Michael Anderson
In 1942, at the height of WWII, aircraft engineer Barnes Wallis has become obsessed with the idea of flooding the Ruhr valley by a single bombing raid on its dams...
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Michael Anderson
Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Roman Polanski
For years, Professor Abronsius has devoted himself to obtaining tangible proof of the existence of vampires, and finally he believes he has found just that...
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Roman Polanski
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Stephen Frears
France, circa 1760. Behind a façade of scrupulous respectability, the Marquise de Merteuil delights in inflicting cruelty on those who do her wrong through her meticulously calculated romantic intrigues... [More...]
Stephen Frears
France, circa 1760. Behind a façade of scrupulous respectability, the Marquise de Merteuil delights in inflicting cruelty on those who do her wrong through her meticulously calculated romantic intrigues... [More...]
Dark Journey (1937)
Victor Saville
Towards the end of the First World War, Madeleine Goddard makes frequent trips between Paris and Stockholm, ostensibly to supply expensive dresses to her wealthy Swedish clientele... [More...]
Victor Saville
Towards the end of the First World War, Madeleine Goddard makes frequent trips between Paris and Stockholm, ostensibly to supply expensive dresses to her wealthy Swedish clientele... [More...]
Darling (1965)
John Schlesinger
In swinging sixties London, Diana Scott is a beautiful young model who appears to be on a perpetual quest to find meaning in her life... [More...]
John Schlesinger
In swinging sixties London, Diana Scott is a beautiful young model who appears to be on a perpetual quest to find meaning in her life... [More...]
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Fred Zinnemann
Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president... [More...]
Fred Zinnemann
Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president... [More...]
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Val Guest
In a deserted London bathed in a scorching heat, journalist Peter Stenning returns to his desk at the vacated offices of the newspaper the Daily Express to compose what may well be his final report... [More...]
Val Guest
In a deserted London bathed in a scorching heat, journalist Peter Stenning returns to his desk at the vacated offices of the newspaper the Daily Express to compose what may well be his final report... [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...]
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...]
Death on the Nile (1978)
John Guillermin
Jacqueline de Bellefort persuades her friend, the wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway, to employ her fiancé Simon Doyle as her estate manager... [More...]
John Guillermin
Jacqueline de Bellefort persuades her friend, the wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway, to employ her fiancé Simon Doyle as her estate manager... [More...]
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Michael Cimino
A small working class town in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Michael, Nick and Steven are three close friends, in their late twenties, early thirties, who work at a steel mill... [More...]
Michael Cimino
A small working class town in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Michael, Nick and Steven are three close friends, in their late twenties, early thirties, who work at a steel mill... [More...]
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Terence Fisher
When his protégé, Simon Aron, fails to turn up for a reunion, the wealthy Duc de Richleau decides to visit him at his home... [More...]
Terence Fisher
When his protégé, Simon Aron, fails to turn up for a reunion, the wealthy Duc de Richleau decides to visit him at his home... [More...]
The Devils (1971)
Ken Russell
In 17th Century France, Catholics and Protestants live together in peace in the town of Loudun, under the benign governorship of the much-loved but slightly over-sexed priest Urbain Grandier... [More...]
Ken Russell
In 17th Century France, Catholics and Protestants live together in peace in the town of Loudun, under the benign governorship of the much-loved but slightly over-sexed priest Urbain Grandier... [More...]
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich
England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment... [More...]
Robert Aldrich
England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment... [More...]
Don't Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Roeg
John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home... [More...]
Nicolas Roeg
John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home... [More...]
Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
Gerald Thomas
In the early 1790s, a bloody tide of revolution sweeps across France. Supporters of the old order, the châteauneuf-swigging aristocrats, are losing their heads by the cartload, thanks to a new nifty little device called the guillotine (the world's first disposable razor)... [More...]
Gerald Thomas
In the early 1790s, a bloody tide of revolution sweeps across France. Supporters of the old order, the châteauneuf-swigging aristocrats, are losing their heads by the cartload, thanks to a new nifty little device called the guillotine (the world's first disposable razor)... [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...]
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. No (1962)
Terence Young
When John Strangways, a British intelligence operative, goes missing in Jamaica, MI6 agent James Bond is sent to investigate... [More...]
Terence Young
When John Strangways, a British intelligence operative, goes missing in Jamaica, MI6 agent James Bond is sent to investigate... [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...]
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...]
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...]
Dracula (1958)
Terence Fisher
Jonathan Harker makes the journey to Klausenberg to take up the post of librarian at Castle Dracula. The real motive for his expedition is to kill his employer, Count Dracula, but before he can do this he is attacked by a mysterious woman in white... [More...]
Terence Fisher
Jonathan Harker makes the journey to Klausenberg to take up the post of librarian at Castle Dracula. The real motive for his expedition is to kill his employer, Count Dracula, but before he can do this he is attacked by a mysterious woman in white... [More...]
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Terence Fisher
Englishman Charles Kent persuades his brother Alan and their two wives, Helen and Diana, to make a tour of the Carpathian mountains... [More...]
Terence Fisher
Englishman Charles Kent persuades his brother Alan and their two wives, Helen and Diana, to make a tour of the Carpathian mountains... [More...]
The Edge of the World (1937)
Michael Powell
Two tourists holidaying in the Hebrides land on the deserted island of Hirta. Their guide Andrew Gray explains that until a decade ago there was a thriving community on the island... [More...]
Michael Powell
Two tourists holidaying in the Hebrides land on the deserted island of Hirta. Their guide Andrew Gray explains that until a decade ago there was a thriving community on the island... [More...]
Educating Rita (1983)
Lewis Gilbert
26-year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita has decided to get herself an education and so begins an Open University course in English literature... [More...]
Lewis Gilbert
26-year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita has decided to get herself an education and so begins an Open University course in English literature... [More...]
Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
The English Patient (1996)
Anthony Minghella
In Italy towards the end of the World War Two, a Canadian nurse Hana is tending to a disfigured pilot whose aircraft was shot down in North Africa... [More...]
Anthony Minghella
In Italy towards the end of the World War Two, a Canadian nurse Hana is tending to a disfigured pilot whose aircraft was shot down in North Africa... [More...]
Equus (1977)
Sidney Lumet
Martin Dysart is a middle-aged psychiatrist who reluctantly takes on the case of Alan Strang, a withdrawn 17-year old who has recently blinded six horses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Sidney Lumet
Martin Dysart is a middle-aged psychiatrist who reluctantly takes on the case of Alan Strang, a withdrawn 17-year old who has recently blinded six horses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Espion(s) (2009)
Nicolas Saada
With his qualifications, Vincent could easily get himself a well-paid job with a respectable firm, but instead he prefers to work as an airport baggage handler... [More...]
Nicolas Saada
With his qualifications, Vincent could easily get himself a well-paid job with a respectable firm, but instead he prefers to work as an airport baggage handler... [More...]