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British cinema: Crime/Thriller

Murder! (1930)
Alfred Hitchcock

Norah Baring, a member of a provincial theatre company, is arrested and tried for the murder of a fellow actress. The jury finds her guilty and she is condemned to death...   [More...]

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...]

Night and the City (1950)
Jules Dassin

An American living in London, Harry Fabian is a small-time con artist with big-time ambitions. So far his dreams of getting rich quick have led him nowhere and without his ex-girlfriend Mary to bail him out when things go wrong he would have ended up as food for river rats long ago...   [More...]

The October Man (1947)
Roy Ward Baker

Jim Ackland, a research chemist, ends up in hospital with a serious brain injury after a bus crash that left the young girl in his care dead...   [More...]

Odd Man Out (1947)
Carol Reed

Johnny McQueen hides out in an anonymous Belfast house, having recently broken out of prison where he was serving a stretch for involvement with a terrorist organisation...   [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...]

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards

Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position...   [More...]

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Five [TV] (1981)
Shaun O'Riordan

Successful businessman Lord Mulrine has organised a party at his house to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of his company...   [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...]

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...]

Shallow Grave (1994)
Danny Boyle

Alex, David and Juliet are three friends who share a roomy flat in a trendy part of Edinburgh. Even though they are all professionals (respectively a journalist, accountant and doctor), they need a fourth flatmate if they are to pay their exorbitant rent...   [More...]

Stage Fright (1950)
Alfred Hitchcock

Jonathan Cooper is on the run from the police, suspected of murdering the husband of the renowned singer-actress Charlotte Inwood...   [More...]

Tiger Bay (1959)
J. Lee Thompson

On his return to Cardiff after a stint at sea, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav Korchinsky learns that his girlfriend Anya has moved out of his lodgings and is having a relationship with another man...   [More...]

Town on Trial (1957)
John Guillermin

Oakley Park is a small English town, a town that is like so many others - until the fateful day when a young woman is strangled on her way home one evening...   [More...]

The Upturned Glass (1947)
Lawrence Huntington

A criminologist presents the case history of a supposedly sane criminal, a man who executed a well-planned murder for entirely rational reasons...   [More...]

The Vicious Circle (1957)
Gerald Thomas

One evening, Harley Street doctor Howard Latimer is visited by a journalist, Geoffrey Windsor, who is keen to write an article about his work...   [More...]

The Wicker Man (1973)
Robin Hardy

Police sergeant Neil Howie arrives on the remote Scottish island of Summerisle, having received an anonymous letter claiming that a young girl has mysteriously disappeared...   [More...]

Young and Innocent (1937)
Alfred Hitchcock

When movie star Christine Clay is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a young man named Robert Tisdall with whom she had a brief acquaintance...   [More...]


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