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British cinema: Crime/Thriller
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Richard Fleischer
In 1948, Tim and Beryl Evans, a young married couple, move into a top floor flat at 10, Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, London...
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Richard Fleischer
The 39 Steps (1935)
Alfred Hitchcock
Not long after arriving in London, the Canadian Richard Hannay visits a music hall theatre to watch the star act, Mr Memory, a man who startles his audience with his infallible recollection of trivial facts...
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Alfred Hitchcock
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 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
Beat the Devil (1953)
John Huston
Billy Dannreuther and his wife Maria are on their way to make their fortune in Africa, but are held up in an Italian port whilst their steamboat undergoes some repair work...
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John Huston
Blackmail (1929)
Alfred Hitchcock
Alice is unimpressed when her boyfriend Frank, a Scotland Yard detective, fails to keep their appointment one evening. After a slight quarrel, they decide not to go to the pictures together... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Alice is unimpressed when her boyfriend Frank, a Scotland Yard detective, fails to keep their appointment one evening. After a slight quarrel, they decide not to go to the pictures together... [More...]
Blind Terror (1971)
Richard Fleischer
Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house... [More...]
Richard Fleischer
Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house... [More...]
Brighton Rock (1947)
John Boulting
Beneath its quaint, tourist-friendly surface impression, Brighton of the 1930s is a squalid town where gangland crime is rampant... [More...]
John Boulting
Beneath its quaint, tourist-friendly surface impression, Brighton of the 1930s is a squalid town where gangland crime is rampant... [More...]
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Otto Preminger
A few days after arriving in London, American Ann Lake leaves her four-year old daughter Bunny at a school for toddlers before rushing off to meet the removal men at her new apartment... [More...]
Otto Preminger
A few days after arriving in London, American Ann Lake leaves her four-year old daughter Bunny at a school for toddlers before rushing off to meet the removal men at her new apartment... [More...]
Cloudburst (1951)
Francis Searle
London, 1946. A former resistance operative during the war, John Graham now runs a code-breaking department that deciphers coded messages which may result in the prosecution of war criminals... [More...]
Francis Searle
London, 1946. A former resistance operative during the war, John Graham now runs a code-breaking department that deciphers coded messages which may result in the prosecution of war criminals... [More...]
The Collector (1965)
William Wyler
Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside... [More...]
William Wyler
Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside... [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...]
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Guy Hamilton
Alerted by an insurance scam, the world-famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot travels to a small island in the Adriatic to try to recover a valuable diamond belonging to the self-made millionaire Sir Horace Blatt... [More...]
Guy Hamilton
Alerted by an insurance scam, the world-famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot travels to a small island in the Adriatic to try to recover a valuable diamond belonging to the self-made millionaire Sir Horace Blatt... [More...]
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Don Sharp
In the early 1900s, Sir Dennis Nayland Smith, a senior British police commissioner, attends the formal execution of arch-criminal Fu Manchu in China... [More...]
Don Sharp
In the early 1900s, Sir Dennis Nayland Smith, a senior British police commissioner, attends the formal execution of arch-criminal Fu Manchu in China... [More...]
Fargo (1996)
Joel Coen
Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money... [More...]
Joel Coen
Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money... [More...]
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Arthur Lubin
London, in the early 1900s. When she discovers that her employer, Stephen Lowry, poisoned his wife, housemaid Lily Watkins soon turns the situation to her advantage... [More...]
Arthur Lubin
London, in the early 1900s. When she discovers that her employer, Stephen Lowry, poisoned his wife, housemaid Lily Watkins soon turns the situation to her advantage... [More...]
Frenzy (1972)
Alfred Hitchcock
In London a serial killer is at large. The victims are all young women who have been raped and strangled with a necktie. Meanwhile, former RAF man Richard Blaney is having difficulty fitting back into civilian life... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
In London a serial killer is at large. The victims are all young women who have been raped and strangled with a necktie. Meanwhile, former RAF man Richard Blaney is having difficulty fitting back into civilian life... [More...]
Get Carter (1971)
Mike Hodges
London-based gangster Jack Carter returns to his home in Newcastle to attend the funeral of his brother, Frank. The official story is that Frank Carter died in a car accident whilst heavily intoxicated, but Jack soon begins to suspect that he was murdered... [More...]
Mike Hodges
London-based gangster Jack Carter returns to his home in Newcastle to attend the funeral of his brother, Frank. The official story is that Frank Carter died in a car accident whilst heavily intoxicated, but Jack soon begins to suspect that he was murdered... [More...]
The Good Die Young (1954)
Lewis Gilbert
Four men, all law abiding citizens, decide to rob a mail van. Mike is a retired boxer who is unable to find work after having had his hand amputated... [More...]
Lewis Gilbert
Four men, all law abiding citizens, decide to rob a mail van. Mike is a retired boxer who is unable to find work after having had his hand amputated... [More...]
Green for Danger (1946)
Sidney Gilliat
August 1944. A postman injured in a V1 bombardment of southern England dies during an operation at a country hospital. No one takes seriously the suggestion that foul play is involved until a second murder is committed... [More...]
Sidney Gilliat
August 1944. A postman injured in a V1 bombardment of southern England dies during an operation at a country hospital. No one takes seriously the suggestion that foul play is involved until a second murder is committed... [More...]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Terence Fisher
When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in mysterious circumstances one evening, his friend Dr Mortimer is convinced that he is the latest victim of an old family curse... [More...]
Terence Fisher
When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in mysterious circumstances one evening, his friend Dr Mortimer is convinced that he is the latest victim of an old family curse... [More...]
Hue and Cry (1947)
Charles Crichton
Joe Kirby, a 15 year-old lad living in London's East End, has a passion for adventure stories. When he notices the similarity between a car parked in the street with one he has and seen in his favourite comic, he suspects foul play is afoot... [More...]
Charles Crichton
Joe Kirby, a 15 year-old lad living in London's East End, has a passion for adventure stories. When he notices the similarity between a car parked in the street with one he has and seen in his favourite comic, he suspects foul play is afoot... [More...]
The Ipcress File (1965)
Sidney J. Furie
When a renowned physicist named Radcliffe mysteriously disappears, security operative Harry Palmer is taken off routine surveillance and assigned to a counterintelligence department headed by Major Dalby... [More...]
Sidney J. Furie
When a renowned physicist named Radcliffe mysteriously disappears, security operative Harry Palmer is taken off routine surveillance and assigned to a counterintelligence department headed by Major Dalby... [More...]
The Italian Job (1969)
Peter Collinson
Within hours of being released from prison, small-time mobster Charlie Croker is visited by the wife of a former associate, Roger Beckermann, who has recently been murdered by the Italian Mafia... [More...]
Peter Collinson
Within hours of being released from prison, small-time mobster Charlie Croker is visited by the wife of a former associate, Roger Beckermann, who has recently been murdered by the Italian Mafia... [More...]
Juggernaut (1974)
Richard Lester
A few days after the luxury ocean liner SS Britannic has left port, heavily laden with passengers, its owner, Nicholas Porter, receives a phone call making a chilling ransom demand... [More...]
Richard Lester
A few days after the luxury ocean liner SS Britannic has left port, heavily laden with passengers, its owner, Nicholas Porter, receives a phone call making a chilling ransom demand... [More...]
The Krays (1990)
Peter Medak
In the 1950s and '60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the most notorious gangland leaders in London. The twins' reign of terror ended in 1968 when they were arrested and convicted of murder... [More...]
Peter Medak
In the 1950s and '60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the most notorious gangland leaders in London. The twins' reign of terror ended in 1968 when they were arrested and convicted of murder... [More...]
The Ladykillers (1955)
Alexander Mackendrick
Old Mrs Wilberforce is delighted when she finds a respectable-looking gentleman to rent one of the rooms in her dilapidated London guesthouse... [More...]
Alexander Mackendrick
Old Mrs Wilberforce is delighted when she finds a respectable-looking gentleman to rent one of the rooms in her dilapidated London guesthouse... [More...]
The Lodger (1927)
Alfred Hitchcock
A killer stalks the foggy streets of London. The victims are all young women with fair hair, on whose bodies there is a card signed: The Avenger... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
A killer stalks the foggy streets of London. The victims are all young women with fair hair, on whose bodies there is a card signed: The Avenger... [More...]
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Alfred Hitchcock
Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a skiing holiday in the Swiss alps when their friend, Louis Bernard, is shot dead. Before he dies, Louis reveals that he is a British spy and that he has a secret message, warning of an imminent high-profile assassination... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a skiing holiday in the Swiss alps when their friend, Louis Bernard, is shot dead. Before he dies, Louis reveals that he is a British spy and that he has a secret message, warning of an imminent high-profile assassination... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]