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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 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...]

The Gorgon (1964)
Terence Fisher

The mist-shrouded village of Vandorf harbours an ancient evil of which no one dares speak, even when a series of mysterious deaths begins, reviving memories of an old and terrifying legend...   [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...]

Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Peter Sasdy

Anna is no more than a toddler when she witnesses her mother's savage death at the hands of her father, who is none other than the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper...   [More...]

The Haunting (1963)
Robert Wise

Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena...   [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...]

The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Peter Duffell

Investigating the mysterious disappearance of a temperamental film star named Paul Henderson, a Scotland Yard detective arrives at a house which, according to the records at the local police station, has had a troubled past...   [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...]

The Innocents (1961)
Jack Clayton

In Victorian England, Miss Giddens accepts the position of a governess to two young children living in a luxurious country estate...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Alfred Hitchcock

A group of British travellers are stranded in a hotel in a remote European country. After holidaying with some friends, Iris Henderson is on her way back home to get married...   [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...]

Licence to Kill (1989)
John Glen

On his wedding day, CIA agent Felix Leiter assists British agent James Bond in capturing the notorious drugs baron Franz Sanchez...   [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...]

Lord of the Flies (1963)
Peter Brook

As a nuclear conflict threatens to engulf the world, a party of English schoolboys are loaded into a plane and sent to the South Pacific...   [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...]

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...   [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...]

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...]

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...   [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...]

Night of the Demon (1957)
Jacques Tourneur

Dr John Holden, an American psychologist specialising in the paranormal, arrives in England to attend a convention on the Occult...   [More...]

Night Train to Munich (1940)
Carol Reed

Just before his country is annexed by Nazi Germany, the Czech inventor Axel Bomasch manages to escape to England, but his daughter Anna is arrested and sent to a concentration camp...   [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...]

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...]



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