Film Index
British cinema: 1960s
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...
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John Guillermin
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...
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Freddie Francis
The Oblong Box (1969)
Gordon Hessler
England, 1865. After a disastrous expedition to Africa, Julian Markham returns to his ancestral home with his brother Edward, whom he keeps a prisoner to conceal the fact he was badly disfigured in the course of a voodoo ceremony...
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Gordon Hessler
The Old Dark House (1963)
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [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...]
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Don Chaffey
Tumak is a decent sort of bloke but he does have something of an anger management problem. Unfortunately, as our story takes place one million years ago, a time when dinosaurs and giant spiders walked the Earth, he was unable to receive therapy for his condition... [More...]
Don Chaffey
Tumak is a decent sort of bloke but he does have something of an anger management problem. Unfortunately, as our story takes place one million years ago, a time when dinosaurs and giant spiders walked the Earth, he was unable to receive therapy for his condition... [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...]
Press for Time (1966)
Robert Asher
Who would think that humble newspaper seller Norman Shields is the grandson of the Prime Minister of Great Britain? The Prime Minister is less than happy at this revelation, having disowned his daughter, a suffragette, when she married a sewer man... [More...]
Robert Asher
Who would think that humble newspaper seller Norman Shields is the grandson of the Prime Minister of Great Britain? The Prime Minister is less than happy at this revelation, having disowned his daughter, a suffragette, when she married a sewer man... [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...]
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)
Frank Launder
Having burned down their school, the girls of St Trinian's find themselves on trial at the Old Bailey. The jury has no difficulty finding them guilty of arson, but the judge is inclined to clemency when one of the girls shows him some thigh... [More...]
Frank Launder
Having burned down their school, the girls of St Trinian's find themselves on trial at the Old Bailey. The jury has no difficulty finding them guilty of arson, but the judge is inclined to clemency when one of the girls shows him some thigh... [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...]
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Don Sharp
Banished from a monastery for his heretical and licentious behaviour, the monk Rasputin takes to the road and heads for Petersburg... [More...]
Don Sharp
Banished from a monastery for his heretical and licentious behaviour, the monk Rasputin takes to the road and heads for Petersburg... [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...]
Sons and Lovers (1960)
Jack Cardiff
In an English mining town of the 1910s, Paul Morel has aspirations of pursuing an artistic career, encouraged by his possessive mother... [More...]
Jack Cardiff
In an English mining town of the 1910s, Paul Morel has aspirations of pursuing an artistic career, encouraged by his possessive mother... [More...]