Film Index

British cinema: 1960s

The Sorcerers (1967)
Michael Reeves

Professor Marcus Monserrat has invented a remarkable machine that allows him and his wife Estelle to take control of the mind of another person...   [More...]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Martin Ritt

Having failed to get one of his key operatives out of East Berlin, spy administrator Alec Leamas is recalled to London and is immediately demoted to a desk job...   [More...]

Summer Holiday (1963)
Peter Yates

One summer, four young mechanics, Don, Cyril, Steve and Edwin, decide to take a double decker bus to the South of France...   [More...]

Taste of Fear (1961)
Seth Holt

Not long after the dead body of a young woman is fished out of a lake in Switzerland, Penny Appleby arrives at her father's house in the south of France, hoping to make a reconciliation with her estranged father Penny is surprised to learn that her father is away, but her stepmother, Jane, gives her a friendly welcome...   [More...]

Ten Little Indians (1965)
George Pollock

Eight complete strangers arrive at an isolated mansion situated high up in the snow-capped mountains. They include a singer, an actress, a judge, a private detective, a doctor, a general, a secretary and a man posing as another man who recently killed himself...   [More...]

This Sporting Life (1963)
Lindsay Anderson

Frank Machin is a young coal miner in the Yorkshire town of Wakefield, but he has big ambitions. With the help of an elderly football scout, he makes such an impression on the owners of the local rugby league club that they cannot resist signing him up for the season...   [More...]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Ken Annakin

In 1910, newspaper magnate Lord Rawnsley organises an aeroplane race between London and Paris in the hope of allowing Great Britain to claim supremacy of the skies...   [More...]

Thunderball (1965)
Terence Young

SPECTRE, a syndicate of the most dangerous criminals in the world, puts into operation its most audacious scheme - the hijacking of a NATO bomber containing two nuclear bombs...   [More...]

To Sir, with Love (1967)
James Clavell

Unable to find work as an engineer, science graduate Mark Thackeray takes a temporary job as a teacher in a rough East London school...   [More...]

Torture Garden (1967)
Freddie Francis

Dr Diabolo lures five strangers into his fairground show, offering them each a glimpse of their future if they will stare into the Shears of Fate...   [More...]

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Terence Fisher

London, 1874. Dr Henry Jekyll is so absorbed in his scientific research that he neglects his beautiful socialite wife Kitty...   [More...]

Two Way Stretch (1960)
Robert Day

Dodger Lane, Lennie Price and Jelly Knight are doing time at Her Majesty's pleasure, but thanks to their benign Prisoner Governor, Horatio Bennett, they have not had to sacrifice their creature comforts...   [More...]

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
Jeremy Summers

Immediately after his return to China with his daughter Lin Tang, the criminal mastermind Fu Manchu puts into operation his next plan for world domination...   [More...]

The Vengeance of She (1968)
Cliff Owen

A beautiful young woman named Carol is driven in a trance-like state to the coast of North Africa. She soon finds herself on a luxury yacht belonging to millionaire businessman George...   [More...]

Victim (1961)
Basil Dearden

A successful middle-aged lawyer, Melvin Farr, does his best to avoid a series of phone calls from a desperate young man named Barrett...   [More...]

Village of the Damned (1960)
Wolf Rilla

One day, Midwich, a small village in southern England, finds itself mysteriously cut off, its entire population rendered unconscious for two hours...   [More...]

What a Carve Up! (1961)
Pat Jackson

Ernest Broughton is a proof reader for pulp fiction publisher. One evening, whilst absorbed in his latest penny dreadful, he is visited by a solicitor who informs him that he must attend the reading of the will of his Uncle Gabriel, who has just past away...   [More...]

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Bryan Forbes

Kathy, Nan and Charlie are three young children who live with their father on a remote Lancashire farm. Their mother having recently died, they are cared for by their aunt and they live an austere life...   [More...]

The Witches (1966)
Cyril Frankel

Whilst working as a teacher in Africa, Gwen Mayfield suffers a nervous breakdown when the natives turn against her and subject her to a terrifying ritual...   [More...]

Witchfinder General (1968)
Michael Reeves

1645. Amid the turmoil of the English Civil War, there are those who turn the breakdown in law and order to their advantage...   [More...]

Women in Love (1969)
Ken Russell

England in the early 1920s. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters who live in a Midlands mining town, the former a schoolteacher, the latter an aspiring sculptor...   [More...]

The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Cliff Owen

London gang leader Pearly Gates is none too pleased when a rival gang, disguised as police officers, thwart his brilliantly contrived robberies and run off with the ill-gotten gains...   [More...]

The Wrong Box (1966)
Bryan Forbes

In the mid-1800s, the parents of children attending an exclusive public school each contributes one thousand pounds to a tontine investment scheme...   [More...]

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Anthony Asquith

The life of an elegant yellow Rolls-Royce motorcar is portrayed in three instalments. It is first acquired by the Marquess of Frinton, as a wedding anniversary present for his wife who, unbeknown to him, is having an affair with one of his staff...   [More...]

You Only Live Twice (1967)
Lewis Gilbert

When one of their spacecraft mysteriously disappears shortly after take off, the Americans naturally assume that it has been destroyed by the Russians...   [More...]

Zulu (1964)
Cy Endfield

In 1879, missionary Otto Witt and his daughter Margareta are attending a mass Zulu marriage ceremony in Natal when they learn that a British force of 1400 men has just been wiped out by an army of Zulu warriors...   [More...]


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