Film Index
British cinema: Drama
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...
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Jeremy Summers
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...
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Basil Dearden
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Alfred Hitchcock
Johann Strauss the Younger imagines that one day he will be a great composer like his father, but he gets no encouragement and has to content himself with playing the second violin in his father's orchestra...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Waterloo Road (1945)
Sidney Gilliat
In 1940, towards the start of the Second World War, Jim Colter is away doing his bit in the fight against Hitler whilst his wife Tillie stays at home in London with his mother and sisters, Ruby and Vera...
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Sidney Gilliat
The Way Ahead (1944)
Carol Reed
England, 1941. A disparate group of conscripts, new recruits into the Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry, grudgingly begin their training at Hacklefield army camp...
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Carol Reed
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Anthony Asquith
When the Royal Navy submarine Sea Tiger returns to base after a long period at sea, her crew, led by Lieutenant Taylor, is looking forward to some well-earned leave... [More...]
Anthony Asquith
When the Royal Navy submarine Sea Tiger returns to base after a long period at sea, her crew, led by Lieutenant Taylor, is looking forward to some well-earned leave... [More...]
Went the Day Well? (1942)
Alberto Cavalcanti
One day in May 1942 a British Army convoy rolls into the sleepy English village of Bramley End. The commander, Major Hammond, explains to the startled villagers that his platoon is making a review of local defences in readiness for a possible Nazi invasion... [More...]
Alberto Cavalcanti
One day in May 1942 a British Army convoy rolls into the sleepy English village of Bramley End. The commander, Major Hammond, explains to the startled villagers that his platoon is making a review of local defences in readiness for a possible Nazi invasion... [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...]
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 Wicked Lady (1945)
Leslie Arliss
17th Century England. Barbara Worth isn't content with stealing her best friend's fiancé and marrying him solely for his wealth... [More...]
Leslie Arliss
17th Century England. Barbara Worth isn't content with stealing her best friend's fiancé and marrying him solely for his wealth... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Pawel Pawlikowski
Tom Ricks is an American writer in his forties who moves to Paris after losing his university job through a foolish indiscretion... [More...]
Pawel Pawlikowski
Tom Ricks is an American writer in his forties who moves to Paris after losing his university job through a foolish indiscretion... [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...]
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...]
Wuthering Heights (1992)
Peter Kosminsky
The Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights, a gothic mansion set on the bleak moors in the north of England. Young Cathy Earnshaw is given a playmate when her father adopts a gipsy boy Heathcliff... [More...]
Peter Kosminsky
The Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights, a gothic mansion set on the bleak moors in the north of England. Young Cathy Earnshaw is given a playmate when her father adopts a gipsy boy Heathcliff... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]