Film Index
British cinema: Drama
The Skin Game (1931)
Alfred Hitchcock
For centuries, the Hillcrists have ruled their own piece of rural England, but times are changing and money now counts for more than breeding...
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Alfred Hitchcock
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
Joseph Losey
One evening, the eminent psychiatrist Dr Clive Esmond is held up by a young petty crook named Frank Clements. Esmond manages to disarm his assailant, but rather than hand him over to the police he decides to take him home and subject him to an intense course of therapy...
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Joseph Losey
The Small Back Room (1949)
Michael Powell
In the spring of 1943, Great Britain is losing the war against Nazi Germany. Sammy Rice, a leading bomb disposal expert, is called in to investigate a new kind of bomb that the Germans have begun dropping over England...
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Michael Powell
The Snorkel (1958)
Guy Green
Writer Paul Decker believes he has committed the perfect murder at his Italian villa. With the help of a snorkel, he succeeds in poisoning his wife with gas, hiding beneath the floorboards in the sitting room he has meticulously sealed as she dies...
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Guy Green
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...
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Jack Cardiff
The Sound Barrier (1952)
David Lean
During WWII, fighter pilot Tony Garthwaite meets and falls in love with Susan, the daughter of the oil magnate John Ridgefield... [More...]
David Lean
During WWII, fighter pilot Tony Garthwaite meets and falls in love with Susan, the daughter of the oil magnate John Ridgefield... [More...]
Spaceways (1953)
Terence Fisher
In England, Professor Koepler leads a space programme which has within its sights the objective of placing a satellite in a stationary orbit around the earth... [More...]
Terence Fisher
In England, Professor Koepler leads a space programme which has within its sights the objective of placing a satellite in a stationary orbit around the earth... [More...]
The Spy in Black (1939)
Michael Powell
In 1917, German U-boat commander Captain Hardt is sent to the northeastern coast of Scotland to make preparations for an attack on the British naval fleet... [More...]
Michael Powell
In 1917, German U-boat commander Captain Hardt is sent to the northeastern coast of Scotland to make preparations for an attack on the British naval fleet... [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...]
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...]
The Stars Look Down (1940)
Carol Reed
Miners at Neptune Colliery in Sleescale, a small town in the northeast of England, refuse to work on a seam which threatens to flood the mine... [More...]
Carol Reed
Miners at Neptune Colliery in Sleescale, a small town in the northeast of England, refuse to work on a seam which threatens to flood the mine... [More...]
Stolen Face (1952)
Terence Fisher
Dr Philip Ritter is a leading plastic surgeon who believes that by giving hardened criminals a new face he can radically change their behaviour... [More...]
Terence Fisher
Dr Philip Ritter is a leading plastic surgeon who believes that by giving hardened criminals a new face he can radically change their behaviour... [More...]
Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Peter Collinson
Tired of her humdrum life in Liverpool, twenty-year-old Brenda Thompson says goodbye to her mother and heads down south to start a new life in swinging London... [More...]
Peter Collinson
Tired of her humdrum life in Liverpool, twenty-year-old Brenda Thompson says goodbye to her mother and heads down south to start a new life in swinging London... [More...]
Summertime (1955)
David Lean
Jane Hudson, a middle-aged spinster from Ohio, finally gets to realise her lifelong dream, a holiday in Venice, where she hopes to find love and romance amidst the golden waterways and ancient monuments... [More...]
David Lean
Jane Hudson, a middle-aged spinster from Ohio, finally gets to realise her lifelong dream, a holiday in Venice, where she hopes to find love and romance amidst the golden waterways and ancient monuments... [More...]
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
John Schlesinger
Daniel Hirsh is a cultured Jewish doctor in his fifties who would appear to have nothing in common with Alex Greville, a sharp-tongued thirty-something divorcee who has grown tired of her routine office job... [More...]
John Schlesinger
Daniel Hirsh is a cultured Jewish doctor in his fifties who would appear to have nothing in common with Alex Greville, a sharp-tongued thirty-something divorcee who has grown tired of her routine office job... [More...]
Swimming Pool (2003)
François Ozon
Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France... [More...]
François Ozon
Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France... [More...]
Tess (1979)
Roman Polanski
The Durbeyfields are a family of peasant farmworkers living in the county of Wessex in the late 1880s. They are surprised to learn that they are related to a neighbouring wealthy family and Tess, the eldest daughter, pays a visit on her supposed cousin, Alec d'Urberville... [More...]
Roman Polanski
The Durbeyfields are a family of peasant farmworkers living in the county of Wessex in the late 1880s. They are surprised to learn that they are related to a neighbouring wealthy family and Tess, the eldest daughter, pays a visit on her supposed cousin, Alec d'Urberville... [More...]
Things to Come (1936)
William Cameron Menzies
During Christmas 1940, the world is engulfed by a devastating global conflict. The war lasts three decades and reduces human civilisation to rubble... [More...]
William Cameron Menzies
During Christmas 1940, the world is engulfed by a devastating global conflict. The war lasts three decades and reduces human civilisation to rubble... [More...]
The Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed
An unemployed American writer, Holly Martins, arrives in Vienna after World War II at the invitation of a college friend, Harry Lime... [More...]
Carol Reed
An unemployed American writer, Holly Martins, arrives in Vienna after World War II at the invitation of a college friend, Harry Lime... [More...]
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
Don Sharp
England, 1914. With Europe on the brink of war, several prominent British politicians are assassinated. Former intelligence officer Colonel Scudder uncovers a plot to murder the Greek Prime Minister in an attempt to plunge Europe into war... [More...]
Don Sharp
England, 1914. With Europe on the brink of war, several prominent British politicians are assassinated. Former intelligence officer Colonel Scudder uncovers a plot to murder the Greek Prime Minister in an attempt to plunge Europe into war... [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...]
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...]
Tiger Bay (1959)
J. Lee Thompson
On his return to Cardiff after a stint at sea, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav Korchinsky learns that his girlfriend Anya has moved out of his lodgings and is having a relationship with another man... [More...]
J. Lee Thompson
On his return to Cardiff after a stint at sea, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav Korchinsky learns that his girlfriend Anya has moved out of his lodgings and is having a relationship with another man... [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...]
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...]
Town on Trial (1957)
John Guillermin
Oakley Park is a small English town, a town that is like so many others - until the fateful day when a young woman is strangled on her way home one evening... [More...]
John Guillermin
Oakley Park is a small English town, a town that is like so many others - until the fateful day when a young woman is strangled on her way home one evening... [More...]
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
Roman Polanski
Victorious in battle, the warriors Macbeth and Banquo are returning to their home in Scotland when they are met by three strange hags who greet them with fantastic prophesies... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Victorious in battle, the warriors Macbeth and Banquo are returning to their home in Scotland when they are met by three strange hags who greet them with fantastic prophesies... [More...]
Tsotsi (2005)
Gavin Hood
Barely into adulthood, Tsotsi is a hardened criminal who lives in a shanty district of post-Apartheid South Africa. He scrapes a living by brutal thievery with his mates Butcher, Boston and App... [More...]
Gavin Hood
Barely into adulthood, Tsotsi is a hardened criminal who lives in a shanty district of post-Apartheid South Africa. He scrapes a living by brutal thievery with his mates Butcher, Boston and App... [More...]
Twins of Evil (1971)
John Hough
In the 17th Century, an insane fear of witchcraft has taken hold of the people of Karnstein and driven them to hunt down and burn any young woman who is suspected of consorting with the Devil... [More...]
John Hough
In the 17th Century, an insane fear of witchcraft has taken hold of the people of Karnstein and driven them to hunt down and burn any young woman who is suspected of consorting with the Devil... [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...]
Terence Fisher
London, 1874. Dr Henry Jekyll is so absorbed in his scientific research that he neglects his beautiful socialite wife Kitty... [More...]
Under Capricorn (1949)
Alfred Hitchcock
In 1831, aristocratic Irishman Charles Adare travels to Sydney, Australia where he hopes to make his fortune, with a little help from his uncle, the present governor of the colony... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
In 1831, aristocratic Irishman Charles Adare travels to Sydney, Australia where he hopes to make his fortune, with a little help from his uncle, the present governor of the colony... [More...]
The Upturned Glass (1947)
Lawrence Huntington
A criminologist presents the case history of a supposedly sane criminal, a man who executed a well-planned murder for entirely rational reasons... [More...]
Lawrence Huntington
A criminologist presents the case history of a supposedly sane criminal, a man who executed a well-planned murder for entirely rational reasons... [More...]
Vatel (2000)
Roland Joffé
In 1671, the ageing Prince de Condé is anxious to regain the favour of King Louis XIV so that he can earn himself a commission as a general and lead a glorious military campaign against the Dutch... [More...]
Roland Joffé
In 1671, the ageing Prince de Condé is anxious to regain the favour of King Louis XIV so that he can earn himself a commission as a general and lead a glorious military campaign against the Dutch... [More...]