Film Index

British cinema: Thriller

Blind Terror (1971)
Richard Fleischer

Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house...   [More...]

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Seth Holt

On her 21st birthday, Margaret Fuchs receives a ring set with a huge ruby from her father, Professor Fuchs. Unbeknown to Margaret, the ring is an ancient artefact which her father found on the severed hand of an evil Egyptian princess, Tera...   [More...]

The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Piers Haggard

In England of the 17th century, ploughman Ralph Gower finds the decomposed remains of a creature, part animal, part human, buried in a field...   [More...]

The Brain (1962)
Freddie Francis

By experimenting on primates, Dr Peter Corrie has found not only a way to preserve the brain of an animal after death, but also a means of monitoring brain activity in its new, artificial environment...   [More...]

Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam

Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information...   [More...]

The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Terence Fisher

Count Dracula may have been destroyed but his legacy of vampiric evil endures, lingering like a poisonous cloud of death over the bleak Transylvanian landscape...   [More...]

The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
Don Sharp

In 1924, the Chinese criminal mastermind Fu Manchu sets up his headquarters in North Africa and organises a series of kidnappings...   [More...]

Brighton Rock (1947)
John Boulting

Beneath its quaint, tourist-friendly surface impression, Brighton of the 1930s is a squalid town where gangland crime is rampant...   [More...]

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Otto Preminger

A few days after arriving in London, American Ann Lake leaves her four-year old daughter Bunny at a school for toddlers before rushing off to meet the removal men at her new apartment...   [More...]

Carry on Cabby (1963)
Gerald Thomas

Charlie Hawkins is the owner of a successful taxi firm, Speedee Cabs. His job has become the main passion in his life and, understandably, his wife Peggy feels neglected...   [More...]

Carry On Screaming (1966)
Gerald Thomas

Something sinister is afoot in Edwardian England. One misty evening, a young couple, Albert and Doris, are disturbed whilst courting in Hocombe Woods...   [More...]

Carry on Spying (1964)
Gerald Thomas

When a top secret formula is stolen from a government laboratory, the British secret services hastily set about recovering it...   [More...]

Casino Royale (1967)
Val Guest

Against his will, the original James Bond is brought out of retirement to foil a dastardly plot by SMERSH, an enemy organisation run by the evil Dr Noah...   [More...]

Children of the Stones [TV] (1977)
Peter Graham Scott

Adam Brake, an astrophysicist whose wife has recently died, arrives in the small English village of Milbury with his teenage son Matthew...   [More...]

Circus of Horrors (1960)
Sidney Hayers

England, 1947. When an operation on a society woman goes badly wrong, plastic surgeon Dr Rossiter is forced to flee the country and, in doing so, narrowly escapes death in a car accident...   [More...]

Cloudburst (1951)
Francis Searle

London, 1946. A former resistance operative during the war, John Graham now runs a code-breaking department that deciphers coded messages which may result in the prosecution of war criminals...   [More...]

The Collector (1965)
William Wyler

Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside...   [More...]

Contraband (1940)
Michael Powell

November, 1939. Captain Andersen is on his way back to Denmark when his cargo ship is impounded by British Contraband Control...   [More...]

Corridors of Blood (1958)
Robert Day

London, 1840. 'Pain and the knife are inseparable' is the prevailing view in the medical profession, but one man who disputes this is Dr Thomas Bolton, a philanthropic surgeon who devotes his spare time to developing a safe anaesthetic that will make surgery completely painless...   [More...]

Corruption (1968)
Robert Hartford-Davis

In the swinging sixties, Sir John Rowan is one of London's leading surgeons. At a party, he gets into a fight with a photographer which results in a lamp crashing onto his girlfriend, Lynn Nolan, totally disfiguring half of her face...   [More...]

Cottage to Let (1941)
Anthony Asquith

When Mrs Barrington puts her cottage up for let she gets far more than she bargained for. It is wartime and the cottage serves as a military hospital, although the only patient being treated on the premises is Flight Lieutenant Perry, who injured himself when he parachuted from his Spitfire...   [More...]

The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Freddie Francis

In the late 19th century, Professor Emmanuel Hildern believes he is about to make a major scientific breakthrough that will change mankind's destiny forever...   [More...]

Crescendo (1970)
Alan Gibson

American music student Susan Roberts willingly accepts an invitation to stay at the home of Danielle Ryman in the south of France to gather material for the thesis she is writing on her hostess's husband, a world famous composer...   [More...]

Cul-de-sac (1966)
Roman Polanski

Two American gangsters, Dickie and Albie, are on the run after a robbery that has gone disastrously awry. Both men are in a bad way, and Albie needs treatment for a serious gunshot wound he has sustained...   [More...]

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Vernon Sewell

When his brother Peter mysteriously disappears, antiques dealer Robert Manning visits the house where he was last seen - Craxted Lodge in the remote English village of Greymarsh...   [More...]

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
Michael Carreras

Egypt, 1900. An archaeological team led by the eminent Egyptologist Dr Dubois has uncovered the lost tomb of the pharaoh Ra-Antef...   [More...]

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Terence Fisher

In 18th century Spain, a beggar is thrown into a dungeon cell when he offends the cruel Marques Siniestro at his wedding feast...   [More...]

Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Gordon Flemyng

Having failed to prevent a raid on a jeweller's shop, London constable Tom Campbell enters a police box hoping to call for reinforcements...   [More...]

The Damned (1963)
Joseph Losey

A retired American, Simon Wells, is enjoying a yachting holiday in a small English seaside town when he is set upon by a group of teddy boys, led by an aggressive young man named King...   [More...]

Dark Journey (1937)
Victor Saville

Towards the end of the First World War, Madeleine Goddard makes frequent trips between Paris and Stockholm, ostensibly to supply expensive dresses to her wealthy Swedish clientele...   [More...]



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