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British cinema: Thriller

The Fiend (1972)
Robert Hartford-Davis

Birdy Wemys and her son Kenny belong to a religious cult that regularly worship at a chapel in their house. Whilst Birdy, an old woman who is dependent on insulin injections, fights the good fight and dedicates her life to saving lost souls, Kenny, a part-time security guard and swimming pool attendant, spends his evenings killing young women for the same goal...   [More...]

The Final Conflict (1981)
Graham Baker

The world is in the grip of recession and tensions in the Middle East are rising amidst a diplomatic crisis. One man can lead the way forwards, guiding mankind to a better future...   [More...]

Flash Gordon (1980)
Mike Hodges

Intent on destroying the planet Earth for his own wicked amusement, the Emperor Ming the Merciless instigates a series of catastrophes which are taken to be natural disasters...   [More...]

The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
John Gilling

Edinburgh, 1828. Dr Robert Knox is an eminent anatomist who needs a regular supply of human cadavers for his anatomy lectures...   [More...]

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Arthur Lubin

London, in the early 1900s. When she discovers that her employer, Stephen Lowry, poisoned his wife, housemaid Lily Watkins soon turns the situation to her advantage...   [More...]

For Your Eyes Only (1981)
John Glen

When a fishing trawler is sunk by an old naval mine in the Ionian Sea, Britain's entire defences are suddenly put at risk...   [More...]

The Fourth Protocol (1987)
John Mackenzie

During the Cold War, the head of the KGB, General Govershin, devises a plan that will strike a potentially fatal blow to NATO, by breaching the Fourth Protocol of the recent nuclear weapons treaty...   [More...]

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Terence Fisher

Arrested for performing immoral experiments on stolen corpses, a young doctor named Simon Helder is declared insane and admitted to a lunatic asylum...   [More...]

Frenzy (1972)
Alfred Hitchcock

In London a serial killer is at large. The victims are all young women who have been raped and strangled with a necktie. Meanwhile, former RAF man Richard Blaney is having difficulty fitting back into civilian life...   [More...]

From Beyond the Grave (1973)
Kevin Connor

Edward Charlton cannot believe his good fortune when he persuades a crusty old antiques dealer to sell him a 400-year-old mirror for twenty pounds, a fraction of its true value...   [More...]

From Russia with Love (1963)
Terence Young

Working for the international crime syndicate SPECTRE, chess grandmaster Kronsteen has devised a foolproof plan to steal the Lektor decoding machine from the Russians...   [More...]

Gaslight (1940)
Thorold Dickinson

Not long after moving into her new home, a grand London mansion, Bella Mallen becomes convinced that she is starting to lose her mind...   [More...]

George and Mildred (1980)
Peter Frazer-Jones

The Ropers' adventure of a lifetime begins when Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their wedding anniversary in one of London's top hotels...   [More...]

Get Carter (1971)
Mike Hodges

London-based gangster Jack Carter returns to his home in Newcastle to attend the funeral of his brother, Frank. The official story is that Frank Carter died in a car accident whilst heavily intoxicated, but Jack soon begins to suspect that he was murdered...   [More...]

The Ghost Train (1941)
Walter Forde

When a party of rail passengers bound for Cornwall miss their connection they find themselves stranded at a railway station, four miles from the nearest village...   [More...]

The Ghost Writer (2010)
Roman Polanski

The former British Prime Minister Adam Lang is about to publish his autobiography, which is of course to be written by an unnamed professional writer...   [More...]

The Ghoul (1933)
T. Hayes Hunter

Professor Morlant is an eccentric Englishman who has acquired a morbid fascination with the powers of the ancient Egyptian gods...   [More...]

The Ghoul (1975)
Freddie Francis

In England in the 1920s, two upper class couples decide to compete in a car race to Lands End. Billy and Daphne are soon in the lead, leaving Geoffrey and Angela trailing behind...   [More...]

The Glass Tomb (1955)
Montgomery Tully

Pel Pelham is an American impresario who dreams up the carnival attraction of the century. Henri Sapolio, a.k.a. the Starving Man, will go without food for seventy days, imprisoned in a glass tomb which will allow paying onlookers to witness every day of his ordeal...   [More...]

GoldenEye (1995)
Martin Campbell

British agent James Bond is sent to Monte Carlo to tail Xenia Onatopp, a member of the mysterious Janus crime syndicate. Bond fails to prevent Onatopp and her associate General Ourumov from stealing a revolutionary new helicopter which is capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse...   [More...]

Goldfinger (1964)
Guy Hamilton

James Bond is enjoying a well-deserved break in Miama when he is requested by his superiors in MI6 to look into the activities of a wealthy businessman named Auric Goldfinger...   [More...]

The Good Die Young (1954)
Lewis Gilbert

Four men, all law abiding citizens, decide to rob a mail van. Mike is a retired boxer who is unable to find work after having had his hand amputated...   [More...]

The Gorgon (1964)
Terence Fisher

The mist-shrouded village of Vandorf harbours an ancient evil of which no one dares speak, even when a series of mysterious deaths begins, reviving memories of an old and terrifying legend...   [More...]

Green for Danger (1946)
Sidney Gilliat

August 1944. A postman injured in a V1 bombardment of southern England dies during an operation at a country hospital. No one takes seriously the suggestion that foul play is involved until a second murder is committed...   [More...]

Grip of the Strangler (1958)
Robert Day

In London of 1860, Edward Styles is hanged for the murder of five women. Twenty years on, the novelist James Rankin is convinced of Styles' innocence and believes that the real killer, known as the Haymarket Strangler, is a young surgeon named Dr Tennant...   [More...]

The Hands of Orlac (1960)
Edmond T. Gréville

After a successful concert, the pianist Stephen Orlac is involved in a plane crash whilst returning to his fiancée Louise...   [More...]

Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Peter Sasdy

Anna is no more than a toddler when she witnesses her mother's savage death at the hands of her father, who is none other than the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper...   [More...]

The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
Michael Armstrong

To perk themselves up after a flagging party, a group of swinging young Londoners head off for a deserted house which has a reputation for being haunted...   [More...]

The Haunting (1963)
Robert Wise

Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena...   [More...]

Hell Below Zero (1954)
Mark Robson

On a trip to Cape Town to settle a few scores with a business partner, Duncan Craig meets and is bewitched by a young woman named Judie Nordhal...   [More...]



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