Film Index
British cinema: Thriller
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
John Gilling
Anxious to get his hands on his wife Ella's fortune, Walter Venable murders her in cold blood with the help of his servants Clara and Andrew...
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John Gilling
Shallow Grave (1994)
Danny Boyle
Alex, David and Juliet are three friends who share a roomy flat in a trendy part of Edinburgh. Even though they are all professionals (respectively a journalist, accountant and doctor), they need a fourth flatmate if they are to pay their exorbitant rent...
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Danny Boyle
The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Torrance is delighted when he is offered the job of winter caretaker at the Overlook, a sprawling luxury hotel set in a remote mountain location in Colorado...
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Stanley Kubrick
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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...]
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 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 Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Lewis Gilbert
When British and Soviet submarines armed with ballistic missiles go missing, the two countries assign their best agent to investigate... [More...]
Lewis Gilbert
When British and Soviet submarines armed with ballistic missiles go missing, the two countries assign their best agent to investigate... [More...]
Stage Fright (1950)
Alfred Hitchcock
Jonathan Cooper is on the run from the police, suspected of murdering the husband of the renowned singer-actress Charlotte Inwood... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Jonathan Cooper is on the run from the police, suspected of murdering the husband of the renowned singer-actress Charlotte Inwood... [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...]
The Stone Tape [TV] (1972)
Peter Sasdy
A research team of a British electronics company intent on developing a revolutionary new recording medium moves into a Victorian mansion that has been deserted since the end of the Second World War... [More...]
Peter Sasdy
A research team of a British electronics company intent on developing a revolutionary new recording medium moves into a Victorian mansion that has been deserted since the end of the Second World War... [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...]
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...]
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Freddie Francis
Visiting some ancient catacombs, five strangers are taken to the Crypt Keeper, a hooded old man who recounts a story in which each of them meets a gruesome demise... [More...]
Freddie Francis
Visiting some ancient catacombs, five strangers are taken to the Crypt Keeper, a hooded old man who recounts a story in which each of them meets a gruesome demise... [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...]
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...]
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Peter Sasdy
Three seemingly upright Victorian gentlemen - William Hargood, Samuel Paxton and Anthony Higgins - have formed a secret society, ostensibly for the good of their fellow man... [More...]
Peter Sasdy
Three seemingly upright Victorian gentlemen - William Hargood, Samuel Paxton and Anthony Higgins - have formed a secret society, ostensibly for the good of their fellow man... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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 the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Peter Sykes
John Verney is surprised when his friend, Henry Beddows, asks him to collect his 17-year-old daughter Catherine from the airport and take her back to his London apartment... [More...]
Peter Sykes
John Verney is surprised when his friend, Henry Beddows, asks him to collect his 17-year-old daughter Catherine from the airport and take her back to his London apartment... [More...]
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Roger Spottiswoode
Media mogul Elliot Carver has big ambitions for his global media empire, the Carver Media Group Network, but unfortunately to achieve his aims he must risk provoking World War Three... [More...]
Roger Spottiswoode
Media mogul Elliot Carver has big ambitions for his global media empire, the Carver Media Group Network, but unfortunately to achieve his aims he must risk provoking World War Three... [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...]
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...]
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 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...]
The Uncanny (1977)
Denis Héroux
For years, Wilbur Gray has been gathering evidence to support his theory that domestic cats are not only more intelligent than their owners, but that they have been controlling and exploiting man since the year dot... [More...]
Denis Héroux
For years, Wilbur Gray has been gathering evidence to support his theory that domestic cats are not only more intelligent than their owners, but that they have been controlling and exploiting man since the year dot... [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...]