Film Index
American cinema: Thriller
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Edmund Goulding
Stanton Carlisle is a drifter who gets a job with a travelling carnival, the main attractions of which include “the Geek”, a rundown wreck of a man who bites the heads off live chickens, and Zeena, a mind-reader and fortune teller...
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Edmund Goulding
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Roman Polanski
Dean Corso makes a living hunting down rare books for wealthy clients. New York publisher Boris Balkan offers him a blank cheque if he can prove the authenticity of a 17th Century book of satanic spells, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows...
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Roman Polanski
Nocturne (1946)
Edwin L. Marin
Whilst entertaining a woman in his apartment one evening, a composer named Keith Vincent is composing a farewell song to his latest amorous conquest...
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Edwin L. Marin
North by Northwest (1959)
Alfred Hitchcock
Life for advertising executive Roger Thornhill suddenly gets a little complicated on the day he is mistaken for a Federal agent named George Kaplan...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious (1946)
Alfred Hitchcock
Shortly after her father is arrested on a charge of treason, Alicia Huberman is recruited by an American government agent, Devlin, to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Rio de Janeiro...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Octopussy (1983)
John Glen
Sickened by the concessions his leaders have made to Western governments, renegade Soviet General Orlov concocts a diabolical plan that will enable the Soviet Union to expand its territory using conventional forces... [More...]
John Glen
Sickened by the concessions his leaders have made to Western governments, renegade Soviet General Orlov concocts a diabolical plan that will enable the Soviet Union to expand its territory using conventional forces... [More...]
The Old Dark House (1932)
James Whale
Philip and Margaret Waverton are on their way to Shrewsbury by car with war veteran Roger Penderel when they are caught in a violent rainstorm... [More...]
James Whale
Philip and Margaret Waverton are on their way to Shrewsbury by car with war veteran Roger Penderel when they are caught in a violent rainstorm... [More...]
The Old Dark House (1963)
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
The Omega Man (1971)
Boris Sagal
Robert Neville believes he is the last surviving human of a worldwide catastrophe. Two years ago, a biological war between the Soviet Union and China unleashed a deadly plague that has wiped out most of humanity... [More...]
Boris Sagal
Robert Neville believes he is the last surviving human of a worldwide catastrophe. Two years ago, a biological war between the Soviet Union and China unleashed a deadly plague that has wiped out most of humanity... [More...]
The Omen (1976)
Richard Donner
When his son dies in childbirth, the wealthy American politician Robert Thorn agrees to adopt another child in its place, to spare his wife Katherine grief... [More...]
Richard Donner
When his son dies in childbirth, the wealthy American politician Robert Thorn agrees to adopt another child in its place, to spare his wife Katherine grief... [More...]
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Nicholas Ray
Jim Wilson is a hard-bitten detective who has no qualms about using violence and underhand methods when it comes to dealing with the city's lowlife... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Jim Wilson is a hard-bitten detective who has no qualms about using violence and underhand methods when it comes to dealing with the city's lowlife... [More...]
One Body Too Many (1944)
Frank McDonald
After the death of millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford his relatives assemble in his mansion to attend the reading of his will... [More...]
Frank McDonald
After the death of millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford his relatives assemble in his mansion to attend the reading of his will... [More...]
Out of the Past (1947)
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him... [More...]
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague... [More...]
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague... [More...]
Party Girl (1958)
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes makes the blunder of his career when he unwittingly allows master criminal Giles Conover to steal a priceless pearl which is on display at a London museum... [More...]
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes makes the blunder of his career when he unwittingly allows master criminal Giles Conover to steal a priceless pearl which is on display at a London museum... [More...]
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Arthur Lubin
When Erique Claudin loses his job as a violinist at the Paris Opera House he hastily sets about selling the concerto he has been working on for years... [More...]
Arthur Lubin
When Erique Claudin loses his job as a violinist at the Paris Opera House he hastily sets about selling the concerto he has been working on for years... [More...]
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Rupert Julian
Midway through a production of Gounod's Faust, the Paris Opera House is about to change hands, but its new owners are unconcerned by the rumours that the building is haunted by a sinister phantom... [More...]
Rupert Julian
Midway through a production of Gounod's Faust, the Paris Opera House is about to change hands, but its new owners are unconcerned by the rumours that the building is haunted by a sinister phantom... [More...]
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards
Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position... [More...]
Blake Edwards
Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position... [More...]
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Roger Corman
16th Century Spain. When he learns of the death of his beloved sister Elizabeth, Francis Barnard travels to the remote castle where she lived with her husband, Nicholas Medina, hoping to discover how she died... [More...]
Roger Corman
16th Century Spain. When he learns of the death of his beloved sister Elizabeth, Francis Barnard travels to the remote castle where she lived with her husband, Nicholas Medina, hoping to discover how she died... [More...]
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Franklin J. Schaffner
Towards the end of the 20th Century, a party of astronauts, led by George Taylor, is sent into space to test Einstein's theory of time dilation... [More...]
Franklin J. Schaffner
Towards the end of the 20th Century, a party of astronauts, led by George Taylor, is sent into space to test Einstein's theory of time dilation... [More...]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ronald Neame
The ocean liner SS Poseidon is making her way across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Athens, her final journey before being retired and sold for scrap... [More...]
Ronald Neame
The ocean liner SS Poseidon is making her way across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Athens, her final journey before being retired and sold for scrap... [More...]
Possessed (1947)
Curtis Bernhardt
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles as if in a daze, calling out the name David to everyone she sees. When she collapses, she is taken to a psychiatric clinic where she is diagnosed as having a schizoid disorder... [More...]
Curtis Bernhardt
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles as if in a daze, calling out the name David to everyone she sees. When she collapses, she is taken to a psychiatric clinic where she is diagnosed as having a schizoid disorder... [More...]
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock
Arizona secretary Marion Crane is desperate to marry her lover Sam Loomis but the latter's debts and hefty alimony payments to his ex-wife make this impossible... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Arizona secretary Marion Crane is desperate to marry her lover Sam Loomis but the latter's debts and hefty alimony payments to his ex-wife make this impossible... [More...]
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quentin Tarantino
When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase... [More...]
Quentin Tarantino
When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase... [More...]
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are about to head off to Scotland for a hunting holiday when they are hoodwinked into accepting another case... [More...]
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are about to head off to Scotland for a hunting holiday when they are hoodwinked into accepting another case... [More...]
Pushover (1954)
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]