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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick

Millions of years ago, a tribe of herbivorous apelike hominids discover a mysterious black monolith which immediately exerts a strange influence over them. They learn how to kill other animals, to fashion bones into weapons and to assert their control over the world around them. Cut to the year 2001 AD, and Dr Heywood Floyd arrives at an American base on the moon where a remarkable discovery has been made... [More...]

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Michael Powell

During WWII, an RAF fighter pilot Peter Carter is returning to England after a raid over Germany when his plane is hit. Realising his has no parachute, he sends one last radio message, which is received by a young American radio operator, June, before bailing out to certain death. Miraculously, he survives and wakes up to find himself on a beach in the south of England, where he meets June and falls in love with her... [More...]

Arabian Adventure (1979)

Kevin Connor

The ancient city of Jadur is ruled by the tyrannical Caliph Alquazar, an evil sorcerer who employs mystical powers to prevent his people from rising up against him. Alquazar lacks only one thing to make him the most powerful of all men, the enchanted Rose of Elil. He promises his beautiful stepdaughter, the Princess Zuleira, to Prince Hasan if he can find the legendary rose and return it to him... [More...]

Blithe Spirit (1945)

David Lean

To gather material for his next book, writer Charles Condomine invites a local mystic, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house, in the presence of his wife Ruth and two guests. Sceptical of Arcati’s powers, Charles is surprised when the image of his dead wife Elvira appears before him... [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. Margaret was in fact born at the exact moment that her father entered the tomb of Tera, to find the princess’s perfectly preserved body... [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. The expeditionary party includes Dubois’ daughter Annette and the archaeologists John Bray and Sir Giles Dalrymple. Shortly after Dubois is murdered by Bedouins, a delegation from the Egyptian government appears to negotiate the retention of the ancient Egyptian artefacts in the country... [More...]

Dance of the Vampires (1967)

Roman Polanski

After a long journey across Eastern Europe, Professor Abronsius and his faithful apprentice Alfred finally succeed in finding solid evidence for the existence of vampires. In the snowy mountains of Transylvania, they come across a remote inn which is decorated with garlic and where the locals live in fear of some unseen evil presence... [More...]

Demons of the Mind (1972)

Peter Sykes

Convinced that his son Emil and daughter Elizabeth have inherited his insanity, Baron Zorn imprisons them in his castle and prevents them from ever seeing one another. Meanwhile, young women from a peasant village in the neighbouring area mysteriously disappear. These two things are not unconnected. Out of desperation, Zorn invites a spiritualist to his castle, hoping to cure him and his offspring of their Satanic affliction..... [More...]

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Terence Fisher

When his protégé, Simon Aron, fails to turn up for a reunion, the wealthy Duc de Richleau decides to visit him at his home. Accompanied by his friend, Rex Van Ryn, Richleau finds Simon is hosting a meeting of an astrological society. Suspecting that all is not what it appears, Richleau visits Simon’s observatory and is surprised to find occult symbols on the walls and floor... [More...]

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

Daniel Haller

American Stephen Reinhart comes to England at the request of the mother of his former girlfriend, Susan Witley. To his surprise, the locals in the village where the Witleys live refuse to provide him with transport to his destination. It is as if they are warning him to stay away. Undeterred, Stephen makes his own way to the ancient house, although the reception he receives from Susan’s father is far from friendly... [More...]

Dracula (1958)

Terence Fisher

Jonathan Harker makes the journey to Klausenberg to take up the post of librarian at Castle Dracula. The real motive for his expedition is to kill his employer, Count Dracula, but before he can do this he is attacked by a mysterious woman in white. The next day, Harker discovers that he has been bitten on his neck and realises that he is destined to become a vampire... [More...]

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

Terence Fisher

Englishman Charles Kent persuades his brother Alan and their two wives, Helen and Diana, to make a tour of the Carpathian mountains. When they arrive in the area they find the locals strangely fearful and are warned by a priest, Father Sandor, not to continue with their exploration of the mountains... [More...]

Fiddlers Three (1944)

Harry Watt

England, 1943. Tommy and the Professor, two sailors in the Royal Navy, are on their way back to their Portsmouth base when they see a WREN, Lydia, being molested by a man. Having rescued Lydia, the boys offer her a lift on the handlebars of their tandem. As the trio make their way across Salisbury Plain, a thunderstorm breaks... [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. But the mirror is not what it seems... By holding a séance in his flat, Charlton awakens a spirit trapped behind the mirror, a spirit that demands blood sacrifices so that he may be set free..... [More...]

The Ghost Goes West (1935)

René Clair

In 18th Century Scotland, there is only one thing that the McLaggan and Glourie clans hate more than the English, and that is each other. On his deathbed, Old Glourie gets his only son, Murdoch, to swear that he will prove himself worthy of the Glourie name. Before he gets his chance to do this, Mudroch is killed in battle, dying a coward’s death... [More...]

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)

Gordon Hessler

Sinbad is out sailing one sunny afternoon when a strange bat-like creature appears from nowhere and accidentally drops a gold ornament at his feet. Never one to look a gift horse, or in this case, a gift bat, in the mouth, Sinbad claims the ornament as his own and turns it into a nice necklace. Not a good idea, as it turns out, because that night the renowned sailor and collector of bling artefacts suffers a series of horrific nightmares... [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. When his father dies immediately after sending him a bizarre letter, Paul Heitz journeys to the village to investigate but finds the locals strangely unwilling to cooperate with him... [More...]

Help! (1965)

Richard Lester

A woman is about to be sacrificed in an Eastern religious ceremony when the cult leader, Swami Clang, realises that she is not wearing the sacrificial ring. Only the one who wears the ring may be sacrificed and at present the ring is on one of the fingers of the Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr. Clang and his high priestess Ahme travel to London to find Ringo and make him their next sacrificial victim... [More...]

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Don Chaffey

In ancient Greece, Aristo, the benevolent King of Thessaly, is overthrown by his rival, Pelias, but a prophesy foretells that one day Aristo’s son Jason will return to reclaim the throne. Years later, Pelias is saved from drowning by a young man whom he recognises as Aristo’s son. Fearful that if he kills his nemesis he too will die, Pelias encourages Jason in his quest to find the fabled golden fleece, which is believed to hang on a tree on an island at the end of the world... [More...]

Lust for a Vampire (1971)

Jimmy Sangster

For forty years, the country of Styria has been rid of the scourge of vampirism. But then it returns, suddenly and unexpectedly, when Carmilla Karnstein is resurrected in a blood sacrifice. At this time, the writer Richard Lestrange arrives in the area, looking for material for his next novel. He laughs off rumours of vampirism as mere superstition but is nonetheless fascinated by what he hears, tales of seductively beautiful women vampires who lure men and girls to their doom... [More...]

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