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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 Clockwork Orange (1971)

Stanley Kubrick

Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies. This involves beating up rival gangs, breaking into houses and generally having a good time before heading back to the Korova Milk Bar for some nourishing lactose-based refreshment... [More...]

Alien (1979)

Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women – is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure... [More...]

Aliens (1986)

James Cameron

57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth. Revived from hypersleep, she is put before a panel of Company executives, who listen to her story with incredulity. Ripley is appalled when Company representative Carter Burke tells her that a terraforming outfit has been sent to LV-426, the planet on which the alien eggs were found by her crew, to establish a colony... [More...]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Steven Spielberg

The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer. Electrical linesman Roy Neary is on his way to deal with a power blackout when his vehicle stalls and he is bathed in a blinding white light... [More...]

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Terence Fisher

Whilst in prison, awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein relates his tragic life story to a priest. Inheriting his father’s estate, the young Victor began a series of experiments with his friend and mentor Paul Krempe, the aim being to artificially create life. Having successfully revived a dead dog, Frankenstein begins to assemble human body parts to construct a human being which he hopes to bring to life in his laboratory... [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. The latter is not amused when his sister, Joan, takes a liking to Simon. As Joan and Simon sail off in the latter’s yacht, King vows to kill the American... [More...]

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

Steve Sekely

One night, the sky is lit up by the dazzling spectacle of meteorites burning up in the atmosphere. The following morning, Bill Masen, an American naval officer, wakes up in hospital after an eye operation to find that everyone around him has lost his sight. Bill soon realises that this is a global phenomenon - the blazing meteorites of the night before have rendered almost the entire human population blind... [More...]

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Guy Hamilton

International criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld finally gets his just desserts when James Bond tracks him to his lair where he has been attempting to create doubles of himself. But no sooner has Bond dealt with his (very) arch nemesis than he is summoned to M’s office in London to receive instructions for another assignment... [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...]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Stanley Kubrick

Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR. Ripper’s executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, quickly realises that the general has lost his marbles and desperately tries to get out of him the three-letter code that will recall the bombers before they reach their target... [More...]

The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

Freddie Francis

Baron Frankenstein is on the verge of making another scientific breakthrough when a bunch of irate locals turn on him and drive him from his laboratory. Penniless but not defeated, Frankenstein makes the journey back to his hometown of Karlstaad, accompanied by his faithful assistant Hans. Only by selling off the furnishings in his abandoned castle will the scientist be able to raise the money to finance further research... [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...]

Frankenstein (1994)

Kenneth Branagh

In 1794, Captain Robert Walton is leading an expedition to the North Pole when his ship becomes trapped in the ice. As Walton and his crew attempt to free their craft, they are met by a stranger, who entreats them to help him. The stranger, Victor Frankenstein, recounts his tragic tale. Whilst studying anatomy at university, the young Frankenstein became interested in the creation of artificial life through electrical stimulation... [More...]

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

Terence Fisher

Baron Frankenstein believes he has perfected a means of extracting the soul of a human being from a corpse and transferring it into another body. He gets the opportunity to test his theories when his young assistant, Hans, is executed, after having been tried for the murder of a local innkeeper. The recipient of Hans’ soul is the innkeeper’s disfigured daughter, Christiana, who drowned herself after seeing Hans, her lover, guillotined... [More...]

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

Terence Fisher

Dr Frankenstein’s experiments in brain transplant surgery are temporarily suspended when the scientist’s cellar laboratory is discovered by an enterprising burglar. To evade capture by the police, Frankenstein relocates to a London boarding house run by Anna Spengler, whose fiancé, Dr Karl Holst, works at an asylum for the insane... [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. Although Goldfinger has done nothing illegal, his recent acquisition of gold bullion is beginning to worry the British and American governments... [More...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Garth Jennings

Englishman Arthur Dent is none too happy when he wakes up one morning to find that his house is about to be demolished by a fleet of bulldozers. Little does he, or anyone else on Earth (apart from the dolphins, who have already left) know that the entire planet is ten minutes away from being demolished by a fleet of Vogon spaceships, to make way for a hyperspace bypass... [More...]

The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

Jimmy Sangster

Victor Frankenstein is a precocious young man whose passion for science is matched only by his interest in the female sex, which is good because it helps him in his understanding of human anatomy. When his skinflint father refuses to pay for his further studies, the cunning Victor arranges for him to have a convenient death and heads off to Vienna to begin his university career... [More...]

Madame Sin (1972)

David Greene

Former CIA agent Anthony Lawrence is mooching around London when he is accosted by a man who offers to buy his services. When he refuses, Lawrence is rendered unconscious and taken to an old castle on a remote Scottish island. Lawrence’s abductor is Malcolm De Vere, aide to the ruthless criminal mastermind Madame Sin, who has been behind some of the most outrageous crimes of the century... [More...]

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