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10 Rillington Place (1971)

Richard Fleischer

In 1948, Tim and Beryl Evans, a young married couple, move into a top floor flat at 10, Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, London. They have a one-year-old daughter and find it difficult to make ends meet, thanks to Tim’s illiteracy and learning difficulties. When Beryl discovers that she is pregnant with a second child, she decides to have an abortion... [More...]

The 39 Steps (1935)

Alfred Hitchcock

Not long after arriving in London, the Canadian Richard Hannay visits a music hall theatre to watch the star act, Mr Memory, a man who startles his audience with his infallible recollection of trivial facts. During the show, gunshots are fired. In the panic, Hannay leaves the theatre holding a woman he has never met before... [More...]

49th Parallel (1941)

Michael Powell

Early in WWII, a German U-boat surfaces off the east coast of Canada. Only six members if its crew survive when RCAF bombers destroy the submarine in a fierce raid. These six head for the 49th parallel, the unguarded frontier between Canada and the United States, hoping to seeking sanctuary in the latter country which has yet to enter the war... [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...]

A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)

Anthony Asquith

One night, a convict escapes from Dartmoor prison and races across open countryside towards a remote farm cottage. Unaware of the trouble that is coming her way, the young woman inside this solitary building is putting her child to bed. The man enters the cottage and confronts the woman, who realises in an instant what is to be her fate... [More...]

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

Anthony Mann

Eberlin, a British intelligence operative, is surprised when his superiors assign him to find and assassinate a troublesome KGB agent named Krasnevin. The truth is that Eberlin is himself Krasnevin, a double agent who has been in the employ of the Soviets for nearly twenty years. Partnered with a ruthless British agent named Gatiss, Eberlin is sent to West Berlin, where Krasnevin was apparently last sighted... [More...]

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West. The latter pretend to be brother and sister but are in fact lovers who intend to double-cross George and Ken after the robbery... [More...]

A View to a Kill (1985)

John Glen

When it is discovered that the Soviets have managed to duplicate a revolutionary microchip capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, British Intelligence suspects that the chip’s manufacturer, Zorin Industries, has been infiltrated by Russian agents. James Bond is assigned to investigate the activities of the company’s multimillionaire owner, Max Zorin, and soon finds he is implicated in a horse racing scam, fitting his horses with microchips to improve their chances of winning at racing tournaments... [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...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors? As night falls, they enter an inn named The Slaughtered Lamb, hoping for rest and refreshment. Instead, they receive a deathly cold reception from a sinister collection of locals who, not liking foreign folk, drive them away with a warning not to stray on the moors... [More...]

The Angry Hills (1959)

Robert Aldrich

An American journalist Mike Morrison arrives in Athens just as the Allies are about to pull out on the eve of a full-scale Nazi invasion of Greece. Morrison is immediately contacted by an agent named Dr Stergion who offers him a large bounty if he will deliver a piece of paper to British Intelligence... [More...]

Beat the Devil (1953)

John Huston

Billy Dannreuther and his wife Maria are on their way to make their fortune in Africa, but are held up in an Italian port whilst their steamboat undergoes some repair work. Here, they meet an eccentric English couple, Harry and Gwendolen Chelm, and a strange foursome led by a man named Peterson. It gradually becomes apparent that they all have one thing in common – to secure the rights to land that is reputed to be rich in uranium ore... [More...]

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)

Basil Dearden

Will Davis is the proprietor of a correspondence college that prides itself on its academic excellence, even if it has difficulty competing with the better known academic institutions. The college’s only pupil is Bobby Jessop, a junior employee at the Ministry of International Commerce in London... [More...]

Blackmail (1929)

Alfred Hitchcock

Alice is unimpressed when her boyfriend Frank, a Scotland Yard detective, fails to keep their appointment one evening. After a slight quarrel, they decide not to go to the pictures together. Instead, Alice goes off with another man who has taken her fancy, a young painter named Mr Crewe. She allows her new beau to take her back to his apartment so that he can show her his latest artistic achievements... [More...]

Blind Terror (1971)

Richard Fleischer

Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house. Whilst Sarah is out amusing herself with her boyfriend, Steve, a strange man enters the house and kills the entire Rexton household... [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 Brides of Dracula (1960)

Terence Fisher

Count Dracula may have been destroyed but his legacy of vampiric evil endures, lingering like a poisonous cloud of death over the bleak Transylvanian landscape. Marianne Danielle, a young French schoolteacher, knows nothing of this and makes the journey to the girls’ school where she it to take up her new post in blissful ignorance of the dangers that surround her... [More...]

Brighton Rock (1947)

John Boulting

Beneath its quaint, tourist-friendly surface impression, Brighton of the 1930s is a squalid town where gangland crime is rampant. When the leader of his gang is killed, 17-year old Pinkie Brown takes revenge by murdering a journalist, Fred Hale. To cover his tracks, he has no option but to marry a naive young waitress, Rose, who mistakes his interest in her for love... [More...]

The Broken (2008)

Sean Ellis

Life appears to be going well for Gina. She has a good job, as a radiographer in a London hospital, and is in a steady relationship, with Stéphane, a Frenchman. Then, one day, her world starts to fall apart. It begins when a mirror falls from the wall and smashes when she is having a birthday meal with her father... [More...]

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