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13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

Henry Hathaway

During the later years of WWII, Bob Sharkey has the job of training spies in the American Strategic Services. His boss informs him that one of his latest recruits, Bill O’Connell, is a Nazi agent. The plan is to allow O’Connell to take part in a bogus mission, so that he will feed false information to the Germans ahead of an allied invasion... [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 Double Life (1947)

George Cukor

Anthony John is a renowned stage actor who, against his better judgement, allows himself to be coaxed into playing the lead role in Shakespeare’s Othello. The part of the jealous husband who ultimately murders his beloved wife turns out to be appropriate for John, for he has a jealous streak and still claims ownership of his ex-wife Brita... [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 Night in Casablanca (1946)

Archie Mayo

A gang of Nazis in Casablanca are planning to secure the management of a hotel so that they can get their hands on the priceless art treasures hidden in one of its rooms. To do this, they murder a succession of managers of the hotel, but before their leader, Count Pfferman, can act, another manager is appointed in his place... [More...]

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Wes Craven

Tina and Nancy, two teenagers in a cosy American suburb, experience the same terrifying dream in which they are attacked by a disfigured man in a hat, with razor-sharp knives attached to his fingers. One night, during a sleepover with their boyfriends Rod and Glen, Tina is brutally murdered. The killing is witnessed by Rod, who sees Tina slashed by invisible knives and dragged onto the ceiling... [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...]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Alfred L. Werker

When Professor Moriarty is acquitted of a murder charge, his arch-nemesis Sherlock Holmes vows to bring him to book. Moriarty rises to this challenge by concocting what he believes will be the crime of the century. Whilst he prepares his master plan, the villainous professor distracts Holmes with another mystery... [More...]

Affair in Trinidad (1952)

Vincent Sherman

Chris Emery is a nightclub dancer and singer in Trinidad. When she learns that her husband has been murdered, she agrees to act as an agent of the British secret service, who believe the culprit to be Max Fabian, a wealthy man with a criminal past. Things become complicated when Chris’s brother-in-law, Steve, puts in an unexpected appearance... [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...]

Alien 3 (1992)

David Fincher

When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space. The pod crashlands on Fiorina 161, a maximum security penal planet inhabited by some of the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy. The prison’s population is entirely male, mostly pathologically hostile to women, and is employed in operating a large metal foundry... [More...]

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It has been 200 years since Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the Alien queen that was growing within her. Scientists on a United Systems Military spaceship have succeeded in creating a clone of Ripley and were then able to allow the Alien in her body to be born. With the Alien locked in a secure area, they conduct experiments on it, believing that it has great commercial value... [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...]

And Then There Were None (1945)

René Clair

Eight men and women, all unknown to each other, accept a mysterious invitation to an island estate. They are welcomed by two domestic servants, Mr and Mrs Rogers, who appear to be as ignorant of the reason for the meeting as the guests are. When they are all assembled together, they hear a strange message from their unknown host on a gramophone record... [More...]

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Robert Wise

Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico. The team who are sent to recover the satellite find the town strewn with dead bodies. The only survivors are a drunken old man and a baby. Everyone else has died from a mysterious blood-clotting condition... [More...]

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Michael Curtiz

Jerry Connolly and Rocky Sullivan are two kids growing up in a poor area of New York. Their first attempt at robbery ends in failure – Jerry escapes but Rocky is caught and sent to a reform school. Whilst Jerry becomes a priest, Rocky is lured deeper into a life of crime, and inevitably ends up in jail... [More...]

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Frank Capra

Mortimer Brewster returns to Brooklyn to visit his elderly aunts Abby and Martha with the news that he has just got married. The last thing he expects to find in his old home is a dead body in the window seat. His aunts casually admit that this is the latest of their mercy killings. Whenever a solitary old man enters their house, they take it upon themselves to put him out of his misery, with a glass of elderberry wine laced with poison... [More...]

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

John Huston

Within hours of leaving prison, criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is preparing his next robbery. To clean up on a million dollars’ worth of jewels, he recruits a safecracker, Louis Ciavelli, getaway-driver Gus Minissi and hoodlum Dix Handley. A crooked lawyer Alonzo Emmerich agrees to put up the money for the heist, but his attempt at a double cross backfires... [More...]

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Mathieu Kassovitz

One of the battle-scarred survivors of the wars that ravaged the world in the early years of the Twenty-First Century, Tooroop has become a hardened mercenary, living alone in the wastes of New Siberia. One day, he is contacted by Gorsky, the head of the local Mafia, and given a mission that he cannot turn down... [More...]

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