Reach for the Sky (1956)
Lewis Gilbert

In 1931, a few years after enrolling as an officer cadet in the Royal Air Force, 21-year-old Douglas Bader has his dreams shattered when he crashes an aeroplane in a foolish show of bravado...   [More...]

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Terence Fisher

Sentenced to death for his diabolical experiments, Baron Frankenstein narrowly escapes his execution and sets up a medical practice in another town, working under an assumed name, Dr Stein...   [More...]

Richard III (1955)
Laurence Olivier

England, 1461. The rivalry between the royal houses of York and Lancaster that has resulted in bloody civil wars appears to be at an end when Edward IV is crowned king of England...   [More...]

Room at the Top (1959)
Jack Clayton

An ambitious young man Joe Lampton arrives in a bleak industrial Yorkshire town, taking a job as a low paid accountant. He sets his sights on a young heiress, Susan Brown, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and sees her as the means to realise his ambition...   [More...]

Scrooge (1951)
Brian Desmond Hurst

Mr Ebenezer Scrooge loathes Christmas. To this, the most miserly of all money-lenders, the season of goodwill signifies nothing but humbug...   [More...]

Seven Days to Noon (1950)
John Boulting

The Prime Minister of Great Britain receives a letter from a government scientist, Professor Willingdon, setting out the terms of an ultimatum...   [More...]

The Sound Barrier (1952)
David Lean

During WWII, fighter pilot Tony Garthwaite meets and falls in love with Susan, the daughter of the oil magnate John Ridgefield...   [More...]

The Square Peg (1959)
John Paddy Carstairs

During WWII, Norman Pitkin believes that he, a humble council employee, is making an invaluable contribution to the war effort, by digging up roads...   [More...]

Stage Fright (1950)
Alfred Hitchcock

Jonathan Cooper is on the run from the police, suspected of murdering the husband of the renowned singer-actress Charlotte Inwood...   [More...]

Summertime (1955)
David Lean

Jane Hudson, a middle-aged spinster from Ohio, finally gets to realise her lifelong dream, a holiday in Venice, where she hopes to find love and romance amidst the golden waterways and ancient monuments...   [More...]

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Michael Powell

In Nuremberg, the poet Hoffmann becomes enchanted by the beautiful prima donna, Stella. Whilst awaiting her reply to a letter he sent her, he recounts three tales of his former lost loves...   [More...]

Tiger Bay (1959)
J. Lee Thompson

On his return to Cardiff after a stint at sea, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav Korchinsky learns that his girlfriend Anya has moved out of his lodgings and is having a relationship with another man...   [More...]

The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Charles Crichton

It is a black day when British Rail announces the closure of an unprofitable branch line connecting the village of Titfield with the town of Mallingford...   [More...]

Too Many Crooks (1959)
Mario Zampi

A gang of small-time crooks are having a hard time making a dishonest living, thanks to the ineptitude of their leader, Fingers...   [More...]

Town on Trial (1957)
John Guillermin

Oakley Park is a small English town, a town that is like so many others - until the fateful day when a young woman is strangled on her way home one evening...   [More...]

The Vicious Circle (1957)
Gerald Thomas

One evening, Harley Street doctor Howard Latimer is visited by a journalist, Geoffrey Windsor, who is keen to write an article about his work...   [More...]

What the Butler Saw (1950)
Godfrey Grayson

In the dim and distant days when Great Britain still had an empire and knew how to run it, a member of the British aristocracy - an earl no less - was happily ensconced as the proud governor of the most paradisiacal South Sea island...   [More...]