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British cinema: 1960s
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Freddie Francis
During a rail journey, five men who have never met before share a railway compartment with a strange mystic who introduces himself as Dr Schreck (which, as luck would have it, is the German word for Terror)...
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Freddie Francis
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...
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Terence Fisher
Eye of the Devil (1966)
J. Lee Thompson
After a third disastrous harvest in a row at his vineyard in France, the Marquis Phillippe de Montfaucon has no option but to return to his medieval château, Bellenac...
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J. Lee Thompson
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Don Sharp
In the early 1900s, Sir Dennis Nayland Smith, a senior British police commissioner, attends the formal execution of arch-criminal Fu Manchu in China...
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Don Sharp
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
John Schlesinger
Rural England, in the early 1800s. Gabriel Oak, a humble sheep farmer in the county of Wessex, is in love with Bathsheba Everdene, a proud, independently minded young woman who lives with her aunt...
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John Schlesinger
First Men in the Moon (1964)
Nathan Juran
In 1964, the United Nations Space Agency successfully lands a manned rocket on the moon, but the astronauts are surprised to discover a British flag and a note from someone named Katherine Callender claiming the moon for Her Majesty Queen Victoria... [More...]
Nathan Juran
In 1964, the United Nations Space Agency successfully lands a manned rocket on the moon, but the astronauts are surprised to discover a British flag and a note from someone named Katherine Callender claiming the moon for Her Majesty Queen Victoria... [More...]
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
John Gilling
Edinburgh, 1828. Dr Robert Knox is an eminent anatomist who needs a regular supply of human cadavers for his anatomy lectures... [More...]
John Gilling
Edinburgh, 1828. Dr Robert Knox is an eminent anatomist who needs a regular supply of human cadavers for his anatomy lectures... [More...]
The Forsyte Saga [TV] (1967)
David Giles
The Forsytes are a proud Victorian middle-class family, comfortably situated, thanks to their ample investments, and keen to avoid scandal at all costs... [More...]
David Giles
The Forsytes are a proud Victorian middle-class family, comfortably situated, thanks to their ample investments, and keen to avoid scandal at all costs... [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... [More...]
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... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
From Russia with Love (1963)
Terence Young
Working for the international crime syndicate SPECTRE, chess grandmaster Kronsteen has devised a foolproof plan to steal the Lektor decoding machine from the Russians... [More...]
Terence Young
Working for the international crime syndicate SPECTRE, chess grandmaster Kronsteen has devised a foolproof plan to steal the Lektor decoding machine from the Russians... [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... [More...]
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... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
La Grande vadrouille (1966)
Gérard Oury
In 1941, World War II has hardly begun when an English aeroplane is shot down whilst flying over Nazi occupied France. Fortunately, the three airmen who bail out manage to parachute to safety in the heart of Paris... [More...]
Gérard Oury
In 1941, World War II has hardly begun when an English aeroplane is shot down whilst flying over Nazi occupied France. Fortunately, the three airmen who bail out manage to parachute to safety in the heart of Paris... [More...]
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
J. Lee Thompson
It is 1943. Two thousand British soldiers are stranded on the island of Keros in the Aegean Sea and face certain death when the Germans launch an all-out assault on the region in a bid to draw neutral Turkey into the war... [More...]
J. Lee Thompson
It is 1943. Two thousand British soldiers are stranded on the island of Keros in the Aegean Sea and face certain death when the Germans launch an all-out assault on the region in a bid to draw neutral Turkey into the war... [More...]
The Haunting (1963)
Robert Wise
Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena... [More...]
Robert Wise
Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena... [More...]
Heavens Above! (1963)
John Boulting
It is thanks to a minor clerical error that the Reverend John Smallwood, a naive prison chaplain, is appointed vicar of Orbiston Parva... [More...]
John Boulting
It is thanks to a minor clerical error that the Reverend John Smallwood, a naive prison chaplain, is appointed vicar of Orbiston Parva... [More...]
If.... (1968)
Lindsay Anderson
The summer holidays over, the boys at an old public school return for the start a new term, which for most will consist of abject misery and abuse meted out to them by their seniors... [More...]
Lindsay Anderson
The summer holidays over, the boys at an old public school return for the start a new term, which for most will consist of abject misery and abuse meted out to them by their seniors... [More...]
The Innocents (1961)
Jack Clayton
England in the late 1800s. Miss Giddens, an independently minded woman in her early thirties, accepts the position of governess to two young children living on a large country estate... [More...]
Jack Clayton
England in the late 1800s. Miss Giddens, an independently minded woman in her early thirties, accepts the position of governess to two young children living on a large country estate... [More...]
The Ipcress File (1965)
Sidney J. Furie
When a renowned physicist named Radcliffe mysteriously disappears, security operative Harry Palmer is taken off routine surveillance and assigned to a counterintelligence department headed by Major Dalby... [More...]
Sidney J. Furie
When a renowned physicist named Radcliffe mysteriously disappears, security operative Harry Palmer is taken off routine surveillance and assigned to a counterintelligence department headed by Major Dalby... [More...]
The Italian Job (1969)
Peter Collinson
Within hours of being released from prison, small-time mobster Charlie Croker is visited by the wife of a former associate, Roger Beckermann, who has recently been murdered by the Italian Mafia... [More...]
Peter Collinson
Within hours of being released from prison, small-time mobster Charlie Croker is visited by the wife of a former associate, Roger Beckermann, who has recently been murdered by the Italian Mafia... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Kes (1969)
Ken Loach
Billy Casper is a solitary teenager living in a glum Yorkshire mining town. Bullied at school and abused at home by his older brother Jud, he rebels through small acts of juvenile delinquency that strain his relationship with his mother... [More...]
Ken Loach
Billy Casper is a solitary teenager living in a glum Yorkshire mining town. Bullied at school and abused at home by his older brother Jud, he rebels through small acts of juvenile delinquency that strain his relationship with his mother... [More...]
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lean
In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army... [More...]
David Lean
In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army... [More...]
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Basil Dearden
Seven men, from very different walks of life, are surprised when they receive a book containing half of a five pound note and an invitation to a luncheon... [More...]
Basil Dearden
Seven men, from very different walks of life, are surprised when they receive a book containing half of a five pound note and an invitation to a luncheon... [More...]
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Anthony Harvey
Christmas, 1183. King Henry II of England summons his estranged wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and their three sons, Richard, John and Geoffrey, to Chinon Castle to resolve the matter of his inheritance... [More...]
Anthony Harvey
Christmas, 1183. King Henry II of England summons his estranged wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and their three sons, Richard, John and Geoffrey, to Chinon Castle to resolve the matter of his inheritance... [More...]
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Tony Richardson
Colin Smith, a rebellious young man from a working class background in Nottingham, ends up in borstal after robbing a bakery... [More...]
Tony Richardson
Colin Smith, a rebellious young man from a working class background in Nottingham, ends up in borstal after robbing a bakery... [More...]
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
Leslie Norman
Deep in the jungles of South-East Asia in 1942, Sergeant Mitchem leads a seven-man patrol on a mission to draw the Japanese troops away from the main Allied contingent by creating a sonic diversion... [More...]
Leslie Norman
Deep in the jungles of South-East Asia in 1942, Sergeant Mitchem leads a seven-man patrol on a mission to draw the Japanese troops away from the main Allied contingent by creating a sonic diversion... [More...]
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Peter Brook
As a nuclear conflict threatens to engulf the world, a party of English schoolboys are loaded into a plane and sent to the South Pacific... [More...]
Peter Brook
As a nuclear conflict threatens to engulf the world, a party of English schoolboys are loaded into a plane and sent to the South Pacific... [More...]
Make Mine Mink (1960)
Robert Asher
Dame Beatrice Appleby is at a loss when she has to give up her charity work. Just what will she do with her time now? Her maid, Lily, tries to cheer her up by giving her a valuable mink coat which she fished from the balcony of a neighbouring couple, the Spanagers... [More...]
Robert Asher
Dame Beatrice Appleby is at a loss when she has to give up her charity work. Just what will she do with her time now? Her maid, Lily, tries to cheer her up by giving her a valuable mink coat which she fished from the balcony of a neighbouring couple, the Spanagers... [More...]