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The Silver Fleet (1943)
Vernon Sewell

During WWII, with Holland under German occupation, naval engineer Jaap van Leyden cooperates with the Nazis by helping to build U-boats in his shipyard...   [More...]

The Small Back Room (1949)
Michael Powell

In the spring of 1943, Great Britain is losing the war against Nazi Germany. Sammy Rice, a leading bomb disposal expert, is called in to investigate a new kind of bomb that the Germans have begun dropping over England...   [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 Spy in Black (1939)
Michael Powell

In 1917, German U-boat commander Captain Hardt is sent to the northeastern coast of Scotland to make preparations for an attack on the British naval fleet...   [More...]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Martin Ritt

Having failed to get one of his key operatives out of East Berlin, spy administrator Alec Leamas is recalled to London and is immediately demoted to a desk job...   [More...]

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Lewis Gilbert

When British and Soviet submarines armed with ballistic missiles go missing, the two countries assign their best agent to investigate...   [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...]

The Stars Look Down (1940)
Carol Reed

Miners at Neptune Colliery in Sleescale, a small town in the northeast of England, refuse to work on a seam which threatens to flood the mine...   [More...]

Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
Peter Sykes

When the Steptoes put their faithful horse out to grass, they must buy a replacement if they are to stay in business as rag-and-bone men...   [More...]

The Stone Tape [TV] (1972)
Peter Sasdy

A research team of a British electronics company intent on developing a revolutionary new recording medium moves into a Victorian mansion that has been deserted since the end of the Second World War...   [More...]

Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Peter Collinson

Tired of her humdrum life in Liverpool, twenty-year-old Brenda Thompson says goodbye to her mother and heads down south to start a new life in swinging London...   [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...]

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
John Schlesinger

Daniel Hirsh is a cultured Jewish doctor in his fifties who would appear to have nothing in common with Alex Greville, a sharp-tongued thirty-something divorcee who has grown tired of her routine office job...   [More...]

Superman (1978)
Richard Donner

Unable to convince the Ruling Council of the planet Krypton that their world faces imminent destruction, the scientist Jor-El launches a spacecraft that will transport his infant son Kal-El to the planet Earth in a distant galaxy...   [More...]

Superman II (1980)
Richard Lester

In the nick of time, Superman manages to thwart a plot by terrorists to blow up Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower with a hydrogen bomb, but when the bomb detonates in deep space it releases three criminals from the planet Krypton from their two-dimensional prison...   [More...]

Swimming Pool (2003)
François Ozon

Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France...   [More...]

Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Freddie Francis

Visiting some ancient catacombs, five strangers are taken to the Crypt Keeper, a hooded old man who recounts a story in which each of them meets a gruesome demise...   [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...]

Taste of Fear (1961)
Seth Holt

Not long after the dead body of a young woman is fished out of a lake in Switzerland, Penny Appleby arrives at her father's house in the south of France, hoping to make a reconciliation with her estranged father Penny is surprised to learn that her father is away, but her stepmother, Jane, gives her a friendly welcome...   [More...]

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Peter Sasdy

Three seemingly upright Victorian gentlemen - William Hargood, Samuel Paxton and Anthony Higgins - have formed a secret society, ostensibly for the good of their fellow man...   [More...]

Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Franco Zeffirelli

Florence, Italy, 1935. A group of harmless old English ladies, known by the locals as the Scorpioni, live in happy exile, meeting up to take tea together every afternoon...   [More...]

Tess (1979)
Roman Polanski

The Durbeyfields are a family of peasant farmworkers living in the county of Wessex in the late 1880s. They are surprised to learn that they are related to a neighbouring wealthy family and Tess, the eldest daughter, pays a visit on her supposed cousin, Alec d'Urberville...   [More...]

Theatre of Blood (1973)
Douglas Hickox

Edward Lionheart is convinced he was the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day but instead of glory his final season of performances ended in humiliation when a group of critics bestowed on a newcomer an award which was his by right...   [More...]

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Ludwig Berger

Anxious to find out how his subjects live, Ahmad, the rightful King of Bagdad, explores the city disguised as a poor man, allowing his Grand Vizier, Jaffar, to usurp his position...   [More...]

Things to Come (1936)
William Cameron Menzies

During Christmas 1940, the world is engulfed by a devastating global conflict. The war lasts three decades and reduces human civilisation to rubble...   [More...]

The Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed

An unemployed American writer, Holly Martins, arrives in Vienna after World War II at the invitation of a college friend, Harry Lime...   [More...]

This Happy Breed (1944)
David Lean

1919. In the aftermath of WWI, Number 17 Sycamore Road, Clapham, London acquires a new set of residents. The recently demobbed Frank Gibbons moves in with his wife Ethel, his three children, his sister Sylvia and his mother-in-law Mrs Flint...   [More...]

This Sporting Life (1963)
Lindsay Anderson

Frank Machin is a young coal miner in the Yorkshire town of Wakefield, but he has big ambitions. With the help of an elderly football scout, he makes such an impression on the owners of the local rugby league club that they cannot resist signing him up for the season...   [More...]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Ken Annakin

In 1910, newspaper magnate Lord Rawnsley organises an aeroplane race between London and Paris in the hope of allowing Great Britain to claim supremacy of the skies...   [More...]



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