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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Roy Ward Baker
In 1790s England, Charles Fengriffen takes up residence at his large family estate with his new bride Catherine. Almost immediately after she has entered the old gothic mansion Catherine begins to experience a bizarre series of hallucinations, some involving a bloody severed hand, and she is strangely drawn to the portrait of Charles' grandfather...
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Roy Ward Baker
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Charles Jarrott
England, 1525. King Henry VIII is anxious to produce a male heir to secure the Tudor lineage but his queen, Katherine of Aragon, has passed child-bearing age and has borne him only a daughter and dead sons...
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Charles Jarrott
The Anniversary (1968)
Roy Ward Baker
Mrs Taggart runs her late husband's house building business with an iron hand and an implacable ruthlessness, and she manages her three grown-up sons in much the same way...
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Roy Ward Baker
Ask a Policeman (1938)
Marcel Varnel
Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot is proud of the fact that since his arrival in the tranquil coastal village of Turnbotham Round, over a decade ago, not one crime has been committed...
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Marcel Varnel
Asylum (1972)
Roy Ward Baker
Dr Martin arrives at a remote asylum which houses a number of dangerously insane inmates, to attend a job interview conducted by Dr Rutherford...
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Roy Ward Baker
Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright
England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia... [More...]
Joe Wright
England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia... [More...]
Battle of Britain (1969)
Guy Hamilton
In the spring of 1940, British fighter pilots are waging a losing battle against the Nazis in continental Europe. Seeing that the fall of France to Germany is inevitable, Air Chief Marshal Dowding advises the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to withdraw all RAF fighters and prepare for a German attack on mainland Britain... [More...]
Guy Hamilton
In the spring of 1940, British fighter pilots are waging a losing battle against the Nazis in continental Europe. Seeing that the fall of France to Germany is inevitable, Air Chief Marshal Dowding advises the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to withdraw all RAF fighters and prepare for a German attack on mainland Britain... [More...]
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Michael Powell
November 1939. When his freighter, The Africa Shell, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, Captain Dove finds himself a prisoner of Captain Langsdorff... [More...]
Michael Powell
November 1939. When his freighter, The Africa Shell, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, Captain Dove finds himself a prisoner of Captain Langsdorff... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Becket (1964)
Peter Glenville
In 12th Century England, the young King Henry II is more preoccupied with the hedonistic pursuits of youth than with matters of state, and in this he is aided and abetted by his good friend Thomas Becket... [More...]
Peter Glenville
In 12th Century England, the young King Henry II is more preoccupied with the hedonistic pursuits of youth than with matters of state, and in this he is aided and abetted by his good friend Thomas Becket... [More...]
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Frank Launder
The Sultan of Makyad has decided that his daughter Fatima should be brought up as a respectable English lady and so sends her to St Trinian's, a boarding school for girls in Barchester... [More...]
Frank Launder
The Sultan of Makyad has decided that his daughter Fatima should be brought up as a respectable English lady and so sends her to St Trinian's, a boarding school for girls in Barchester... [More...]
Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Billy Elliot (2000)
Stephen Daldry
In the mid-1980s, coal mining is no longer a profitable industry in the UK and the Conservative government is at war with the miners' union over pit closures... [More...]
Stephen Daldry
In the mid-1980s, coal mining is no longer a profitable industry in the UK and the Conservative government is at war with the miners' union over pit closures... [More...]
Billy Liar (1963)
John Schlesinger
Billy Fisher is 19, lives with his parents in a glum north English town and works as a desk clerk for a firm of undertakers... [More...]
John Schlesinger
Billy Fisher is 19, lives with his parents in a glum north English town and works as a desk clerk for a firm of undertakers... [More...]
Black Narcissus (1947)
Michael Powell
At the invitation of General Toda Rai, Sister Clodagh leads a group of Anglican nuns to a remote part of India to start a convent... [More...]
Michael Powell
At the invitation of General Toda Rai, Sister Clodagh leads a group of Anglican nuns to a remote part of India to start a convent... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott
Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans... [More...]
Ridley Scott
Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Blithe Spirit (1945)
David Lean
To gather material for his next book, writer Charles Condomine invites a local mystic, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house, in the presence of his wife Ruth and two guests... [More...]
David Lean
To gather material for his next book, writer Charles Condomine invites a local mystic, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house, in the presence of his wife Ruth and two guests... [More...]
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Piers Haggard
In England of the 17th century, ploughman Ralph Gower finds the decomposed remains of a creature, part animal, part human, buried in a field... [More...]
Piers Haggard
In England of the 17th century, ploughman Ralph Gower finds the decomposed remains of a creature, part animal, part human, buried in a field... [More...]
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Basil Dearden
With only a few weeks to go before he is due to retire from the Metropolitan Police, P.C. George Dixon wonders whether he should stay on for a few more years... [More...]
Basil Dearden
With only a few weeks to go before he is due to retire from the Metropolitan Police, P.C. George Dixon wonders whether he should stay on for a few more years... [More...]
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
Frank Launder
With headmistress Miss Fritton taking leave at her Majesty's pleasure, St Trinian's has descended into a state of total anarchy... [More...]
Frank Launder
With headmistress Miss Fritton taking leave at her Majesty's pleasure, St Trinian's has descended into a state of total anarchy... [More...]
Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
William Beaudine
Dr Alexander Smart is hopeful that a letter of recommendation from his present employer, the Governor of Blackstone Prison, will secure him the post of headmaster at Narkover School... [More...]
William Beaudine
Dr Alexander Smart is hopeful that a letter of recommendation from his present employer, the Governor of Blackstone Prison, will secure him the post of headmaster at Narkover School... [More...]
Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam
Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information... [More...]
Terry Gilliam
Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean
During WWII, a contingent of British prisoners march into a Japanese camp run by the ruthless Colonel Saito, who intends using them to construct a railway bridge across the River Kwai... [More...]
David Lean
During WWII, a contingent of British prisoners march into a Japanese camp run by the ruthless Colonel Saito, who intends using them to construct a railway bridge across the River Kwai... [More...]
Brief Encounter (1945)
David Lean
Each Thursday, housewife Laura Jesson treats herself to a day in the nearby town of Milford, to do some shopping and watch a film at the cinema... [More...]
David Lean
Each Thursday, housewife Laura Jesson treats herself to a day in the nearby town of Milford, to do some shopping and watch a film at the cinema... [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... [More...]
John Boulting
Beneath its quaint, tourist-friendly surface impression, Brighton of the 1930s is a squalid town where gangland crime is rampant... [More...]
Brothers in Law (1957)
Roy Boulting
Roger Thursby is a recently graduated barrister who is desperately keen to make his mark on the legal profession. Alas, it isn't long before his initial optimism begins to wane as it becomes apparent that winning his first briefs is no east matter... [More...]
Roy Boulting
Roger Thursby is a recently graduated barrister who is desperately keen to make his mark on the legal profession. Alas, it isn't long before his initial optimism begins to wane as it becomes apparent that winning his first briefs is no east matter... [More...]
The Browning Version (1951)
Anthony Asquith
For almost twenty years, Andrew Crocker-Harris has worked diligently as a classics master at an English boys' public school... [More...]
Anthony Asquith
For almost twenty years, Andrew Crocker-Harris has worked diligently as a classics master at an English boys' public school... [More...]