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British cinema: All genres
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kenneth Branagh
In Sicily, the nobleman Don Pedro receives a hero's welcome from Leonardo, the Governor of Messina, having thwarted an uprising led by Don John, his bastard half-brother...
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Kenneth Branagh
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
George Pollock
Whilst collecting money for a charity, Miss Marple and her friend Mr Stringer pay a call on the reclusive Mr Enderby. They are amazed when the old man suddenly appears at the top of his staircase and drops dead at their feet...
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George Pollock
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Sidney Lumet
1935. After a stay in Istanbul, the renowned Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot makes his return to England on the Orient Express...
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Sidney Lumet
Murder She Said (1961)
George Pollock
Whilst returning to her home village by train one afternoon, Miss Marple witnesses a woman being strangled in a passing train...
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George Pollock
Murder! (1930)
Alfred Hitchcock
Norah Baring, a member of a provincial theatre company, is arrested and tried for the murder of a fellow actress. The jury finds her guilty and she is condemned to death...
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Alfred Hitchcock
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Stephen Frears
London in the mid-1980s. Omar is a young British Pakistani, the son of disillusioned journalist Hussein who has become a bedridden alcoholic after his wife's suicide... [More...]
Stephen Frears
London in the mid-1980s. Omar is a young British Pakistani, the son of disillusioned journalist Hussein who has become a bedridden alcoholic after his wife's suicide... [More...]
Mysterious Island (1961)
Cy Endfield
During the American Civil War, a party of Union soldiers manage to escape from a Confederate prison via a hot air balloon... [More...]
Cy Endfield
During the American Civil War, a party of Union soldiers manage to escape from a Confederate prison via a hot air balloon... [More...]
The Naked Truth (1957)
Mario Zampi
Nigel Dennis is the proprietor of the magazine The Naked Truth in which he exposes the sordid private lives of well-known celebrities... [More...]
Mario Zampi
Nigel Dennis is the proprietor of the magazine The Naked Truth in which he exposes the sordid private lives of well-known celebrities... [More...]
The Nanny (1965)
Seth Holt
Joey Fane is the ten-year old son of a wealthy middle class couple living in an affluent part of London. For the past two years, he has been confined to an institution for children with mental disorders... [More...]
Seth Holt
Joey Fane is the ten-year old son of a wealthy middle class couple living in an affluent part of London. For the past two years, he has been confined to an institution for children with mental disorders... [More...]
Never Let Go (1960)
John Guillermin
John Cummings is an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman who barely earns enough money to keep his wife and two children. He can just about afford the repayments on the new car he has recently purchased but is unable to pay for the insurance... [More...]
John Guillermin
John Cummings is an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman who barely earns enough money to keep his wife and two children. He can just about afford the repayments on the new car he has recently purchased but is unable to pay for the insurance... [More...]
Night and the City (1950)
Jules Dassin
An American living in London, Harry Fabian is a small-time con artist with big-time ambitions. So far his dreams of getting rich quick have led him nowhere and without his ex-girlfriend Mary to bail him out when things go wrong he would have ended up as food for river rats long ago... [More...]
Jules Dassin
An American living in London, Harry Fabian is a small-time con artist with big-time ambitions. So far his dreams of getting rich quick have led him nowhere and without his ex-girlfriend Mary to bail him out when things go wrong he would have ended up as food for river rats long ago... [More...]
Night of the Demon (1957)
Jacques Tourneur
Dr John Holden, an American psychologist specialising in the paranormal, arrives in England to attend a convention on the Occult... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Dr John Holden, an American psychologist specialising in the paranormal, arrives in England to attend a convention on the Occult... [More...]
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Carol Reed
Just before his country is annexed by Nazi Germany, the Czech inventor Axel Bomasch manages to escape to England, but his daughter Anna is arrested and sent to a concentration camp... [More...]
Carol Reed
Just before his country is annexed by Nazi Germany, the Czech inventor Axel Bomasch manages to escape to England, but his daughter Anna is arrested and sent to a concentration camp... [More...]
Nightmare (1964)
Freddie Francis
17-year-old Janet is attending a boarding school when she begins suffering a series of nightmares in which she ends up imprisoned in a padded cell with her mother... [More...]
Freddie Francis
17-year-old Janet is attending a boarding school when she begins suffering a series of nightmares in which she ends up imprisoned in a padded cell with her mother... [More...]
No Limit (1935)
Monty Banks
George Shuttleworth is a chimney sweep's assistant from Wigan who has just one dream: to win the TT motorcycle race on the Isle of Man... [More...]
Monty Banks
George Shuttleworth is a chimney sweep's assistant from Wigan who has just one dream: to win the TT motorcycle race on the Isle of Man... [More...]
The October Man (1947)
Roy Ward Baker
Jim Ackland, a research chemist, ends up in hospital with a serious brain injury after a bus crash that left the young girl in his care dead... [More...]
Roy Ward Baker
Jim Ackland, a research chemist, ends up in hospital with a serious brain injury after a bus crash that left the young girl in his care dead... [More...]
Odd Man Out (1947)
Carol Reed
Johnny McQueen hides out in an anonymous Belfast house, having recently broken out of prison where he was serving a stretch for involvement with a terrorist organisation... [More...]
Carol Reed
Johnny McQueen hides out in an anonymous Belfast house, having recently broken out of prison where he was serving a stretch for involvement with a terrorist organisation... [More...]
The Odessa File (1974)
Ronald Neame
Munich, November 1963. Whilst the world is still reeling from the news of President Kennedy's assassination, journalist Peter Miller allows himself to be distracted by the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, Solomon Tauber... [More...]
Ronald Neame
Munich, November 1963. Whilst the world is still reeling from the news of President Kennedy's assassination, journalist Peter Miller allows himself to be distracted by the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, Solomon Tauber... [More...]
Odette (1950)
Herbert Wilcox
In the early years of WWII, Odette Sansom, an ordinary French woman living in England, is recruited by the Special Operations department of the War Office to work as an agent in Nazi-occupied France... [More...]
Herbert Wilcox
In the early years of WWII, Odette Sansom, an ordinary French woman living in England, is recruited by the Special Operations department of the War Office to work as an agent in Nazi-occupied France... [More...]
Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)
Marcel Varnel
After having failed in virtually every other job going, railway employee William Porter finally feels he has found his metier as a wheel-tapper, but his sister decides that this is too lowly a position for him... [More...]
Marcel Varnel
After having failed in virtually every other job going, railway employee William Porter finally feels he has found his metier as a wheel-tapper, but his sister decides that this is too lowly a position for him... [More...]
Oliver Twist (1948)
David Lean
An unknown young woman dies whilst giving birth in a provincial workhouse. Her son, Oliver Twist, grows up under the tyranny of the workhouse supervisor, Mr Bumble... [More...]
David Lean
An unknown young woman dies whilst giving birth in a provincial workhouse. Her son, Oliver Twist, grows up under the tyranny of the workhouse supervisor, Mr Bumble... [More...]
Oliver! (1968)
Carol Reed
England, in the 19th century. Oliver Twist is one of numerous abandoned orphan boys who live a wretched life in a provincial workhouse... [More...]
Carol Reed
England, in the 19th century. Oliver Twist is one of numerous abandoned orphan boys who live a wretched life in a provincial workhouse... [More...]
The Omen (1976)
Richard Donner
When his son dies in childbirth, the wealthy American politician Robert Thorn agrees to adopt another child in its place, to spare his wife Katherine grief... [More...]
Richard Donner
When his son dies in childbirth, the wealthy American politician Robert Thorn agrees to adopt another child in its place, to spare his wife Katherine grief... [More...]
On Golden Pond (1981)
Mark Rydell
Norman Thayer is a retired college professor who been happily married to Ethel for almost five decades. As they have done for the past 48 years, the couple return to their summer cottage on Golden Pond, this time to celebrate Norman's eightieth birthday... [More...]
Mark Rydell
Norman Thayer is a retired college professor who been happily married to Ethel for almost five decades. As they have done for the past 48 years, the couple return to their summer cottage on Golden Pond, this time to celebrate Norman's eightieth birthday... [More...]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Peter R. Hunt
James Bond is in Europe, pursuing Ernst Blofeld, the infamous head of the crime syndicate SPECTRE, when he becomes distracted by another kind of prey, the beautiful Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, known as Tracy to her friends... [More...]
Peter R. Hunt
James Bond is in Europe, pursuing Ernst Blofeld, the infamous head of the crime syndicate SPECTRE, when he becomes distracted by another kind of prey, the beautiful Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, known as Tracy to her friends... [More...]
On the Beat (1962)
Robert Asher
Norman Pitkin has one ambition in life: to become a policeman, just like his dear old dad. Unfortunately, he is too short for the job and so has to content himself with being a parking attendant at Scotland Yard... [More...]
Robert Asher
Norman Pitkin has one ambition in life: to become a policeman, just like his dear old dad. Unfortunately, he is too short for the job and so has to content himself with being a parking attendant at Scotland Yard... [More...]
On the Fiddle (1961)
Cyril Frankel
Incorrigible spiv Horace Pope is not one to let a small thing like World War II get in the way of his money making exploits... [More...]
Cyril Frankel
Incorrigible spiv Horace Pope is not one to let a small thing like World War II get in the way of his money making exploits... [More...]
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
Michael Powell
1941. In a raid over Nazi Germany, the crew of an RAF Wellington bomber are forced to bail out when their aeroplane is damaged by enemy fire... [More...]
Michael Powell
1941. In a raid over Nazi Germany, the crew of an RAF Wellington bomber are forced to bail out when their aeroplane is damaged by enemy fire... [More...]
Othello [TV] (1981)
Jonathan Miller
Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, has won the admiration and gratitude of all but one man. That man is Iago, a lowly ensign who bitterly resents Othello's decision to promote a less worthy soldier, Michael Cassio, in his place... [More...]
Jonathan Miller
Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, has won the admiration and gratitude of all but one man. That man is Iago, a lowly ensign who bitterly resents Othello's decision to promote a less worthy soldier, Michael Cassio, in his place... [More...]
Our Man in Havana (1959)
Carol Reed
Jim Wormold is a modest vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba, just a few years before the revolution. He attracts the attention of fellow Englishman Hawthorne, who invites him to work for the British secret service... [More...]
Carol Reed
Jim Wormold is a modest vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba, just a few years before the revolution. He attracts the attention of fellow Englishman Hawthorne, who invites him to work for the British secret service... [More...]