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British cinema: Fantasy

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment One [TV] (1979)
Shaun O'Riordan

In an old house that dates back to the 1700s, schoolboy Rob Jardine is doing his homework whilst his parents read nursery rhymes to his younger sister Helen...   [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...]

She (1965)
Robert Day

1918. Immediately after WWI, three ex-servicemen - Leo, Holly and Job - are enjoying a brief holiday in the Middle East before resuming their lives in England...   [More...]

The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick

Jack Torrance is delighted when he is offered the job of winter caretaker at the Overlook, a sprawling luxury hotel set in a remote mountain location in Colorado...   [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...]

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...]

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 Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Terence Fisher

London, 1874. Dr Henry Jekyll is so absorbed in his scientific research that he neglects his beautiful socialite wife Kitty...   [More...]

Vampire Circus (1972)
Robert Young

For too long the inhabitants of the village of Schtettel have suffered at the hands of the vampiric Count Mitterhaus. They take their revenge by storming his castle and driving a stake through his heart...   [More...]

The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Roy Ward Baker

In the mid-1800s, General von Spielsdorf is hosting a ball at his mansion in the small European country of Styria. When one of his guests, an unnamed countess, is called away, the General gladly agrees to take care of her daughter Marcilla...   [More...]


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