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British cinema: Sci-Fi
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick
Millions of years ago, a tribe of herbivorous apelike hominids discover a mysterious black monolith which immediately exerts a strange influence over them...
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Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick
Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies...
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Stanley Kubrick
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Val Guest
Dr John Rollason leads a botanical expedition to the Himalayas, accompanied by his wife Helen and colleague Peter Fox. Staying at a Tibetan monastery, Rollason becomes excited when he learns that another expedition, led by the American Tom Friend, will soon arrive, on a mission to find the Yeti, a prehistoric near-relation of modern man that has so far eluded discovery...
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Val Guest
Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott
Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women - is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure...
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Ridley Scott
Aliens (1986)
James Cameron
57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth...
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James Cameron
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
Children of the Stones [TV] (1977)
Peter Graham Scott
Adam Brake, an astrophysicist whose wife has recently died, arrives in the small English village of Milbury with his teenage son Matthew... [More...]
Peter Graham Scott
Adam Brake, an astrophysicist whose wife has recently died, arrives in the small English village of Milbury with his teenage son Matthew... [More...]
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Freddie Francis
In the late 19th century, Professor Emmanuel Hildern believes he is about to make a major scientific breakthrough that will change mankind's destiny forever... [More...]
Freddie Francis
In the late 19th century, Professor Emmanuel Hildern believes he is about to make a major scientific breakthrough that will change mankind's destiny forever... [More...]
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Terence Fisher
Whilst in prison, awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein relates his tragic life story to a priest... [More...]
Terence Fisher
Whilst in prison, awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein relates his tragic life story to a priest... [More...]
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Val Guest
In a deserted London bathed in a scorching heat, journalist Peter Stenning returns to his desk at the vacated offices of the newspaper the Daily Express to compose what may well be his final report... [More...]
Val Guest
In a deserted London bathed in a scorching heat, journalist Peter Stenning returns to his desk at the vacated offices of the newspaper the Daily Express to compose what may well be his final report... [More...]
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Roy Ward Baker
In East London of the 1880s, the young Dr Henry Jekyll is diligently engaged on finding vaccines for man's most feared diseases... [More...]
Roy Ward Baker
In East London of the 1880s, the young Dr Henry Jekyll is diligently engaged on finding vaccines for man's most feared diseases... [More...]
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick
Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR... [More...]
Stanley Kubrick
Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR... [More...]
Fiddlers Three (1944)
Harry Watt
England, 1943. Tommy and the Professor, two sailors in the Royal Navy, are on their way back to their Portsmouth base when they see a WREN, Lydia, being molested by a man... [More...]
Harry Watt
England, 1943. Tommy and the Professor, two sailors in the Royal Navy, are on their way back to their Portsmouth base when they see a WREN, Lydia, being molested by a man... [More...]
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...]
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...]
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 Man in the White Suit (1951)
Alexander Mackendrick
Since graduating from Cambridge, Sidney Stratton has become obsessed with his idea of inventing an indestructible fibre, one which will revolutionise the clothes manufacturing industry... [More...]
Alexander Mackendrick
Since graduating from Cambridge, Sidney Stratton has become obsessed with his idea of inventing an indestructible fibre, one which will revolutionise the clothes manufacturing industry... [More...]
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg
A hairless humanoid alien travels to Earth from a distant world on a mission to save his people, who are being wiped out by a catastrophic drought... [More...]
Nicolas Roeg
A hairless humanoid alien travels to Earth from a distant world on a mission to save his people, who are being wiped out by a catastrophic drought... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [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 Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards
Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position... [More...]
Blake Edwards
Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position... [More...]
Quatermass 2 (1957)
Val Guest
Professor Bernard Quatermass's ambition to build a colony on the Moon appears to be thwarted as government funds are diverted to other projects... [More...]
Val Guest
Professor Bernard Quatermass's ambition to build a colony on the Moon appears to be thwarted as government funds are diverted to other projects... [More...]
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Roy Ward Baker
Whilst workmen are building an extension to the London Underground, a prehistoric human skull is discovered. Palaeontologist Matthew Roney is called in and he concludes that the skull is over five million years old... [More...]
Roy Ward Baker
Whilst workmen are building an extension to the London Underground, a prehistoric human skull is discovered. Palaeontologist Matthew Roney is called in and he concludes that the skull is over five million years old... [More...]
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Val Guest
Professor Bernard Quatermass is both excited and concerned when a rocket that he designed and launched crash-lands in the south of England... [More...]
Val Guest
Professor Bernard Quatermass is both excited and concerned when a rocket that he designed and launched crash-lands in the south of England... [More...]
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Terence Fisher
Sentenced to death for his diabolical experiments, Baron Frankenstein narrowly escapes his execution and sets up a medical practice in another town, working under an assumed name, Dr Stein... [More...]
Terence Fisher
Sentenced to death for his diabolical experiments, Baron Frankenstein narrowly escapes his execution and sets up a medical practice in another town, working under an assumed name, Dr Stein... [More...]
Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Four [TV] (1981)
David Foster
Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted old building, the ground floor of which functions as a shop that buys and sells lost property... [More...]
David Foster
Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted old building, the ground floor of which functions as a shop that buys and sells lost property... [More...]
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...]
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...]