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British cinema: Thriller
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...
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Michael Powell
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...
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Martin Ritt
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...
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Lewis Gilbert
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...
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Alfred Hitchcock
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...
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Peter Sasdy
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Tiger Bay (1959)
J. Lee Thompson
On his return to Cardiff after a stint at sea, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav Korchinsky learns that his girlfriend Anya has moved out of his lodgings and is having a relationship with another man... [More...]
J. Lee Thompson
On his return to Cardiff after a stint at sea, a young Polish sailor named Bronislav Korchinsky learns that his girlfriend Anya has moved out of his lodgings and is having a relationship with another man... [More...]
Town on Trial (1957)
John Guillermin
Oakley Park is a small English town, a town that is like so many others - until the fateful day when a young woman is strangled on her way home one evening... [More...]
John Guillermin
Oakley Park is a small English town, a town that is like so many others - until the fateful day when a young woman is strangled on her way home one evening... [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...]
Terence Fisher
London, 1874. Dr Henry Jekyll is so absorbed in his scientific research that he neglects his beautiful socialite wife Kitty... [More...]
The Upturned Glass (1947)
Lawrence Huntington
A criminologist presents the case history of a supposedly sane criminal, a man who executed a well-planned murder for entirely rational reasons... [More...]
Lawrence Huntington
A criminologist presents the case history of a supposedly sane criminal, a man who executed a well-planned murder for entirely rational reasons... [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...]
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...]
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...]
The Vicious Circle (1957)
Gerald Thomas
One evening, Harley Street doctor Howard Latimer is visited by a journalist, Geoffrey Windsor, who is keen to write an article about his work... [More...]
Gerald Thomas
One evening, Harley Street doctor Howard Latimer is visited by a journalist, Geoffrey Windsor, who is keen to write an article about his work... [More...]
Victim (1961)
Basil Dearden
A successful middle-aged lawyer, Melvin Farr, does his best to avoid a series of phone calls from a desperate young man named Barrett... [More...]
Basil Dearden
A successful middle-aged lawyer, Melvin Farr, does his best to avoid a series of phone calls from a desperate young man named Barrett... [More...]
Village of the Damned (1960)
Wolf Rilla
One day, Midwich, a small village in southern England, finds itself mysteriously cut off, its entire population rendered unconscious for two hours... [More...]
Wolf Rilla
One day, Midwich, a small village in southern England, finds itself mysteriously cut off, its entire population rendered unconscious for two hours... [More...]
Went the Day Well? (1942)
Alberto Cavalcanti
One day in May 1942 a British Army convoy rolls into the sleepy English village of Bramley End. The commander, Major Hammond, explains to the startled villagers that his platoon is making a review of local defences in readiness for a possible Nazi invasion... [More...]
Alberto Cavalcanti
One day in May 1942 a British Army convoy rolls into the sleepy English village of Bramley End. The commander, Major Hammond, explains to the startled villagers that his platoon is making a review of local defences in readiness for a possible Nazi invasion... [More...]
The Wicker Man (1973)
Robin Hardy
Police sergeant Neil Howie arrives on the remote Scottish island of Summerisle, having received an anonymous letter claiming that a young girl has mysteriously disappeared... [More...]
Robin Hardy
Police sergeant Neil Howie arrives on the remote Scottish island of Summerisle, having received an anonymous letter claiming that a young girl has mysteriously disappeared... [More...]
Witchfinder General (1968)
Michael Reeves
1645. Amid the turmoil of the English Civil War, there are those who turn the breakdown in law and order to their advantage... [More...]
Michael Reeves
1645. Amid the turmoil of the English Civil War, there are those who turn the breakdown in law and order to their advantage... [More...]
Young and Innocent (1937)
Alfred Hitchcock
When movie star Christine Clay is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a young man named Robert Tisdall with whom she had a brief acquaintance... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
When movie star Christine Clay is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a young man named Robert Tisdall with whom she had a brief acquaintance... [More...]