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- DirectorRobert DayStarsUrsula AndressPeter CushingBernard CribbinsAn Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsRay MillandAnn ToddGeraldine FitzgeraldOlivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. After Olivia opens a lodging house, Mark becomes her lodger then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsPeter LawfordDawn AddamsRoland CulverA jewel thief tries to mislead police who suspect that his theft of a valuable emerald is related to the serial murder of 11 policemen.
- DirectorClive BrookStarsClive BrookBeatrice LillieGoogie WithersTwo wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsMarianne StoneLionel MurtonLisa GastoniAfter heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the mastermind behind a bullion robbery at the airport... and particularly keen to escape the fog.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsRonald ShinerMargaret RutherfordA.E. MatthewsA wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den just when it's being raided by the Police.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingDiana DorsThree rich trustees are murdered - appearing as suicides. When a bus filled with orphans and three other rich trustees has an "accident," Colonel Bingham investigates.
- DirectorJames HillStarsJohn NevilleDonald HoustonJohn FraserSherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsChristopher LeeHans SöhnkerHans NielsenSherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsAlec GuinnessJoan GreenwoodPeter FinchWorks of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsStewart GrangerElizabeth TaylorPeter UstinovIn 1796, Captain George Bryan "Beau" Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Prince's personal advisor.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter CushingJune LaverickDonald PleasenceIn 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaul MassieDawn AddamsChristopher LeeDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorPeter CoeStarsChristopher PlummerSusannah YorkGlynis JohnsA trio of randy sailors go looking for girl-friends in 18th-century London.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsPeter CushingJohn HurtAlexandra BastedoA former Priest named Dr. Lawrence harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his savage tastes in India during his father's missionary work there. Lawrence fears that his son will escape to prey upon the effete guests at his rural English estate during a cross-country auto race.
- DirectorJohn HoughStarsPeter CushingDennis PriceMary CollinsonA religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsJohn BryansJohn BennettDenholm ElliottAn anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the U.K.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsDavid KnightMoira RedmondJennie LindenThe nights of young private-school student Janet are troubled by horrible dreams in which her mother, who is actually locked up in a mental institution, haunts her. When her persistent nightmares get her expelled and sent home, those visions insist on continuing to plague her at home.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsIngrid PittPippa SteelMadeline SmithSeductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.
- DirectorRobert YoungStarsAdrienne CorriThorley WaltersAnthony HigginsAs the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret.
- DirectorRoddy McDowallStarsAva GardnerIan McShaneRichard WattisAn older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.
- DirectorBrian ClemensStarsHorst JansonJohn CarsonShane BriantA master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenSharon TateDeborah KerrWorkers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsChristopher LeeAndrew KeirJohn CairneyA damaged privateer deserts the Spanish Armada and makes land for repairs near a village on the British coast, terrorizing the local inhabitants.
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsMargaret RutherfordRon MoodyBernard CribbinsA tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsForrest TuckerPeter CushingMaureen ConnellA kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsTerry-ThomasAthene SeylerHattie JacquesA weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsPeter CushingYvonne RomainPatrick AllenIn 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in a coastal town where locals believe in Marsh Phantoms.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsMichael CallanLionel JeffriesDenholm ElliottA motley group of soldiers are set loose in swinging London in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
- DirectorRobert HamerHal E. ChesterCyril FrankelStarsIan CarmichaelTerry-ThomasAlastair SimA young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsKerwin MathewsNadia GrayDonald HoustonAn American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingRichard PascoIn the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.
- DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellRichard VernonA charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingLorna HeilbronA Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist's family and friends.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsPeter CushingPatrick WymarkChristopher LeeA collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsRobert HuttonJennifer JayneZia MohyeddinScientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsPatrick WymarkLinda HaydenBarry AndrewsIn early 18th century England, the children of a village slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
- DirectorRobert Hartford-DavisStarsHeather SearsJohn TurnerAnn LynnA lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumors that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot?
- DirectorGeorge More O'FerrallStarsRalph RichardsonCelia JohnsonMargaret LeightonA heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials.
- DirectorAndrew SinclairStarsOliver ReedFiona LewisAnna GaëlAn unusually nasty butler takes over the possessions of his degenerate master by means of witchcraft.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsMichael CrawfordOliver ReedHarry AndrewsMichael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
- DirectorMichael RelphStarsJeannie CarsonDonald SindenRoland CulverInhabitants of the Hebridean isle of Toddaya resist the British government's plan to turn their island home into a missile base.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRichard ChamberlainGlenda JacksonMax AdrianPiano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsMax AdrianMaureen PryorChristopher GableTraces last 5 years of the life of Frederick Delius through the eyes of the young composer Eric Fenby
- DirectorKen RussellStarsVanessa RedgraveOliver ReedDudley SuttonIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRobert PowellGeorgina HaleLee MontagueComposer Gustav Mahler's (Robert Powell) life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife (Georgina Hale) discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMacdonald CareyShirley Anne FieldViveca LindforsAn American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsAlan BatesOliver ReedGlenda JacksonTwo best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsRoger LiveseyDeborah KerrAnton WalbrookFrom the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsWendy HillerRoger LiveseyPamela BrownA young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsEric PortmanSheila SimDennis PriceThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsJohn MillsJohn GregsonDonald SindenThe attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsCharles LaughtonJohn MillsBrenda de BanzieWidower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsLiam RedmondAndré MorellKenneth GriffithA wave of sabotage has been sweeping England, taking lives and creating instability. Cmdr. Robert Brennan and Supt. Folland of the Special Branch and Major Elliott of MI5 are charged with putting an end to this internal terrorism.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsJack HawkinsNigel PatrickRoger LiveseyA disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsGlynis JohnsDonald SindenAnne CrawfordFlirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsJohn MillsJohn McCallumElizabeth SellarsReleased from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsRichard BurtonPeter O'TooleJohn GielgudKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsJames MasonEdward FoxDorothy TutinWhile Europe stands on the brink of World War I in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh GrantTwo English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsRobert ShawPatrick MageeSydney TaflerThe down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
- DirectorLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardDavid NivenRosamund JohnAircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsMargaret RutherfordRichard HearneEdward LexyHenry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), who encourages him to go into minor crime.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsMichael CaineTrevor HowardLawrence DouglasIn eighteenth century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert NewtonCelia JohnsonJohn MillsJust after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessJohn MillsSusannah YorkAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
- DirectorJames HillStarsEric PorterJeremy KempBill TraversBased on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsHardy KrügerColin GordonMichael GoodliffeA cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
- DirectorDavid PaltenghiStarsArthur AskeyGlenn MelvynThora HirdTwo football-loving railway workers get into trouble after racing their engine home to get to a match on time.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsAnna NeagleAnthony QuayleSylvia SymsDoctors and nurses of a children's hospital confront the challenges of their profession.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsAnthony SteelOdile VersoisStanley BakerAfter killing a few Italian cops during a burglary, a thief hired by a British car racing company must flee to Switzerland disguised as a race car driver during a rally.
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsAnne CrawfordPeggy CumminsRosamund JohnA pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a petty hoodlum who commits a jewel robbery. The second story tells of a young girl who deserts the Army to marry a boy who needs her and commits bigamy in the process, but it all works out. The third story is about a baby who is mistreated by its father and stepmother, but is reunited, through police work, with its real mother.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerJack HawkinsUlla JacobssonOutnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsKenneth MoreLauren BacallHerbert LomSet on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsOliver ReedJohn AldertonMichael J. PollardA British prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together, they head for the Swiss border and freedom.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsOliver ReedJane MerrowBarbara FerrisIn a seaside town, local men pursue summer tourists for casual flings. Their leader, a photographer named Tinker, unexpectedly falls for a wealthy model, realizing the dynamic of exploitation may be reversed.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsRobert DonatGeoffrey AtkinsJean CadellThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsDavid NivenStanley HollowayJames DonaldWorld War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJack HawkinsAnna LeeAnna MasseyA typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsCelia JohnsonDiana DorsDavid KossoffKandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes come true.
- DirectorGordon ParryStarsJack HawkinsElizabeth AllanEva BartokGrant is the news editor of London's "Daily World". On a very complicated day, two news stories come to a dramatic climax. Interwoven with these is the problem of Grant's personal life which looks likely to become yet another news item.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsAlastair SimSally GrayTrevor HowardAfter the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
- DirectorLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardFrancis L. SullivanAllan JeayesProfessor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimMiki HoodInspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimLinden TraversIt comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's holiday." One of their fellow boarders at Balmoral Guest House, Captain Fraser of the Royal Navy, goes out one dismal night with his pet terrier and is found crushed and burned to death in his wrecked roadster at the foot of a cliff. Hornleigh and Bingham, residing at Brighthaven incognito and the last people to see Fraser, are taken into custody by the local police. It was impossible to identify the charred body and the dog is missing. Hornleigh, suspecting murder, identifies himself and goes to work on the case. He proves that the crash was neither suicide nor accident, and that the body is not Fraser, despite an identifying tattoo on the back of his hand.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimPhyllis CalvertThe plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be trusted and who can't. Phyllis Calvert contributes to the intrigue as one Mrs. Wilkinson who is not all she seems to be.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie BanksAlastair SimJeanne De CasalisAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsGuy RolfeAllan CuthbertsonAndrew CruickshankIn the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves.
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsEric PortmanGuy RolfeNadia GrayA clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsGuy RolfeLisa DanielyPatricia DaintonDoctor Fenton is abducted and forced to operate on a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, Inspector Austin investigates the murder of Fenton's assistant. All this has something to do with a missing diplomat.
- DirectorLeslie HowardMaurice ElveyStarsJoan GatesJean GillieJoan GreenwoodThis film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsJean SimmonsTrevor HowardSonia DresdelA former British agent is employed at the Fenton country estate where he aids Fenton's niece in eluding the police after she's unjustly accused of murdering a local gamekeeper.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsJean KentAlbert LievenDerrick De MarneySpies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsStanley BakerHelmut SchmidTom BellA criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsJames Robertson JusticeLeslie PhillipsStanley BaxterA somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsStanley BakerJohn CrawfordDonald PleasenceIn Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerHerbert LomPeggy CumminsA rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsTerry-ThomasGeorge ColeBrenda de BanzieIn this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsDavid TomlinsonPetula ClarkSonja ZiemannA young couple enter the Dunmow Flitch Trial, in which a side of bacon can be won if a couple do not regret their marriage after a year, but the arrival of an attractive new housemaid throws everything into chaos.