Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. Read More »
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The Ipcress File (1965) Sidney J. Furie, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman
A number of leading Western scientists have been kidnapped only to reappear a fews days later. Read More »
Happy Go Lovely (1951) H. Bruce Humberstone, David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. Read More »
The Weaker Sex (1948) Roy Ward Baker, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins
Life on the home front during World War 2. Martha Dacre tries to keep her home running as normal, during the run up to the D Day landings. Read More »
Miss Robin Hood (1952) John Guillermin, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy
Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children’s’ comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor crime. Read More »
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) John Krish, Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man’s wife. Read More »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. Read More »
Dr. Crippen (1963) Robert Lynn, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne
A dramatization of Britain’s notorious Crippen murder case. American-born Hawley Harvey Crippen (nicknamed “Peter”), a mild-mannered Read More »
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Terence Fisher, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir
Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Read More »
The Homecoming (1973) Peter Hall, Ian Holm, Paul Rogers, Cyril Cusack
Max is a surly pensioner who alternately venerates and vilifies his dead wife. Sam, his brother, is a supercilious chauffeur. Read More »
Young Cassidy (1965) Jack Cardiff, John Ford, Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
In Dublin 1910, Johnny Cassidy, an impoverished idealist’s ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family Read More »
Anti-Social (2015) Reg Traviss, Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers
Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. Read More »
Bless This House (1972) Gerald Thomas, Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson
1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Read More »
The Devil Rides Out (1968) Terence Fisher, Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi
In the countryside of England, the Duc de Richleau a.k.a Nicholas welcomes his old friend Rex Van Ryn that has flown to meet him and Simon Aron Read More »
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
In 1807, Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship the HMS Lydia on a perilous voyage around Cape Horn and into the Pacific. Read More »