Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing. Read More »
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Futtocks End (1970) Bob Kellett, Michael Hordern, Ronnie Barker, Roger Livesey, Comedy
In this ‘silent’ sound-effect comedy, Ronnie Barker stars as General Futtock who has a motley group of guests stay at his country estate for the weekend. Read More »
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Val Guest, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1980) Jim Goddard, Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Drama, History, Romance, War
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. Read More »
Peter’s Friends (1992) Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Read More »
Alice in Wonderland (1966) Jonathan Miller, Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Drama, Family, Fantasy
There have been numerous film adaptations of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, over the years. Read More »
Hell is a City (1960) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Crime, Thriller
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Read More »
Kiss the Other Sheik / Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965) Eduardo De Filippo, Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Virna Lisi, Comedy
Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. Read More »
Tobruk (1967) Arthur Hiller, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green
September 1942 – With Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps on the march through Egypt, a British special forces unit, composed of German Jews who serve with the British despite the mutual resentment between both Read More »
The Secret of the urn (1966) Hideo Gosha, Bin Amatsu, Keiko Awaji, Takuya Fujioka, Action, Adventure, Drama
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. Read More »