
In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. Read More »
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Orders to Kill (1958) Anthony Asquith, Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Film-Noir, Drama, War

A grounded American figter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis. Read More »
The Green Man (1956) Robert Day, Basil Dearden, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Comedy

Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. Read More »
I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975) Peter Sasdy, Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates, Horror

A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Read More »
A Circle of Deception (1960) Jack Lee, Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews, Drama, Romance, War

In 1944, prior to the Allied landings in Normandy, British Intelligence is anxious to mislead the Germans regarding the actual landing sites. Read More »
Charlie Bubbles (1967) Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw, Comedy, Drama

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous Read More »
The Terror of the Tongs (1961) Anthony Bushell, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone, Action, Adventure

A secret society of Hong-Kong at the beginning of the century called “The Red Dragon Tong” kidnaps the captain of a ship in the harbour of Hong-Kong as he tries to detain the killers of his daughter. Because the secret society is very powerful it is not easy to free him from their hands. Read More »
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) Douglas Hickox, Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Sloane, a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath’s household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. Read More »
The Key (1958) Carol Reed, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Drama, Romance, War

Not well equipped with weaponry, the tugs are sitting ducks for enemy fire. As such, the crew working the tugs have precarious lives, many with deep seated emotional problems. Read More »
Sixty Six (2006) Paul Weiland, Charlie Clark, Nick Shirm, Thomas Drewson, Biography, Comedy, Drama

A boy’s barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
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