Aimed at the ten- to 15-year-old demographic, this six-episode British series offered an entertaining if not entirely...
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1989
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In this espionage drama, a young CIA operative gets entangled in the abduction of a scientist who possesses a unique formula...
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1979
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Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy...
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Peter Kroger
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1964
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British filmmaker Peter Yates directs singer Cliff Richard in the starring role in this early 1960s pop music romp. Richard...
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1963
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Prof. Kokintz
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1963
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Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering...
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1962
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Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered...
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1960
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Based on a British TV comedy, this is the tale of a London couple who inherit a pub in the country, only to find that their...
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1960
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Ernest Litauer
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1960
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In this airborne disaster movie, a has-been brilliant scientist plants a bomb on a transatlantic jet to exact revenge upon a...
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1959
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The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an...
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Prof. Kokintz
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1959
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Reminiscent of the film noir detective films like The Maltese Falcon, The House of Seven Hawks is really the same type of...
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Wilhelm Dekker
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1959
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The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I...
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1959
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Count Five and Die is a neat British-made programmer set just before the D-Day invasion. Nigel Patrick plays a British major...
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Mulder
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1958
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Mr. Vincent
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1958
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Carl Banks
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1958
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In this suspenseful crime drama, a decent British sailor stationed in France is forced to smuggle gold when one of the gang...
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Van de Heide
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1956
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Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon...
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1956
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Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is...
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Dr. Dubratz
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1956
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A prosaic filmization of George Orwell's cautionary novel, 1984 is set in a futuristic totalitarian society where...
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Charrington the Junk Shop Owner
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1956
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Wicked as They Come stars Arlene Dahl as Kathy Allen, whose sour attitude on life has been formed by a sexual assault in her...
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Sam Lewis
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1956
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Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual...
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Zacco
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1956
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Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. Set in...
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1955
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In Svengali, the 1955 adaptation of George DuMaurier's classic novel Trilby, Donald Wolfit achieves the near-impossible: he...
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1955
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In this sentimental comedy, Carol Reed tries for a bit of neo-realist whimsy that takes place in the London slums of...
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Kandinsky
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1955
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Comparatively little known, the British A Woman for Joe is an excellent showcase for leading lady Diane Cilento (later better...
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Max
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1955
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The rundown British community of Islington is visited by a heavenly angel (Diane Cilento), sent down on a do-good mission....
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1954
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Geza Szobeck
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1954
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1953
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Nikolai Gogol's classic short story The Overcoat was adapted for British consumption into The Bespoke Overcoat. Comic actor...
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1952
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