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Notfilm

Notfilm

Notfilm
IMDb: 6.7
130

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM — its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications — utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard…

Genre: Documentary
Shadey

Shadey

Shadey
IMDb: 4.7
90

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the…

Genre: Comedy
The Lost Son

The Lost Son

The Lost Son
IMDb: 6.5
102

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
IMDb: 6
94

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man’s son. During the…

The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger
IMDb: 6.5
89

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor’s wife who…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Quills

Quills

Quills
IMDb: 7.3
124

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the…

Genre: Drama
The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal
IMDb: 7.2
93

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the…

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
IMDb: 6.2
92

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Maurice

Maurice

Maurice
IMDb: 7.7
140

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
IMDb: 6.6
162

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton’s undimmed devotion…

The Omen

The Omen

The Omen
IMDb: 7.5
111

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is…

Genre: Horror, Thriller
The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends
IMDb: 7
94

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne’er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens…

Genre: Horror
Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles
IMDb: 6.4
89

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer’s basic tool – the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Payroll

Payroll

Payroll
IMDb: 7
105

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze
IMDb: 6.2
97

Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City
IMDb: 7.1
98

Set in Manchester, heartland of England’s industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England’s most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Night Watch

Night Watch

Night Watch
IMDb: 6.3
99

Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

Start the Revolution Without Me

Start the Revolution Without Me

Start the Revolution Without Me
IMDb: 6.5
90

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other…

Genre: Comedy, History
Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve
IMDb: 7.1
112

Hywel Bennett stars as Martin Durnley, a rich but damaged Oxford University drop-out with a hatred of his banker stepfather, played by Frank Finlay. His mum babies the boy, a…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Devil’s Agent

The Devil’s Agent

The Devil’s Agent
IMDb: 6.7
77

German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Breakout

Breakout

Breakout
IMDb: 6.5
62

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Genre: Drama
Slayground

Slayground

Slayground
IMDb: 4.9
89

Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father…

The Water Babies

The Water Babies

The Water Babies
IMDb: 6.1
92

This children’s fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.

Gumshoe

Gumshoe

Gumshoe
IMDb: 6.5
88

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Frenzy

Frenzy

Frenzy
IMDb: 7.4
116

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he’s the wrong man.

The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man
IMDb: 7
92

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it…

Genre: Drama
No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
IMDb: 6.8
110

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he’s feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him….

Genre: Drama
The Krays

The Krays

The Krays
IMDb: 6.6
119

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were…

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
IMDb: 7.2
84

After Elizabeth’s husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception)…

Genre: Comedy, Music