Cinematography: Otto Heller

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Alec Guinness · Kate Johnson · Herbert Lom · Peter Sellers

Plot A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Eva Bartok · Nick Cravat · Torin Thatcher

Plot Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A...

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Bedrich Karen · Zdenek Stepánek · Václav Vydra

Plot “The White Disease”, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Karlheinz Böhm · Moira Shearer · Anna Massey · Maxine Audley

Plot As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up,...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Craig · Patrick McGoohan · Janet Munro · Paul Rogers

Plot When John Harris's daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Sylvia Syms · Dennis Price · Anthony Nicholls

Plot Dirk Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married lawyer who learns of a blackmail scheme when one of its victims, an old friend, commits suicide rather than tell the police. As...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · John Gielgud · Claire Bloom

Plot The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Trevor Howard · Griffith Jones · Sally Gray · René Ray

Plot In this gritty film noir, ex-RAF flyer Morgan joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. On his first job, the getaway car crashes after killing a policeman. Morgan is framed...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast John Mills · Derek Farr · Noelle Middleton · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Sean Connery · Ralph Richardson · Johnny Sekka

Plot Maria, an Italian private nurse, is hired by Anthony Richmond to care for his uncle Charles, a ruthless and malicious crippled millionaire. Anthony is convinced that Charles drove his father...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Cornell Borchers · Yvonne Mitchell · Armin Dahle · Alexander Knox

Plot During World War II, a German woman named Inga (Cornell Borchers, who won a Best Foreign Actress BAFTA Award) goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed...

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Joan Rice · André Morell · Abraham Sofaer

Plot Burt Lancaster plays David O'Keefe, a daring American sea captain whose mutinous crew dumps him unceremoniously into the ocean. The trusty mariner manages to stay alive and lands ashore on...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Edwige Feuillère · John Lodge · Aimé Clariond · Jean Worms

Plot The story of Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, and the events leading up to their assassination in Sarajevo in 1914.

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Michael Caine · Nigel Green · Guy Doleman · Gordon Jackson

Plot Harry Palmer is an unconventional counter-intelligence officer. Although a sergeant in the army, he is disrespectful of his superiors but does enjoy the finer things life has to offer. He...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Michael Caine · Eva Renzi · Paul Hubschmid · Oskar Homolka

Plot Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Michael Caine · Shelley Winters · Millicent Martin · Julia Foster

Plot For Alfie, the only real life is sex life; only then can he kid himself he is living. Sex is not used as the working-class boy's way to 'the top'....

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Anton Walbrook · Edith Evans · Yvonne Mitchell · Ronald Howard

Plot An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about...

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Oliver Reed · Carol White · Orson Welles · Harry Andrews

Plot Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine....

Direction Guy Green

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Rossano Brazzi · Yvette Mimieux · George Hamilton

Plot A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the...

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Dirk Bogarde · John Mills · Mylène Demongeot · Laurence Naismith

Plot This unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A Night to Remember (1958) director Roy Baker. Father Keogh (John Mills) is a Catholic priest...