Cinematography: Brian Probyn

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Brian Probyn. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Badlands

1973 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Terrence Malick

Cast Martin Sheen · Sissy Spacek · Warren Oates · Ramon Bieri

Synopsis Badlands (1973) follows Kit, a charming yet reckless young man, and Holly, a naive teenage girl, as they embark on a violent journey across the American Midwest. After Kit kills Holly's father, the couple flees into the vast, desolate badlands,...

7.3

12K votes

7.3

12K votes

The Long Day's Dying

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast David Hemmings · Tony Beckley · Tom Bell · Alan Dobie

Synopsis The saga of three British soldiers and their German captive as they trek through the European countryside.

6.8

25 votes

6.8

25 votes

Poor Cow

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Carol White · Terence Stamp · John Bindon · Queenie Watts

Synopsis A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another thief)...

6.4

123 votes

6.4

123 votes

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Shane Briant · David Prowse · Madeline Smith

Synopsis Last of the Hammer Frankenstein films, this one deals with the Baron hiding out in an insane asylum, so that he may continue his experiments with reanimating the dead, along with inmate Dr. Helder, who has been institutionalized for conducting...

6.2

556 votes

6.2

556 votes

5.6

26 votes

Downhill Racer

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.3

502 votes

5.3

502 votes

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

1973 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Gibson

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Michael Coles · William Franklyn

Synopsis In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (a descendant of the great vampire-hunter himself, no less) to help them put...

5.0

553 votes

5.0

553 votes

Man at the Top

1973 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Nanette Newman · Harry Andrews · William Lucas

Synopsis A man becomes involved with a pharmaceutical concern that has moved a drug to market too quickly, rendering hundreds of African women sterile. When the man approaches his superior, he finds that, perhaps, he is in over his head.

Not rated

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Target of an Assassin

1977 · Movie · 105 min. · South Africa

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Anthony Quinn · John Phillip Law · Simon Sabela · Marius Weyers

Synopsis An ailing African leader is admitted to a hospital. A male nurse at the hospital kidnaps him, but it turns out that things aren't exactly what they seem to be.

Not rated

Not rated

Shatter

1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Carreras · Monte Hellman

Cast Stuart Whitman · Ti Lung · Lily Li · Peter Cushing

Synopsis Stuart Whitman is Shatter, an international hitman who is hiding out in Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader. Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the crime syndicate, the cops...

Not rated

Not rated

The Revolutionary

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Paul Williams

Cast Jon Voight · Seymour Cassel · Robert Duvall · Collin Wilcox Paxton

Synopsis A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.

Not rated

Not rated

Arthur! Arthur!

1969 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Samuel Gallu

Cast Shelley Winters · Donald Pleasence · Terry-Thomas · Tammy Grimes

Synopsis The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.

Not rated

Not rated

Innocent Bystanders

1972 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Stanley Baker · Donald Pleasence · Geraldine Chaplin · Dana Andrews

Synopsis In this business there are no Innocent Bystanders.

Not rated

Not rated

Inn of the Damned

1975 · Movie · 118 min. · Australia

Direction Terry Bourke

Cast Judith Anderson · Alex Cord · Michael Craig · Joseph Fürst

Synopsis A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Ytzen Brusse · Jean-Claude Chiabaut · Léonard Forest · Mogens Gander

Cast Lewis Mumford

Synopsis A study of the growing sterility, dullness, and congestion that is replacing the vitality and variety that once made cities attractive.

Not rated

Not rated

Holiday on the Buses

1973 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bryan Izzard

Cast Reg Varney · Stephen Lewis · Doris Hare · Michael Robbins

Synopsis Sacked by the bus company Stan and Jack get jobs as drivers ferrying punters to and from a holiday camp and arrange for the rest of the family to come and stay. Blakey is there as the chief security guard...

Not rated

Not rated

The Great Steam Fair (S)

1964 · Documentary · 17 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Gladwell · Derrick Knight

Cast Patrick Garland

Synopsis The Great Steam Fair is a beautifully crafted documentary filmed at Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire in 1964 at a nostalgic event which brought together many traditional fairground rides and steam engines. The film skilfully combines the techniques of traditional sponsored documentary...

Not rated

Not rated