Cinematography: Lionel Banes

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


Passport to Pimlico

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Stanley Holloway · Betty Warren · Barbara Murray · Paul Dupuis

Plot When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, an area of London, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is, in fact part of...

6.8

719 votes

6.8

719 votes

One Step Beyond (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction John Newland · Axel Gruenberg · Jack B. Hively

Cast John Newland · Robert Douglas · Will J. White · Olan Soule

Plot Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories...

6.8

60 votes

6.8

60 votes

The Avengers (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sydney Newman · Don Leaver · Peter Hammond · Kim Mills

Cast Patrick MacNee · Diana Rigg · Honor Blackman · Linda Thorson

Plot TV Series (1961-1969). 7 Seasons. 161 Episodes. The Avengers was an British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation,...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Saint (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Charteris · Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Jeremy Summers

Cast Roger Moore · Ivor Dean · Leslie Crawford · Justine Lord

Plot TV Series (1962-1969). 6 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Simon Templar is The Saint - adored by women, feared by his adversaries and a constant thorn in the side of police forces...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

The Night My Number Came Up

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott

Plot A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream...

6.1

31 votes

6.1

31 votes

The Haunted Strangler

1958 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

6.0

37 votes

6.0

37 votes

Fiend Without A Face

1958 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Crabtree

Cast Gil Winfield · Marshall Thompson · Michael Balfour · Terry Kilburn

Plot A Scientist, experimenting with telekinetic powers enhanced by a nearby nuclear power plant succeeds in creating a new form of life. This new creature grows in intelligence until it finally...

5.4

88 votes

5.4

88 votes

That Woman Opposite

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Phyllis Kirk · Dan O'Herlihy · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Petula Clark

Plot A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir...

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Valley of Song

1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gilbert Gunn

Cast Mervyn Johns · Clifford Evans · Maureen Swanson · John Fraser

Plot Story of how a little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd.

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Dangerous Cargo

1954 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Harlow

Cast Susan Stephen · Jack Watling · Karel Stepanek · Richard Pearson

Plot A gang tries to rob a cargo of bullion from an airport.

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Against the Wind

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

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I Only Arsked!

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Bernard Bresslaw · Michael Medwin · Alfie Bass · Geoffrey Sumner

Plot A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at...

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ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Coke · John Llewellyn Moxey · Joan Kemp-Welch · Tania Lieven

Cast Alfred Burke · Derek Francis · Laurence Hardy · Peter Wyngarde

Plot TV Series (1955-1974). 13 seasons. 610 episodes.

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Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield · Bernard Knowles · Arthur Crabtree · Phil Brown

Cast Boris Karloff · Ewan Roberts · Eric Pohlmann · Doris Dolan

Plot Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

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Train of Events

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Cole · Charles Crichton · Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Gladys Henson · Susan Shaw · Patric Doonan

Plot A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.

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Man in a Suitcase (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Harris · Dennis Spooner · Charles Crichton · Peter Duffell

Cast Richard Bradford · Ricardo Montez · Warren Stanhope · Frank Forsyth

Plot McGill (known as "Mac") was a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his "false"...

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The Surgeon's Knife

1957 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Donald Houston · Adrienne Corri · Lyndon Brook · Jean Cadell

Plot A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

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The Magnet

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Stephen Murray · Kay Walsh · James Fox · Meredith Edwards

Plot Johnny Brent (Fox), whilst off school in quarantine for scarlet fever, manages to con a younger boy out of a magnet by swapping it for an "invisible watch". He uses...

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No Road Back

1957 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Skip Homeier · Paul Carpenter · Patricia Dainton · Norman Wooland

Plot A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to...

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Not rated