Cinematography: Monty Berman

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


The Edge of the World

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Niall MacGinnis · John Laurie · Belle Chrystall · Finlay Currie

Plot A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the...

7.0

120 votes

7.0

120 votes

The Flesh and the Fiends

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

6.8

302 votes

6.8

302 votes

Jack the Ripper

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert S. Baker · Monty Berman

Cast Lee Patterson · Eddie Byrne · Betty McDowall · Ewen Solon

Plot In 1888, Jack the Ripper is on his killing spree. Scotland Yard Inspector O'Neill is pleased to welcome to London his old friend Sam Lowry, a New York City detective...

6.3

45 votes

6.3

45 votes

The Trollenberg Terror (The Crawling Eye)

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Quentin Lawrence

Cast Forrest Tucker · Laurence Payne · Jennifer Jayne · Janet Munro

Plot A remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures that like to decapitate humans. The beings are also in telepathic communication with people and inhabit a mysterious,...

5.4

139 votes

5.4

139 votes

Blood of the vampire

1958 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

5.1

111 votes

5.1

111 votes

The Hellfire Club

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert S. Baker · Monty Berman

Cast Keith Michell · Adrienne Corri · Peter Cushing · Peter Arne

Plot Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Thomas. In order to...

4.6

25 votes

4.6

25 votes

The Gilded Cage

1955 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Alex Nicol · Veronica Hurst · Clifford Evans · Ursula Howells

Plot Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.

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Recoil

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Kieron Moore · Elizabeth Sellars · Edward Underdown · John Horsley

Plot Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang who killed her jeweller father, Michael.

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The Frightened Man

1952 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Dermot Walsh · Barbara Murray · Charles Victor · John Blythe

Plot The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Julius Rosselli (Dermot Walsh), whose expulsion from Oxford and subsequent participation with jewel thieves breaks the heart of his...

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What a Carve Up! / No Place Like Homicide!

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Connor · Shirley Eaton · Donald Pleasence

Plot Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long the guests...

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Escape by Night

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Bonar Colleano · Andrew Ray · Sid James · Simone Silva

Plot An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

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No Trace

1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Hugh Sinclair · Dinah Sheridan · John Laurie · Dora Bryan

Plot When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland Yard friend then...

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Deadly Nightshade

1953 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Emrys Jones · Zena Marshall · John Horsley · Joan Hickson

Plot Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

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Breakaway

1956 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cass

Cast Tom Conway · Michael Balfour · Honor Blackman · Brian Worth

Plot Suave, if a trifle elderly, private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.

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The Voice of Merrill

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Valerie Hobson · Edward Underdown · James Robertson Justice · Henry Kendall

Plot The story of four people directly and indirectly involved with the murder of a female blackmailer. The three male suspects are the girl's publisher employer; an up-and-coming writer (Edward Undertown);...

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Three Steps to the Gallows

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Scott Brady · Mary Castle · Gabrielle Brune · Ferdy Mayne

Plot American Gregor Stevens arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets...

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Blackout

1950 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert S. Baker

Cast Maxwell Reed · Dinah Sheridan · Patric Doonan · Kynaston Reeves

Plot A man suffering from temporary blindness accidentally walks into a house where a murder has just occurred. The killers, realizing he's blind, decide not to kill him but just knock...

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Barbados Quest

1955 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bernard Knowles

Cast Tom Conway · Delphi Lawrence · Brian Worth · Michael Balfour

Plot J. D. Everleigh, a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, who says he represents Robert Coburn, a stamp agent. Everleigh begins to suspect the stamp...

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The Lost Hours

1952 · Movie · 67 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Mark Stevens · Jean Kent · Garry Marsh · John Bentley

Plot During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. The next...

Not rated

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Windfall

1955 · Movie · 64 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cass

Cast Lionel Jeffries · Jack Watling · Gordon Jackson · Avice Landone

Plot A shop assistant finds a case with £2000 in it, and doesn't quite know what to do with it.

Not rated

Not rated