Cinematography: Jack Asher

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


Horror of Dracula

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Michael Gough · Melissa Stribling

Plot Posing as a librarian, erstwhile vampire hunter Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula where he is welcomed by the courtly Count Dracula. Harker attempts to kill Dracula and eliminate the...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

The Curse of Frankenstein

1957 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Hazel Court · Robert Urquhart · Christopher Lee

Plot Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Revenge of Frankenstein

1958 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Francis Matthews · Michael Gwynne · Eunice Gayson

Plot With the help of Karl, the crippled dwarf hangman, whom he promises to give a new body, Frankenstein escapes the gallows and they hang the officiating priest instead. Under the...

6.7

725 votes

6.7

725 votes

Cast a Dark Shadow

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Margaret Lockwood · Kay Walsh · Kathleen Harrison

Plot A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a decision of...

6.7

47 votes

6.7

47 votes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Christopher Lee · Marla Landi

Plot Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in this mix of mystery and supernatural horror from Britain’s Hammer Films. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

Reach for the Sky

1956 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Muriel Pavlow · Lyndon Brook · Lee Patterson

Plot The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World...

6.5

58 votes

6.5

58 votes

The Good Die Young

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Laurence Harvey · Gloria Grahame · Richard Basehart · Joan Collins

Plot Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted...

6.4

67 votes

6.4

67 votes

The Snorkel

1958 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Peter van Eyck · Betta St. John · Mandy Miller · Grégoire Aslan

Plot Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.

6.4

123 votes

6.4

123 votes

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Anton Diffring · Hazel Court · Christopher Lee · arnold Marle

Plot Based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon which had been previously filmed in 1945. Anton Diffring stars as a century-old artist who maintains a...

6.3

282 votes

6.3

282 votes

The Brides of Dracula

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Yvonne Monlaur · David Peel · Martita Hunt

Plot A young French woman unknowingly frees a vampire. He wreaks havoc, sucking blood and creating more of the undead to carry out his evil deeds. One of the better Hammer...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (Jekyll's Inferno)

1960 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Paul Massie · Dawn Addams · Christopher Lee · David Kossoff

Plot Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

6.2

417 votes

6.2

417 votes

The Mummy

1959 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Yvonne Furneaux · Eddie Byrne

Plot Three British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it a bad curse falls on them...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Portrait from Life

1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Mai Zetterling · Robert Beatty · Guy Rolfe · Herbert Lom

Plot A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.

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The Steel Bayonet

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

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The Bulldog Breed

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

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Cosh Boy

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast James Kenney · Joan Collins · Betty Ann Davies · Robert Ayres

Plot Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother,...

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The Lost People

1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Muriel Box · Bernard Knowles

Cast Dennis Price · Mai Zetterling · Richard Attenborough · Siobhan McKenna

Plot Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning...

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The Astonished Heart

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Noël Coward · Celia Johnson · Margaret Leighton · Joyce Carey

Plot The film begins with a scene in which Barbara rings Leonora to tell her that something has happened to Chris. At this point, we don't know who Chris is or...

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Grand National Night

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bob McNaught

Cast Nigel Patrick · Moira Lister · Beatrice Campbell · Betty Ann Davies

Plot After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' horse wins the Grand National, his wife come home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed....

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Hell Is Sold Out

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Attenborough · Mai Zetterling · Herbert Lom · Hermione Baddeley

Plot A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Lom", a popular writer, long believed to be dead. The real "Lom" turns up & meets the new authoress...

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Not rated