Screenplay: Christopher Wicking
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Christopher Wicking. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Professionals (TV Series)
1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Clemens · William Brayne · Martin Campbell · Dennis C. Lewiston
Cast Gordon Jackson · Martin Shaw · Lewis Collins · Bridget Brice
Plot This TV Series (1977-1983) chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to...
6.9
79 votes
6.9
79 votes
Absolute Beginners
1986 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Julien Temple
Cast Eddie O'Connell · Patsy Kensit · David Bowie · James Fox
Plot A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected...
5.6
469 votes
5.6
469 votes
The Oblong Box
1969 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Hessler
Cast Vincent Price · Christopher Lee · Alister Williamson · Hilary Dwyer
Plot When Sir Edward is horribly disfigured, he is kept chained and out of sight by his aristocratic brother. But Sir Edward escapes and goes on a killing spree in a...
5.4
438 votes
5.4
438 votes
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
1971 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Seth Holt · Michael Carreras
Cast Andrew Keir · Valerie Leon · James Villiers · Hugh Burden
Plot An archaelogical expedition brings back the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magic powers to London. Her spirit takes on the shape of a young girl and strange...
5.2
191 votes
5.2
191 votes
To the Devil a Daughter
1976 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Sykes
Cast Richard Widmark · Christopher Lee · Honor Blackman · Denholm Elliott
5.2
356 votes
5.2
356 votes
Demons of the Mind
1972 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Sykes
Cast Robert Hardy · Shane Briant · Gillian Hills · Patrick Magee
Plot Baron Friedrich Zorn (Robert Hardy) calls Dr. Falkenberg (Patrick Magee), a radical psychologist whose theories have had him evicted from Vienna, to him, and asks Falkenberg to cure the madness...
5.0
94 votes
5.0
94 votes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Hessler
Cast Jason Robards · Herbert Lom · Christine Kaufmann · Adolfo Celi
5.0
81 votes
5.0
81 votes
Cry of the Banshee
1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Hessler
Cast Vincent Price · Hilary Dwyer · Carl Rigg · Patrick Mower
Plot The puritanical magistrate Edward Whitman puts the followers of the witch Oona to the death, although deliberately spares her. She swears vengeance for this and calls up a manifestation of...
4.8
136 votes
4.8
136 votes
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Just Jaeckin
Cast Sylvia Kristel · Shane Briant · Nicholas Clay · Ann Mitchell
Plot A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With...
4.5
178 votes
4.5
178 votes
Scream and Scream Again
1970 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Hessler
Cast Vincent Price · Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Alfred Marks
Plot A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
4.5
255 votes
4.5
255 votes
On Dangerous Ground (TV)
1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Canada
Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark
Cast Rob Lowe · Kenneth Cranham · Deborah Moore · Jürgen Prochnow
Plot When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944, Chinese factions, the British government, Hong Kong businessmen, AND the Mafia all...
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Medusa
1973 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Hessler
Cast George Hamilton · Luciana Paluzzi · Cameron Mitchell · Thodoros Roubanis
Plot After a boat is discovered with two bodies on it, the story of Jeffrey and Sarah, a brother and sister living in Greece, unfolds. Sarah has just become engaged to...
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Venom
1971 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Sykes
Cast Simon Brent · Neda Arneric · Sheila Allen · Derek Newark
Plot A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.
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