Soundtrack: Laurie Johnson

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Laurie Johnson. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Peter Sellers · George C. Scott · Sterling Hayden · James Earl Jones

Synopsis Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians,...

7.9

47K votes

7.9

47K votes

Thriller (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Hays · John Cooper · Peter Jefferies · Robert Tronson

Cast Barbara Feldon · Robert Powell · Linda Thorson · Mary Wimbush

Synopsis It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

7.2

95 votes

7.2

95 votes

Tiger Bay

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast John Mills · Horst Buchholz · Hayley Mills · Yvonne Mitchell

Synopsis A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.

7.0

290 votes

7.0

290 votes

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

Synopsis 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 fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. The relationship between Bodie,...

6.9

79 votes

6.9

79 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

Synopsis 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, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman. Starring...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

And Soon the Darkness

1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Fuest

Cast Pamela Franklin · Michele Dotrice · Sandor Elès · John Nettleton

Synopsis Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) are two young nurses from London, taking a cycling holiday in rural France. Stopping for a rest, Cathy decides she wants to sunbathe for a while, but Jane wants to push on. Eventually...

6.1

449 votes

6.1

449 votes

First Men in the Moon

1964 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Edward Judd · Martha Hyer · Lionel Jeffries · Miles Malleson

Synopsis H.G. Wells' fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring unforgettable extra-terrestrial creatures. The film begins with a team of United Nations astronauts...

6.0

591 votes

6.0

591 votes

Hot Millions

1968 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Eric Till

Cast Peter Ustinov · Maggie Smith · Karl Malden · Bob Newhart

Synopsis A con man becomes an expert in computers so he can embezzle money out of a large corporation and escape to Rio with his girlfriend.

5.6

187 votes

5.6

187 votes

Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter

1973 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens

Cast Horst Janson · John Carson · Shane Briant · Caroline Munro

Synopsis Hard-faced Horst Janson is the brooding Kronos, a rangy, sword-wielding soldier who hunts the vampire scourge with his jovial hunchbacked partner, Grost (John Cater), and his earthy peasant girl lover, hazelnut eyed beauty Caroline Munro. Director-writer Brian Clemens, who so...

5.6

458 votes

5.6

458 votes

The New Avengers (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ray Austin · Sidney Hayers · Robert Fuest · James Hill

Cast Patrick MacNee · Gareth Hunt · Joanna Lumley · Maurice Marsac

Synopsis John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.

5.5

144 votes

5.5

144 votes

The Moonraker

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David MacDonald

Cast George Baker · Sylvia Syms · Marius Goring · Peter Arne

Synopsis After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has...

5.1

23 votes

5.1

23 votes

A Hazard of Hearts (TV)

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Hough

Cast Diana Rigg · Edward Fox · Helena Bonham Carter · Fiona Fullerton

Synopsis When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in...

4.9

34 votes

4.9

34 votes

It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive

1987 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Michael Moriarty · Karen Black · Laurene Landon · James Dixon

Synopsis The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island...

4.2

114 votes

4.2

114 votes

The Lady and the Highwayman (TV)

1989 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Hough

Cast Emma Samms · Oliver Reed · Claire Bloom · Hugh Grant

Synopsis The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband. He kills him in a fair duel. Later, when Charles the 2nd is reinstated as King of England, she attends the...

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What a Whopper

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gilbert Gunn

Cast Adam Faith · Sid James · Carole Lesley · Terence Longdon

Synopsis A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake...

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Not rated

Shirley's World (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Melville Shavelson · Frank Tarloff · Ray Austin · Ralph Levy

Cast Shirley MacLaine · John Gregson · Rodney Bewes · Stuart Damon

Synopsis Shirley Logan is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer and Dennis Croft, her London based editor.

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Operation Bullshine

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gilbert Gunn

Cast Donald Sinden · Barbara Murray · Carole Lesley · Ronald Shiner

Synopsis The fun starts when a group of A.T.S. girls are posted to a light ack-ack command post on a remote part of the English coast.

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Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Curd Jürgens · Victoria Shaw · Herbert Lom · Gia Scala

Synopsis The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the...

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Not rated

Siege of the Saxons

1963 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Janette Scott · Ronald Lewis · Ronald Howard · John Laurie

Synopsis In league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way.

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Hedda

1975 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Trevor Nunn

Cast Glenda Jackson · Peter Eyre · Timothy West · Jennie Linden

Synopsis The film adaptation of Ibsen's play 'Hedda Gabler', the story of of a woman unhappy and frustrated with her middle-class existence, who derives satisfaction from the manipulation of those around her. Glenda Jackson received an Oscar nomination for her performance...

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