Soundtrack: Laurie Johnson
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Laurie Johnson. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Peter Sellers · George C. Scott · Sterling Hayden · James Earl Jones
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
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
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
And Soon the Darkness
1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Fuest
Cast Pamela Franklin · Michele Dotrice · Sandor Elès · John Nettleton
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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....
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
Plot 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
Plot 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,...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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....
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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....
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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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Wernher von Braun / I Aim at the Stars
1960 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Curd Jürgens · Victoria Shaw · Herbert Lom · Gia Scala
Plot 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...
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Siege of the Saxons
1963 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nathan Juran
Cast Janette Scott · Ronald Lewis · Ronald Howard · John Laurie
Plot 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...
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Hedda
1975 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Trevor Nunn
Cast Glenda Jackson · Peter Eyre · Timothy West · Jennie Linden
Plot 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...
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