Soundtrack: Benjamin Frankel

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Widmark · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers · Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Sam Wanamaker · Lea Padovani · Kathleen Ryan · Charles Goldner

Synopsis Geremio, a young Italian immigrant to New York City, works as a bricklayer and is courting an Italian girl, Annunziata, by mail. He lies to her that he owns his own home and, after they are married, has to rent...

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Synopsis The Night of the Iguana (1964) follows disgraced reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, now a tour guide in Mexico, as he leads a group of irritable female tourists. Struggling with his inner demons, Shannon seeks refuge at a run-down hotel run...

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Cecil Parker · Patric Doonan

Synopsis The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all,...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Bill Travers · Finlay Currie

Synopsis To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her...

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Flora Robson · James McKechnie

Direction Arthur Crabtree

Cast Eric Portman · Greta Gynt · Dennis Price · Jack Warner

Synopsis When successful business man Lee Warren suspects his wife is having an affair, he sets out find her lover, kill him, and make it look like suicide. Complications set in, when he finds out she has another lover as well,...

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · Richard Wattis · Michel Dennison · Walter Hudd

Synopsis Jack Worthing lives in the country with his pretty ward Cecily Cardew. But in the city, he goes by the name of Earnest and is in love with Gwendolyn Fairfax. Miss Fairfax's cousin is Algernon Moncrieff, who, also using the...

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast James Mason · Ann Todd · Herbert Lom · Hugh McDermott

Synopsis A childhood trauma has left pianist Francesca Cunningham deeply disturbed and suicidal. Many hazy thoughts cloud her mind -- memories of abuse, memories of submission to her seemingly overbearing mentor, Nicholas. But she cannot tell the true from the false,...

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · Raymond Huntley · Wilfrid Lawson

Synopsis The Prisoner is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his religious convictions. Alec Guinness, his head shaved, plays an unnamed...

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Olivia de Havilland · Paul Massie · Robert Morley

Synopsis A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interviews with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney. The...

Direction Terence Fisher · Antony Darnborough

Cast Jean Simmons · Dirk Bogarde · David Tomlinson · Marcel Poncin

Synopsis A young British woman (Jean Simmons) attends the 1889 Paris Exposition with her brother, only to find him mysteriously missing the morning after their arrival. When the hotel staff insists that neither her brother nor his hotel room ever existed,...

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews

Synopsis This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front. An action-packed drama about the battle that brought World War...

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Peter Finch · Kay Kendall · Muriel Pavlow · Hubert Gregg

Synopsis In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Deborah Kerr · Van Johnson · John Mills · Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Oliver Reed · Yvonne Romain · Catherine Feller · Clifford Evans

Synopsis A servant girl is raped by a beggar in a castle dungeon and gives birth to a son. The boy looks normal but as he matures he begins displaying some strange characteristics, most notably a bad reaction to full moons:...

Direction John Paddy Carstairs

Cast Jean Kent · Albert Lieven · Derrick De Marney · Paul Dupuis

Synopsis Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals it from the others and boards the Orient Express. He ends up involving a couple who were trying to have a clandestine...

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Ann Todd · Eric Portman · Maxwell Reed · Edward Rigby

Synopsis A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his boss's wife - after a...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Celia Johnson · Diana Dors · David Kossoff · Joe Robinson

Synopsis In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Trevor Howard · Jean Simmons · Kenneth More · Barry Jones

Synopsis When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate - cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. David grows fond of Jess Fenton's niece, a fragile, fey young woman named...