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1. The Omen (1976)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner
Votes: 132,913 | Gross: $4.27M
2. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
G | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 37,201 | Gross: $28.35M
3. If.... (1968)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
Votes: 25,217
4. Battle of Britain (1969)
G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 24,559 | Gross: $4.36M
5. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
TV-14 | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from Earths orbit and into deep space.
Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Votes: 9,461
6. The Avengers (1961–1969)
TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson
Votes: 8,902
7. O Lucky Man! (1973)
R | 178 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe
Votes: 8,805
8. Victim (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 7,221
9. The Saint (1962–1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Simon "The Saint" Templar, a wealthy adventurer and 20th-century Robin Hood, travels the world in his white Volvo P1800S, solving unsolvable problems and righting wrongs.
Stars: Roger Moore, Ivor Dean, Leslie Crawford, Justine Lord
Votes: 6,231
10. Night of the Eagle (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 4,038
11. Dunkirk (1958)
Approved | 135 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart
Votes: 3,528
12. The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray
Votes: 2,846
13. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
GP | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie
Votes: 2,804
14. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
TV-G | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A Disney-produced anthology covering many different genres.
Stars: Walt Disney, Paul Frees, Clarence Nash, Slim Pickens
Votes: 2,293
15. Our Mother's House (1967)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
British children hide Mother's death. Then, Father returns.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin, Louis Sheldon
Votes: 2,280
16. Othello (1965)
Unrated | 165 min | Drama
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Robert Lang, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,645
17. The Hasty Heart (1949)
102 min | Drama, War
In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,551
18. The Champions (1968–1969)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.
Stars: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,429
19. Callan (1967–1972)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. This... See full summary »
Stars: Edward Woodward, Russell Hunter, Lisa Langdon, Anthony Valentine
Votes: 859
20. A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Assi Dayan, Anthony Higgins, John Hallam
Votes: 823
21. Tonight's the Night (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
In the Irish village of Rathbarney, the aged squire is killed while hunting. His successor, O'Leary arrives in Rathbarney to take over his dead great uncle's estate.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald, George Cole
Votes: 610
22. Department S (1969–1970)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherits those cases which the other member groups have failed to solve.
Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Joel Fabiani, Rosemary Nicols, Dennis Alaba Peters
Votes: 586
23. The Walking Stick (1970)
GP | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 563
24. One More Time (1970)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Thriller
Two night club owners find themselves in trouble with the law. One of them goes to his English Lord brother for help, and the Lord is later murdered. He swaps places with his dead brother to solve the murder.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, John Wood, Dudley Sutton
Votes: 532
25. Man in a Suitcase (1967–1968)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
McGill (known as "Mac") is a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his infamous reputation has preceded ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Bradford, Ricardo Montez, Warren Stanhope, Frank Forsyth
Votes: 462
26. The Safecracker (1958)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, War
A British safe cracker goes to prison but when World War II starts he's recruited by army intelligence and is sent to German-occupied Belgium to crack the safe of a German Abwehr unit located in a chateau.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke, Victor Maddern
Votes: 451
27. Man on the Run (1949)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In post-war Britain, an army deserter unwittingly gets involved in murder and armed robbery and enlists the aid of a war widow to help clear his name.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey
Votes: 449
28. The Outsider (1948)
97 min | Drama
Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. He meets much snobbery... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer
Votes: 447
29. High Treason (1951)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wave of sabotage has been sweeping England, taking lives and creating instability. Cmdr. Robert Brennan and Supt. Folland of the Special Branch and Major Elliott of MI5 are charged with putting an end to this internal terrorism.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Liam Redmond, André Morell, Kenneth Griffith, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 411
30. The Franchise Affair (1951)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Michael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding
Votes: 392
31. Z Cars (1962–1978)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
A gritty drama which follows the work of the police force in the fictional town of Newtown in the North of England.
Stars: James Ellis, John Slater, Douglas Fielding, Bernard Holley
Votes: 382
32. Crown Court (1972–2007)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama
A courtroom drama in which each case is usually presented in three episodes. At the end of the third episode, a jury of "ordinary people" comes to a verdict on the evidence presented.
Stars: Peter Wheeler, Joseph Berry, Richard Colson, Derek Hockridge
Votes: 348
33. Young and Willing (1954)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Glynis Johns, Diana Dors, John Gregson, Olive Sloane
Votes: 312
34. The Merchant of Venice (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, demands his due of a pound of flesh for a forfeited loan.
Director: John Sichel | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Michael Jayston
Votes: 296
35.
Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode:
The Troubled Spirit
(1976)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Dan Mateo, one of Alpha's botanists, believes that he can increase their food supply by communicating telepathically with his plants. After passing out during one of his electronic ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Giancarlo Prete
Votes: 276
36. Both Sides of the Law (1953)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan
Votes: 248
37.
The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode:
Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?
(1968)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
George is the country's top computer but somebody is attempting to sabotage him via shooting, acid corrosion and shutting him down. He is able to send part of a message on a print-out but ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Dennis Price, Clifford Evans
Votes: 204
38. Special Branch (1969–1974)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Groundbreaking British police drama series following the exploits of the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police: an elite group of officers tasked with protecting London from spies, terrorists, and subversives.
Stars: Derren Nesbitt, George Sewell, Morris Perry, Fulton Mackay
Votes: 195
39. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
40. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
41.
The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode:
The Angel's Eye
(1966)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Lord Cranmore's anxious to sell a family diamond, and Templar rides shotgun when Cranmore's employee and his daughter go to Amsterdam to have the diamond cut. But once there, the diamond's ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Roger Moore, Jane Merrow, Liam Redmond, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 164
42.
The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode:
The Gentle Ladies
(1963)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
They are three charming ladies - not so young but not too old. What is the secret they dread the world will discover when a blackmailer descends on them?
Director: Jeremy Summers | Stars: Roger Moore, Avice Landone, Renee Houston, Barbara Mullen
Votes: 164
43. The House of the Arrow (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Mystery
A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W)
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Robert Urquhart, Yvonne Furneaux, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 155
44. Make Me an Offer! (1955)
88 min | Comedy
Charlie as a boy on a trip to the local museum, falls in love with a green Portland vase (Wedgwood), and decides that this is his quest in life to find it. So as a grown up and an antique ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Finlay Currie
Votes: 154
45. The Brothers (1972–1976)
50 min | Drama
Robert Hammond has died while "doing the deed" with his secretary and mistress Jennifer, and now his three sons have inherited the family trucking company, and each one will try to run the business in his own way.
Stars: Jean Anderson, Robin Chadwick, Jennifer Wilson, Derek Benfield
Votes: 147
46. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
60 min | Drama
BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird
Votes: 139
47.
The Champions (1968–1969)
Episode:
The Beginning
(1968)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Sharron MacReady, Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett work as agents for international law enforcement bureau Nemesis, based in Geneva, Whilst returning from a mission in China with ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 136
48. No Place for Jennifer (1950)
89 min | Drama
Distraught after her parents' divorce, nine-year-old Jennifer becomes increasingly neurotic and is sent to a center for maladjusted children.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Leo Genn, Rosamund John, Beatrice Campbell, Guy Middleton
Votes: 129
49. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Georgine Anderson, Stephanie Bidmead, Michael Blakemore, David Buck
Votes: 127
50.
The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode:
School for Traitors
(1963)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Steed investigates the alleged suicide of a college instructor and discovers that the weapon the man used to kill himself was a pistol with a silencer attached.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Julie Stevens, Melissa Stribling, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 119