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1. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette ... See full summary »
Director: Craig McCall | Stars: Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 1,346 | Gross: $0.02M
2.
The Cinema Show (2005–2007)
Episode:
The Wonderful World of Technicolor
(2006)
Stars: Stuart Maconie, Richard Attenborough, Jack Cardiff, Christopher Challis
3. The Cinema Show (2005–2007)
Stars: Stuart Maconie, Jack Cardiff, Simon Fanshawe, Melanie Williams
4. A Profile of 'The Red Shoes' (2000)
24 min | Short, Documentary, Music
Stars: Darcey Bussell, Jack Cardiff, Christopher Challis, Ian Christie
Votes: 45
5. A Profile of 'Genevieve' (1999 TV Special)
23 min | Documentary
Cast and crew reminisce about the making of Genevieve.
Stars: Dinah Sheridan, Clive Donner, Christopher Challis, Larry Adler
6. The Making of an Englishman (1995 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
This documentary follows filmmaker 'Kevin Macdonald' across Europe in search of the grandfather he never really knew, Emeric Pressburger, the Oscar winning screen writer. Emeric was born in... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Adolf Aczél, József Bé, Christopher Challis, Andre Deutsch
Votes: 30
7.
The Late Show (1988–1995)
Episode:
Michael Powell
(1992)
Documentary
Documentary about British film director Michael Powell.
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Thomas Beecham, Kathleen Byron, Karlheinz Böhm
8. The Late Show (1988–1995)
Documentary
Television programme on arts, the media and culture.
Stars: Sarah Dunant, Tracey MacLeod, Clive James, Waldemar Januszczak
Votes: 31
9. Steaming (1985)
R | 95 min | Drama
Three female frequenters of a steam room decide to fight its closure.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors, Patti Love
Votes: 666
10. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 73,006 | Gross: $20.50M
11. Secrets (1983)
R | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Teen girl in 1963 finds freemasonry items in her late fathers briefcase including condoms and a book of rites. The book is taken to school and the girls form their own club. The mother finds the condoms and makes wrong assumption.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Helen Lindsay, John Horsley, Anna Jones, Daisy Cockburn
Votes: 73
12. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
PG | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Colin Blakely
Votes: 20,171 | Gross: $6.11M
13. The Nativity (1982 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
An international solemn celebration of Christmas in word and song.
Director: Barry Chattington | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
14. Greatest Mystery (1981 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Barry Chattington | Stars: The Chieftains, Petula Clark, Judy Geeson, John Huston
15. The Nightingale (1981)
45 min | Fantasy
A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.
Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Mandy Carlin, John Dalby, Richard Goolden
16. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 9,433
17. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley
Votes: 1,503
18. The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In 1901, two British yachtsmen visiting Germany's Frisian Islands accidentally discover a German plot to invade England.
Director: Tony Maylam | Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Simon MacCorkindale, Alan Badel
Votes: 1,381
19. Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
PG | 118 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Franco Nero
Votes: 19,747
20. The Deep (1977)
PG | 123 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw
Votes: 13,756 | Gross: $6.84M
21. White Rock (1977)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Sport
Documentary about the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck 1976.
Director: Tony Maylam | Star: James Coburn
Votes: 159
22. The Incredible Sarah (1976)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Daniel Massey, Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer
Votes: 242
23. In This House of Brede (1975 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 105 min | Drama
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Diana Rigg, Pamela Brown, Gwen Watford, Denis Quilley
Votes: 308
24. Mr. Quilp (1975)
G | 118 min | Musical
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Anthony Newley, David Hemmings, David Warner, Michael Hordern
Votes: 88
25. The Little Prince (1974)
G | 88 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland, Clive Revill
Votes: 4,017 | Gross: $0.99M
26. The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
55 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Brian Worth
Votes: 292
27. The Public Eye (1972)
G | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
When a strait-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a detective ... See full summary »
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Mia Farrow, Topol, Michael Jayston, Margaret Rawlings
Votes: 861
28. A War of Children (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama
Two families in Belfast, one Protestant and one Catholic, find that their long-standing friendship is threatened by the escalating sectarian violence that surrounds them.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Vivien Merchant, Jenny Agutter, John Ronane, Anthony Andrews
Votes: 152
29. Villain (1971)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden
Votes: 2,034
30. Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 4,882 | Gross: $2.33M
31. Catch Me a Spy (1971)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Andrej (Kirk Douglas), a smuggler of microfilmed Russian manuscripts, uses the luggage of unsuspecting travellers to transport the contraband out of the country.
Director: Dick Clement | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Tom Courtenay
Votes: 439
32. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page
Votes: 13,300 | Gross: $3.30M
33. Staircase (1969)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles Dyer (Sir Rex Harrison) and Harry Leeds (Richard Burton) are a couple that have been living together for nearly twenty years. Both earn a living as hairdressers in the West End of ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt, Beatrix Lehmann
Votes: 960
34. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill
Votes: 50,691 | Gross: $7.50M
35. A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,289
36. Two for the Road (1967)
Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels
Votes: 14,700 | Gross: $7.63M
37. Arabesque (1966)
Passed | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore
Votes: 7,950
38. Kaleidoscope (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter
Votes: 905
39. Rome, Sweet Home (1966 TV Movie)
25 min | Comedy, Family
Anachronism-laden historic sitcom in which a Roman businessman is conned into putting up a muscle-bound poet against a top gladiator in order to get one over his arch rival at the mens club... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Challis | Stars: Peggy Mount, Hughie Green, Del Moore, Lois Maxwell
40. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
G | 138 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi
Votes: 9,230 | Gross: $31.11M
41. Return from the Ashes (1965)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,183
42. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Inspector Clouseau falls in love with a murder suspect and tries to clear her name.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Votes: 30,921 | Gross: $12.37M
43. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn
Votes: 5,658
44. The Long Ships (1964)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama
A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino
Votes: 3,113
45. The Victors (1963)
175 min | Drama, War
Intelligent, sprawling saga that follows a squad of American soldiers through Europe during World War II.
Director: Carl Foreman | Stars: Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri
Votes: 1,785
46. An Evening with the Royal Ballet (1963)
85 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty".
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Anthony Havelock-Allan | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Antoinette Sibley
Votes: 29
47. Damn the Defiant! (1962)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock
Votes: 3,031
48. Five Golden Hours (1961)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
A petty crook is doing all right in his chosen profession of gallantly consoling wealthy widows--until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness who knows all about get-rich-quick ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders, Kay Hammond
Votes: 300
49. Flame in the Streets (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Earl Cameron
Votes: 412
50. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 8,308 | Gross: $6.54M