Films shot in London
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1. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 6,206
2. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller
The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti
Votes: 5,794
3. 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: 7,208
4. Death Line (1972)
Unrated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney
Votes: 5,429
5. The Long Good Friday (1980)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan
Votes: 25,628
6. Babylon (1980)
95 min | Drama
The movie centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in South West London (Brixton). The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.
Director: Franco Rosso | Stars: David N. Haynes, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, Brian Bovell
Votes: 1,951 | Gross: $0.11M
7. Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis
Votes: 5,288
8. Night and the City (1950)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Votes: 15,286 | Gross: $3.60M
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,587 | Gross: $6.21M
10. The Ladykillers (1955)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Votes: 31,411
11. Peeping Tom (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Votes: 39,285 | Gross: $0.08M
12. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman
Votes: 2,380 | Gross: $0.01M
13. The Servant (1963)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama
Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Votes: 13,831 | Gross: $0.04M
14. Performance (1970)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama
A violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.
Directors: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Stars: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton
Votes: 11,329 | Gross: $0.19M
15. Accidental Death (1963)
57 min | Drama
A man is confronted by a man in his house who declares that he is here to kill him, because he collaborated with the Nazis and caused the death of the intruder's fiancee.
Director: Geoffrey Nethercott | Stars: John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis, Derrick Sherwin, Richard Vernon
Votes: 68
16. Account Rendered (1957)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman, Ewen Solon
Votes: 328
17. Across the Bridge (1957)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee, Noel Willman
Votes: 994
18. Act of Murder (1964)
62 min | Crime, Drama
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: John Carson, Anthony Bate, Justine Lord, Duncan Lewis
Votes: 86
19. Paradise Lagoon (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In 1905, Lord Henry Loam and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 1,989
20. Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)
60 min | Adventure, Family
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Mandy Miller, Hilda Fenemore, Russell Waters, Harold Lang
Votes: 199
21. Albert Carter, Q.O.S.O. (1967)
27 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Ian Brims | Star: Roy Kinnear
Votes: 13
22. Alfie (1966)
Unrated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Votes: 15,832 | Gross: $18.87M
23. Alfie Darling (1975)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
Alfie Elkins (Alan Price) returns, up to his old womanizing ways--until he meets his match in sophisticated magazine editor Abby Summers (Jill Townsend). His pursuit is complicated by his ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Paul Copley, Joan Collins
Votes: 420
24. Alias John Preston (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
John Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Betta St. John, Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee, Sandra Dorne
Votes: 278
25. All Coppers Are... (1972)
87 min | Drama
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Martin Potter, Julia Foster, Nicky Henson, Wendy Allnutt
Votes: 250
26. All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
An irresponsible window cleaner believes he has found true love with a woman he picked up in a tavern.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Victor Henry, Susan George, Jack Shepherd, Clare Kelly
Votes: 254
27. All Night Long (1962)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Music
This movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair, Paul Harris
Votes: 1,529
28. All the Right Noises (1970)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A married theatre lighting technician with two small children has an affair with a teenage actress.
Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Tom Bell, Judy Carne, Edward Higgins, Rudolph Walker
Votes: 428
29. The Counterfeit Constable (1964)
90 min | Comedy
A French rugby supporter is in England for a match at Twickenham and is knocked out and loses two teeth. He goes to the dentist and during waiting he wears a uniform of another patient, a police officer.
Directors: Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia | Stars: Pierre Tornade, Pierre Doris, Raymond Bussières, Jean Richard
Votes: 295
30. An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An Englishman is left with an abandoned, very tame, and domesticated pet alligator, who helps him develop a bond with a young Irishwoman. Plans to get rid of the animal cause mayhem and produce a surprising outcome for all.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 416
31. The Alphabet Murders (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg, Maurice Denham
Votes: 1,894
32. Amelia and the Angel (1958)
26 min | Short
Young Amelia is feeling distressed and guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. She notices an angel and follows it into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Mercedes Quadros, Míka van Bloemen, Helen Ulman, E. Collins
Votes: 257
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