At what point must one consider an artificially created entity a life form? The questions director Simon Wincer raised about artificial intelligence in 1985 would…
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The intrepid Home Guard of the small south coast seaside village of Walmington-on-Sea made it to the big screen in 1971 after entertaining millions of…
Based on a Henry James short story set in the 1890s, Daisy Miller is hauntingly beautiful to look at even though its content is rather slight.…
“We’ll have to bypass Watford. The place is full of Daleks!” This classic 1960s sci-fi flick from Amicus Productions is loosely based on the story…
The Dam Busters follows the conception and implementation of a new British weapon during World War II and the true story of ‘Operation Chastise’ -…
This brooding Anglo-French erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son’s lover. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming Tory…
This made-for-television movie from Anglia Television was adapted from a play (based on real-life events during World War II) by William Douglas Home. It aired…
In this sequel to the top 1976 box office shocker The Omen, Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor) – the Antichrist predicted in the Book of Revelations, sired…
The world has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust, causing the Earth to tilt on its axis bringing vast meteorological chaos. As the weather stabilises,…
While on holiday in Weymouth, Dorset, American boat owner Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) is violently mugged by teddy boy thug, King (Oliver Reed), and his…
It is Germany, 1933, and the spectacle you are about to see concerns the destruction of the powerful Essenbeck family by insidious corruption from within…
The independent British 2 Tone record label was founded by Jerry Dammers of The Specials in 1979 to promote ska-flavoured dance music performed by racially…
Director Mike Newell wanted an unknown actress to play the part of 28-year-old murderess Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged in Britain…
Any movie that runs three hours is an hour too long, no matter how good it is. Any movie in which half of the dialogue…
British agent Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) – a ruthless operator with the reputation of being something of a Dandy – is assigned to hunt down…
When her undercover CID officer brother is run down and killed by a car while investigating a diamond smuggling racket, his sister, Lynne (Maureen Connell),…
This espionage thriller from Amicus was made at the height of the sixties spy craze and featured Richard Johnson as British spy Jonas Wilde -…
Danger Within is set in an Italian Prisoner of War camp housing British, French and other Allied captives during the summer of 1943. The British…
Based on a cult comic strip, this mix of fantasy and madcap criminality is directed with mischievous glee by horror specialist Mario Bava. In many…
Tim Matthews (Jack Watling), a security worker employed in unloading gold bullion shipments at London Airport, meets Harry Preston (Terence Alexander), an old prisoner-of-war comrade…