Freddie Francis

Freddie Francis

Frederick William (Freddie) Francis BSC (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director. He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers (1960) and Glory (1989). As a director, he has cult status on account of his association with the British production companies Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s and 1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Freddie Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Freddie Francis
  • Popularity: 3.079
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1917-12-22
  • Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Ken Barnett
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Freddie Francis Movies

  • 1994
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    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    7.4 1994 HD

    Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter...

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  • 2012
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    Amicus: House of Horrors

    Amicus: House of Horrors

    10 2012 HD

    For the first time on DVD, the Alpha Archives Collection proudly presents a two part feature length documentary celebrating the history of the Amicus...

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  • 2001
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    The Making of 'Cape Fear'

    The Making of 'Cape Fear'

    7.2 2001 HD

    A retrospective documentary on the making of Cape Fear (1991) and Cape Fear (1962).

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  • 2003
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    Inside the Fear Factory

    Inside the Fear Factory

    1 2003 HD

    An overview of the history of Great Britain's Amicus Films, which was a rival of Hammer Studios in the horror field. Included are interviews with...

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  • 2003
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    Impressions of Dune

    Impressions of Dune

    1 2003 HD

    Documentary about the making of Dune.

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  • 2001
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    The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

    The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

    6 2001 HD

    This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections...

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  • 2014
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    Between Horror, Fear, and Beauty

    Between Horror, Fear, and Beauty

    1 2014 HD

    Crew members recount the production of the 1961 gothic film 'The Innocents.'

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  • 2010
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    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    6.9 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    The Straight Story

    The Straight Story

    7.7 1999 HD

    A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin...

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  • 1991
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    Cape Fear

    Cape Fear

    7.262 1991 HD

    Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common?...

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  • 1984
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    Dune

    Dune

    6.195 1984 HD

    In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The...

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  • 1980
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    The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man

    8 1980 HD

    A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there...

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  • 1964
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    The Evil of Frankenstein

    The Evil of Frankenstein

    6.1 1964 HD

    Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the...

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  • 1960
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    The Battle of the Sexes

    The Battle of the Sexes

    6.8 1960 HD

    Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she...

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  • 1989
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    Glory

    Glory

    7.5 1989 HD

    Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

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  • 1965
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    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    6.4 1965 HD

    Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An...

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  • 1981
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    6.4 1981 HD

    In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...

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  • 1967
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    They Came from Beyond Space

    They Came from Beyond Space

    5 1967 HD

    A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.

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  • 1967
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    Torture Garden

    Torture Garden

    6 1967 HD

    Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises...

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  • 1968
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    Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

    Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

    6.7 1968 HD

    In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting...

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  • 1963
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    Paranoiac

    Paranoiac

    6.6 1963 HD

    A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter...

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  • 1975
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    Legend of the Werewolf

    Legend of the Werewolf

    5.3 1975 HD

    A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs...

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  • 1973
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    The Creeping Flesh

    The Creeping Flesh

    5.811 1973 HD

    A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in...

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  • 1973
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    Tales That Witness Madness

    Tales That Witness Madness

    5.6 1973 HD

    Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains...

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  • 1965
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    The Skull

    The Skull

    5.9 1965 HD

    An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.

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  • 1957
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    Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity

    6.6 1957 HD

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...

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  • 1972
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    6.8 1972 HD

    Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic...

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  • 1970
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    Trog

    Trog

    4.4 1970 HD

    Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical...

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  • 1970
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    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    6.1 1970 HD

    A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the...

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  • 1966
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    The Deadly Bees

    The Deadly Bees

    4.2 1966 HD

    Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.

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  • 1989
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    Brenda Starr

    Brenda Starr

    4.3 1989 HD

    Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the world of journalism, so she ventures deep into...

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  • 1964
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    Nightmare

    Nightmare

    6.7 1964 HD

    A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her...

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  • 1960
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    Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

    Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

    7.2 1960 HD

    Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their...

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  • 1985
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    The Doctor and the Devils

    The Doctor and the Devils

    6.4 1985 HD

    In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple...

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  • 1975
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    The Ghoul

    The Ghoul

    4.9 1975 HD

    A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.

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  • 1964
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    Traitor's Gate

    Traitor's Gate

    6 1964 HD

    A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

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  • 1966
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    The Psychopath

    The Psychopath

    6.2 1966 HD

    Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were...

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  • 1965
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    Hysteria

    Hysteria

    6.4 1965 HD

    An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a...

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  • 1971
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    The Vampire Happening

    The Vampire Happening

    5.5 1971 HD

    An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire...

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  • 1974
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    Craze

    Craze

    5.3 1974 HD

    A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with...

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  • 1987
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    Dark Tower

    Dark Tower

    3.9 1987 HD

    A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.

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  • 1952
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    24 Hours of a Woman's Life

    24 Hours of a Woman's Life

    4.7 1952 HD

    A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

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  • 1983
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    The Jigsaw Man

    The Jigsaw Man

    4.8 1983 HD

    Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB...

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  • 1984
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    Memed My Hawk

    Memed My Hawk

    5 1984 HD

    In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the...

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  • 1964
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    Night Must Fall

    Night Must Fall

    6.7 1964 HD

    A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with...

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  • 1956
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    A Hill in Korea

    A Hill in Korea

    6.6 1956 HD

    Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol,...

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  • 1988
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    Clara's Heart

    Clara's Heart

    5.5 1988 HD

    David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's...

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  • 1985
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    Code Name: Emerald

    Code Name: Emerald

    6.7 1985 HD

    In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the...

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  • 1996
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    Rainbow

    Rainbow

    4.2 1996 HD

    Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible...

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  • 1961
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    7.4 1961 HD

    A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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  • 1960
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    Sons and Lovers

    Sons and Lovers

    6.5 1960 HD

    The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman...

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  • 1959
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    Virgin Island

    Virgin Island

    5 1959 HD

    A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

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  • 1962
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    The Brain

    The Brain

    5.5 1962 HD

    A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer

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  • 1957
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    The Scamp

    The Scamp

    6.3 1957 HD

    Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

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  • 1952
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    Moulin Rouge

    Moulin Rouge

    6.7 1952 HD

    Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a...

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  • 1956
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    Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    7 1956 HD

    In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a...

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  • 1974
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    Son of Dracula

    Son of Dracula

    4.5 1974 HD

    Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe–the son of Count Dracula–falls in love with the...

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  • 1993
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    A Life in the Theatre

    A Life in the Theatre

    6.5 1993 HD

    A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre.

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  • 1992
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    School Ties

    School Ties

    6.5 1992 HD

    When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish...

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  • 1958
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    Next to No Time

    Next to No Time

    8 1958 HD

    Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...

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  • 1947
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    Mine Own Executioner

    Mine Own Executioner

    7 1947 HD

    Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

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  • 1989
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    Her Alibi

    Her Alibi

    5.4 1989 HD

    A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first...

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  • 1953
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    Beat the Devil

    Beat the Devil

    6.1 1953 HD

    A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

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  • 1962
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    Two and Two Make Six

    Two and Two Make Six

    6 1962 HD

    An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into...

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  • 1952
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    Angels One Five

    Angels One Five

    6 1952 HD

    The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of...

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  • 1950
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    Golden Salamander

    Golden Salamander

    5.8 1950 HD

    An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

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  • 1958
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    Room at the Top

    Room at the Top

    6.8 1958 HD

    An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

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  • 1954
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    Monsieur Ripois

    Monsieur Ripois

    6.1 1954 HD

    While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend,...

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  • 1990
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    The Plot to Kill Hitler

    The Plot to Kill Hitler

    6 1990 HD

    A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German...

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  • 1963
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    The Day of the Triffids

    The Day of the Triffids

    6.124 1963 HD

    After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants...

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  • 1943
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    The New Lot

    The New Lot

    1 1943 HD

    A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

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  • 1984
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    What Waits Below

    What Waits Below

    3.8 1984 HD

    The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground...

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  • 1994
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    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

    7.4 1994 HD

    Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter...

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  • 1953
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    Twice Upon a Time

    Twice Upon a Time

    6 1953 HD

    A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while...

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  • 1960
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    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    7 1960 HD

    A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

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  • 1991
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    The Man in the Moon

    The Man in the Moon

    7.4 1991 HD

    Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and...

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  • 1947
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    Nightbeat

    Nightbeat

    5.2 1947 HD

    After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

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  • 1994
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    Princess Caraboo

    Princess Caraboo

    5.4 1994 HD

    Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...

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  • 1949
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    The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room

    6.6 1949 HD

    At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal...

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  • 1982
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    The Executioner's Song

    The Executioner's Song

    5.7 1982 HD

    In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving...

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  • 1970
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    7.29 1970 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1970
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    7.958 1970 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

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  • 1970
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    3.25 1970 HD

    Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

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