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Notfilm

Notfilm

Notfilm
IMDb: 6.7
130

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM — its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications — utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard…

Genre: Documentary
Breakout

Breakout

Breakout
IMDb: 6.5
62

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
IMDb: 7.1
84

After Elizabeth’s husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception)…

Quills

Quills

Quills
IMDb: 7.2
124

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the…

Genre: Drama
The Lost Son

The Lost Son

The Lost Son
IMDb: 6.4
102

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
IMDb: 6.8
112

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Krays

The Krays

The Krays
IMDb: 6.6
115

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were…

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
IMDb: 6.3
92

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Shadey

Shadey

Shadey
IMDb: 4.7
90

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the…

Genre: Comedy
Slayground

Slayground

Slayground
IMDb: 4.9
89

Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father…

The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal
IMDb: 7.1
93

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the…

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
IMDb: 5.9
94

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man’s son. During the…

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
IMDb: 6.6
162

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton’s undimmed devotion…

The Water Babies

The Water Babies

The Water Babies
IMDb: 6
92

Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime….

The Omen

The Omen

The Omen
IMDb: 7.5
111

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is…

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Night Watch

Night Watch

Night Watch
IMDb: 6.3
99

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.

Gumshoe

Gumshoe

Gumshoe
IMDb: 6.4
88

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Frenzy

Frenzy

Frenzy
IMDb: 7.4
116

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

Start the Revolution Without Me

Start the Revolution Without Me

Start the Revolution Without Me
IMDb: 6.4
90

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other…

Genre: Comedy, History
Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve
IMDb: 7
112

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down’s syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls…

Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles
IMDb: 6.3
89

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer’s basic tool – the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man
IMDb: 6.8
92

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it…

Genre: Drama
Payroll

Payroll

Payroll
IMDb: 7
105

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry…

Genre: Crime, Drama
No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
IMDb: 6.9
110

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he’s feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him….

Genre: Drama
Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze
IMDb: 6.1
97

Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Devil’s Agent

The Devil’s Agent

The Devil’s Agent
IMDb: 6.3
77

German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City
IMDb: 7
98

Set in Manchester, heartland of England’s industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England’s most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends
IMDb: 7
94

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne’er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens…

Genre: Horror
The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger
IMDb: 6.5
89

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor’s wife who…

Genre: Drama, Thriller