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51. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
76 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton, Tom Criddle
Votes: 468
52. The Man in the Iron Mask (1968)
25 min | Adventure, Drama, History
D'Artagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Philippe who is the firstborn and rightful king.
Stars: Nicolas Chagrin, Noel Willman, Edwin Richfield, Susan Macready
Votes: 15
53.
Matt Houston (1982–1985)
Episode:
Company Secrets
(1985)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
One of Roy's former intelligence associates tells him that a Russian agent whom they took down years ago and who swore vengeance is back. It's not long after that that the man is killed. So... See full summary »
Director: Charlie Picerni | Stars: Lee Horsley, Pamela Hensley, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 18
54. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,966 | Gross: $1.37M
55. Sicilian Connection (1987)
110 min | Drama, Action, Crime
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. In hopes of avoiding paying either ransom or life insurance, the head ... See full summary »
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Kôji Kikkawa, Andy J. Forest, Marina Suma, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 61
56.
The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode:
The Helpful Pirate
(1966)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Few people are able to resist the attraction of money for nothing but when it is wrapped up in the guise of hidden treasure which is providing a profitable racket for confidence trikster Kolben, the Saint steps in to see fair play.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Roger Moore, Erika Remberg, Paul Maxwell, Vladek Sheybal
Votes: 161
57.
A for Andromeda (1961)
Episode:
The Machine
(1961)
Drama, Sci-Fi
Fleming is permitted to use the computer facilities at the London Institute of Electronics, where he is aided by Christine. Using the computer to decode the message, Fleming realises that ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Hayes | Stars: Esmond Knight, Robert S. Young, Noel Johnson, Julie Christie
Votes: 6
58. Thunderball (1965)
PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 127,143 | Gross: $63.60M
59. Clash of the Titans (1981)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith
Votes: 47,785 | Gross: $41.09M
60. The Monster Squad (1987)
PG-13 | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of young monster fanatics attempts to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr
Votes: 35,322 | Gross: $3.77M
61. Battle of Britain (1969)
G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 24,525 | Gross: $4.36M
62. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
63. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Comedy, Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 88
64. No Love for Johnnie (1961)
110 min | Drama
After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 655
65.
The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode:
The Undesirable Neighbour
(1963)
29 min | Crime, Drama
A newly married woman becomes very friendly with her male neighbors, causing the neighborhood busybodies' tongues to wag.
Director: Gordon Hales | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Vanda Godsell, Bridget Armstrong, Anthony Newlands
Votes: 33
66.
The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode:
The Effete Angler
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Simon goes fishing with a glamorous girl - and catches a much bigger net of fish than he expects.
Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Roger Moore, Shirley Eaton, George Pravda, Patrick McAlinney
Votes: 246
67. Oscar Wilde (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Playwright Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lover's father, leading to his own prosecution.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, Ralph Richardson, John Neville
Votes: 630
68.
The Champions (1968–1969)
Episode:
Full Circle
(1968)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
British agent Paul Westerman is remanded in prison on suspicion of having stolen a micro-film from the Columbrian embassy, jeopardising an arms treaty, but noone can find the film. Craig ... See full summary »
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 62
69.
Sergeant Cork (1963–1968)
Episode:
The Case of the Strolling Players
(1966)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
Cork and Marriott investigate when the climax of a play - the shooting of the heroine - turns out to have been all too real.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: John Barrie, William Gaunt, Jack Gwillim, Yvonne Coulette
Votes: 6
70. Lisa (1962)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 461
71. Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1976–1978)
28 min | Short, Drama
Stars: Jean Marsh, John Neville-Andrews, Neil Hunt, Jack Gwillim
Votes: 20
72.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Rivals
(1963)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a ransom letter directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Jack Gwillim, Erica Rogers, Brian Smith, Tony Garnett
Votes: 46
73. Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter
Votes: 4,867
74. The Rivals (1963)
56 min | Drama
A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a note - a ransom letter - directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped. The two gangsters stole the abductor's car and ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Jack Gwillim, Erica Rogers, Brian Smith, Tony Garnett
Votes: 66
75.
The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode:
The Guilty Party
(1962)
30 min | Crime, Drama
The Sinclairs seem to be living in the lap of luxury, but their lifestyle is funded by a morass of debt.
Director: Lionel Harris | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Zena Marshall, Jack Gwillim, Derek Francis
Votes: 30
76. Matt Houston (1982–1985)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Matt Houston is a wealthy Texan who moves to California to oversee his family's offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby.
Stars: Lee Horsley, Pamela Hensley, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Cis Rundle
Votes: 1,458
77. In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 3,456 | Gross: $21.75M
78. Mr. Smith (1983)
30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
An orangutan accidentally raised to genius human-level intelligence secretly works in Washington, D.C. as a political advisor.
Stars: Leonard Frey, Tim Dunigan, Terri Garber, Laura Jacoby
Votes: 61
79. The Discoverers (1993)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Drama
From the earliest voyages that mapped the Earth to today's launches into space, "The Discoverers" reverberates with the passion to explore our universe. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning ... See full summary »
Directors: Greg MacGillivray, Jon Boorstin, Stephen Judson | Stars: Robert Eather, Louis Herman, Ellen Stofan, James Lancaster
Votes: 71
80. The Bushbaby (1969)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The young daughter of a park ranger in Kenya is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet ... See full summary »
Director: John Trent | Stars: Margaret Leclere, Louis Gossett Jr., Donald Houston, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 76
81. The World Ten Times Over (1963)
93 min | Drama
Two Soho club hostesses and roommates endanger their friendship due to their romantic rivalry over the affections of a married businessman.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Sylvia Syms, Edward Judd, June Ritchie, William Hartnell
Votes: 112
82. Sentenced for Life (1960)
Not Rated | 64 min | Crime
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Basil Dignam, Jack Gwillim, Francis Matthews, Jill Williams
Votes: 37
83. The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993 TV Movie)
60 min
The Poetry Hall of Fame showcases more than 130 of the worlds best-known poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by The First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests.
Director: Marshall Jamison | Stars: William P. Perry, Stephen G. Arlen, John Betjeman, Victor Bevine
Votes: 12
84. Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, History, Romance
After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan
Votes: 3,796 | Gross: $12.20M
85. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966)
106 min | Action, Comedy
In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.
Directors: Henry Levin, Dino Maiuri | Stars: Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 416
86. Circus of Horrors (1960)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Horror
Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 2,401
87. Blind Date (1987)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A workaholic needs a date for a dinner with new important clientele, but who his brother sets him up with could lead to disaster.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels
Votes: 24,175 | Gross: $39.32M
88. Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, History
While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but Robin Hood and Maid Marian foil their plan.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco
Votes: 1,483
89. Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama
A Made-for-TV movie, this film follows the struggle the late famous actress Jill Ireland had not only with her cancer but with her very troubled and drug-addicted adoptive son, Jason McCallum.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Lance Henriksen, Neill Barry, Lila Kaye
Votes: 156
90. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
Approved | 81 min | Horror
British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive the mummy that will then kill all those who disturbed its tomb.
Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland
Votes: 3,386
91. Antony and Cleopatra (1984 TV Movie)
179 min | Drama, History, Romance
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
Director: Lawrence Carra | Stars: Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Nichelle Nichols, John Carradine
Votes: 128
92. The Venusian (1954)
75 min | Sci-Fi
A stranger from Venus lands in Britain and forms a bond with a young American woman. He comes with a warning to Earth's leaders that they must eliminate all nuclear weapons if the peoples of the solar system are to survive.
Director: Burt Balaban | Stars: Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond, Cyril Luckham
Votes: 871
93. Blue Shark Hash (2001)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
When a raffle ticket sends two strangers on a spur of the moment weekend to Bermuda, they find falling in love is a little like being lost in The Triangle.
Director: Dale Roy Robinson | Stars: Rick Gomez, Gary Ballard, Jan Bartlett, Maria Cina
Votes: 40
94. Casino Royale (1967)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
Votes: 32,506
95. Conan the Adventurer (1997–1998)
43 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
TV series featuring the mythical barbarian.
Stars: Ralf Moeller, Danny Woodburn, Robert McRay, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 1,551
96. On Trial (1960– )
Crime
A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
Stars: Andrew Faulds, William Mervyn, George Skillan, Ballard Berkeley
97. The Largest Theatre in the World (1962–1967)
Drama
Stars: Kenneth More, Ralph Richardson, Angela Baddeley, Wendy Craig
99. The First Gentleman (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The Prince Regent attempts to force his daughter into a marriage which would secure her popularity.
Director: Philip Dale | Stars: Charles Gray, Susannah York, Jack Gwillim, Michael Meacham
100. About Religion (1956– )
Weekly religious show.
Stars: Tom Driberg, Julien Grenfell, David King, John Pett