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Hatter's Castle (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hatter's Castle
director: Lance Comfort actor: Robert Newton / Deborah Kerr …
other title: Il castello del cappellaio / Der Hutmacher und sein Schloß …
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
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Q Planes (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Q Planes
director: Tim Whelan / Arthur B. Woods actor: Ralph Richardson / Laurence Olivier …
other title: Ali che non tornano / Testflug QE 97 …
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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Brown on Resolution (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
Brown on Resolution
director: Walter Forde actor: Betty Balfour / John Mills …
other title: Marin de Sa Majesté
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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Daughter of Darkness (1948) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Daughter of Darkness
director: Lance Comfort actor: Siobhán McKenna / Anne Crawford …
other title: Tochter der Finsternis / La hija de las tinieblas
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
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The Upturned Glass (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Upturned Glass
director: Lawrence Huntington actor: James Mason / Rosamund John …
other title: Persecuzione / La vengeance du docteur Joyce …
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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The Ghost Camera (1933) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Ghost Camera
director: Bernard Vorhaus actor: Henry Kendall / Ida Lupino …
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
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The Ghost Train (1941) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Ghost Train
director: Walter Forde actor: Arthur Askey / Richard Murdoch …
other title: Il treno fantasma / El tren fantasma
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
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The Hands of Orlac (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hands of Orlac
director: Edmond T. Gréville actor: Mel Ferrer / Christopher Lee …
other title: Le mani dell'altro / Die unheimlichen Hände des Dr. Orlak …
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer – useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...
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The Full Treatment (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Full Treatment
director: Val Guest actor: Ronald Lewis / Diane Cilento …
other title: La morsa / Traitement de choc …
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
director: Val Guest actor: Janet Munro / Leo McKern …
other title: ...E la Terra prese fuoco / Der Tag, an dem die Erde Feuer fing …
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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I, Monster (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I, Monster
director: Stephen Weeks actor: Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing …
other title: La vera storia del dottor Jekyll / Jeg, et uhyre …
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
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Quatermass 2 (1957) [Movie] Skybridge TMDB WikiData IMDb
Quatermass 2
director: Val Guest actor: Brian Donlevy / John Longden …
other title: I vampiri dello spazio / Usina de Monstros …
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Bonfire of the Vanities
director: Brian De Palma actor: Tom Hanks / Bruce Willis …
other title: Il falò delle vanità / Forfængelighedens bål …
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
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Dracula (1958) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Dracula
director: Terence Fisher actor: Peter Cushing / Christopher Lee …
other title: Dracula il vampiro / O Vampiro da Noite …
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.