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Nuns on the Run (1990)
Nuns on the Run
director: Jonathan Lynn actor: Eric Idle / Robbie Coltrane …
other title: 向上帝调头寸 / 被通缉的修女 …
Set up by their boss to be knocked off following a final heist, soon-to-retire crooks Brian Hope and Charlie McManus get wind of their impending demise and run off with the spoils of their crime. Fleeing their boss, the drug dealers they robbed, the police, and Brian's angry girlfriend, the duo take refuge in a training convent for nuns. In disguise, they convince Sister Superior that they're nuns, a charade they're forced to maintain as their enemies arrive.
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Konga (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Konga
director: John Lemont actor: Michael Gough / Margo Johns …
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
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Invasion (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Invasion
director: Alan Bridges actor: Edward Judd / Yoko Tani …
Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...
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The Night Caller (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Night Caller
director: John Gilling actor: John Saxon / Maurice Denham …
other title: Blood Beast From Outer Space / Madra - Il terrore di Londra …
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
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Unearthly Stranger (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Unearthly Stranger
director: John Krish actor: John Neville / Philip Stone …
other title: Assedio alla terra / Projekt TP 91: Giv ingen pardon …
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
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Gorgo (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gorgo
director: Eugène Lourié actor: Bill Travers / William Sylvester …
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
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The Damned (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Damned
director: Joseph Losey actor: Macdonald Carey / Shirley Anne Field …
other title: These Are The Damned / Hallucination …
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
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It Happened Here (1966)
It Happened Here
director: Kevin Brownlow / Andrew Mollo actor: Pauline Murray / Sebastian Shaw …
other title: En Angleterre occupée
World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.
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The Gamma People (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Gamma People
director: John Gilling actor: Paul Douglas / Eva Bartok …
other title: Les Secrets du Docteur Boronski / Les Secrets du Dr Boronski …
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
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Fiend Without a Face (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Fiend Without a Face
director: Arthur Crabtree actor: Marshall Thompson / Kynaston Reeves …
other title: Ungeheuer ohne Gesicht / Monstres invisibles …
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
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The Giant Behemoth (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Behemoth, the Sea Monster
director: Eugène Lourié / Douglas Hickox actor: Gene Evans / André Morell …
other title: Il drago degli abissi / Das Ungeheuer von Loch Ness …
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
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Seven Days to Noon (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Seven Days to Noon
director: John Boulting / Roy Boulting actor: Barry Jones / André Morell …
other title: Minaccia atomica / Ultimatum …
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.
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Quatermass 2 (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
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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Privilege (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Privilege
director: Peter Watkins actor: Paul Jones / Jean Shrimpton …
other title: Privileg / Privilegio …
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie, is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
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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Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
director: Steve Sullivan actor: Chris Sievey / Mark Radcliffe …
The hilarious and bizarre story of Frank Sidebottom, the cult British comedian in a papier mâché head, and the secretive life of Chris Sievey, the artist trapped inside.
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House of Cards (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
House of Cards
director: Andrew Davies actor: Ian Richardson / Susannah Harker …
other title: House of cards I (Castillo de naipes) / Château de cartes …
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
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I, Claudius (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I, Claudius
director: Martin Lisemore / Herbert Wise … actor: Derek Jacobi / Siân Phillips …
other title: Jeg, Claudius / Eu, Cláudio …
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Brideshead Revisited (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Brideshead Revisited
director: Derek Granger actor: Jeremy Irons / Anthony Andrews …
other title: Retorno a Brideshead / Wiedersehen mit Brideshead …
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.