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Unearthly Stranger (1963)
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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)
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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)
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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
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)
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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)
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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)
Behemoth, the Sea Monster
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)
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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)
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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)
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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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No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman (2026)
No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman
Halkawt Mustafa actor: Avan Jamal / Thorbjørn Harr …
other title: 被女人杀死，便无天堂 / No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman
No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman leaps forward a decade from the fall of Saddam and to the rise of the Islamic State. The feature follows a Kurdish-Norwegian female sniper who returns to the battlefield she once escaped, driven by vengeance and by the desperate hope of rescuing her younger sister, still imprisoned by ISIS in Mosul.
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Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2019)
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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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Code Rush (2000)
Code Rush
David Winton actor: Scott Collins / Stuart Parmenter …
other title: 代码奔腾
Independent filmmakers followed the Mozilla team from March 1998 to April 1999, as they worked to open Netscape Communicator's source code to the world, in a last-ditch effort to save the company. The result is an amazing snapshot of computer history, capturing the people that worked on it, the first internal beta test, the moment Jamie Zawinski uploaded the first builds publicly, the launch party, the all-hands meeting announcing the AOL acquisition, and so much more. It aired on PBS nationally in March 2000, the same month as the beginning of the dot-com collapse.
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The Tea House (1974)
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Kuei Chih-hung actor: Chen Kuan-Tai / Wong Yu …
other title: 成記茶樓 / The Teahouse
Chen Kuan-Tai is Big Brother Cheng, a former refugee who runs a local teahouse in Hong Kong. Respected by his peers, Big Brother Cheng runs the teahouse — and unofficially the neighborhood — with a firm righteous hand. However, when the triads come calling, Big Brother Cheng finds out respect and common decency may not be enough. The triads use underage kids to terrorize the teahouse, and since the law won't do anything, Big Brother Cheng may have to step in and take care of it himself!
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Tokyo: The Last War (1989)
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Takashige Ichise actor: Kyūsaku Shimada / Kaho Minami …
other title: 帝都大戦
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the resentment and agony of the souls of the fire-bombing victims culminate together to revive the evil Onmyoji, Yasunori Kato. Only a young, psychically imbued apprentice of the priests will dare fight against the evil magic user. However, can this lone man possibly contend with Kato's overwhelming power?
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Blue Money (1985)
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Colin Bucksey actor: Tim Curry / Debby Bishop …
other title: Dinero sucio / Die Jagd nach dem Schwarzgeld
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby who has found a briefcase full of cash.