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Le Spectre du Chat
6.8

Le Spectre du Chat

May 01, 1961
Seul témoin du meurtre de sa maîtresse, assassinée par son mari et deux domestiques, un chat se fait le vengeur de la victime.
Horror
L'enfer est une ville
6.7

L'enfer est une ville

Apr 10, 1960
Situé à Manchester, au nord du cœur industriel de l'Angleterre, Don Starling échappe de prison devenant homme le plus recherché de l'Angleterre. Méchant sans pitié Starling avec ses acolytes conçu un vol qui a entraîné la mort violente d'une jeune fille. L'inspecteur-détective Martineau a été affecté à le traquer et le faire entrer. De barrooms miteux, par tripots le sentier mène à un climax explosif sur les toits de la ville.
Thriller
The Man Who Was Nobody
7
A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
Crime
The Large Rope
5.5

The Large Rope

Dec 01, 1953
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
Drama
80,000 Suspects
6.5

80,000 Suspects

Aug 15, 1963
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Drama
Clash by Night
7

Clash by Night

Aug 29, 1964
A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
Crime
In the Wake of a Stranger
1
An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Thriller
Innocent Sinners
7

Innocent Sinners

Mar 25, 1958
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Drama
80,000 Suspects
6.5

80,000 Suspects

Aug 15, 1963
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Drama
The Earth Dies Screaming
6.207
Un astronaute revient sur Terre, et rentrant en Angleterre, il retrouve un pays dévasté dans lequel les cadavres jonchent rues et trottoirs. Personne ne semble avoir survécu à ce qu'il apprendra être le fait d'une attaque chimique. La civilisation semble avoir été balayée et comble du tout, la terre semble être dorénavant contrôlée par des robots...
Horror
Les gangsters
6.7

Les gangsters

Jan 01, 1961
Un gang de malfaiteurs, mené par Johnny Mellors, prépare le braquage d'un nouveau fourgon hyper sécurisé d'une firme londonienne. Leur complice infiltré, le comptable Dennis Pearson, leur annonce que leur plan est risqué voire mortel mais Johnny refuse d'abandonner son plan. Les préparatifs continuent mais le jour du passage à l’acte, le braquage prend une tournure dramatique quand Paker, le chauffeur du blindé, meurt tandis que Bert, l'un de ses hommes, est abattu par le collègue de Paker. Néanmoins, Mellors et ses deux autres hommes de main réussissent à fuir avec une forte somme d'argent...
Crime
Jules de Londres
6.4

Jules de Londres

Mar 17, 1963
A Londres, un faux grand couturier pretendument francais dirige en fait une bande de malfaiteurs.
Crime
Un mort en pleine forme
6.5
Deux frères vivent dans des maisons mitoyennes sans s'adresser la parole depuis des années. Ils sont les derniers membres d'une famille, qui rapportera au dernier d'entre eux la somme de 100 000 livres. A la suite d'un accident, on croit l'un des frères mort.
Comedy
Quand l'inspecteur s'emmêle
7.2
Un crime est commis dans l'hôtel particulier d'un milliardaire. L'affaire semble claire. Maria, la soubrette, est retrouvée près du cadavre, son amant, l'arme à la main. Mais pour l'inspecteur Clouseau, chargé de l'enquête au grand dam de son supérieur hiérarchique, tout cela paraît trop simple. Il est persuadé que Maria est innocente...
Comedy
Le prix d'un homme
7

Le prix d'un homme

Feb 07, 1963
Frank, mineur, voit sa vie changer irrémédiablement le jour où le dirigeant d'un club de rugby le repère. Il devient alors un joueur reconnu et adulé dans tout le pays. Sa carrière sportive est motivée par la fascination de l'argent et de la vie facile. Mais il a du mal à communiquer avec les autres et n'arrive pas à se détacher de son ancienne vie...
Drama
The Brain Machine
5.5

The Brain Machine

Jan 01, 1955
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Crime
Bitter Harvest
6.2

Bitter Harvest

Mar 08, 1963
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Drama
Term of Trial
5.857

Term of Trial

Aug 16, 1962
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.
Drama
Crimes au musée des horreurs
5.7
Une série de meurtres épouvantables tient Scotland Yard en échec. A chaque victime, le célèbre criminologiste Bancroft subit un véritable choc nerveux, ce qui ne manque pas d’inquiéter son médecin....
Horror
Le Serment de Robin des Bois
6
Robin des Bois, au hasard de ses pérégrinations, découvre un homme grièvement blessé et le ramène sans hésiter dans son camp, au coeur de la forêt de Sherwood. Une mystérieuse jeune femme fait soudain irruption au milieu des hommes rassemblés et accuse Robin et ses amis d'être les auteurs de l'agression, avant de disparaître. Plus tard, un message émanant de l'inconnue parvient à Robin. Il est instamment prié de se rendre dans une auberge, ce qu'il fait aussitôt, bien décidé à lever le doute sur son sens de l'hospitalité. Sur place, il trouve la demoiselle en compagnie du shérif de Nottingham. Ce dernier demande à Robin de lui livrer le blessé en échange de son pardon...
Adventure
Konga
4.2

Konga

Jan 01, 1961
Un savant fou transforme un chimpanzé en un gigantesque gorille qui terrorise Londres...
Horror
Les Femmes du général
4.773
Ancien militaire à la retraite, le général Leo Fitzjohn profite de son temps libre pour faire agir son pouvoir de séduction. Fou amoureux d'une femme depuis de nombreuses années, mais avec laquelle il n'a jamais pu conclure, il espère pouvoir enfin concrétiser cette passion. Mais pour cela, il devra contourner la méfiance de sa femme, bien-aimante mais un peu trop collante...
Comedy
Dateline Diamonds
6.2

Dateline Diamonds

Sep 27, 1965
In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."
Comedy
Many Mansions
1

Many Mansions

Mar 29, 1957
The 30 minute play, specially written for television by Scottish writer, Duncan Ross, takes place in a pub in Yorkshire. Marius plays Lester Hockley, a man blind from birth. Lester has been secretary to a deceased artist, Paul Stanton, whose character and work are being discussed by the regulars in the pub that night.
Drama
Night Without Pity
1

Night Without Pity

Jan 01, 1961
A woman and her injured son are detained by one crook, whilst the other takes the safe keys to rob a factory. They fall out, and the boy is rescued while they fight.
Drama
The Scales of Justice
6.7

The Scales of Justice

Mar 01, 1967
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
Crime
Minder
6.833

Minder

Mar 10, 1994
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
Comedy
Gideon's Way
6.8

Gideon's Way

Jul 09, 1967
Les enquêtes du commandant George Gideon de Scotland Yard d'après les romans de John Creasey.
Drama
I Didn't Know You Cared
7
I Didn't Know You Cared is a British comedy series set in a working class household in South Yorkshire in the 1970s, written by Peter Tinniswood loosely based upon his books A Touch Of Daniel, I Didn't Know You Cared and Except You're A Bird. It was broadcast by the BBC in four series from 1975 to 1979. The main characters are Carter Brandon; his Uncle Mort; his mother, Annie; his father, Les; his girlfriend, Pat Partington; and Uncle Staveley. Auntie Lil appears in the first two series. Other recurring characters, mostly from Carter's workplace, are Linda Preston; Mrs Partington; Sid Skelhorn
Comedy
Le Saint
7.3

Le Saint

Feb 09, 1969
Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.
Action & Adventure
Reilly: Ace of Spies
7

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Nov 16, 1983
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
Crime