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No Road Back
5.3

No Road Back

Feb 04, 1957
A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
Crime
Paid to Kill
5.8

Paid to Kill

Jun 25, 1954
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
Crime
One Jump Ahead
5

One Jump Ahead

Mar 01, 1955
Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated trail.
Crime
Face the Music
5.7

Face the Music

Jan 29, 1954
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Crime
The Hornet's Nest
4.8

The Hornet's Nest

May 13, 1955
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Action
Women Without Men
6

Women Without Men

Jun 01, 1956
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
Romance
Murder Reported
1

Murder Reported

Apr 28, 1957
Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes when his editor insists that he take his daughter Amanda North with him to investigate. Fortunately, the girl has a real knack for investigative reporting and they make a good team. They even fall in love. They discover that the killer was the politician's rival.
The Hypnotist
5.3

The Hypnotist

Jul 29, 1957
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
Thriller
Undercover Girl
5.1

Undercover Girl

Jan 01, 1958
Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
Crime
Diplomatic Passport
7

Diplomatic Passport

Aug 13, 1954
An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events
Crime
Shadow of a Man
5.3

Shadow of a Man

Mar 01, 1955
After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
Crime
Les premiers hommes dans la lune
6.3
En 1964, une mission astronautique internationale (Russes et Américains ensemble) prend pied sur la Lune et y découvre un drapeau anglais et un document écrit qui est une prise de possession de la Lune au nom de la Reine Victoria. Grosse surprise des astronautes qui se croyaient les premiers hommes sur la Lune. On retrouve Bedford, le dépositaire de ce document, dans une maison de retraite de l'Angleterre.
Adventure
Appelez-moi Chef
5.7

Appelez-moi Chef

Jun 14, 1963
A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe believes the capsule to be sacred and won't give it up.
Comedy
Panic
5.7

Panic

Jan 01, 1963
In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.
Crime
Maigret voit rouge
6.2

Maigret voit rouge

Sep 18, 1963
Près de la gare du Nord, un inconnu a été blessé par des tueurs en automobile. Quand la police survient, la victime a disparu. Le commissaire Maigret, assisté de l'inspecteur Lognon, découvrent qu'il s'agit de gangsters américains. Le numéro de voiture des agresseurs, relevé par un témoin, conduit Lognon à un bar, tenu par un américain d'origine sicilienne, où travaille une belge: Lily, qui a hébergé les gangsters. Lognon est enlevé par ces derniers et sévèrement corrigé. Le commissaire Maigret réussira, après de périlleuses péripéties à comprendre pourquoi les gangsters de Saint-Louis (Missouri) s'étaient débarrassés à Paris d'un témoin gênant.
Crime
Dr. Crippen
6

Dr. Crippen

Aug 07, 1963
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Drama
Jet Storm
6.5

Jet Storm

Sep 16, 1959
Crise dans l'air: Un passager à bord d'un avion commercial volant de Londres à New York menace de faire exploser une bombe sur l'Atlantique.
Thriller
Intent to Kill
5.2

Intent to Kill

Jul 16, 1958
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
Thriller
Les Espions
6.5

Les Espions

Oct 10, 1957
Le docteur Malic est un psychiatre raté. Il n'a que deux malades dans sa clinique délabrée. Il se console en buvant du vin dans le bistrot d'en face. Un soir, un homme l'appelle, il se dit être le Colonel Howard de l'institut de guerre psychologique des U.S.A. et lui propose une somme énorme pour un agent qui a besoin de disparaître...
Thriller
Stock Car
6.7

Stock Car

Jan 01, 1955
Katie attempts to save her father's failing garage, after he is killed during a stock car race. She is assisted by an American driver, Larry Duke, but unfortunately one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
Drama
Duel in the Jungle
5.9

Duel in the Jungle

Jun 30, 1954
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
Adventure
The House Across the Lake
5.5
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.
Drama
Meurtres sans empreintes
5.5
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
Mystery
Uneasy Terms
4.2

Uneasy Terms

Jul 06, 1948
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Thriller
Landfall
7

Landfall

Sep 30, 1949
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
War
The Young Lovers
6

The Young Lovers

Aug 24, 1954
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Drama
Le prisonnier fantôme
7.2
Durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, dans un camp de prisonniers alliés, la mise en place par l'ensemble des détenus britanniques d'un ingénieux et subtil système de leurre consistant en un mannequin pour permettre à un prisonnier une possible évasion, son absence étant comblée provisoirement par la présence de "ce prisonnier fantôme" ...
War
The Weak and the Wicked
6
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Drama
Ecole de secrets
6.5

Ecole de secrets

Dec 23, 1946
Pendant WW2, à la veille de la bataille de la Grande-Bretagne, les scientifiques britanniques développent les premiers systèmes de radar à employer contre la Luftwaffe allemande.
Drama
Jacktown
3.7

Jacktown

Jul 01, 1962
A young man is charged with statutory rape.
Drama
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
7.143
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Drama
Un cadeau pour le patron
5.8
Un gangster américain exilé aux États-Unis pour des activités criminelles et est renvoyée à l'île grecque où il est né. Une fois sur l'île, il est surveillé par un chef corrompu de la police locale. Après avoir rencontré un roi exilé, il tente d'acheter les bijoux de famille du roi pour un million de dollars. Cependant, quand il fils pour l'argent à ses associés à la maison, ils doublent le croiser et lui envoyer une belle moll des armes à feu à la place.
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
No Hiding Place
3.7

No Hiding Place

Jun 22, 1967
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Crime
Sailor of Fortune
1

Sailor of Fortune

Jul 31, 1958
Captain of 'The Shipwreck' Grant Mitchell runs a cargo business, but finds himself often called on for help against problems, intrigue, and villainy on the choppy waters of his trade.
Action & Adventure