John Adams

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• Movie6.3

  War

  Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

  Danger Within

  1959 · 19 votes

• Movie6.8

  Science FictionDrama

  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.

  The Day the Earth Caught Fire

  1961 · 177 votes

• Movie7.4

  Comedy

  An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

  A Stitch in Time

  1963 · 36 votes

• Movie6.4

  Comedy

  Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

  Carry On Spying

  1964 · 68 votes

• Movie6.6

  Comedy

  Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

  I'm All Right Jack

  1959 · 83 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyCrime

  Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.

  Two-Way Stretch

  1960 · 56 votes

• Movie6.2

  Comedy

  Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do

  One Good Turn

  1955 · 12 votes

• Movie6.8

  Comedy

  Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.

  The Horse's Mouth

  1958 · 50 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyRomance

  A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

  The Truth About Women

  1957 · 8 votes

• Movie6.6

  CrimeThriller

  P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

  The Blue Lamp

  1950 · 64 votes

• Movie7.5

  Drama

  A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

  Innocent Sinners

  1958 · 4 votes

• Movie5.5

  ComedyCrime

  This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

  Who Done It?

  1956 · 14 votes

• Movie7.7

  Comedy

  After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.

  The Love Match

  1955 · 5 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeDrama

  The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

  The End of the Line

  1957 · 6 votes

• Movie4.7

  DramaCrime

  Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.

  Park Plaza 605

  1953 · 11 votes

• Movie6.6

  CrimeDrama

  Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

  Pool of London

  1951 · 37 votes

• Movie6.1

  Comedy

  Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

  Just My Luck

  1957 · 12 votes

• Movie6.4

  Comedy

  Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

  Up in the World

  1956 · 16 votes

• Movie7.7

  ComedyCrime

  Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause

  On the Beat

  1962 · 33 votes

• Movie4.5

  DramaThriller

  Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this vintage noir thriller.

  The Depraved

  1957 · 10 votes

• Movie6.1

  MysteryCrime

  A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.

  Paul Temple Returns

  1952 · 6 votes