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Described as a "comedy of menace", The Birthday Party is a dramatic expose of contemporary man's inability to cope with his fears and guilt. Stanley (Robert Shaw) is lodging at a shabby seaside ...

This gothic horror marked the directing debut of Francis Ford Coppola and was produced by Roger Corman. After the death of Lady Haloran (Eithne Dunne) her aristocratic, Irish family gathers in a ...

Francis Ford Coppola's auspicious directorial debut is a gory tale of a series of axe murders in Ireland. A family is plagued by violent killings that seem to be connected to the death of their ...

While the plague rages throughout Europe, sadistic Italian prince Prospero (Vincent Price) dallies with devil worship. To entertain his fellow Satanists, Prospero hosts a lavish ball in the ...

Richard Harris and Sir Alec Guinness star in this sweeping, handsomely-mounted epic drama recounting the battle which raged between the monarchy and a commoner over the very soul of Great Britain ...

England's first athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners, the honour at stake is personal and their challenge one ...

Jospeh Losey directs a cast featuring Topol, John Gielgud, Edward Fox and Tom Conti in this American Film Theatre adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo .

Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy star in the rivetting war drama Anzio , a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest WWII battles ever fought. After landing with Allied troops at Anzio ...

Paul Scofield has always excelled in Shakespeare. To see him as Lear is to see nobility turn to pauperdom; pride to a frenzy of madness; manhood to senility, in the course of a unique dramatic ...

First broadcast on ITV in 1976, Beasts is a series of chillers scripted by Nigel ( Quatermass ) Kneale. Episode titles: Special Offer, During Barty's Party, Buddyboy, Baby, What Big Eyes, The Dummy.

Michael Caine stars in this epic story of the battle of Rorke's Drift, on January 22nd 1879, where 1,200 British troops found themselves completely outnumbered by irate Zulu warriors in Natal ...

Triple bill of classic Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from the master of horror, Roger Corman. In 'The Fall of The House of Usher' (1960), Vincent Price stars as the last member of the Usher family ...

Hawk (John Terry) is a man of courage, honour and duty; a marked contrast with his deformed, cruel and perverse older brother Voltan (Jack Palance), who wears a black mask to disguise the fact ...

In 'Masque Of The Red Death' Prince Prospero invites fellow devil-worshippers to his castle to escape the plague of death. They are however mistaken in thinking that they can evade their fate ...

Triple-bill of cult horror films. 'Dementia 13' (1963) is one of the first films directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Set in a gloomy Irish castle, it follows the hysterical Lady Haloran (Ethne Dunn ...

Triple bill of WWII films. In 'Anzio' (1968), American war correspondent Dick Ennis (Robert Mitchum) lands with the Allied forces at Anzio, comandeers a jeep, and drives all the way to Rome and ...

Six films starring Alec Guinness. 'Our Man in Havana' (1959) is a spy spoof based on the novel by Graham Greene. Guinness stars as Jim Wormold, an English expatriate who sells vacuum cleaners in ...

Box-set featuring classic Dirk Bogarde movies. In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's ...

Consisting of 9 classic horror films spread over 3 discs, consisting of Carnival Of Souls (the original classic) / The Ape Man (Lugosi) / Mesa Of Lost Women ( Coogan) / Creature From The Haunted ...

Box set containing six classic movies. In 'Dog Day Afternoon' (1975), a man (Al Pacino) stages a bank robbery so that his homosexual lover can pay for a sex-change operation. He bungles the ...