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1. The Beachcomber (1954)

Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.

Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers

Votes: 367

2. Orders Are Orders (1954)

78 min | Comedy

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.

Director: David Paltenghi | Stars: Brian Reece, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley, Sidney James

Votes: 275

3. Value for Money (1955)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Gregson, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen, Derek Farr

Votes: 273

4. 1984 (1956)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff

Votes: 4,158

5. The Black Tent (1956)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the African desert, a British soldier romances a native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a German attack.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell

Votes: 479

6. Decision Against Time (1957)

87 min | Drama, Thriller

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Jeremy Bodkin, Gerard Lohan

Votes: 524

7. Stowaway Girl (1957)

87 min | Drama

A middle-aged steamboat Captain who believes in a rigorous self-control when it comes to needs, desires and emotions, slowly falls for a pretty female stowaway.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Trevor Howard, Pedro Armendáriz, Elsa Martinelli, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 181

8. All at Sea (1957)

Unrated | 87 min | Comedy

A seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper, Fred Griffiths

Votes: 1,180

9. A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

117 min | Drama, History, Romance

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray

Votes: 1,611

10. Heart of a Child (1958)

73 min | Adventure, Drama

A boy's love for his dog in face of his father's opposition.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Jean Anderson, Donald Pleasence, Richard Williams, Maureen Pryor

Votes: 65

11. The Wind Cannot Read (1958)

115 min | Drama, Romance, War

During World War II, Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn (Sir Dirk Bogarde), a British officer stationed in Asia, is recruited by Army Intelligence, is tasked with learning Japanese to interrogate Japanese P.O.W.s and he falls in love with his pretty Japanese teacher "Sabby" (Suzuki San) (Yôko Tani).

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Yôko Tani, Ronald Lewis, John Fraser

Votes: 383

12. The Man Inside (1958)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

An English bookkeeper (Nigel Patrick) who works for a jeweler steals a priceless jewel, and kills a man in the process. He flees to the continent, where he embarks on the life of his dreams... See full summary »

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Nigel Patrick, Anthony Newley

Votes: 337

13. The Two-Headed Spy (1958)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Thriller, War

A long-entrenched British agent planted in the German Army is urged to continue his work during the Second World War, but struggles to keep secret his true identity from the Third Reich.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox

Votes: 927

14. Look Back in Anger (1959)

Approved | 98 min | Drama

69 Metascore

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans

Votes: 4,350

15. Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)

91 min | Adventure

In the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Grégoire Aslan

Votes: 406

16. The Shakedown (1960)

92 min | Crime, Drama

After being released from prison, Augie Cortona sets up a blackmail operation, fronted by a model agency. When the authorities get wind of his activities, they send in an undercover police ... See full summary »

Director: John Lemont | Stars: Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Bill Owen

Votes: 341

17. The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose

Votes: 2,313

18. The Battle of the Sexes (1960)

84 min | Comedy

Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark

Votes: 1,719

19. Circus of Horrors (1960)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Horror

Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 2,389

20. Hell Is a City (1960)

93 min | Crime, Thriller

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley

Votes: 1,372

21. Sons and Lovers (1960)

Approved | 103 min | Drama

A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure

Votes: 1,760

22. The Big Day (1960)

55 min | Drama

Three very different men compete for a top job; the result of the interviews comes as a surprise to everyone.

Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Andree Melly, Colin Gordon, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 163

23. The Risk (1960)

81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.

Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen

Votes: 315

24. The Hands of Orlac (1960)

95 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

A pianist who loses his hands in a plane crash receives the transplanted hands of an executed criminal but his new hands have the murderous tendencies of their previous owner.

Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Christopher Lee, Dany Carrel, Lucile Saint-Simon

Votes: 492

25. No Love for Johnnie (1961)

110 min | Drama

After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 650

26. The Wind of Change (1961)

Not Rated | 64 min | Drama

Frank is an unemployed, discontented and rebellious teenage, living at home with his mild-mannered father, domineering mother and sister Josie. Frank harbors a deep-seated resentment and ... See full summary »

Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Johnny Briggs, Ann Lynn, Hilda Fenemore

Votes: 120

27. A Story of David: The Hunted (1960)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts... See full summary »

Director: Bob McNaught | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Basil Sydney, Peter Arne, David Knight

Votes: 166

28. Spare the Rod (1961)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama

It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?

Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence, Geoffrey Keen, Betty McDowall

Votes: 243

29. No Place Like Homicide! (1961)

87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Ernie's uncle has just died, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead.

Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price

Votes: 1,005

30. Lisa (1962)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 461

31. The Guest (1963)

105 min | Drama

While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Harold Pinter

Votes: 979

32. The Great Escape (1963)

Approved | 172 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

86 Metascore

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson

Votes: 258,071 | Gross: $12.10M

33. Dr. Crippen (1963)

TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, History

The real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder?

Director: Robert Lynn | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne, Donald Wolfit

Votes: 732

34. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

G | 260 min | Biography, Drama, History

An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Directors: George Stevens, David Lean, Jean Negulesco | Stars: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston, Michael Anderson Jr.

Votes: 11,684 | Gross: $15.47M

35. The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

Approved | 165 min | Comedy, Western

On its way to Denver, a cargo of whiskey destined for the miners, is sought after by the Temperance League, the U.S. Cavalry, the local Indians and the miners themselves.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin

Votes: 4,406 | Gross: $8.72M

36. Cul-de-sac (1966)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

75 Metascore

In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran

Votes: 13,932

37. Eye of the Devil (1966)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Sharon Tate, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 3,197

38. Fantastic Voyage (1966)

PG | 100 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

72 Metascore

When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 20,760

39. The Night of the Generals (1967)

Not Rated | 148 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 8,739

40. You Only Live Twice (1967)

PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

61 Metascore

James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba

Votes: 117,192 | Gross: $43.08M

41. Matchless (1967)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.

Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Ira von Fürstenberg, Donald Pleasence, Henry Silva

Votes: 325

42. Will Penny (1967)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors

Votes: 5,237

43. The Other People (1968)

89 min

Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin.

Director: David Hart | Stars: Peter McEnery, John McEnery, Olga Georges-Picot, Bruce Robinson