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Apocalypse Now
1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The King's Speech
2010 British film directed by Tom Hooper
Dr. No
1962 film by Terence Young
The Prestige
2006 film directed by Christopher Nolan
A Clockwork Orange
1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove
1964 British satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Casino Royale
2006 film by Martin Campbell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 film directed by Tim Burton
Mary Poppins
1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson
Rebecca
1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Barry Lyndon
1975 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Live and Let Die
1973 film directed by Guy Hamilton
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 American comedy film directed by Chris Columbus
Atonement
2007 film directed by Joe Wright
How Green Was My Valley
1941 film by John Ford
Children of Men
2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Empire of the Sun
1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015 film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
The Beach
2000 film directed by Danny Boyle
The African Queen
1951 film by John Huston
War Horse
2011 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Cloud Atlas
2012 film directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis
Stardust
2007 film directed by Matthew Vaughn
Babe
1995 film directed by Chris Noonan
Chocolat
2000 film directed by Lasse Hallström
The Last King of Scotland
2006 film by Kevin Macdonald
The 39 Steps
1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Mary Poppins Returns
2018 film directed by Rob Marshall
Mortal Engines
2018 film directed by Christian Rivers
The Blue Lagoon
1980 film by Randal Kleiser
Arrietty
Arrietty, titled in Japan and The Secret World of Arrietty in North America, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi as his feature film debut as a director, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and Wild Bunch. The screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, was based on the 1952 novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton, an English author of children's books, about a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of a typical household, borrowing items f
Tom Jones
1963 British adventure comedy film directed by Tony Richardson
The Golden Compass
2007 film directed by Chris Weitz
Me Before You
2016 film directed by Thea Sharrock
The Ghost Writer
2010 film by Roman Polanski
Spellbound
1945 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
Paddington
2014 film directed by Paul King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 film directed by Peter Weir
A Good Year
2006 film by Ridley Scott
Conclave
2024 film by Edward Berger
Man on Fire
2004 film directed by Tony Scott
The Time Machine
2002 film directed by Simon Wells
The Lady Vanishes
1938 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 film directed by Peter Webber
Marnie
1964 film by Alfred Hitchcock
The Day of the Jackal
1973 film by Fred Zinnemann
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 film directed by Robert Stevenson
Suspicion
1941 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 film directed by Mel Stuart
The Jackal
1997 film by Michael Caton-Jones
The Remains of the Day
1993 film directed by James Ivory
The Dreamers
2003 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
Wonka
2023 film directed by Paul King
Jack Reacher
2012 film by Christopher McQuarrie
The BFG
2016 film by Steven Spielberg
The Guns of Navarone
1961 film by J. Lee Thompson
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 film directed by Sharon Maguire
Frenzy
Frenzy is a 1972 British neo-noir thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer is based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.
Paddington 2
2017 film by Paul King