Ann Bell

For the first time on DVD, the Alpha Archives Collection proudly presents a two part feature length documentary celebrating the history of the Amicus Productions film company. Founded in the early 1960s by Americans Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg, Amicus produced some classic (now cult) horror movies, including Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From The Crypt, Asylum and From Beyond The Grave. Featuring interviews with key individuals who worked for Amicus (actors, directors, etc.), and with many rare photographs and production designs throughout, this documentary is a must-see for fans of British horror cinema.

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.

During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?

The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits.

The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.

Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian (Culp) recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton (Young) to aid him in his current case. Anitra Cyon (Bell), the sister of prominent British businessman Geoffrey Cyon (Villiers), believes her brother is dabbling in the black arts. In turn, Geoffrey claims that she is mentally unfit. Sebastian and Hamilton travel to the Cyon estate to investigate the matter. Complicating the issue is Sebastian's debilitating heart condition that was induced by his own experimentations with the black arts.

A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently reveals to his boss that he has been fraudulently claiming expenses.

Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?

Uncle Vanya is a tragic comedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and wasted lives. Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, ho does not return his ardor.

Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.

A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers.

In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.

마크 색커리(Mark Thackeray: 시드니 포이티어 분)는 아프리카 기니 출신의 흑인이다. 그는 전직 통신 기사지만 새로운 직장이 생기기 전까지 교편을 잡기로 한다. 그가 발령을 받은 곳은 런던의 빈민촌, 생활고에 찌들려 교육에 대해서는 통 관심을 보이지 않는 사람들이 사는 곳이다. 그러다 보니 학생들은 하나같이 말썽꾼들이고 그들의 관심사는 어떻게 하면 교사를 골탕먹일까 뿐이다. 하지만 무엇보다 견디기 힘든 것은 이런 현실에 방관적인 자세를 취하고 있는 동료 교사들. 심지어 교장은 자기의 원칙에서 벗어나지만 않으면 된다는 전제 아래 모든 것을 교사의 재량에 맡기는 안니한 태도를 보인다. 아이들에게 시달리던 색커리는 아이들이 인생의 목표도 없고 자신이 처한 현실을 변화시키려는 의지도 없이 학교를 그저 냉혹한 현실에서 도피할 수 있는 공간정도로만 생각하고 있는 것을 알고 아이들을 교육시키는데 뭔가 색다른 전략이 필요함을 느낀다. 그는 우선 교사의 권위는 잊고 아이들에게 성인 대우를 해주면서 서로가 동등한 위치에서 자기 이야기를 하도록 유도하며 서로에 대한 경계심을 푼다. 그리고 아이들의 피부에 와닿지 않는 교과서에 적힌 내용들을 접어두고 인생, 죽음, 결혼, 사랑 등등 친밀하지만 어려운 주제들에 대한 진솔한 얘기를 이끌어나가면서 아이들의 불신의 벽을 무너뜨린다. 이런 대화는 무리를 지어 다닐 땐 강하지만 나약하기 그지없는 아이들에게 교실밖의 세상은 냉혹하며 생존을 위해서 변화해야만 한다는 교훈을 주고 색커리는 점차 아이들의 신임과 존경을 얻는다. 시간은 흐르고 아이들의 졸업식이 다가온다. 아이들은 졸업 후 취업 문제에 당면하면서 포기하지 않고 자신들을 바른 길로 이끌어준 색커리에게 감사하게 되고 한편 색커리도 원하던 통신기사 일자리를 얻는다. 졸업식 댄스 파티. 세상으로 나갈 준비가 된 아이들은 색커리에게 감사의 마음을 전하고 색커리는 그런 아이들의 모습에 눈물을 흘린다.

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

일체의 문자정보가 금지된 미래사회를 배경으로 한 문명비판의 SF 영화. 주인공은 몰래 책을 숨기고 있는 사람들을 색출해 체포하고 책들을 불태우는 임무를 수행하는 소방수이다. 원제 '화씨 451도'는 종이가 불타는 온도를 뜻한다. 원작은 SF 작가 레이 브래드베리(Ray Bradbury)가 1953년 발표한 첫 장편소설이며, 프랑수아 트뤼포 감독에겐 첫 컬러 영화다.

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.

The often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.