John Carson

The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.

A definitive documentary charting the rise and fall of Amicus film productions.

Trinta anos após devastar a Escócia, um vírus mortal atinge a Inglaterra. Com milhões de vidas em jogo, o governo precisa agir de forma certeira e sob o comando da Major Eden Sinclair tentará encontrar a solução enquanto ainda há tempo. Mas a população está em pânico, o que dificulta a situação.

Kuki Gallmann, uma bela e inquisitiva mulher que teve a coragem de deixar sua vida confortável, porém monótona, na Itália e começar uma vida nova na selva da África com seu filho Emanuele e seu novo marido Paolo. Gallmann encara grandes perigos mas eventualmente torna-se uma famosa conservacionista.

Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.

Explore Hammer's greatest legacy with clips from such classic films as The Horror of Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Dracula - Prince of Darkness, Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, Scars of Dracula, Kiss of the Vampire and more.

In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.

The story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his adventurous life and trials in the jungles of Africa.

It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.

An astronaut, known only as The Survivor, returns from space only to find Earth a desolate, post-nuclear wasteland. Spending the next ten years searching for others, he finds rumors and signs of a hidden underground city. He finds a woman who claims to know where the city is, but she is kidnapped before she can tell him. Desperate to locate this hidden remnant of humanity, he begins his pursuit of her captors.

An Englishwoman travels to South Africa in 1906.

Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. The Mara takes control of Lon and uses him and Tegan to obtain from Ambril, the Director of Historical Research, the 'Great Crystal' - the large blue stone that originally brought it into being by focusing energy from the minds of the planet's one-time inhabitants. The Mara now plans to use the crystal during the ceremony to bring about its return to corporeal existence.

A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.

A scrying glass puts an antiques exporter in the path of a woman fleeing from devil worshipers and the evil hypnotist who leads them. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.

Two American girls go on a vacation to England and mysterious things begin happening when one of them falls to her death from atop a monument.

Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.

When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.

With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.

A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. Edited from TV series, The Baron.

Apparently a British answer to the Boys in the Band

Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

Allen Meredith is a brilliant scientist but too mild-mannered to make an impact or fight for the money he needs. He has invented a process to exchange minds between bodies. His ambitious wife Ann persuades him to invite his boss, the domineering Jack Gregory, to their house for dinner. Once there, they drug him and Allen swaps bodies with Jack, then goes back to work to transfer millions into his account. But meanwhile Ann is finding the combination of Jack's masculine personality in Allen's body rather attractive and they begin making their own plans.

Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal

Ao voltar para casa, o executivo Harold Pelham (Roger Moore) sofre um terrível acidente de carro. Levado às pressas ao hospital, ele fica clinicamente morto por alguns minutos, mas logo retorna à vida. Após ser liberado, ele percebe que alguém está usando seu nome e que esse estranho compartilha sua casa, toma decisões nos seus negócios e infiltra-se em sua família. Apesar de todos os esforços para descobrir a identidade do intruso, Harold fracassa: o impostor possui uma personalidade volátil, agressiva e não perde tempo em deixar claro que planeja se livrar dele e assumir para sempre o seu lugar.

No exato momento da morte de Dracula (filme anterior), um homem passa pelo local e recolhe seu sangue, capa e anel com a intenção de ressuscitá-lo em um ritual satânico. Três distintos cavalheiros estão procurando por algo excitante em suas tediosas vidas. Eles entram em contato com um dos servos de Drácula e realizam uma cerimônia noturna para trazê-lo de volta à vida. Eles aceitam do Lord Courtley a missão de comprar para este o manto, o anel, e um frasco com sangue pertencente ao falecido Conde Drácula. Em troca, terão teus desejos mais secretos realizados. Numa cerimônia secreta, os cidadãos se recusam a beber uma poção feita com o sangue de Drácula, mas o Lord bebe e é espancado até a morte, como vingança, ele decide que os cavalheiros serão mortos, um a um, por seus próprios filhos.

Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.

A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.

Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.

A man is confronted by a man in his house who declares that he is here to kill him, because he collaborated with the Nazis and caused the death of the intruder's fiancée.

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.

Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.

Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.

No século XV, Quentin Durward (Robert Taylor), um pobre e bonito cavaleiro escocês, é enviado por seu tio para conhecer a bela condessa de Macroy, Isabelle (Kay Kendall). Ele deverá apresentar os cumprimentos do velho homem, que pretende se casar com a jovem condessa prometida a ele por razões políticas, pelo duque da Borgonha (Alec Clunes). No entanto, ela rejeita as reivindicações e foge para a França com a intenção de ir para a cidade de Tours, buscando a proteção do grande rival de Charles, Louis XI (Robert Morley), rei da França. Quando Durward segue seu encalço, acaba salvando a condessa de grandes perigos, e a convivência faz com que eles se apaixonem. Mas as intrigas da corte mostrarão perigos muito mais mortais do que os campos de batalha da idade média.

"Tenth of a Second" is the account of one man's desperate attempt to fight the oppressive apartheid regime of South Africa. This political thriller centres around Michael Wilder (James Whyle), a schoolteacher and political activist, with a failing marriage. Wilder is a member of the "Organisation" which is involved in subversive activities against the state. One day, Raymond (Nicky Rebelo), a fellow member, visits Wilder and leaves him with a suitcase containing a bomb. Wilder is expected to place in a busy shopping centre. But things do not go according to plan and the consequences of his actions result in devastating effects for Wilder and his grip on reality.