Martin Benson

Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.

In the 1930s, Alison starts a new boarding school and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to dethrone the royal family of Bosnovia.

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!

Uma verdadeira história da WW2. Os britânicos precisam atacar um navio alemão, mas ele está na segurança da neutra Goa. Então eles enviam civis, ex-soldados de cerca de 60 anos de idade.

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.

In sixth century Mecca, Prophet Mohamed receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Mohamed is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Mohamed's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

O embaixador americano e a esposa querem muito ter filhos. Quando ela dá à luz um bebê morto e um padre sugere que adotem um recém-nascido saudável e órfão, ele aceita sem contar à mulher. O que ele não sabe é que o bebê é o anticristo.

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.

Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily Mail comic strip.

Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.

Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.

Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.

An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.

Arthur Tate alcançou fama, riqueza e respeitabilidade rapidamente desde o início como um policial ingênuo. Sua ascensão também foi devida a 3 mulheres: a costureira Violet Lawson, Lily, a Baronesa von Lukenberg e o produtor de cinema Marigold Marado. Sua ascensão também foi devido à Sra. Tate, que sempre parecia ter uma informação extra que a faria sugerir ao povo que seu filho Arthur recebesse um cargo onde pudesse fazer mais bem. Talvez a Sra. Tate tivesse um plano maior para si mesma.

An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to Zanzibar.

James Bond (Sean Connery) é encarregado de espionar Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), um poderoso milionário cujas remessas de ouro espalhadas por diversos países podem esconder ações criminosas. Após ser capturado, Bond descobre que o plano de Goldfinger é bem maior do que ele imaginava: Goldfinger pretende roubar nada mais nada menos do que as reservas americanas de ouro, guardadas no Forte Knox.

Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck), um famoso bandido durante a guerra civil espanhola, tem vivido em exílio na França há 20 anos. Quando sua mãe está morrendo, ele resolve visitá-la secretamente na sual cidade natal espanhola. Mas seu maior inimigo, o policial espanhol Viñolas (Anthony Quinn), preparou uma armadilha no hospital para finalmente pegar Artiguez.

Em Paris, na mansão de Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders), um conhecido milionário, um crime é cometido e por engano é mandado o Inspetor Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), o mais atrapalhado dos detetives franceses. Enquanto as investigações avançam, novas mortes acontecem e as evidências sugerem que a culpada é Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), uma arrumadeira que trabalha na mansão de Ballon. Entretanto, Clouseau tem certeza da inocência dela e está disposto a investigar o caso (mas sempre de uma forma pouco convencional), para descobrir quem é o culpado ou culpados das mortes.

O filme narra a ascensão e o declínio de Cleópatra, rainha do Egito, sua luta para defender o império das ambições políticas e territoriais de Roma e seu relacionamento com Júlio César e Marco Antônio.

A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.

O Capitão Collier e sua tripulação são chamados para uma localidade onde há suspeitas de contrabando, porém o local guarda um misterioso segredo nos seus pântanos assombrados por fantasmas que afastam os curiosos de lá.

A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.

Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.

Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Gulliver é um intrépido médico que embarca em busca de fama e fortuna nas míticas Índias Orientais, nesta adaptação do inesquecível clássico de Jonathan Swift. Durante as suas incríveis aventuras, descobrirá todos os segredos de Brobdingnag (a Terra dos Gigantes) e de Lilliput (a Terra dos Anões). Repleto de efeitos especiais e de truques de perspectiva nunca utilizados até esse momento, "As Viagens de Gulliver" é uma maravilhosa fantasia do mago dos efeitos especiais Ray Harryhausen.

A young locksmith becomes involved in crime.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.

An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.

UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.

Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge. Released in USA as THE COSMIC MONSTER.

International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.

Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

As inovações da tecnologia e da cor, juntamente com o grande astro Errol Flynn, fazem desta refilmagem do clássico Singapore (1947) uma nova e mais estonteante aventura. Jim Brennan (Flynn) acaba acidentalmente se tornando o portador de uma enorme herança em diamantes, e passa a ser procurado por diversos trapaceiros. Sua noiva Stephanie (Cornnel Borchers), suspeita de estar escondendo as pedras, acaba sendo atacada e queimada até a morte. Cinco anos depois, ainda cheio de dor e arrependimento, Jim retorna a Istambul para recuperar os diamantes que havia escondido, e acaba por encontrar Stephanie viva e casada com outro homem (Torin Tatcher). Mas seu grande amor está sofrendo de amnésia e o rosto de Jim parece ter desaparecido completamente de sua memória... Nat King Cole, uma das maiores vozes que o mundo já conheceu faz uma aparição muito especial cantando o inesquecível sucesso When I Fall In Love.

A história verídica de uma inglesa, Anna Leonowens, que vai ao Sião para tornar-se professora da corte real em 1860. Apesar de ela logo se desentender com o teimoso monarca, com o passar do tempo, Anna e o Rei deixam de tentar mudar um ao outro e começam a se entender. Refilmagem de 'Anna e o Rei do Sião (1946)' e refilmado em 'Anna e o Rei (1999)'.

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.

A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman.

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.

Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.

Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.

An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.

A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.

Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son (Dermot Walsh) joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father (Charles Victor).

A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.

The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.