Terence Alexander
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1923-03-11
Locus Natus: Islington, London, England
Et ut: Terence Joseph Alexander, Terrence Alexander, Terry Alexander
Frankenstein
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
release : 1984.06.17popularis : 2.143
The Mind Benders
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...
release : 1963.02.01popularis : 6.836
The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a...
release : 1973.05.16popularis : 35.847
Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...
release : 1961.04.04popularis : 7.287
Mission: Monte Carlo
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 1.655
The Square Peg
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly...
release : 1958.12.04popularis : 4.785
The One That Got Away
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the...
release : 1957.11.22popularis : 4.423
The League of Gentlemen
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...
release : 1960.04.15popularis : 5.903
The Runaway Bus
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another...
release : 1953.09.28popularis : 1.501
The Vault of Horror
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include...
release : 1973.03.16popularis : 8.511
Park Plaza 605
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza...
release : 1953.09.11popularis : 6.066
The Internecine Project
Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.
release : 1974.07.24popularis : 1.529
She Always Gets Their Man
The longtime tenants at a London women's hotel decide to take action when the newest resident, a sexy young flirt, begins stealing everyone's...
release : 1962.01.01popularis : 1.441
The Woman with No Name
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
release : 1950.10.31popularis : 1.319
Dangerous Cargo
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...
release : 1954.05.01popularis : 2.059
Don't Panic Chaps!
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean....
release : 1959.01.01popularis : 4.788
Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the...
release : 1970.10.26popularis : 11.212
All the Way Up
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his...
release : 1970.06.01popularis : 1.427
Top Secret
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention....
release : 1952.11.10popularis : 6.194
Our Family Business
A syndicate mob boss doesn't realize that his eldest son, Gep, has been informing to the police on the family's dealings in exchange for protection,...
release : 1981.09.20popularis : 2.874
On the Beat
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old...
release : 1962.12.11popularis : 2.157
What's Good for the Goose
Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be...
release : 1969.03.21popularis : 0.826
Man at the Carlton Tower
The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.
release : 1961.07.01popularis : 1.366
The Gentle Terror
The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.
release : 1961.01.01popularis : 1.455
Run a Crooked Mile
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he...
release : 1969.11.18popularis : 2.45
Breakout
A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
release : 1959.03.01popularis : 0.932
Ike
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal...
release : 1979.05.03popularis : 1.865
The Monkey's Paw
Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.
release : 1954.05.11popularis : 1.012
The Gentle Gunman
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
release : 1952.10.23popularis : 1.815
The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby
He's back! Everyone's favourite big, bouncy, big blob (well how many do you know?) In his new guises, Mr Blobby is a complete hoot, hilariously...
release : 1996.02.05popularis : 2.814
All in Good Time
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
release : 1964.01.02popularis : 0.277
The Boy Who Never Was
The son of African diplomat is kidnapped and replaced by his double in an attempt to assassinate a VIP at a London conference.
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 1.691
Death Is a Number
A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse
release : 1951.06.08popularis : 1.165
The Corvini Inheritance
Unstable security chief of an auction house becomes increasingly obsessed with his female neighbor, who's being stalked, and a supposedly cursed...
release : 1984.10.15popularis : 0.337
The Laughing Prisoner
A funny remake of "The Prisoner" - with a 1980's twist to it 'The Laughing Prisoner' is a remake (or homage) of (to) the Kafkaesque 1960's television...
release : 1987.04.03popularis : 0.626
The Spare Tyres
Dennis is told by his wife to remove two old tyres from the garden of their new home. He tries various ways to dispose of them.
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 0.805
The Long Duel
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his...
release : 1967.07.27popularis : 3.35
Portrait of Alison
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
release : 1955.11.29popularis : 4.542
Comin' Thro the Rye
Biopic of Robbie Burns with a lot of Scottish singing. Heavy on narrative.
release : 1947.12.01popularis : 0.339
The Price of Silence
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
release : 1959.06.06popularis : 1.063
Churchill and the Generals
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
release : 1979.09.23popularis : 1.287
The Bulldog Breed
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life,...
release : 1960.12.13popularis : 4.059
Bitter Harvest
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London...
release : 1963.03.08popularis : 4.061
A Room in Town
A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act
release : 1970.09.15popularis : 0.822
That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse
Dirk de Villiers -An English woman dares to defy the might of the British Empire and champions the cause of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War,...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.27
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the...
release : 1981.03.08popularis : 4.19
The Intelligence Men
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his...
release : 1965.04.13popularis : 0.904
The Fast Lady
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
release : 1962.12.14popularis : 1.666
Who Done It?
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...
release : 1956.03.20popularis : 2.386
Danger Within
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a...
release : 1959.02.17popularis : 3.816
A Tale of Five Cities
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is...
release : 1951.03.01popularis : 3.067
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
The Doctor discovers his old enemy the Master is intent on preventing Earth's industrial revolution in 19th century England. But the Rani, a second...
release : 1985.02.09popularis : 0.813
Death Was a Passenger
Strangers conversing in a train compartment, revive wartime memories for one passenger.
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 0.479
Only When I Larf
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
release : 1968.05.27popularis : 2.334
The Eternal Question
Real-life palm reader Josef Ranald helps people two determine their futures. Some sources claim this British film was never released, or even...
release : 1954.06.11popularis : 2.383
Claudine
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one...
release : 1974.04.22popularis : 2.91
The Elusive Pimpernel
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
release : 1950.11.07popularis : 2.044