List of the best Jack Clayton movies: Room at the Top(1959), Our Mother's House(1967), The Pumpkin Eater(1964), Something Wicked This Way Comes(1983), The Great Gatsby(1974), The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne(1987), The Bespoke Overcoat(1956) ... ...
Drama
UK
1959
118 Minutes
Director
Laurence Harvey Simone Signoret Heather Sears Hermione Baddeley Donald Wolfit Ambrosine Philpotts Donald Houston Wendy Craig Mary Peach
factory worker heiress wife gritty brooding england small town class distinctions suicide forbidden love deception love sacrifice temptation 1940s
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
1967
105 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde Margaret Brooks Pamela Franklin Louis Sheldon Williams John Gugolka Mark Lester Phoebe Nicholls Gustav Henry Parnham Wallace Yootha Joyce Claire Davidson
orphan mother deadbeat dad teacher neighbor creepy bleak tense house school england deception children vs. adults death debauchery family discovery growing up 1960s
When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...
Drama
UK
1964
110 Minutes
Director
Anne Bancroft Peter Finch James Mason Cedric Hardwicke Alan Webb Richard Johnson Maggie Smith Eric Porter
wife husband friend ex-husband psychiatrist father-in-law raw brooding emotional london windmill house psychiatrist's office hospital street marriage divorce infidelity mental illness parenthood
Londoner Jo and her third husband Jake live with six of her children but the marriage is strained by numerous factors. Her doctor thinks Jo uses childbirth as a rationale for sex. Jo's issues leave her in a fragile mental state.
Horror
USA
1983
94 Minutes
Director
Jason Robards Jonathan Pryce Diane Ladd Pam Grier Royal Dano Shawn Carson Vidal Peterson Mary Grace Canfield James Stacy
young boy father friend demon carnival worker villain creepy dark tense town house circus trailer tent car circus wishes sacrifice danger evil
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
Drama
USA
1974
144 Minutes
Director
Robert Redford Mia Farrow Sam Waterston Bruce Dern Lois Chiles Karen Black Howard da Silva Roberts Blossom Edward Herrmann Kathryn Leigh Scott
socialite millionaire veteran beautiful woman husband melodramatic sad somber long island, n.y. mansion bungalow new york city love triangle high society decadence adultery failed romance forbidden love fall rivalry
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Drama
1987
116 Minutes
Director
Maggie Smith Bob Hoskins Wendy Hiller Marie Kean Ian McNeice Alan Devlin Rudi Davies Prunella Scales
spinster music teacher boardinghouse owner middle-aged man middle-aged woman boarder sad emotional tender dublin ireland boarding house movie theater dining room betrayal alcoholism deception business scheme loneliness heartbreak
A 1950s Dublin spinster (Maggie Smith) meets her landlady's brother (Bob Hoskins), who wants her to invest in a fast-food restaurant.
Fantasy, Drama
1956
33 Minutes
Director
Alfie Bass David Kossoff Alan Tilvern Man Mountain Dean
A man's only desire is to have an overcoat, but before he can get one, he dies of hypothermia; so he returns as a ghost and demands that his friend steal him one.