List of the best Roy Ward Baker movies: The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula(1974), A Night to Remember(1958), The October Man(1947), The Anniversary(1968), Operation Disaster(1951), The Valiant(1962), The Weaker Sex(1948), Flame in the Streets(1961), The Vampire Lovers(1970), The Singer Not the Song(1961), Scars of Dracula(1970), And Now the Screaming Starts(1973) ... ...
Horror
USA
1974
88 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing David Chiang Julie Ege Robin Stewart Shih Szu John Forbes-Robertson
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Drama, History
UK
1958
123 Minutes
Director
Kenneth More David McCallum Honor Blackman Jill Dixon Laurence Naismith Frank Lawton Alec McCowen George Rose Ronald Allen Robert Ayres
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On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
86 Minutes
Director
John Mills Joan Greenwood Edward Chapman Joyce Carey Kay Walsh Felix Aylmer Juliet Mills
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When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1968
95 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Jimmy Sangster Sheila Hancock Jack Hedley James Cossins Elaine Taylor Christian Roberts Timothy Bateson Arnold Diamond
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Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.
Action
UK
1951
102 Minutes
Director
John Mills Richard Attenborough Nigel Patrick Helen Cherry Lana Morris Andrew Crawford Michael Brennan James Hayter Wylie Watson Giacomo Rossi-Stuart Victor Maddern
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The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Drama, Action, War
UK|Italy
1962
80 Minutes
Director
John Mills Ettore Manni Roberto Risso Robert Shaw Liam Redmond Ralph Michael Colin Douglas Dinsdale Landen John Meillon Patrick Barr
During World War II, two Italian frogmen, who placed magnetic mines under a British warship, are captured and interrogated by British intelligence about their mission.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1948
89 Minutes
Director
Ursula Jeans Cecil Parker Joan Hopkins Derek Bond Lana Morris John Stone Digby Wolfe
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Life on the home front during World War 2. Martha Dacre tries to keep her home running as normal, during the run up to the D Day landings. With several lodgers to contend with, and her son ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1961
93 Minutes
Director
John Mills Sylvia Syms Brenda De Banzie Earl Cameron Johnny Sekka Ann Lynn Wilfrid Brambell Meredith Edwards Newton Blick Glyn Houston Michael Wynne
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During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.
Horror, Gay & Lesbian
UK
1970
88 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing Ingrid Pitt George Cole Madeline Smith Pippa Steel Dawn Addams Kate O'Mara Douglas Wilmer Ferdinand Mayne
Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.
Western
UK
1961
129 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde John Mills Mylène Demongeot Laurence Naismith John Bentley Leslie French
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In a small Mexican town, a Catholic priest (Sir John Mills) and a local bandit (Sir Dirk Bogarde) clash, but the brave priest ultimately wins the outlaw's respect.
Horror
UK
1970
94 Minutes
Director
Christopher Lee Dennis Waterman Jenny Hanley Christopher Matthews Wendy Hamilton Michael Gwynn
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A young man, Paul Carlson, is on a trip and spends the night at Count Dracula's castle. He is murdered. After some time has passed, the young man's brother Simon comes to the small town where all the traces end to look for him.
Horror
UK
1973
87 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing Stephanie Beacham Herbert Lom Patrick Magee Ian Ogilvy
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England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant.
Horror, Comedy
UK
1981
95 Minutes
Director
Vincent Price Donald Pleasence John Carradine Stuart Whitman Roger Sloman Fran Fullenwider Anthony Steel Suzanna Willis B.A. Robertson James Laurenson Barbara Kellerman
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1951
88 Minutes
Director
Margaret Lockwood Dane Clark Marius Goring Wilfrid Hyde-White Olaf Pooley Eric Pohlmann
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A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
Sci-Fi, Adventure
1970
100 Minutes
Director
James Olson Catherine Schell Warren Mitchell Adrienne Corri Ori Levy Dudley Foster Bernard Bresslaw Neil McCallum Joby Blanshard Michael Ripper Robert Tayman
In 2021 a crooked tycoon (Warren Mitchell) uses a freelance spaceman (James Olson) in a plot to sell worthless land on the moon.
Drama
1956
92 Minutes
Director
John Gregson Kathleen Ryan Jacqueline Ryan Noel Purcell Cyril Cusack Tony Wright Maureen Swanson Liam Redmond
A Belfast laborer (John Gregson) loses his job and drinks, but his daughter (Jacqueline Ryan) saves the day.
Horror
1973
87 Minutes
Director
Anna Massey Terry-Thomas Curt Jurgens Daniel Massey Erik Chitty Michael Craig Edward Judd Robin Nedwell Dawn Addams Ishaq Bux Glynis Johns
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Five tales: "Midnight Mess," "The Neat Job," "This Trick'll Kill You," "Bargain in Death," "Drawn and Quartered."
Horror
1971
97 Minutes
Director
Ralph Bates Martine Beswick Gerald Sim Lewis Fiander Susan Brodrick Dorothy Alison Ivor Dean Philip Madoc Neil Wilson Paul Whitsun-Jones
A Victorian doctor (Ralph Bates) tries a hormone formula and turns into a sensuous female killer (Martine Beswick).
Drama
1952
76 Minutes
Director
Richard Widmark Marilyn Monroe Anne Bancroft Donna Corcoran Jeanne Cagney Lurene Tuttle Elisha Cook Jr. Jim Backus Willis Bouchey Don Beddoe Gloria Blondell
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An airline pilot (Richard Widmark) flirts with a hotel baby-sitter (Marilyn Monroe) before realizing she is deranged.