Classic Cinema
Fiend Without A Face (1957)
6.3/10
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker, Terence Kilburn
An effective chiller with overtones of the 'Id' creature from 'Forbidden Planet' as a scientific thought experiment goes awry and the fiends go on a f... Read more
Fire Over England (1937)
6.7/10
Director: William Howard
Starring: Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Fiora Robson, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey
Superb British historical drama as Elizabethan England is under attack by the Spanish Armada. Flora Robson is magnificent as Queen Elizabeth, who send... Read more
First Man Into Space (1958)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards
"A better than it looks" tale of a daring pilot who disobeys orders and becomes the title character, returning to Earth a dust-encrusted, blood-drinki... Read more
First Men in the Moon (1964)
6.7/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer
An eccentric professor in Victorian England develops an anti-gravity invention and uses it to travel to and inside the moon, finding an insect-like ci... Read more
First Spaceship on Venus (1962)
4.3/10
Director: Kurt Maetzig
Starring: Ignacy Machowski, Oldrich Lukes, Yoko Tani
After discovering a communications device from Venus containing a message about the impending attack of Earth, an international crew of astronauts and... Read more
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck
Filmed almost concurrently with events in North Africa during WWII, Billy Wilder's take on the propaganda genre is adapted from WWI play, 'Hotel Imper... Read more
Five Miles to Midnight (1963)
6.4/10
Director: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sophia Loren
Lisa (Sophia Loren) marries Robert (Anthony Perkins), a domineering, jealous American and becomes trapped in a violent marriage. Much to her relief, R... Read more
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
5.8/10
Director: Irwin Allen
Starring: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Richard Haydn...
Irwin Allen directed and adapted the screenplay for this madcap comedy from Jules Verne's calssic novel. A group of mismatched adventurers journey by... Read more
Flight to Mars (1951)
5.2/10
Director: Lesley Selander
Starring: Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell
The first science-fiction film shot in colour that follows an Earth expedition to the red planet who discover a subterranean city populated by the dyi... Read more
Floating Weeds (1959)
8/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Haruko Sugimura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
"Floating Weeds" tells the story of a travelling Kabuki acting troupe, led by Komajuro, who arrive in a small coastal town. There, Komajuro is reunite... Read more