Brenda Bruce
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David Copperfield
This adaptation of Dickens’s beloved novel follows the young orphan as he endures a troubled childhood and eventually finds literary success.
Nightmare
(1964)Hammer Films' Nightmare walks the thin line between sanity and madness, exploring the shadowy world between dreams and reality. As a child, Janet (Jennie Linden) witnessed her insane mother stabbing her father to death. Now a young woman, Janet's recurring nightmares have her convinced she'll follow her mother to the asylum. Accompanied by her schoolteacher Miss Lewis (Brenda Bruce), Janet retreats to the home of her guardian (David Knight), who has hired lovely Grace (Moira Redmond) as a companion to help calm his troubled ward. But Janet's nightly terrors, magnified by the eerie, creaky old house, bring all of her fears chillingly to life. Startling twists and turns reveal that sometimes when you wake up, the nightmare is just beginning.

Peeping Tom
(1960)A disturbed filmmaker literally kills with his camera in this ahead-of-its-time shocker. Like the same year's Psycho, this film's combination of voyeurism, eroticism and horror repelled some 1960 critics, but its cult reputation soared in later years.

The Tenth Man
(1988)In postwar France, a once-wealthy attorney deals with the fallout from a deadly deal he struck with a fellow inmate while imprisoned by the Nazis.
December Bride
(1990)At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father. With Ciarán Hinds.

Steaming
(1985)When a beloved Turkish bath is threatened with shuttering its doors, a group of its female patrons band together to arrive at a solution to save it.

Macbeth
(1983)Nicol Williamson plays the title role and Jane Lapotaire portrays Lady Macbeth in Jack Gold's production of the Scottish play. After receiving a prophecy of his future kingship from three witches, and coerced by his scheming wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan, but he is increasingly oppressed by the guilt of his crime in this darkest of Shakespearian tragedies.

The Man in the Iron Mask
(1977)The Musketeers’ plot to replace Louis XIV with the rightful heir to his throne backfires when the cruel king locks up his twin in the Bastille.