There were 4 Carry On films featuring the likes of the late great Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.

Great war film The Dam Busters about the so called 'bouncing bomb' that was developed by genius engineeer Barnes Wallis for the raids on the dams in the Ruhr valley during WWII. Michael Redgrave (father of Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson) played him in the film.

The Hammer Horror Films:

The Curse Of Frankenstein

Dracula

The Quatermass Xperiment (not a misspelling!)

The first 2 Hammer films featured the teaming up of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing that continued well into the 70's. The Quatermass Xperiment is a truly scary sci-fi horror film that predates Alien and The Thing by over 20 years. An astronaut returns from space but there is something just not right about him.

I think I saw The Quatermass Xperiment, the title seems familiar, I will watch it again soon. 

The Thing is the remake of an early 50s movie The Thing From Outer Space.

Alien ripped off a little bit a mid 60s Italian Sci-fi movie called Planet of Vampires, directed by Mario Bava. Definitely worth a watch. 

Yes forgot about that!

There is a better Quatermass film that came out in the 60's (3rd in the series I think) called Quatermass and The Pit. Very atmospheric and creepy film.

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For the most part it's all the great big names of the history of cinema, although Luis Bunuel is not well represented at all ... for me, the subtitles was not a problem, though in the case of Luis's stuff in the subtitles were so bad that I spent the whole time laughing at them and the audience laughing at me, though some people finally figured out what was going on ... in one example, there were so many "4 letter words" in it, that you wouldn't get it (even the slang part) unless you were aware of it, and academia doesn't teach the ... street side of the language! (so to speak!)

The American side was a bit later for me, though I did not really got to it as much until the university days as a directing major ... when I learned more about the Actor's Studio and the 50's folks that made it, though some ended up in Hollywood ... but Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and others ... were already known in our house and I had read some of them. But I knew no English before October 1965, so yo can have a better idea how tough it was to read these things then, but later I caught up with them.

The sci-fi stuff that had Bernard Herrmann's music is also far out ... and I still like it a lot. The creativity involved is amazing.

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I got into these as Guy Guden was the virtual library of anything/everything that  the Hammer Studios did and both Chris and Peter ended up becoming good friends with Guy.

After all the Hammer films (all the Dracula and Frankenstein one with one exception I think that I have not seen), came The Goons (comedy) that pretty much got me the first taste of Dr. Who and then some of the sci-fi stuff ... and to me, that comedy still is the most progressive thing ever done in the media ... it was way out there in terms of creativity and very special ... it's just a shame that the Goons themselves did not participate on a couple of films that just about stole the "visual" stuff that the Goons had created on radio with sound effects to the max. 

I'm not sure that this generation has the ability to have fun with the sound effects that the Goons, and the Warner Brothers' cartoons went on to show us ... and no one will sit through a sound track of one of those cartoons without the visual to realize how experimental and nutz they were!