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British cinema: All genres
Life of Brian (1979)
Terry Jones
Judea 33 AD. Brian is an idealistic young Jew, a nice lad who, like many of his fellow Judeans, is somewhat miffed by the Roman occupation of his country...
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Terry Jones
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Anthony Harvey
Christmas, 1183. King Henry II of England summons his estranged wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and their three sons, Richard, John and Geoffrey, to Chinon Castle to resolve the matter of his inheritance...
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Anthony Harvey
The Lodger (1927)
Alfred Hitchcock
A killer stalks the foggy streets of London. The victims are all young women with fair hair, on whose bodies there is a card signed: The Avenger...
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Alfred Hitchcock
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Tony Richardson
Colin Smith, a rebellious young man from a working class background in Nottingham, ends up in borstal after robbing a bakery...
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Tony Richardson
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
Leslie Norman
Deep in the jungles of South-East Asia in 1942, Sergeant Mitchem leads a seven-man patrol on a mission to draw the Japanese troops away from the main Allied contingent by creating a sonic diversion...
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Leslie Norman
Look Back in Anger (1958)
Tony Richardson
Jimmy Porter, a disillusioned university graduate, lives with his wife Alison and friend Cliff in a cramped Midlands apartment... [More...]
Tony Richardson
Jimmy Porter, a disillusioned university graduate, lives with his wife Alison and friend Cliff in a cramped Midlands apartment... [More...]
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Peter Brook
As a nuclear conflict threatens to engulf the world, a party of English schoolboys are loaded into a plane and sent to the South Pacific... [More...]
Peter Brook
As a nuclear conflict threatens to engulf the world, a party of English schoolboys are loaded into a plane and sent to the South Pacific... [More...]
The Madness of King George (1994)
Nicholas Hytner
In 1788, King George III of Great Britain is almost 30 years into his reign but those closest to him have noticed a sudden deterioration in his state of mind... [More...]
Nicholas Hytner
In 1788, King George III of Great Britain is almost 30 years into his reign but those closest to him have noticed a sudden deterioration in his state of mind... [More...]
The Maggie (1954)
Alexander Mackendrick
Calvin B. Marshall is a wealthy American businessman who is desperate to have his personal property transported to his holiday retreat on a remote Scottish island... [More...]
Alexander Mackendrick
Calvin B. Marshall is a wealthy American businessman who is desperate to have his personal property transported to his holiday retreat on a remote Scottish island... [More...]
The Magic Box (1951)
John Boulting
In 1921, an elderly William Friese-Greene visits his estranged wife Edith and tries to persuade her to come back and live with him... [More...]
John Boulting
In 1921, an elderly William Friese-Greene visits his estranged wife Edith and tries to persuade her to come back and live with him... [More...]
Make Mine Mink (1960)
Robert Asher
Dame Beatrice Appleby is at a loss when she has to give up her charity work. Just what will she do with her time now? Her maid, Lily, tries to cheer her up by giving her a valuable mink coat which she fished from the balcony of a neighbouring couple, the Spanagers... [More...]
Robert Asher
Dame Beatrice Appleby is at a loss when she has to give up her charity work. Just what will she do with her time now? Her maid, Lily, tries to cheer her up by giving her a valuable mink coat which she fished from the balcony of a neighbouring couple, the Spanagers... [More...]
The Man in Grey (1943)
Leslie Arliss
In Regency England, Hesther Shaw is welcomed by Miss Patchett to her school for young ladies in Bath. Hesther's straitened circumstances makes her resentful of the kindnesses shown to her by Miss Patchett and her pupils but she soon buries her grievances and makes friends with the universally popular Clarissa Marr... [More...]
Leslie Arliss
In Regency England, Hesther Shaw is welcomed by Miss Patchett to her school for young ladies in Bath. Hesther's straitened circumstances makes her resentful of the kindnesses shown to her by Miss Patchett and her pupils but she soon buries her grievances and makes friends with the universally popular Clarissa Marr... [More...]
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Alexander Mackendrick
Since graduating from Cambridge, Sidney Stratton has become obsessed with his idea of inventing an indestructible fibre, one which will revolutionise the clothes manufacturing industry... [More...]
Alexander Mackendrick
Since graduating from Cambridge, Sidney Stratton has become obsessed with his idea of inventing an indestructible fibre, one which will revolutionise the clothes manufacturing industry... [More...]
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Lothar Mendes
Three gods looking down on planet Earth mock the inability of its puny inhabitants to improve their lot. Believing that mankind is capable of better, one of the gods endows one randomly selected individual with the ability to perform miracles... [More...]
Lothar Mendes
Three gods looking down on planet Earth mock the inability of its puny inhabitants to improve their lot. Believing that mankind is capable of better, one of the gods endows one randomly selected individual with the ability to perform miracles... [More...]
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg
A hairless humanoid alien travels to Earth from a distant world on a mission to save his people, who are being wiped out by a catastrophic drought... [More...]
Nicolas Roeg
A hairless humanoid alien travels to Earth from a distant world on a mission to save his people, who are being wiped out by a catastrophic drought... [More...]
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Alfred Hitchcock
Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a skiing holiday in the Swiss alps when their friend, Louis Bernard, is shot dead. Before he dies, Louis reveals that he is a British spy and that he has a secret message, warning of an imminent high-profile assassination... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a skiing holiday in the Swiss alps when their friend, Louis Bernard, is shot dead. Before he dies, Louis reveals that he is a British spy and that he has a secret message, warning of an imminent high-profile assassination... [More...]
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Joel Coen
In 1949, Ed Crane works as a barber in a small American town, in a shop belonging to his brother-in-law. He is married to Doris, a bookkeeper at a department store owned by Big Dave Brewster... [More...]
Joel Coen
In 1949, Ed Crane works as a barber in a small American town, in a shop belonging to his brother-in-law. He is married to Doris, a bookkeeper at a department store owned by Big Dave Brewster... [More...]
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
John Huston
Rudyard Kipling is working in his office in Lahore, where he is employed as a newspaper correspondent, when he is visited by a dishevelled wreck of a man... [More...]
John Huston
Rudyard Kipling is working in his office in Lahore, where he is employed as a newspaper correspondent, when he is visited by a dishevelled wreck of a man... [More...]
The Manxman (1929)
Alfred Hitchcock
Pete Quilliam and Philip Christian have been the closest of friends since childhood, growing up together on the Isle of Man... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Pete Quilliam and Philip Christian have been the closest of friends since childhood, growing up together on the Isle of Man... [More...]
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Roger Corman
12th Century Europe is being scourged by many plagues, the most fearsome of which is the Red Death. When Prince Prospero learns that this plague has reached the villages surrounding his castle, he orders his men to burn them to the ground... [More...]
Roger Corman
12th Century Europe is being scourged by many plagues, the most fearsome of which is the Red Death. When Prince Prospero learns that this plague has reached the villages surrounding his castle, he orders his men to burn them to the ground... [More...]
Maurice (1987)
James Ivory
Shortly after going up to Cambridge in 1909, Maurice Hall makes the acquaintance of Clive Durham, the handsome young heir to a large country estate... [More...]
James Ivory
Shortly after going up to Cambridge in 1909, Maurice Hall makes the acquaintance of Clive Durham, the handsome young heir to a large country estate... [More...]
The Meaning of Life (1983)
Terry Jones
The Monty Python team take up their greatest challenge yet, one that has defied the greatest philosophers, scientists, theologians and weather forecasters for countless millennia... [More...]
Terry Jones
The Monty Python team take up their greatest challenge yet, one that has defied the greatest philosophers, scientists, theologians and weather forecasters for countless millennia... [More...]
Millions Like Us (1943)
Sidney Gilliat
England, during WWII. Celia Crowson is an ordinary young woman who lives at home with her sister and her old father, whilst her brother serves in the army... [More...]
Sidney Gilliat
England, during WWII. Celia Crowson is an ordinary young woman who lives at home with her sister and her old father, whilst her brother serves in the army... [More...]
La Môme (2007)
Olivier Dahan
In 1959, an internationally renowned singer falls ill during her highly publicised tour of America. In the early 1920s, a young girl lives through the most harrowing of childhoods, rejected by her mother, reared in a brothel, and then earning a meagre crust by singing in the streets of Paris... [More...]
Olivier Dahan
In 1959, an internationally renowned singer falls ill during her highly publicised tour of America. In the early 1920s, a young girl lives through the most harrowing of childhoods, rejected by her mother, reared in a brothel, and then earning a meagre crust by singing in the streets of Paris... [More...]
Monsieur Ripois (1954)
René Clément
André Ripois is a young Frenchman who cannot help seducing attractive English women. He is drawn to them like a moth to the flame, the victim of a fatal attraction that will doubtless be his downfall one day... [More...]
René Clément
André Ripois is a young Frenchman who cannot help seducing attractive English women. He is drawn to them like a moth to the flame, the victim of a fatal attraction that will doubtless be his downfall one day... [More...]
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Terry Gilliam
England, 932 AD. Accompanied by his faithful servant Patsy, King Arthur of the Britons is busy recruiting his Knights of the Round Table - not an easy task when most of the population appear to be peasants with aggressively militant anarchic tendencies... [More...]
Terry Gilliam
England, 932 AD. Accompanied by his faithful servant Patsy, King Arthur of the Britons is busy recruiting his Knights of the Round Table - not an easy task when most of the population appear to be peasants with aggressively militant anarchic tendencies... [More...]
The Moo Man (2013)
Andy Heathcote
In 2013, Steve Hook manages a small organic dairy farm on the Pevensey Levels in Sussex, England. The small family business was started a few decades previously by Steve's father Phil, who still helps out on the farm, along with Steve's wife and their four children... [More...]
Andy Heathcote
In 2013, Steve Hook manages a small organic dairy farm on the Pevensey Levels in Sussex, England. The small family business was started a few decades previously by Steve's father Phil, who still helps out on the farm, along with Steve's wife and their four children... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kenneth Branagh
In Sicily, the nobleman Don Pedro receives a hero's welcome from Leonardo, the Governor of Messina, having thwarted an uprising led by Don John, his bastard half-brother... [More...]
Kenneth Branagh
In Sicily, the nobleman Don Pedro receives a hero's welcome from Leonardo, the Governor of Messina, having thwarted an uprising led by Don John, his bastard half-brother... [More...]
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
George Pollock
Whilst collecting money for a charity, Miss Marple and her friend Mr Stringer pay a call on the reclusive Mr Enderby. They are amazed when the old man suddenly appears at the top of his staircase and drops dead at their feet... [More...]
George Pollock
Whilst collecting money for a charity, Miss Marple and her friend Mr Stringer pay a call on the reclusive Mr Enderby. They are amazed when the old man suddenly appears at the top of his staircase and drops dead at their feet... [More...]