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British cinema: Drama
Howards End (1992)
James Ivory
England, circa 1910. When Helen Schlegel and Paul Wilcox break off their engagement, it is to the relief of both of their families...
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James Ivory
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
J. Lee Thompson
Tobruk, 1942. With German forces encroaching further into North Africa, a battle-weary English officer, Captain Anson, is ordered to escort two nurses, Diana Murdoch and Denise Norton, to the British lines in Alexandria...
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J. Lee Thompson
If.... (1968)
Lindsay Anderson
The summer holidays over, the boys at an old public school return for the start a new term, which for most will consist of abject misery and abuse meted out to them by their seniors...
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Lindsay Anderson
In Which We Serve (1942)
Noel Coward
Captain Kinros is the commander of HMS Torrin, a Royal Navy destroyer whose launch coincides with the outbreak of World War II...
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Noel Coward
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
Robert Hamer
England, 1947. Rose Sandigate is an ordinary working class housewife living in the East End of London. She is married to a man 15 years her senior, who has two teenage daughters from a previous marriage...
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Robert Hamer
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Christian Carion
24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land... [More...]
Christian Carion
24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land... [More...]
Juggernaut (1974)
Richard Lester
A few days after the luxury ocean liner SS Britannic has left port, heavily laden with passengers, its owner, Nicholas Porter, receives a phone call making a chilling ransom demand... [More...]
Richard Lester
A few days after the luxury ocean liner SS Britannic has left port, heavily laden with passengers, its owner, Nicholas Porter, receives a phone call making a chilling ransom demand... [More...]
Kes (1969)
Ken Loach
Billy Casper is a solitary teenager living in a glum Yorkshire mining town. Bullied at school and abused at home by his older brother Jud, he rebels through small acts of juvenile delinquency that strain his relationship with his mother... [More...]
Ken Loach
Billy Casper is a solitary teenager living in a glum Yorkshire mining town. Bullied at school and abused at home by his older brother Jud, he rebels through small acts of juvenile delinquency that strain his relationship with his mother... [More...]
The Key (1958)
Carol Reed
In 1941, David Ross, an American sergeant serving in the Canadian army, is reassigned to command a Royal Navy tugboat, whose purpose is to drag stricken cargo vessels to shore... [More...]
Carol Reed
In 1941, David Ross, an American sergeant serving in the Canadian army, is reassigned to command a Royal Navy tugboat, whose purpose is to drag stricken cargo vessels to shore... [More...]
King Lear (1971)
Peter Brook
In his ninth decade, a weary King Lear decides to surrender his power and distribute his estates amongst his three daughters, according to how much love they have for him... [More...]
Peter Brook
In his ninth decade, a weary King Lear decides to surrender his power and distribute his estates amongst his three daughters, according to how much love they have for him... [More...]
The Krays (1990)
Peter Medak
In the 1950s and '60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the most notorious gangland leaders in London. The twins' reign of terror ended in 1968 when they were arrested and convicted of murder... [More...]
Peter Medak
In the 1950s and '60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the most notorious gangland leaders in London. The twins' reign of terror ended in 1968 when they were arrested and convicted of murder... [More...]
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Alfred Hitchcock
A group of British travellers are stranded in a hotel in a remote European country. After holidaying with some friends, Iris Henderson is on her way back home to get married... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
A group of British travellers are stranded in a hotel in a remote European country. After holidaying with some friends, Iris Henderson is on her way back home to get married... [More...]
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lean
In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army... [More...]
David Lean
In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army... [More...]
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Basil Dearden
Seven men, from very different walks of life, are surprised when they receive a book containing half of a five pound note and an invitation to a luncheon... [More...]
Basil Dearden
Seven men, from very different walks of life, are surprised when they receive a book containing half of a five pound note and an invitation to a luncheon... [More...]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Michael Powell
London, 1943. Humiliated in a Home Guard training exercise by an impulsive young army officer, General Clive Wynne-Candy casts his mind back forty years to the time when he too was a dashing man of action... [More...]
Michael Powell
London, 1943. Humiliated in a Home Guard training exercise by an impulsive young army officer, General Clive Wynne-Candy casts his mind back forty years to the time when he too was a dashing man of action... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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 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...]
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 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 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...]
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...]
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...]