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British cinema: Musical

Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré

In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague...   [More...]

Champagne Charlie (1944)
Alberto Cavalcanti

In 1860, Joe Saunders and his brother Fred give up their mining jobs and try to find work in London. Joe immediately gets a job as a bar singer in a public house...   [More...]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton

Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory...   [More...]

Fiddlers Three (1944)
Harry Watt

England, 1943. Tommy and the Professor, two sailors in the Royal Navy, are on their way back to their Portsmouth base when they see a WREN, Lydia, being molested by a man...   [More...]

Follow a Star (1959)
Robert Asher

Norman Truscott is a humble dry cleaner's assistant who dreams of becoming a famous singer like his idol, Vernon Carew. One day, he gets an opportunity to demonstrate his vocal talents, ironically at one of Carew's shows, breaking into song when some members of the audience ridicule the star's dated musical numbers...   [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...]

No Limit (1935)
Monty Banks

George Shuttleworth is a chimney sweep's assistant from Wigan who has just one dream: to win the TT motorcycle race on the Isle of Man...   [More...]

Oliver! (1968)
Carol Reed

England, in the 19th century. Oliver Twist is one of numerous abandoned orphan boys who live a wretched life in a provincial workhouse...   [More...]

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Michael Powell

In Nuremberg, the poet Hoffmann becomes enchanted by the beautiful prima donna, Stella. Whilst awaiting her reply to a letter he sent her, he recounts three tales of his former lost loves...   [More...]

Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Mike Leigh

In the long hot summer of 1884, the latest Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Princess Ida is proving to be a monumental flop...   [More...]

The Wicker Man (1973)
Robin Hardy

Police sergeant Neil Howie arrives on the remote Scottish island of Summerisle, having received an anonymous letter claiming that a young girl has mysteriously disappeared...   [More...]

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