This classic noir mystery, from the team of Carol Reed and Graham Greene, is generally considered to be the best filmwork of both of these estimable talents. THE THIRD MAN features Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his… Read More »

David Lean adapts Noel Coward’s heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste… Read More »

David Lean’s masterpiece–perhaps the greatest of screen epics–stars Peter O’Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history. The film is less an ordinary adventure than an experience that leaves an overwhelming sense of the struggle between two powerful forces: the Arabian deserts,… Read More »

A classic British spy mystery, and one of Hitchcock’s best, THE 39 STEPS is the story of an innocent man who struggles to prove his innocence. Robert Donat gets more than he bargained for when he brings home a mysterious woman who confesses to be a British agent on the hot trail of a dangerous spy… Read More »

David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later… Read More »

Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer’s Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-… Read More »

Rebellious Billy Casper (David Bradley) finds that training a kestrel takes his mind off his troubled home life and the bullies at school. Set in the Northern English town of Barnsley, the film is a gritty slice of working-class life in the 60s. Based on the Barry Hines novel A KESTREL FOR… Read More »

Nicolas Roeg’s third film–after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971)–is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director’s status as a true visionary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, DON’T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to Venice, where the past continues… Read More »

This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More… Read More »

Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends–a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. This tragi-comedy charts… Read More »

One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to… Read More »

Filmed at the time of the 1968 student uprising in Paris, Lindsay Anderson’s IF. is one of the seminal films of the era of student revolt. The characters’ direct psychological and emotional displays are an allegory for how individuals must either conform to or rebel against the autocratic… Read More »

Alexander Mackendrick’s last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers… Read More »

Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe’s novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in… Read More »

In this vivid adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel about the seedy British underworld, Richard Attenborough appears in top form as petty gangster Pinkie Brown. The manipulative thug rashly commits a murder and uses a waitress (Carol Marsh) to provide his alibi with unexpected consequences… Read More »

A man out to avenge his brother’s death enters the world of pornography and crime. Based on the novel ‘Jack’s Return Home’ by Ted Lewis… Read More »

Comedy about a meek bank clerk who plans a theft from his own bank… Read More »

The definitive call to arms, Laurence Olivier’s Henry V is a patriotic saga awash with pageantry, battles, romance and political chicanery. Intended to rally Britain during the darkest days of World War II, the film shows how the star of England sought to stake an ancestral, royal claim on the soil… Read More »

In the 1946 film A Matter Of Life And Death, David Niven stars as RAF bomber pilot Peter Carter. With his crew either dead or parachuted out, his craft in flames and falling fast, Carter bails out without a chute. His miraculous survival allows him to pursue a fortuitous romance with a radio… Read More »

John Mackenzie’s rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organised crime organisation to develop the barren Docklands section of London, his… Read More »

A box set of features starring the inimitable Dirk Bogarde. Films Comprise: 1. Accident (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1967) 2. The Servant (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1963) 3. The Blue Lamp (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1950) 4. Victim (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1961) 5. Hunted (Dir. Charles Crichton, 1952) 6. The… Read More »

Charles (Hugh Grant, in what would become career-defining performance) is a confirmed British bachelor with a colourful romantic background who meets the perfect woman, Carrie (Andie MacDowell), at a friend’s wedding. However, Charles’s hopes of romance are dashed when Carrie announces she must… Read More »

Filmed at Barra in the outer Hebrides, Whisky Galore was based upon a true incident, the foundering of a cargo ship off the Isle Of Eriskay with 50,000 cases of Scotch aboard. The Scottish islanders of Todday by-pass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from… Read More »

In hopes of raising a few quid after their steel factory shuts down, a desperate group of working-class blokes in Sheffield decide to form an exotic male dance troupe, a la Chippendales, with one difference despite their, well, average-at-best physiques, they’re going to go the full monty, meaning… Read More »

This highly original film put screenwriter/director Neil Jordan on the international map. The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard Jody, and they… Read More »

PLEASE NOTE: THE FEATURE DISC MAY ARRIVE AS A DOUBLE-SIDED DISC OR AS TWO DISCS TOGETHER. PLEASE CHECK THE DISCS BEFORE RETURNING. David Lean’s DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar… Read More »

Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood’s depiction of all things biblical with their second–and tightest–full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in… Read More »

WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson’s early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians–Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)–take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail’s uncle Monty (Richard… Read More »

Lanky young Gregory and his schoolmates are just starting to notice the opposite sex. Lacking confidence and unsure of exactly what to do, Gregory sets out to win the heart of Dorothy, a classmate who unfortunately is much better at soccer than he is. Scottish director Bill Forsyth (LOCAL HERO)… Read More »

Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first starring role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in 1879–which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa–where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. In his relentless pursuit of rising up in class stature, a working-class young man in Northern England seduces a wealthy industrialist’s daughter–whom he does not love–in order to marry into her wealth, but what he leaves behind is the woman whom he really loves. Subsequently, he must pay the… Read More »

In ALFIE, Michael Caine stars as the title character, a guiltless London lothario whose only pleasure in life seems to be a good time–he has a date with a different woman for each day of the week. After accidentally impregnating his live-in girlfriend, Gilda (Julia Foster), Alfie takes a vacation… Read More »

Gandhi is a great subject, but is Gandhi a great film? Undoubtedly it is, not least because it is one of the last old-school epics ever made, a glorious visual treat featuring tens of thousands of extras (real people, not digital effects) and sumptuous Panavision cinematography. But a true epic is… Read More »

Actress Margaret Lockwood was Britain’s leading box office star of the 1940s. Rising to fame in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller THE LADY VANISHES in 1938, Lockwood became synonymous with villainess roles, such as the highly successful THE WICKED LADY.This box set commemorates her contribution to cinema… Read More »

In this classic crime film, small-time crook Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) organizes a motley group of thieves to steal four million worth of gold bullion from an armoured car in Turin, Italy. The mastermind of the heist is Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward), an experienced convict who has come up with the… Read More »

Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available.A Texas oil company attempts to buy out a Scottish fishing village for a refinery, and the result… Read More »

Alan Parker’s THE COMMITMENTS, based on Roddy Doyle’s buoyant debut novel, follows the enjoyable travails of a band cobbled together by young Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), whose vision is to bring soul music to Dublin. After putting an ad in the local paper, Jimmy assembles an unlikely group of… Read More »

In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as Crichton’s own THE… Read More »

A successful career woman who has just buried her adoptive parents decides to search out her real mother. Nominated for 5 Oscars, winner of 3 BAFTA Awards and the winner of ‘Best Film’ at The Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real… Read More »

Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming’s novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of… Read More »

This drama, set in 1788 and based on the stage play by Alan Bennett, follows the events surrounding King George III as his mental condition deteriorates… Read More »

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, based on Robert Bolt’s stage play, is an excellent biographical drama about the conflicts faced by Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) when King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) asks him to break with Rome and grant him a divorce. The film is a powerful, cerebral story, supported by an… Read More »

Anglo-Catholic nuns on an isolated missionary assignment in the Himalayas face an assortment of worldly challenges including sexual temptations and other intriguing ups and downs. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden… Read More »

Colonel Blimp, an old, befuddled British military officer, reminisces about his past glories in this witty war satire. Deborah Kerr plays three different women in the Colonel’s long, but not particularly well-spent life. A.K.A. "Colonel Blimp.".. Read More »

David Lean’s prodigious adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic expands fervently on the theme of a lonely boy in a world of bullies. When the orphan hero, Oliver (John Howard Davies), escapes to London, the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) delivers him to the notorious Fagan (Alec Guinness), who… Read More »

Though it may be distinguished by its virtuosic comedic performances from Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers, I’M ALL RIGHT, JACK, John Boulting’s sly satire of class struggle, is a comic gem in its own right. The film stars Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush, a recent Oxford graduate and old money… Read More »

Psychological melodrama about a vicious gangster on the run, who takes refuge with a former pop star. One of the most bizarre cult films ever made… Read More »

The reign of Elizabeth I finds Will Shakespeare, a writer, broke and envious of a rival. Then, he meets with a woman who wants to be an actor and who disguises herself as a man… Read More »

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and,… Read More »

Tony Richardson’s rousing adaptation of Fielding’s classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he’s raised by her employer, the aptly… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. Adapted from David Storey’s novel of the same title, THIS SPORTING LIFE is a gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Richard Harris gives a remarkable performance as Machin, a proud man who wants to quit his job as a… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance for the ages in this film based on DOWN ALL THE DAYS, the autobiography of Christy Brown, who overcame severe physical limitations to become an accomplished painter and writer. The film describes the astounding arc of Brown’s life, starting with a childhood… Read More »

BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an… Read More »

Set during the Second World War, this epic romance tells the story of a mysterious Englishman found badly burned in the Sahara. His nurse transports him across war-torn Europe taking him to a deserted Tuscan monastery where he can die in peace. There they become friends and she begins to read to… Read More »

Tony Richardson continued in the vein of kitchen-sink realism with this adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s novel of working-class life. Set in England in the early 1960s, A TASTE OF HONEY stars Rita Tushingham as the waifish Jo, a plain 17-year-old girl who is dragged from one shabby bed-sitter to… Read More »

In the summer of 1900, a thirteen-year-old boy who is staying with a wealthy classmate becomes involved in delivering the messages exchanged between the boy’s older, engaged sister and a handsome neighbor… Read More »

Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don’t see it that way and try to suppress it… Read More »

Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. A tense Len Deighton spy thriller which changed the face of ’special agent’ movies. A number of British scientists are leaving Britain. When one such scientist disappears… Read More »

Michelangelo Antonioni delivers yet another masterful cinematic expose with BLOW UP, his controversial first English-speaking film, a provocative mystery set in the seamy mod culture of London. The film follows a well-known, fashion photographer (David Hemmings) who captures evidence of a murder… Read More »

Alan Sillitoe’s autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire proved to be the perfect material for Tony Richardson to adapt in the early 1960s. The film stars Tom Courtenay as the disaffected Colin Smith, who ends up in a Borstal, or reform school, after robbing… Read More »

When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood’s current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. Though John… Read More »

An ancient document reveals that London’s Pimlico district really belongs to France. And the Pimlico community, eager to abandon post-War constraints, quickly establish their independence as a ration-free state, with hilarious results… Read More »

James Ivory directed this quietly moving film set just prior to World War II. On the large English estate of Lord Darlington (James Fox), a disciplined butler, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), devotes himself to his duties with rigorous dedication. Like his father (Peter Vaughan) before him, Stevens… Read More »

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him… Read More »

In ‘The Railway Children’ three Edwardian children travel with their mother to live by a railway in Yorkshire, when their father is wrongly imprisoned as a spy. Based on the novel by Edith Nesbit… Read More »

In Neil Jordan’s MONA LISA, ex-con George (Bob Hoskins), expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson) to her jobs at London’s finer hotels. Despite their differences–he’s a poorly-educated, unattractive, and… Read More »

One of the most popular British war films of all time, THE DAM BUSTERS tells the true story of one of the most daring and brilliant raids of World War II. With the campaign for Europe in the balance, Dr. Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave) comes up with an ingenious design for a bouncing bomb which… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. In the opening scene of Hamlet, Laurence Olivier describes the play in a voice-over as "the tragedy of a man who couldn’t make up his mind". But Olivier’s screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. The contradictions and ambiguities of the title… Read More »

Dry as ice, dripping with deadpan witticisms, only Sean Connery’s Bond would dare to disparage the Beatles, that other 1964 phenomenon. No one but Connery can believably seduce women so effortlessly, kill with almost as much ease, and then pull another bottle of Dom Perignon 53 out of the fridge… Read More »

London, 1554. England is rife with intrigue. Elizabeth, born of royal lineage (the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn), imprisoned by her half- sister Mary, when she is 16, is swept onto the throne and crowned Queen of England at 23. To survive, Elizabeth must suss out hidden agendas in… Read More »

Based on the novel by James Hilton, GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS is the story of a shy schoolteacher who dedicates his life to his boys. In an Oscar-winning performance, Robert Donat plays Mr. Chipping, a young classics scholar en route to his first assignment at the reputable Brookfield school. Although his… Read More »

Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available. E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, is adapted for the screen by director James… Read More »

This suspense thriller about a daring plot to murder Charles De Gaulle is based on Frederick Forsyth’s best-seller. The movie’s suspenseful pace is tied to the incredibly careful and intricate planning the man code-named "the Jackal" does in preparation for the hit. This classic was watered down… Read More »

An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay… Read More »

BILLY LIAR was an immediate sensation as first a novel, then a hit play–both written by Keith Waterhouse, who also served as screenwriter on the film. Director John Schlesinger’s screen version was a British landmark in the fertile cinema of the late 1950s and early ’60s, and launched the career… Read More »

A rousing film version of Lionel Bart’s musical adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel, OLIVER! stars Ron Moody as Fagin and Mark Lester as the eponymous hero. The orphaned Oliver escapes to London from a dreary workhouse and is taken in by a gang of young pickpockets who work for master thief Fagin… Read More »

Mark Lewis, assistant cameraman at a London film studio, aspiring movie director, part-time taker of pornographic pictures, and amateur documentary film-maker, has begun murdering women. He kills them, literally, with his camera and films the attacks and the murders. He also surrepititiously films… Read More »

In rural Victorian England, circa 1865, a headstrong young woman inherits her dead uncle’s farm in Wessex. Soon after her arrival, three very different men begin to pursue her: a failed sheep farmer; a wealthy landowner; and the one she falls in love with, a reckless military sergeant whose… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. Set in Wiltshire in 1694, on the country estate of Mr and Mrs Herbert, this erotic murder mystery is Greenaway’s lavish breakthrough creation as director. The Herbert’s are having some marital difficulties, so he decides to take a two week holiday by himself. To surprise him on his return, Mrs… Read More »

From its opening shot of Malcolm McDowell staring with evil intent directly into the camera (which pulls back to reveal him drinking a glass of milk), Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant CLOCKWORK ORANGE announces itself as a completely new kind of viewing experience. Banned in Britain for decades, the… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. The second film in Terence Davies￿s autobiographical series is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies￿s own family… Read More »

Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she’s married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses… Read More »

Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alcoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as student and teacher, no lecture hall can contain their attraction for one another. As Rita engages her… Read More »

When government cutbacks threaten a century-old Yorkshire mine, the brass band consisting of the miners and their families struggles to keep it together in the face of economic repression and emotional turmoil. The charming comedic drama stars Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, and Tara Fitzgerald… Read More »

As the result of an impulsive wager, two couples go on a cross-country race in their old roadster cars. As the race ensues, the competition develops into a slapstick free for-all. Academy Award Nominations: Best story and Screenplay, Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture… Read More »

D.H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel revolving around the torrid relationships between two sisters and the men in their lives is here well-adapted for the big screen by Ken Russell. Starring Jennie Linden as Ursula and Glenda Jackson in a galvanizing, Academy Award-winning performance as Gudrun. This is… Read More »

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT presents a fictionalized day in the life of The Beatles as they give a performance on a live television show. Filmed just a month after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, this film introduces us to the unique personalities of each member of the Beatles… Read More »

Features three poignant Humphrey Jennings films. ‘I Was A Fireman’ (aka "Fires Were Started") tells the story of twenty-four hours in the life of a fire crew in action during the Blitz. Also features: ‘Listen To Britain’ and ‘Diary For Timothy’… Read More »

A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2… Read More »

Peter Mullan (ORPHANS, MISS JULIE) won the Best Actor award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for his performance as Joe Kavanagh, a recovering alcoholic in his late thirties. Like half the people in his impoverished Glasgow neighborhood, he’s unemployed and struggles to get by between odd jobs and… Read More »

An engrossing account of the sinking of the British destroyer HMS Torrin during the Battle of Crete. Three survivors on a raft recount their lives aboard the sunken vessel. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay… Read More »

Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. A powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art, ‘Caravaggio’ brings together Derek Jarman’s twin worlds of film and painting… Read More »

The Headmistress of St. Trinian’s, the renowned establishment for the education of young ladies, faces a few problems with her students. The unruly schoolgirls are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of… Read More »

Director Mike Leigh escapes the confines of direct-to-television films with this incredibly bittersweet slice-of-life comedy about a blue-collar family living in modern-day England. Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) are a good-natured couple with two daughters, Nicola (Jane Horrocks)… Read More »

This controversial British cult classic, considered by its producer upon completion to be one of the worst films ever made, has been little seen since its brief theatrical release even though it is now regarded as a classic of British cinema. Edward Woodward stars as Sergeant Howie, a police… Read More »

Gary Oldman’s directorial debut offers a gritty, profane look inside the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse hold sway. This is a semi-autobiographical picture of paternal anger and alcohol abuse from father Ray (a menacing and remarkable Ray Winstone), causing… Read More »

Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama’s boy Charlie and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Charlie are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a… Read More »

Set in colonial British India in 1895, CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER is one of the very best films in the Carry On series. With the Khasi of Kalabar leading the natives in a revolt against the British, the cosy life of Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond looks set to come to a bloody end. Will the 3rd Foot and Mouth… Read More »

Roland Joffe’s unflinching drama recounts the true story of New York Times journalist Sidney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and Cambodian journalist and translator Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), who found themselves trapped in the nightmare of the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia. While stationed in Phnom… Read More »