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The Way Ahead (1944)
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: David Niven, James Donald, John Laurie, Peter Ustinov, Stanley Holloway, Trevor...
A.k.a. "The Immortal Battalion". Having seen a 44 minute training film called 'The New Lot', Winston Churchill approached actor David Niven about maki... Read more
To Sir, With Love (1966)
Director: James Clavell
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Lulu
Sidney Poitier is Mark Thackery, a no-vice teacher assigned to a slum school in London's East End. Faced with tough opposition from the disinterested... Read more
Alfie (1966)
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Denholm Elliott
Full of sex and delightful charm, this quick moving film tells the poignant tragedy of a cockney playboy (Michael Caine) who finds 'birds' irresistibl... Read more
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1986)
Director: Alan Clarke
Starring: Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan
A married man finds great satisfaction in the company of two large teenage girls of working class backgrounds. This lively English social comedy detai... Read more
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei
Based on a true story about a group of journalists covering the Bosnian conflict; centering on a British TV reporter who becomes especially outraged b... Read more
The Long Ships (1964)
Director: Jack Cardiff
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
A thrilling seafaring saga in which Viking warrior Richard Widmark and Moorish Chieftain Sidney Poitier race to find a fabled treasure known as the Go... Read more
Blow-up (1966)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
Michelangelo Antonioni's close-up of Swinging Sixties London. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city twenty-four hours a day... Read more
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Hilton McRae
Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay adapted from John Fowles' novel. A hauntingly beautiful film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, about a woman... Read more
Excalibur (1981)
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul...
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in "Excalibur", from visionary moviemaker J... Read more
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place - the bleak and moody Scottish Hebr... Read more