Documentary examining the 1985 riots in London and Birmingham’s Handsworth district that erupted in reaction to the repressive policing of black communities. Read More »
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Under the Skin (1997) Carine Adler, Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been Mother’s favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by Mother’s death. Read More »
The Reflecting Skin (1990) Philip Ridley, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. Read More »
When London Sleeps (1932) Leslie S. Hiscott, Harold French, Francis L. Sullivan, Alexander Field
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti’s Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. Read More »
The Eagle Has Landed (1976) John Sturges, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission Read More »
The Hand of Night (1968) Frederic Goode, William Sylvester, Diane Clare, Aliza Gur
A handsome tourist travelling through the desert comes at night upon a lavish Moorish castle Read More »
Lunch Hour (1961) James Hill, Shirley Anne Field, Robert Stephens, Kay Walsh
A youthful female designer is on the edge of an affair with a married man executive in the firm where she works. Read More »
The Punch and Judy Man (1963) Jeremy Summers, Tony Hancock, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Fraser
Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. Read More »
The Golden Head (1964) Richard Thorpe, James Hill, George Sanders, Buddy Hackett, Jess Conrad
Milly, Michael and Harold Stevenson are in Budapest with their father, a British inspector who is attending Read More »
Game for Vultures (1979) James Fargo, Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree, Joan Collins
The South African businessman David Swansey (Richard Harris) is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Read More »
Baal (1982) Alan Clarke, David Bowie, Robert Austin, Jonathan Kent
Baal is a young amoral rebellious poetic genius who, after a short and eventful life of debauchery Read More »
My Irish Molly (1938) Alex Bryce, Binkie Stuart, Tom Burke, Phillip Reed
An Irishman leaves to make his fortune in America, in the mean time Read More »
Where the Money Is (2000) Marek Kanievska, Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney
Carol Ann MacKay is a fine, popular nurse at a retirement home Read More »
The Final Curtain (2002) Patrick Harkins, Aidan Gillen, Adrian Lester, Peter O’Toole
Jonathan Stitch, having just won a prestigious MacKinlay Award for his first novel Read More »
The Wild Geese (1978) Andrew V. McLaglen, Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris
A British multinational seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. Read More »