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White Corridors (1951) Pat Jackson, Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle
The scene is Yeoman’s Hospital, set in the English Midlands, soon after the NHS was founded. Read More »
Whirlpool (1959) Lewis Allen, Juliette Gréco, O.W. Fischer, Muriel Pavlow
On the run from her murderous wartime partner in crime Hermann, Lora hides on a small cargo boat captained by heroic Rolf. Read More »
What a Whopper (1961) Gilbert Gunn, Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. Read More »
Windom’s Way (1957) Ronald Neame, Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry
A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Read More »
Woman of Straw (1964) Basil Dearden, Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson
Tyrannical but ailing tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria. Read More »
Pope Joan (1972) Michael Anderson, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Kemp, Natasa Nicolescu
A present-day female evangelist strongly feels that she resembles the legendary Pope Joan Read More »
American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers Read More »
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) Arthur Crabtree, Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow
A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes. Read More »
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (2000) Paul Tickell, Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney
Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Read More »
The Goob (2014) Guy Myhill, Sienna Guillory, Sean Harris, Hannah Spearritt
Young Goob, 16 years old, returns home to his mother where he grew up in the countryside Read More »
Romeo and Juliet (1954) Renato Castellani, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson
In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy Read More »
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) Goran Dukic, Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits
Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides Read More »
Kaleidoscope (1966) Jack Smight, Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers Read More »