A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Woman in Black (1989) Herbert Wise, Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. Read More »
The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978) Silvio Narizzano, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy
In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as To Sir, with Love (1967), comes the story of dedicated teacher Read More »
The Little Prince (1974) Stanley Donen, Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland
Based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. Read More »
The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) George Harrison Marks, Charles Gray, Bruno Elrington, June Palmer
Nine comically sexy sketches in which Harrison Marks introduces his ancestors’ experiences with women through the ages. Read More »
Sunset Song (2015) Terence Davies, Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman
Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Read More »
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) Terence Davies, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley
Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. Read More »
The Love Race (1931) Lupino Lane, Pat Morton, Stanley Lupino, Jack Hobbs, Dorothy Boyd
Misunderstandings cause Lupino’s fiancee to jilt Lupino when he has the wrong suitcase full of lingerie. Read More »
The Ware Case (1938) Robert Stevenson, Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry K. Barnes
In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law Read More »
The Best House in London (1969) Philip Saville, David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders
In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. Read More »
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Street (2015) Calum Waddell, Matt Cimber, Joe Dante, Roy Frumkes
The story behind the rise and fall of New York’s 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people Read More »
The Plant (1995) Jonathan Lewis, Valentine Pelka, Tamio Okada, Yasuko Okada
Strange tale of an alien who moves to a leafy London suburb. Read More »
The Disappearance of Finbar (1996) Sue Clayton, Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor
Finbar Flynn is a working-class boy living in a grim concrete jungle in Dublin. Read More »
The Magic Flute (2006) Kenneth Branagh, Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Ben Davis
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night Read More »
Cottage to Let (1941) Anthony Asquith, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis
A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention Read More »