A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Mouse That Roared (1959) Jack Arnold, Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the smallest country in the world, is nestled in the French Alps. Read More »
Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world’s wealthiest men Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood
In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »
Angel (1982) Neil Jordan, Veronica Quilligan, Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Read More »
Sympathy for the Devil (1968) Jean-Luc Godard, Sean Lynch, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones
Godard’s documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers Read More »
Bomb in the High Street (1963) Peter Bezencenet, Terry Bishop, Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh
An English town is evacuated when an old German WW2 bomb is found. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1970) Robert Fuest, Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. Read More »
The Big Sleep (1978) Michael Winner, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is asked by the elderly General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More »
The Cat’s Meow (2001) Peter Bogdanovich, Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann
In November of 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. Read More »
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) Alexander Mackendrick, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price
The parents of children living in Jamaica, afraid that the kids are growing up uncivilized, decide to send them to England. Read More »
The Long Haul (1957) Ken Hughes, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen
Desperate to earn money, Harry hooks back up with Joe Easy. The best scene is when they make the final run to cash out a load of furs Read More »
Second Fiddle (1957) Maurice Elvey, Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Lisa Gastoni
Deborah and Charles, very much in love, are young executives at the successful Pontifex Advertising Agency. Read More »
The Browning Version (1994) Mike Figgis, Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. Read More »
The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) Alan Tarrant, Anthony Newley, Edwin Richfield, Joy Stewart
Gurney Slade wanders from place to place after breaking the fourth wall to escape from the mundanities of making a family sitcom. Read More »