In 2018, in Spain, the prisoner Dante (William Miller) escapes from a prison and is chased by a robot dog. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Morvern Callar (2002) Lynne Ramsay, Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire, Drama
Following her boyfriend’s suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own. Read More »
Fright (1971) Peter Collinson, Honor Blackman, Susan George, Ian Bannen, Thriller
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Read More »
Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Read More »
Jet Storm (1959) Cy Endfield, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Thriller
Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. Read More »
Sapphire (1959) Basil Dearden, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. Read More »
That Lady (1955) Terence Young, Olivia de Havilland, Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Ana, the Princess of Eboli, wears a black patch over her right eye, where she was blinded as a youth when fighting a duel in defense of her king, the despotic Philip. Read More »
The Prisoner (1955) Peter Glenville, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Drama
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conquerer. Read More »
Conduct Unbecoming (1975) Michael Anderson, Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. Read More »
Miss Julie (1972) John Glenister, Robin Phillips, Helen Mirren, Donal McCann, Heather Canning, Drama
A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg’s classic play. Miss Julie (Helen Mirren), a 19th century aristocrat’s daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father’s house. Read More »
Orlando (1992) Sally Potter, Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. Read More »
Up the Creek (1958) Val Guest, David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Comedy
Lieut. Humphrey Fairweather, R.N., in his latest disastrous attempt to prove to the Navy that his rocket invention is better than theirs only succeeds in convincing them that no guided-missile station will be safe until he is out of harm’s way. Read More »
Africa: Texas Style (1967) Andrew Marton, Hugh O’Brian, John Mills, Nigel Green, Adventure, Western
An American cowboy is hired to work on a ranch in Africa, and winds up having to fight predators, both the four- and two-legged kinds. Read More »
The Best of Enemies (1961) Guy Hamilton, David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Amedeo Nazzari, Adventure, Comedy, War
In 1941 the Italian and British forces face one another.Italian army Captain Blasi and his troops capture a British army Major Richardson and his pilot when their scout plane crashes. Read More »
The Triple Echo (1972) Michael Apted, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Drama, War
Barton is a soldier in WW2 England; he meets Alice, who is looking after her farm single-handed as her husband is a prisoner of the Japanese. Read More »