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Tag Archives: UK
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021) Bianca Stigter, Helena Bonham Carter, Glenn Kurtz, Moszek Tuchendler
A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives Read More »
Royal Flash (1975) Richard Lester, Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan
Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) of the British Army is a cad, a coward Read More »
Climbing High (1938) Carol Reed, Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance Read More »
Back-Room Boy (1942) Herbert Mason, Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself Read More »
The Ploughman’s Lunch (1983) Richard Eyre, Jonathan Pryce, William Maxwell, Paul Jesson
James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Read More »
Z for Zachariah (1984) Anthony Garner, Anthony Andrews, Pippa Hinchley, David Daker
Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust Read More »
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) Jack Clayton, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. Read More »
Skeletons (2010) Nick Whitfield, Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, Tuppence Middleton
Two exorcists literally remove the skeletons from the cupboards of people’s homes. Read More »
Red White & Blue (2010) Simon Rumley, Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis
A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator Read More »
The Childhood of a Leader (2015) Brady Corbet, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin
A chronicle of the childhood of a post-World War I leader. Read More »
Strayed AKA Les égarés (2003) André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs Read More »
Restless Natives (1985) Michael Hoffman, Vincent Friell, Ned Beatty, Joe Mullaney
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. Read More »
Little Sweetheart (1988) Anthony Simmons, John Hurt, Karen Young, Cassie Barasch
Having embezzled a small fortune and attempting to lay low, Robert Burger (Sir John Hurt) Read More »
The Epic That Never Was (1965) Bill Duncalf, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Graves, Josef von Sternberg
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of “I, Claudius”, starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage. Read More »