Uncle Vanya is a 1963 British film adaptation of the work Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. Read More »
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Nightbeat (1947) Harold Huth, Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Ronald Howard
After World War II is over, two Army pals take opposite paths in civilian life. Read More »
The Break (1962) Lance Comfort, Tony Britton, William Lucas, Eddie Byrne
A dangerous prisoner, Jacko Thomas, overpowers his police guard and jumps Read More »
The Phantom Light (1935) Michael Powell, Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop
A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing Read More »
The Demi-Paradise (1943) Anthony Asquith, Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay Read More »
The Foreman Went to France (1942) Charles Frend, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman Read More »
The Big One (1997) Michael Moore, Elaine Bly, Dan Burns
Our intrepid defender of the working man, Michael Moore, documents his 1996 “Downsize This!” Read More »
Three on a Spree (1961) Sidney J. Furie, Jack Watling, Carole Lesley, Renee Houston
A young man will inherit a huge fortune–8 million pounds–but to qualify Read More »
Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974) Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Michael Thomas, Jan Creighton, Jim Goode
Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. Read More »
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) James Ivory, David Redden, Michael Wager, Robert Powell
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old. Read More »
Face the Music (1954) Terence Fisher, Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield, John Salew
Brad Bradley (Alex Nicol) is a famous trumpet player who is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Read More »
Up the Junction (1968) Peter Collinson, Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman
Movie version of the BBC TV play that first addresses some of the major social issues of the day. Read More »
The Third Secret (1964) Charles Crichton, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough
A prominent London Psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned Read More »
The Woman for Joe (1955) George More O’Ferrall, Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi
The owner of some circus fairground attractions buys a midget to try and improve his luck. Read More »
This Is My Street (1964) Sidney Hayers, Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, Avice Landone
A bored housewife has an affair with her mother’s lodger. Read More »