This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Fever Pitch (1997) David Evans, Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Luke Aikman
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Read More »
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur (1979) David Giles, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces Read More »
High Risk (1981) Stewart Raffill, James Brolin, Anthony Quinn, Lindsay Wagner
Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid Read More »
In the Last Days of the City AKA Akher Ayyam el-Madinah (2016) Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film Read More »
I Met a Murderer (1939) Roy Kellino, James Mason, Pamela Mason, Sylvia Coleridge
Farmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. Read More »
Beats (2019) Brian Welsh, Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser
Two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives Read More »
Pretty Polly (1967) Guy Green, Hayley Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Dorothy Alison
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. Read More »
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999) Paul Greengrass, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hugh Quarshie, Leon Black
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager attacked by white racists. Read More »
I, Monster (1971) Stephen Weeks, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven
In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the psychologist Charles Marlowe Read More »
A Man Of No Importance (1994) Suri Krishnamma, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. Read More »
Forbidden (1949) George King, Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke
After the war, Jim Harding (Douglass Montgomery) is desperate to put his knowledge Read More »
The Dancing Years (1950) Harold French, Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days Read More »
The Lady Is a Square (1959) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott
Frankie Vaughan stars as young pop singer Johnny Burns, who is enlisted reluctantly by Frances Baring (Anna Neagle) Read More »
Days of Hope (1975) Ken Loach, Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton, Nikolas Simmonds
Days of Hope (1975) was Ken Loach’s first historical piece Read More »