Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Orders Are Orders (1954) David Paltenghi, Brian Reece, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley
Movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using an Army barracks as location, and its soldiers as actors. Read More »
Churchill and the Generals (1979) Alan Gibson, Timothy West, Eric Porter, Arthur Hill
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill Read More »
A Fire Has Been Arranged (1935) Leslie S. Hiscott, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Mary Lawson
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot Read More »
Trent’s Last Case (1952) Herbert Wilcox, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles
After a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Read More »
The Van (1996) Stephen Frears, Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Ger Ryan
The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle’s ‘Barrytown Trilogy’ Read More »
Madeleine (1950) David Lean, Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she Read More »
Hysteria (1965) Freddie Francis, Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne
An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life Read More »
The Life of Henry the Fifth (1979) David Giles, John Abineri, Robert Ashby, Trevor Baxter
In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young King Henry V Read More »
Escape Me Never (1935) Paul Czinner, Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones
A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother. Read More »
The Boy Friend (1971) Ken Russell, Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) Read More »
Copenhagen (2002) Howard Davies, Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, Francesca Annis
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn’s celebrated and award-winning stage play Read More »
The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal AKA Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Flavio Bucci
Unlike in the previous 3 adaptations of the book, here Mattia narrates in flashback Read More »
All Passion Spent (1986) Martyn Friend, Wendy Hiller, Harry Andrews, Maurice Denham
After a lifetime in the spotlight.Lady Slane, the 85 year old wife of a recently Read More »
Micro Men (2009) Saul Metzstein, Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator Read More »