Philip Ransome, a northern English boy about 10 years old, has been mute since age 3 and spends his days roaming the moors alone. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Charley Moon (1956) Guy Hamilton, Max Bygraves, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. Read More »
The House in Marsh Road (1960) Montgomery Tully, Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. Read More »
Fingersmith (2005) Aisling Walsh, Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton
Susan “Sue” Trinder is a fingersmith (British slang for thief) who lives in the slums of London Read More »
True as a Turtle (1957) Wendy Toye, John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn
Newlywed Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Read More »
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) Jack Cardiff, Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband’s Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike Read More »
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Stephen Frears, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Read More »
1984 (1984) Michael Radford, John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
Longing for freedom, a lowly, hapless Outer Circle bureaucrat of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith Read More »
A Terrible Beauty (1960) Tay Garnett, Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Anne Heywood
In Ireland, it’s 1941 and Irish Republicans have made a tentative bond with Nazi Germany Read More »
Hot Enough for June (1964) Ralph Thomas, Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley
Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler (Dirk Bogarde) thinks he has a job Read More »
Two and Two Make Six (1962) Freddie Francis, George Chakiris, Janette Scott, Alfred Lynch
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Read More »
Trouble Bound (1993) Jeffrey Reiner, Michael Madsen, Patricia Arquette, Sal Jenco
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together Read More »
Three Dangerous Ladies (1977) Robert Fuest, Alvin Rakoff, Don Thompson, Ronee Blakley, Graham Crowden, Ed Devereaux
Three unrelated horror shorts from U.K. horror anthology series Read More »
Stealing Beauty (1996) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi
For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Read More »
Tom’s Midnight Garden (1999) Willard Carroll, Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway, Serena Gordon
Young Tom Long is forced to stay with his kindly Aunt and Uncle while his brother recovers from a bout of the measles. Read More »