This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. Read More »
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A Quiet Passion (2016) Terence Davies, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff
A Quiet Passion is Terence Davies’ biographical drama detailing the life of Emily Dickinson her loves, her struggles and her magnificent poetry. Read More »
Love & Rage (1999) Cathal Black, Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane
Agnes MacDonnell (Greta Scacchi), a strong and self-confident Englishwoman in her forties Read More »
ITV Playhouse: Casting the Runes (1979) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Iain Cuthbertson, Jan Francis, Bernard Gallagher
Like Night of the Demon (1957), this adaptation is only very loosely based on the original ghost story by M.R. James. Read More »
Life at the Top (1965) Ted Kotcheff, Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman
Joe Lampton thought he had really made it by marrying the boss’s daughter in his northern mill town. Read More »
Outland (1981) Peter Hyams, Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle
Marshal O’Niel’s assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Read More »
Johnny on the Run (1953) Lewis Gilbert, Eugeniusz Chylek, Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour
A superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice) Read More »
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Charles Frend, John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1992) Peter Kosminsky, Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer
Heathcliff is Cathy Earnshaw’s foster brother; more than that, he is her other half. Read More »
Crimes at the Dark House (1940) George King, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves
A madman murders Sir Percival Glyde. Taking on his victim’s identity, the man returns to the Glyde ancestral home Read More »