Bob Holt’s last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement Read More »
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Decline and Fall… of a Birdwatcher (1968) John Krish, Robin Phillips, Felix Aylmer, Colin Blakely
A naive young man, sent down from university, blunders through a series of bizarre adventures Read More »
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (1981) Val Guest, Bernard Cribbins, Bill Maynard, Joss Ackland
Det. Const. “Dangerous” Davies is not known for his finesse, but often finds Read More »
The Wings of the Dove (1997) Iain Softley, Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alex Jennings
Kate Croy’s (Helena Bonham Carter’s) mother was born to wealth and privilege Read More »
Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007) Jacques Peretti, Peter Thompson, Richard Wiseman, Steve Punt
A film about the most influential man in British comedy. For fifty years, Nazis and Nazism have been Read More »
Shooting the Past (1999) Stephen Poliakoff, Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Liam Cunningham
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London Read More »
Perfect Strangers (2001) Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Gambon, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen
Attending a distant family reunion reveals more than was expected. Read More »
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
Isabel Archer, an American heiress and free thinker travels to Europe to find herself. Read More »
American Friends (1991) Tristram Powell, Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline Read More »
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1995) Marion Hänsel, Stephen Rea, Ling Chu, Adrian Brine
The film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already on the return Read More »
Consuming Passions (1988) Giles Foster, Jonathan Pryce, Vanessa Redgrave, Tyler Butterworth
At his new job at Chumley’s Chocolates, Ian Littleton accidentally knocks several workers Read More »
The Tall Guy (1989) Mel Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson
Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) plays straight man to unpleasant comedian Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson). Read More »
The Mouse on the Moon (1963) Richard Lester, Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. Read More »
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Kenneth Branagh, Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Hetta Charnley
A group of theatre actors plays “Hamlet” in a provincial village Read More »
My Crasy Life (1992) Jean-Pierre Gorin
A probing look at a Samoan street gang in a closed community in Long Beach Read More »