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This Sporting Life (1963) Lindsay Anderson, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. Read More »
Spare the Rod (1961) Leslie Norman, Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence, Geoffrey Keen

John Saunders is a teacher, just out of training college, who takes over a class of badly behaved children in an inner city school. Read More »
Law and Disorder (1974) Ivan Passer, Carroll O’Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth

During the 1970s, New York City is plagued by a wave of crimes. Read More »
Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975) Norman Cohen, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard

Either you’ve got it or you haven’t – some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith) Read More »
The Winslow Boy (1948) Anthony Asquith, Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford

In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. Read More »
An Inspector Calls (2015) Aisling Walsh, Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson

In 1912 pompous industrialist Arthur Birling, who has hopes of a knighthood, his superior wife Sybil and young son Eric Read More »
No Love for Johnnie (1961) Ralph Thomas, Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he’s feeling frustrated with his life Read More »
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner

Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Read More »
Private’s Progress (1956) John Boulting, Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. Read More »