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Tag Archives: UK
Brother Alfred (1932) Henry Edwards, Gene Gerrard, Molly Lamont, Elsie Randolph

Musical comedy star Gene Gerard breezes his inimitable way through the 1932 British programmer Brother Alfred. Read More »
They Who Dare (1954) Lewis Milestone, Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff

In Greece, during World War II, a small group of British commandoes Read More »
Juggernaut (1974) Richard Lester, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings

Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics Read More »
Mrs. Dalloway (1997) Marleen Gorris, Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen

London, summer 1923. Clarissa, MP Richard Dalloway’s wife, sets out on a beautiful morning Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby

1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
A Town Like Alice (1956) Jack Lee, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki

In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. Read More »
Night Was Our Friend (1951) Michael Anderson, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough, Ronald Howard

Martin’s plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. Read More »
Waterfront (1950) Michael Anderson, Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott

A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. Read More »