
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Limbo Line (1968) Samuel Gallu, Craig Stevens, Kate O’Mara, Eugene Deckers, Crime, Drama

Defectors are being sent back behind the iron curtain. Can the limbo line be stopped? Read More »
Paris by Night (1988) David Hare, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Iain Glen, Drama, Thriller

Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career – but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter. Read More »
Clean (2004) Olivier Assayas, Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Drama, Music, Romance

London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. Read More »
Carla’s song (1996) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Drama, Romance, War

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Read More »
She’ll Have to Go (1962) Robert Asher, Bob Monkhouse, Alfred Marks, Hattie Jacques, Comedy

Brothers Francis and Douglas Oberon, find themselves cut off from the family fortune by their late grandmother’s will. Read More »
All the Kings Men (1999) Julian Jarrold, David Jason, Maggie Smith, William Ash, Drama, Mystery, War

Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Read More »
Herostratus (1967) Don Levy, Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens, Drama

When Max, a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle Read More »
The Ruling Class (1972) Peter Medak, Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Comedy, Drama, Musical

A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Read More »
Secret Ceremony (1968) Joseph Losey, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Drama, Thriller

Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. Read More »