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Tag Archives: UK
The Saint’s Return (1953) Seymour Friedman, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend. Read More »
Golem, the Spirit of the Exile AKA Golem, l’esprit de l’exil (1992) Amos Gitai, Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ophrah Shemesh
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement Read More »
The Ghost Goes Gear (1966) Hugh Gladwish, The Spencer Davis Group, Nicholas Parsons, Jack Haig
Unbeknownst to the Spencer Davis Group, their manager is upper class Read More »
Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009) Peter Whitehead, Who Killed Bambi, Samantha Berger, Alice Marie Schneider
Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey’s murder text, this long-overdue Read More »
The Stars Look Down (1940) Carol Reed, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent Read More »
Four Days (1951) John Guillermin, Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron, Peter Reynolds
The bored wife of a business man has an affair with one of his employees. Read More »
Cold Lazarus (1996) Renny Rye, Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Frances de la Tour
Writer Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter’s Karaoke, returns three centuries Read More »
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969) Anthony Newley, Richard Williams, Joan Collins, Alexander Newley
Hieronymus Merkin (Anthony Newley) has recently turned forty Read More »
The Ghost Train (1941) Walter Forde, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. Read More »
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) Lewis Gilbert, Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Steel
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret Read More »
Route Irish (2010) Ken Loach, Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop
The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official Read More »
The Savage Innocents (1960) Nicholas Ray, Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, Carlo Giustini
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post Read More »
Zina (1985) Ken McMullen, Rom Anderson, Ron Anderson, George Antoni
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the thirties. Read More »
Quest for Love (1971) Ralph Thomas, Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration Read More »