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Frieda (1947) Basil Dearden, David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. Read More »
Encore (1951) Harold French, Pat Jackson, Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt

The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” concerns the trials Read More »
Down Among the Z Men (1952) Maclean Rogers, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan

Professor Pure Heart absentmindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones’ Grocery Shop. Read More »
Don’t Talk to Strange Men (1962) Pat Jackson

An innocent girl is “groomed” over the telephone and nearly becomes Read More »
The Leather Boys (1964) Sidney J. Furie, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton

Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. Read More »
30 Door Key / Ferdydurke (1991) Jerzy Skolimowski, Iain Glen, Robert Stephens, Crispin Glover

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing Read More »
Summer in February (2013) Christopher Menaul, Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens

The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses Read More »
The Snorkel (1958) Guy Green, Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller

Paul Decker murders his wife in her Italian villa by drugging her milk and asphyxiating her by gas. Read More »
Bhaji on the Beach (1993) Gurinder Chadha, Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria

A group of women of Indian descent take a trip together from their home in Birmingham, England to the beach resort of Blackpool. Read More »