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The 39 Steps
(1935) [G]

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy...  More

Frenzy
(1972) [M]

A rapist-murderer terrorizes London and remains on the loose due to the misguided suspicions of the police toward a more "obvious" suspect. After the unfortunate condemnation of the innocent man to life imprisonment, a police inspector (Alec McCowan) continues to have his doubts. Directed by...  More

The Man In The White Suit
(1951) [G]

The most satirical of Ealing's comedies, played as a farce and put together with meticulous cinematic counterpoint. Alec Guinness, by now the most ubiquitous of Ealing faces, plays a would-be research chemist who invents a fabric which will never soil or wear out. Before the threatened unions and...  More

I Was Monty's Double
(1958) [G]

Amazing, amusing, exciting - and true! The situation was desperate. How could Nazi Intelligence be diverted during the North Africa Campaign of World War II? There was only one way. Persuade an actor to pose as Field Marshal Montgomery to fool the German spies. But who could rise to such a...  More

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
(1976) [R]

Obsession and fate collide in one of the most controversial and provocative films ever made. English widow Anne Osborne (Ryan s Daughter s Sarah Miles) lives by the sea with her young son, Jonathan. The arrival of a rugged American sailor, Jim (Blade s Kris Kristofferson), brings Anne the joy and...  More

The Quiller Memorandum
(1966) [PG]

After the brutal murder of two British agents, secret agent Quiller (George Segal) is assigned to West Berlin where he must uncover the operations of the mysterious neo-Nazi organisation believed responsible. His methods of exposing this menace are as unorthodox as the ruthless men he encounters....  More

The Dam Busters
(1954) [G]

Dr Barnes Wallace (Michael Redgrave) was possessed with a seemingly crazy idea - the creation of a bouncing bomb, designed to destroy the Ruhr dams and paralyse the enemy's industrial nerve centre. He fought persistent scepticism and disbelief that such a feat was possible. Through the matchless...  More

Green For Danger
(1946) [G]

In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states she knows the murderer is dead too. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have...  More

The Romantic Englishwoman
(1975) [M]

Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman is a drama about the conflict of life, love and sex in a modern marriage. A sucessful novelist's wife (Glenda Jackson), attractive but strangely unfulfilled, suddenly decides to take a holiday at a German spa. It is a holiday that has a devastating effect...  More

Raising The Wind
(1961) [G]

Amusing British comedy tale which revolves around five students of music who venture into all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes to help pay their rent. *MR  More