Never Let Go
(1960) [M]

John Cummings (Richard Todd) is one of life's near failures. A toiletry salesman, he buys a flash car he cannot afford to insure. When it is stolen by a gang running a car theft racket, he vows to retrieve it whatever the cost - his job, his family and his dignity. He begins to delve into a...  More

Trial And Error
(1962) [G]

Powerful comedy drama written by John Mortimer. Trial & Error features witty dialogue and social satire as well as excellent performances from British Academy Award winner Peter Sellers and Oscar winner Richard Attenborough. Also starring Beryl Reid. After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big...  More

Waltz Of The Toreadors
(1962) [M]

Peter Sellers stars as a lecherous old General in this whimsical British farce. General Fitzjohn is fond of pretty maidens, a failing that brings him his fair share of recrimination from his nagging wife (Margaret Leighton). What's more, there is one maiden fairer than the rest and for whom he...  More

Blithe Spirit
(1945) [PG]

David Lean's classic screen version of Noel Coward's supernatural comedy. Rex Harrison plays novelist Charles Condomine who is plagued by the ghost of his sexy first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond). Second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) doesn't believe him and brings in eccentric medium Madam Arcati...  More

Blue Murder At St Trinian's
(1956) [PG]

If only those uncontrollable St Trinian's pupils had brushed up on Latin grammar. Because the notorious schoolgirls have won a UNESCO prize trip to Rome. But while learning the Italian for Lacrosse, they get mixed up with a jewel thief on the lam. And their blackboard bungling makes him wish he'd...  More

Carry On Spying
(1964) [G]

The misadventures of a group of inept trainee spies on the trail of a secret formula misappropriated by a subversive organization known as S.T.E.N.C.H. It is a battle of halfwits; our heroes versus The Fat Men, The Head Waiter, Lila, the beautiful "agent provocateur" in the pay of S.N.O.G....  More

Carry On Cruising
(1962) [G]

About to set sail, Captain Crowther discovers that some of his crew have been replaced by inexperienced men. Like the doctor who has never sailed; the cook who can't cook; the steward who doesn't know how to mix a drink. With a crew like this, you are in for an uproarious time.

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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
(1966) [G]

St. Trinian's High School meets the highwaymen. And it's high-class laughs all the way to the bank. After the hijack of the century, crooks infiltrate St. Trinian's High Society - the site where they've highlighted to hide their loot. But the high-spirited schoolgirls decide to take on the...  More

That'll Be The Day
(1973) [M]

David Essex stars as Jim MacLaine, a rebellious working class lad desperate to trade his fairground job for a life of glamour in this rock 'n' roll revival. After being abandoned by his father as a child, Jim grows up to realise that exams and work are not for him. One day he chances upon a...  More

A Night To Remember
(1958) [PG]

For many years Roy Baker's 1958 re-enactment of the greatest sea drama of the 20th Century - the sinking of RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912 has been considered the definitive movie version. Based on the book by Walter Lord, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER is told through the eyes of crew member, Second Officer...  More

The Battle Of The River Plate
(1956) [G]

The Battle of the River Plate is a war film from the incomparable team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Ten days before before the outbreak of WW2, the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic....  More

I Know Where I'm Going
(1945) [G]

Wendy Hiller takes the lead role in this classic romantic comedy as a sharp-witted young girl who intends to marry for money. But her mercenary plans go dramatically wrong when she finds herself stranded on a tiny island in the Hebrides and falls for a seemingly penniless young naval officer...  More

Kes
(1969) [PG]

Billy Casper comes from the poorest end of town (Barnsley, England), he can't concentrate at school and does very badly. He is beaten up regularly by his elder brother and disregarded by everyone. Then one day he sees a wild Kestrel and this leads to a whole new side of his character being...  More

Angels One Five
(1952) [G]

A well-made study of life on an RAF front line fighter station during the Battle of Britain in 1940.  More

Poor Cow
(1967) [M]

Classic British drama from acclaimed director Ken Loach. A young London woman has to cope with poverty and squalor while her husband is in jail. Sadly clutching at any slight hope of happiness, she enters into a promiscuous relationship with his best friend, which ends in heartbreak. Based on the...  More

Black Narcissus
(1947) [PG]

Powell and Pressburger added to their run of daring, stimulating and stylistic pictures with this melodrama about a group of Anglican nuns establishing a remote mission high in the Himalayas. Their physical environment - extreme temperatures, illness and a young Indian Prince's perfume (Black...  More

That Hamilton Woman
(1941) [PG]

Two of Hollywood's biggest legends and off-screen lovers Vivien Leigh (Emma Hamilton) and Laurence Oliver (Nelson) star in this Academy Award-winning story based on one of history's most ill-fated love affairs. However, the film left no-one in any doubt that Nelson's warning of the dangers of...  More

Appointment In London
(1952) [PG]

Dirk Bogarde stars in this compelling wartime Lancaster based drama as a young Wing Commander close to the breaking point with 87 stories under his belt. He is determined to make 90 in spite of his superiors pressing him to take a break and a spell on the ground. A series of misfortunes that...  More

Went The Day Well?
(1942) [PG]

Snug little Bromley End seemed safe from World War II, and the villagers welcomed the lorry loads of Royal Engineers rolling onto their quiet green acres. They didn't know they were disguised German parachutists installing radar apparatus to disrupt England's entire network. Nor did they suspect...  More

The Gift Horse
(1952) [PG]

This is the story of one of the old moth-balled American fourstack destroyers, left-overs from WW I, which were turned over to the British in the early, desperate days of WW II, as part of the "Lend-Lease" program before America was in the war. The crew is saddled with an over-age "gift horse",...  More

Moulin Rouge (1952)
(1952) [PG]

A lively, colourful and riotous biopic of artist Toulouse Lautrec starring Jose Ferrer in the title role and Zsa Zsa Gabor as Jane Avril, Moulin Rouge is famous for its incredibly exhilarating twenty minute can-can sequence which sets the tone for a series of high energy dance routines. John...  More

Inspector Clouseau
(1968) [G]

Part of the Pink Panther collection in which Alan Arkin plays the part of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau who is sent to London to try to investigate the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery.  More

A Shot In The Dark (Pink Panther series)
(1964) [PG]

When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has...  More

The Legend Of Hell House
(1973) [M]

Four brave psychic investigators set up residence in a dark and mysterious abode known as Hell House and they are nearly driven mad with fear.  More

The Millionairess
(1960) [G]

Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw about an immensely wealthy woman who falls for the charms of a poor Indian doctor. Sophia Loren plays a spoilt heiress able to buy anything she wants. When she meets an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers) whose sole concern is to help the poor and needy, she knows...  More

The Boys From Brazil
(1978) [M]

Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), alive and living in South America gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a mysterious project. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), begins to unravel the conspiracy and discovers that Mengele has cloned 94 young Hitlers. Suddenly the terrifying extent of...  More

Khartoum
(1966) [G]

Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier face off in this epic, stirring drama of two men and two empires. With stunning desert battles staged by the creator of the Ben-Hur chariot race, Khartoum is a magnificently staged action spectacle with outstanding portrayals and breathtaking cinematography....  More

The Horse's Mouth
(1958) [PG]

Gulley Jimson, an obsessive painter (Alec Guiness) becomes a liability to his friends. This is an amusing light study of a social outcast, with a background of the Thames River as it flows through the heart of London and its surrounding streets.  More

I Claudius: Discs 3&4 of 5 (2 Disc Set)
(1976) [M]

This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech impediment through prophecy becomes the Roman Empire. The mini-series follows the history of the Roman...  More

I Claudius: Discs 1&2 of 5 (2 Disc Set)
(1976) [M]

This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech impediment through prophecy becomes the Roman Empire. The mini-series follows the history of the Roman...  More