As You Like It (BBC)
(1978) [G]

This is one of Shakespeare's great comic triumphs; an exhilarating and joyful tale of love and harmony set in a mythical forest - the perfect romantic comedy. Filmed on location at Glamis Castle.  More

A Doll's House
(1973) [PG]

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to...  More

Lord Of The Flies
(1963) [PG]

In this classic 1963 adaptation of William Golding's novel, a planeload of schoolboys is stranded on a tropical island. Left to fend for themselves, they must take on the responsibilities of adults, even if they are not ready to do so. Inevitably, two factions form: one group (lead by Ralph)...  More

Doctor At Sea
(1955) [PG]

Dr. Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) tires of practising medicine on dry land so sets off to sea. Aboard a steamship, he encounters various eccentric characters whilst blundering his way through a series of comedy scrapes. Love interest comes in the delectable form of Brigitte Bardot in her first role for...  More

Brother Sun Sister Moon
(1973) [PG]

Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon focuses on the early years of Francis of Assisi, who sought communion with the natural world by renouncing his family's riches to seek his own destiny unencumbered by material possessions. Francis was, in a sense, history's first "drop-out", he left a...  More

Hue And Cry
(1946) [G]

This film, the first Ealing comedy, features a strong cast including Alastair Sim and Jack Warner. The story centers around the London East End of the 40's and a group of criminals who use a boys paper as a means of messages and information. This ploy is discovered by a group of East End boys who...  More

The Day Of The Jackal
(1973) [PG]

The Day of the Jackal is a taut and colourful suspense thriller about the attempt by the right-wing OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle. Edward Fox portrays the ruthless anonymous assassin hired by exiled OAS chief Colonel Rodin (Eric Porter) to carry out the execution. Working under the...  More

Battle Of Britain (2 Disc Set)
(1969) [PG]

A magnificent war epic about the greatest air battle in history, when the outnumbered RAF fought off an invasion by the powerful German Luftwaffe. Packed with vivid and exciting action which used over 100 vintage aircraft in filming and boasting an all-star cast headed by Laurence Olivier....  More

Pygmalion (1938)
(1938) [G]

Probably the best version of the delightful story of Professor Henry Higgins, who endeavours to create a beautiful and elegant young lady of society from Covent Garden flower seller Eliza Doolittle. Remade with music as "My Fair Lady".  More

The Lady Vanishes
(1938) [G]

Intrigue and espionage - and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge, when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday, strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who, during the journey mysteriously...  More

The Italian Job
(1969) [PG]

Since its release in 1969, THE ITALIAN JOB has become a cult classic among a broad audience. It's the tale of a small time crook who is released from jail and then decides to plan the heist of the century with a team of criminal misfits. The original epitome of British cool, Michael Caine (Alfie,...  More

Tunes Of Glory
(1960) [PG]

A powerful drama unfolds when genteel, Oxford educated Colonel Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives to take command at the barrcks where bluff hard drinking Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) has been Acting Colonel. Under Jock's command, the officers and men have enjoyed a certain laxity that...  More

Sabotage
(1936) [PG]

Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the...  More

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
(1934) [G]

A husband and wife's holiday in Morocco goes horribly wrong when their son is kidnapped, leading them into a web of mystery and intrigue.  More

Young And Innocent
(1937) [G]

Hitchcock's favourite film from his 'British period' is a spine-chilling melodrama centring around the murder of a young actress, strangled with a raincoat belt - a clue which sets off a chain of life-threatening events. With its superb visual effects, black humour and suspense, this is truly...  More

Number Seventeen
(1932) [G]

A beautiful girl, member of a gang of thieves, falls in love with a detective who is on the track of her confederates. She saves him from death at the hands of the gang and thereafter the film traces their adventure in fleeing from the revenge of her former associates. The girl and the detective...  More

Blood From The Mummy's Tomb
(1971) [R]

The evil begins when professor Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir) and his expedition team, discover in Egypt, after years of quest, the tomb of Queen Tera (Valerie Leon). The Queen is a beautiful creature, naked save for the tapestry of wonderful jewels that decorate her body. Legend suggests that Tera,...  More

The Bedford Incident
(1965) [G]

Academy Award® Winner SIDNEY POITIER headlines a first-rate cast - including RICHARD WIDMARK and MARTIN BALSAM - in this ‘grim, all to realistic cold war thriller’ that treads similar territory to THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and CRIMSON TIDE. A taut and engaging psychological thriller about an...  More

Sunday Bloody Sunday
(1971) [M]

A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the other but they actually know each other as well. Despite...  More

Seance On A Wet Afternoon
(1964) [M]

Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley give outstanding performances in Bryan Forbes' tense, supernaturally tinged thriller Seance On A Wet Afternoon. Myra Savage (Stanley) is an aspiring psychic who persuades her husband to abduct a child. Their plan is to stage a seance to "entrance" the victim...  More

The 49th Parallel
(1941) [PG]

49th Parallel is a powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda, which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked to make a flag waver by the Ministry of Information, the brilliantly gifted film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric...  More

The Fast Lady
(1962) [PG]

This 1962 Rank comedy features an all-star cast including Stanley Baxter, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Julie Christie and Kathleen Harrison. The Fast Lady is the story of Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) and his attempts to woo the daughter (Julie Christie) of wealthy businessman...  More

All Night Long
(1961) [M]

Set in London's jazz scene of the 1950s, this atmospheric updating of Shakespeare's 'Othello' features a strong cast and appearances by some of the best known names from the music world (Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Dankworth).

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Dunkirk
(1958) [PG]

The evacuation of the British forces from the French port of Dunkirk was a turning point in the war against the Nazis. Sir John Mills and Richard Attenborough star in this epic reconstruction of the heroic wartime episode when hundreds of little ships sailed from all over Britain to rescue the...  More

The First Of The Few (Spitfire)
(1942) [G]

This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features...  More

Accident
(1967) [PG]

Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin to change for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful student who is engaged to William, another of Stephen's...  More

Bonjour Tristesse
(1958) [PG]

Based on a bestseller written by teenager Francoise Sagan, this film tells a story about Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.

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Straw Dogs
(1971) [R]

Quiet American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his British-born wife Amy (Susan George) relocate to Amy's rural English hometown in an attempt to flee the violent social unrest brewing in the US. When David hires some locals, including a former boyfriend of Amy's, to repair his...  More

The Tamarind Seed
(1974) [M]

Judith (Julie Andrews), an attractive widow, is holidaying in Barbados where she meets the charming and handsome Feodor (Omar Sharif) the russian military attache to Paris. A friendship develops but unbeknown to Judith, Feodor uses his position to conceal his position as Second-in-Command of the...  More

A Touch Of Class
(1973) [M]

A Touch of Class brought much-needed prestige to the romantic-comedy trend of the early and mid 1970s. Glenda Jackson won an Oscar® for her performance as a savvy London divorcee who falls in love with married insurance agent George Segal, and the film surprised critics by earning a Best Picture...  More