Blind Terror (See No Evil)
(1971) [M]

After being blinded, Sarah (Mia Farrow) goes to live in the English countryside with relatives. Out on a date with a boyfriend, she escapes the fate of her relatives who are murdered by a crazed killer. She finally makes the gruesome discovery of their bodies and has to flee on horseback. See No...  More

The Mackintosh Man
(1973) [M]

A top-notch spy thriller about an agent who is assigned the task of killing a communist spy who has infiltrated the ranks of British Intelligence. Based on 'The Freedom Trap' by Desmond Bagley. *MR  More

Sea Wife
(1957) [PG]

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of...  More

Animal Farm
(1954) [G]

Britain's first animated feature, which, despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire on Stalinism, with the animals taking over their farm by means of a revolutionary coup, but then discovering that although all...  More

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
(1965) [M]

Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story. Based on the...  More

The Cockleshell Heroes
(1954) [G]

In World War II, Royal Marine Major Stringer (Jose Ferrer) and Captain Thompson (Trevor Howard) chose volunteers for an unknown job. They trained the volunteers intensively in top secrecy for more than a year and then embarked with them on the most dangerous mission of the war - the canoe...  More

39 Steps, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]

Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) meets up with a young nanny (Faith Brook) he'd come across earlier during the day. At the theatre that evening they attend a vaudeville performance by Mr. Memory (James Hayter), and afterwards Hannay takes her back to his London flat. There he discovers that she is...  More

Oliver!
(1968) [G]

Experience the high-spirited adventures of Oliver Twist in the Oscar-winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Young Oliver (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th Century London. He's immediately taken in by a...  More

Passport To Pimlico
(1949) [G]

A whimsical and charming British film, Passport to Pimlico is one of the finest examples of the classic Ealing comedies. An archaic document found in a bombsite reveals that the London district of Pimlico has for centuries technically been part of France. The local residents embrace their...  More

Whiskey Galore
(1949) [PG]

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered...  More

If....
(1968) [M]

This Palme D'Or winning film takes an allegorical look at the British Public School system. 'If'... is an amazing blend of fact and fantasy which features a young Malcolm McDowell, successfully launching his film career in his debut. The students at College House are kept in line by tradition,...  More

Women In Love
(1969) [M]

D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel about two love affairs is here well-adapted for the big screen. Jackson's galvanizing performance is nearly overshadowed by a lurid nude wrestling scene between Bates and Reed. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy...  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

To Sir With Love
(1967) [PG]

A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of the teens in the 60's. SIDNEY POITIER gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out of work engineer who turns to teaching in London's...  More

Murder At The Gallop
(1963) [PG]

The old and wealthy Mr. Enderby dies of a heart attack but the ever suspicious Miss Marple has her doubts. Who or what gave him a heart attack? Enderby's poor relatives gather at the The Gallop, a combined boarding-house and riding school. Miss Marple also gets there to find out if any of them...  More

Murder She Said
(1961) [PG]

When Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) witnesses a murder on a passing train carriage the lack of a body means the police won't take her story seriously. Of course, she begins her own investigation. The killing took place while the train was passing Ackenthorpe Hall, so Miss Marple poses as a...  More

Murder Ahoy
(1964) [G]

Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is a trustee overseeing a fund used to rehabilitate young criminals. When one of her fellow trustees is murdered, Miss Marple goes aboard the ship that is used to train the youngsters in her search for information. Despite the distress of the Captain (Lionel...  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

North West Frontier
(1959) [PG]

Kenneth More keeps his upper lip stiff in this colourful adventure set in colonial India. Captain Scott (More) is sent by the British Governor to rescue a five-year-old Hindu Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt (Lauren Bacall), when a rebellion breaks out amongst the tribesmen....  More

The Day Of The Triffids
(1962) [PG]

Bill Masen (Howard Keel) lies in his hospital bed and listens to the radio broadcast in frustration - the bandages on his eyes are not meant to be removed until the following morning. When the time comes he is relieved to find he can see perfectly. But he is soon to discover that he is one of the...  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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

Heavens Above
(1963) [PG]

Oh Brother! Socialist parson Peter Sellers has been appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. When he converts the aristocrats to ridiculous charity work, the whole country is in an uproar. The bishop must act before the reputation of the church becomes an even bigger laughing...  More

The One That Got Away
(1957) [PG]

The One That Got Away is the thrilling true story of Lt. Franz von Werra (Hardy Kruger), the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War to escape from numerous British POW camps and return to his homeland. Roy Ward Baker's excellent direction and Kruger's sympathetic...  More