Tommy
(1975) [M]

Ken Russell's flamboyant treatment of the Who's rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who develops an extraordinary ability at pinball. Under his sinister stepfather's influence, he achieves fame and a cult following, but his almost messianic status also spells the beginning of his...  More

Porridge: Series 1
(1974) [PG]

'Porridge’ is slang for a jail sentence, and habitual offender Norman Stanley Fletcher (Barker) is doing five years. Six episodes of cynicism, self-preservation and bare-faced cheek as Fletcher takes on the Slade prision system. New Faces, Old Hands "Twenty-three and you want to go...  More

Scott Of The Antarctic
(1948) [G]

John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the South Pole. The British were up against the Norwegians in the Arctic quest for fame and honor which was won by Norway.  More

The Rutles
(1978) [G]

Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the...  More

Oliver Twist
(1948) [G]

David Lean's atmospheric production remains the definitive version of the Charles Dickens' masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is expelled from the work house where he lives by the miserly Mr.Bumble (Francis L.Sullivan) for daring to ask for more. After an unhappy apprenticeship...  More

I See A Dark Stranger
(1946) [M]

Bridie is an Irish girl who decides that she will return to Dublin to assist in the war against the British. On the train she meets a Nazi officer attempting to rescue an accomplice. He sees Bridie as an attractive decoy so he takes her to England with him. When Miller is killed, Bridie is told...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (2 disc set)
(1975) [M]

Arthur, King of Britons, Defeater of the Saxons and Sovereign of all England with only his trusty servant Patsy by his side has travelled the length and breadth of the land in search of noble knights to join his Court at Camelot. His ranks soon swelled by such illustrious names as Sir Bedevere,...  More

Romeo And Juliet (1968)
(1968) [PG]

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the screen world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet, but it was a gamble that resulted in one of the most popular motion pictures of all time, winning international acclaim and four Academy Award...  More

The Smallest Show On Earth
(1957) [G]

Jean and Bill (Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They expect to sell the cinema to gain...  More

This Sporting Life
(1963) [M]

Adapted from David Storey's novel of the same title, this is a gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Richard Harris gives a remarkable performance as Machin, a proud man who wants to quit his job as a miner and...  More

The Silver Fleet
(1943) [G]

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?...  More

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
(1960) [PG]

A key film of the British New Wave, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy, the gritty realism of its setting, and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's...  More

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969) [M]

Maggie Smith won a well deserved Best Actress Academy Award in 1969 for her tour de force performance in this fine screen adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel. Miss Jean Brodie is an eccentric and outspoken schoolteacher at an exclusive Edinburgh school for girls in the 1930's. She regards her...  More

The Loneliness Of A Long Distance Runner
(1962) [M]

Following the success of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen, this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen, defiant Colin, refusing to...  More

Darling
(1965) [M]

Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a young, attractive and vivacious model and socialite who is determined to become rich and famous. Although married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair...  More

Two For The Road
(1967) [PG]

A couple anxious to revive their marriage travel to the place where they first met and discover that there is more to marriage than sex and fun. Based on the play by Willy Russell, who also wrote 'Shirley Valentine'.  More

The Entertainer
(1960) [PG]

Career first. Everything else second. According to vaudevillian Archie Rice (an Oscar nominated Laurence Olivier), the show must go on - even if it means stringing along his fellow performers, exploiting the hopes and money of a starlet and neglecting his own family. This is Archie's world, but...  More

The Four Feathers (1939)
(1939) [G]

A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation to a mission against Egyptian rebels seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades disguised as an Arab. When his unit is overwhelmed and captured by the rebels, the hero finds an...  More

Bleak Moments
(1971) [PG]

This first film by one of Britain's most acclaimed theatrical creators already contains the seeds of such later successes as Abigail's Party and High Hopes. A tippling spinster, a tongue-tied schoolteacher and a would-be pop star from Scunthorpe are just some of Mike Leigh's brilliantly conceived...  More

A Taste Of Honey
(1961) [M]

Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey had already played in the West End and on Broadway when Tony Richardson made his film adaptation, shot on location in Salford and Blackpool. Rita Tushingham made her indelible screen debut as Jo, a young girl who falls pregnant after leaving home and her...  More

Brief Encounter
(1945) [M]

Noel Coward's sensitive portrayal of what happens when two happily married strangers, played by Trevor Howard and Celia Johnston, meet and their acquaintance deepens into affection and eventually into love. It is a story of two people, thrown together by the chance meeting of the title, helpless...  More

Damn The Defiant!
(1962) [PG]

During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Crawford takes command of the HMS Defiant and is ordered to rendezvous with the fleet in Corsica. With his son aboard as a new midshipman, Capt. Crawford takes an even hand with his crew. This does not sit well with his second-in-command Lt. Scott-Paget, a...  More

Sherlock Holmes The Legendary Movies: (Dressed To Kill, The Woman In Green, Terror By Night)
(1946) [G]

Forget Columbo, Miss Marple, even Poirot – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth has intrigued audiences for generations with his probing intellect, dry wit and that trademark pipe and deerstalker hat. Many actors have portrayed him – but Basil Rathbone’s is, hands down, the...  More

Alfie
(1966) [M]

Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. He has a series of reversals in which his health is threatened, he has a child who is adopted by another man, gets a married woman pregnant and must procure an abortion...  More

Let's Make Love
(1960) [G]

LET’S MAKE LOVE was Marilyn Monroe's 27th picture and George Cukor’s first film with the star who was then at the height of her career. In this film, his third musical, Cukor made skillful use of color and camera movement to illustrate one of his favorite themes: the magic of show business....  More

The Lion Has Wings / Q Planes
(1939) [G]

- "The Lion Has Wings": A documentary-drama produced by Alexander Korda, which was intended as a propaganda weapon designed to show the splendid efforts of the British people who bravely fought, both abroad and at home, against the evil Nazi war machine. - "Q Planes": Major Hammond of...  More

The Prisoner - Volume 1 of 5 (Episodes 1-4)
(1967) [PG]

Following his resignation, a high ranking Government Official is abducted from his home and taken to a picturesque seaside location known as "The Village". However, the idealic surroundings hide a sinister world where "guests" are simply labelled as numbers and escape is impossible. His captors...  More

The Silent Enemy
(1958) [PG]

In the Mediterranean in 1941 the Italians start using underwater chariots to mine the undersides of allied ships. Explosives expert Lieutenant Lionel Crabb (Laurence Harvey) arrives in Gibraltar to learn the rudiments of deep-sea diving and organise defences, but finds only two British divers...  More

Genevieve
(1953) [G]

The spectacle of the London to Brighton Commemorative Run provides the background for this delightful comedy in which friendly rivalry (both automotive and married) between two couples develops into a no-holds-barred race! Four charming lead performances, a sharp and amusing script, Larry Adler's...  More