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Gone: | IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Daphne Shadwell | |
Stars: Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason |
The first four episodes of the innovative and influential Swinging Sixties British comedy series, which launched the careers of several future Monty Python members. |
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Gone: | IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Daphne Shadwell, Adrian Cooper | |
Stars: Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, Terry Jones |
Three final episodes of the innovative and influential Swinging Sixties British comedy series, which launched the careers of several future Monty Python members. |
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| tmdb-44334 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 86/70 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell | Genres: Fantasy, Music, Romance |
Stars: Robert Rounseville, Monica Sinclair, Fisher-Morgan |
Powell and Pressburger direct this adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's spectacular opera, featuring sensationally sumptuous production design. |
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| tmdb-34783 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 88/76 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Boulting | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers |
Peter Sellers shines in one of his famous roles as pompous shop steward Fred Kite, in the Boulting Brothers' hilarious satire of industrial relations. |
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Gone: | IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Jack Clayton | |
Stars: David Kossoff, Alfie Bass |
A clerk in a cold warehouse wants one of the warm sheepskin coats stacked around him. |
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| tmdb-54838 |
Gone: | RT: /69 IMDB: 7.2 Budget: 0.7M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Patrick Keiller | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: Paul Scofield |
Patrick Keller's imaginative and cerebral Robinson in Space follows the titular character and his unseen companion (and narrator), voiced by Paul Scofield, as they investigate the 'problem' of England. |
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| tmdb-266904 |
Gone: | RT: /72 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Gilbert Gunn | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: Richard Todd |
A charming 1952 history of Elstree Studios, its films and the people who made them, from Hitchcock to Olivier. |
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| tmdb-49120 |
Gone: | RT: /72 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Raoul O'Connell | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Anne Zupa, Kevin McClatchy |
A gay man studying in New York develops a crush on his male roommate in this cute and breezy short. |
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| tmdb-30095 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 94/84 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Henry Cornelius | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray |
After discovering untold riches, the citizens of a London street declare independence in this appealingly eccentric Ealing comedy. |
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| tmdb-16665 |
Gone: | RT: 96/83 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick | Genres: Comedy, Crime |
Stars: Finlay Currie, Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey |
Ealing's thirstiest comedy: "the longest unsponsored advertisement ever to reach cinema screens"? |
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| tmdb-4193 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 90/72 IMDB: 7.1 Revenue: 6.1M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Guy Hamilton | Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama |
Stars: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely |
Sir Peter Ustinov as the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this classic Agatha Christie mystery tale. At the attempt to find out how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond, Poirot ends up on an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous where a murder is committed, but everyone has an alibi. |
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| tmdb-17720 |
Gone: | RT: 60/71 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Leslie Norman | Genres: Drama, War |
Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee |
Almost 50 years before Christopher Nolan's epic production, Ealing Studios tell the story of the Dunkirk evacuation, starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. |
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| tmdb-26108 |
Gone: | RT: 64/78 IMDB: 7.1 Revenue: 0.8M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Richard Eyre | Genres: Comedy, Romance |
Stars: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett |
A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello. But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced? |
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| tmdb-35007 |
Gone: | RT: 88/65 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Robert Hamer | Genres: Crime, Drama |
Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum |
Austerity noir: Ealing's downbeat but compelling East End thriller. |
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| tmdb-24134 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 67/70 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Schlesinger | Genres: Drama, Romance |
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Julie Christie |
Julie Christie stars in the quintessential swinging sixties film, as a young woman flitting nonchalantly through London's nightlife. |
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| tmdb-80596 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /78 IMDB: 7.1 Revenue: 0.1M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Boulting | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Richard Attenborough |
The life and long-forgotten works of William Friese-Greene, a pioneer of British cinema, who claimed to have invented the first film camera. |
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| tmdb-244810 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Humphrey Jennings | Genres: Documentary, Drama, History, War |
Stars: |
The villagers of Cwmgiedd re-enact a Nazi massacre in Czechoslovakia, in Humphrey Jennings’ unforgettable propaganda film. |
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| tmdb-27917 |
Gone: | RT: /50 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Basil Dearden | Genres: Crime, Drama |
Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Moira Lister |
Earl Cameron plays a naive Jamaican sailor who's dragged into a botched diamond robbery when trying to help a friend. |
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| tmdb-114072 |
Gone: | RT: /80 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Horace Ové | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau |
Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted black youths in 1970s London. |
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| tmdb-24381 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /79 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Charles Crichton | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne |
When a corporation threatens to take over a small railway line, a group of villagers decide to try and run it for themselves, in Ealing studios' first colour comedy. |
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| tmdb-45946 |
Gone: | RT: /71 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Schlesinger | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: |
The daily rhythms and dramas of Waterloo station are captured in John Schlesinger’s influential early film. |
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| tmdb-48142 |
Gone: | RT: /25 IMDB: 7.1 Budget: 0.5M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Terence Davies | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Philip Mawdsley, Valerie Lilley, Robin Hooper |
The first part of Terence Davies' formidable Trilogy explores the effects of violence on a Liverpool schoolboy, told in a series of flashbacks. |
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| tmdb-334901 |
Gone: | RT: /71 IMDB: 7.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Andrew Kötting | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Sean Locke |
Sean Lock is a criminal 'Smart Alek' in this apparently true story of a family holiday turned bloody nightmare. |
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| tmdb-16912 |
Gone: | RT: /73 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Guy Hamilton | Genres: War, Drama |
Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Frederick Valk |
When they are placed in an "inescapable" castle by the Nazis, allied troops pool their resources to attempt their supposedly impossible goal; freedom. |
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Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 76/74 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Richard Lester | Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama |
Stars: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee |
The Musketeers return! In a sequel to the 1973 smash swashbuckler, the trio are tasked with protecting the Queen of France and her dressmaker from the dastardly deeds of Cardinal Richelieu. |
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| tmdb-3014 |
Gone: | RT: /81 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Carol Reed | Genres: Thriller |
Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef |
Carol Reed follows Odd Man Out and The Third Man with this thriller starring James Mason and Claire Bloom set in post-war Berlin. |
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| tmdb-71924 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /75 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Waris Hussein | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling |
On his death bed, an elderly Henry VIII laments his eventful life and his six marriages, in this classic period drama. |
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| tmdb-47509 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /90 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Reginald Mills | Genres: Fantasy, Family, Music |
Stars: Frederick Ashton, Alexander Grant, Julie Wood |
Beatrix Potter's most beloved characters spring to life in this live-action classic. |
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| tmdb-117475 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Lorenza Mazzetti | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Michael Andrews, Eduardo Paolozzi |
Two deaf-mute dock workers eke out a humble East End existence in Lorenza Mazzetti's striking and poetic example of Free Cinema. |
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| tmdb-543 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 87/65 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock | Genres: Drama, Thriller |
Stars: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton |
Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film sees a young woman blackmailed for a murder she was forced to commit. |
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| tmdb-301632 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: D'Arcy Conyers | Genres: Drama, Family |
Stars: Michael Crawford, Keith Davis, Roy Townshend |
Children’s Film Foundation adventure that sees a young Michael Crawford scrapping with a rival South London gang in Battersea. |
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| tmdb-217232 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: George Hoellering | Genres: Drama, History |
Stars: John Groser, Alexander Gauge, David Ward |
Powerful adaptation of TS Eliot's classic verse drama recounting the clash between King Henry II and Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. |
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| tmdb-358971 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Lewis Gilbert | Genres: Family, Adventure |
Stars: Eugeniusz Chylek, Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour |
A Polish refugee runs into trouble with two scheming thieves in this superb early work from illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice). |
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| tmdb-219848 |
Gone: | RT: /67 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Krish | Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie |
Stars: Gary Halliday, Michael Flowers, Emma Ingham |
A ghostly drama of the Derbyshire plague village of Eyam, as unquiet spirits of the long dead make contact with the living. |
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| tmdb-253712 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Hardwick | Genres: Horror |
Stars: Susanne Lothar, Paul Davies |
A woman finds that death will not part her from her deceased lover. |
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| tmdb-145011 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Harry Watt, Humphrey Jennings | Genres: Documentary, War |
Stars: Quentin Reynolds |
Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt’s famous GPO film is an enduring example of British self-mythology; a hymn to London’s resilience that helped persuade America to join the war. |
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| tmdb-48954 |
Gone: | RT: 83/65 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland |
A wily old tugboat skipper outfoxes a wealthy American businessman in Alexander Mackendrick's underrated Ealing comedy |
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| tmdb-35185 |
Gone: | RT: /67 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Basil Dearden | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Sellers |
Inheriting a decrepit cinema from a rich uncle, a young couple must fight against the local picture palace to keep their fleapit afloat. |
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| tmdb-333492 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Martin Wallace | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: Jarvis Cocker |
Jarvis Cocker and acclaimed director Martin Wallace's feature-length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield's steelworks is a hymn to Britain's proud industrial past. |
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Gone: | IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Paul Dickson | |
Stars: Gomer Roberts, Sam Jones, Gwenyth Petty |
This drama-documentary about the everyday life of a Welsh caretaker and ex-miner was the first film produced by the BFI, in 1951. |
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| tmdb-68309 |
Gone: | RT: /81 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Jack Lee | Genres: War, Drama |
Stars: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel |
The true story of three British POWs, and their ingenious plan to escape from Nazi Germany, with the help of their trusty vaulting horse. |
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| tmdb-323609 |
Gone: | RT: /70 IMDB: 7.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Bob Bentley | Genres: Crime, Drama |
Stars: Maurice Denham, Derek Smith, Ann Tirard |
Based on the true story of a tragic murder and suicide that took place on the Luxton farm in Devon in the 1970s. |
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