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| tmdb-110090 |
Gone: | RT: /100 IMDB: 7.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Bill Douglas | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe |
Concluding his acclaimed Trilogy, Bill Douglas’ autobiographical film follows young Jamie as he’s conscripted in the RAF and finally feels at home. |
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| tmdb-142520 |
Gone: | RT: /100 IMDB: 6.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Stephen Dwoskin | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Maggie Corey, Marc Chaimowicz, Eddie Doyle |
Five strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days in Stephen Dwoskin's remarkable experimental film. |
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| tmdb-47026 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /95 IMDB: 7.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan |
Alexander Mackendrick's drama about a deaf girl and her unstable family life is remarkably unsentimental while still packing an emotional punch. |
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| tmdb-121655 |
Gone: | RT: /95 IMDB: 7.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Patrick Keiller | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: Paul Scofield |
The first in Patrick Keiller’s highly imaginative trilogy of films is a photographic trip through London, recounted by our unseen narrator. |
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| tmdb-11898 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 100/94 IMDB: 8.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Robert Hamer | Genres: Comedy, Drama |
Stars: Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood |
This classic Ealing comedy sees Dennis Price plot to inherit his family title by any means necessary... |
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| tmdb-1092 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 99/93 IMDB: 8.1 Revenue: 1.2M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Carol Reed | Genres: Thriller, Mystery |
Stars: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles |
Carol Reed's timeless classic, one of the greatest British films, lavishly marries a perfect script, an unforgettable theme tune and the star power of Orson Welles. |
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| tmdb-16284 |
Gone: | RT: /93 IMDB: 7.8 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: J. Lee Thompson | Genres: War, Adventure, Drama |
Stars: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle |
A pair of British soldiers are tasked with escorting two nurses across the perilous North African desert to Alexandria, in order to escape advancing German forces. |
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| tmdb-23924 |
Gone: | RT: 93/92 IMDB: 7.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti | Genres: Thriller, War |
Stars: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton |
Alberto Cavalcanti's speculative propaganda film images a German invasion that's thwarted by plucky British villagers. |
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| tmdb-16410 |
Gone: | RT: 90/91 IMDB: 7.7 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: David Lean | Genres: Comedy, Drama |
Stars: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie |
Charles Laughton stars as Hobson, the owner of a Salford shoemaker, whose daughter looks to escape from under his thumb in David Lean's classic comedy. |
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| tmdb-18988 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 90/90 IMDB: 7.9 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Anthony Harvey | Genres: Drama, History |
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins |
The hateful family King Henry II is brought together to secure an heir. The destructive relationships in the family erupt as they scheme to determine who will be the future king. |
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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-42987 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 89/89 IMDB: 7.9 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Joseph Losey | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig |
The homoerotic power games between master and servant take centre stage in this enthralling Harold Pinter adaptation. |
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| tmdb-114444 |
Gone: | RT: /89 IMDB: 7.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Bill Douglas | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith |
The first part of Bill Douglas’ poetic and profoundly stirring autobiographical trilogy, about an eight-year-old boy growing up in a Scottish mining village in 1945. |
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| tmdb-21631 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 100/88 IMDB: 7.7 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Carol Reed | Genres: Drama, Thriller |
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey |
Carol Reed’s Graham Greene adaptation tells the dark but touching story of a young child’s relationship to his friendly, complicated butler. |
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| tmdb-1376 |
Gone: | RT: 97/88 IMDB: 7.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ken Loach | Genres: Crime, Drama |
Stars: Martin Compston, Annmarie Fulton, William Ruane |
In an effort to escape a life of hardship, a Greenock teenager turns to drug-dealing, in one of Ken Loach's most affecting films. |
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| tmdb-54218 |
Gone: | RT: /88 IMDB: 6.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Tony Scott | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Rosamund Greenwood, Roy Evans, David Pugh |
An unsettling portrait of love and loss by the director of Top Gun. |
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| tmdb-5506 |
Gone: | RT: 100/87 IMDB: 7.7 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick | Genres: Comedy, Crime |
Stars: Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers |
A master criminal and his band of thieves use an oblivious old lady's lodging room as a hideaway in this acclaimed Ealing comedy. |
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| tmdb-33765 |
Gone: | RT: 93/87 IMDB: 7.4 Revenue: 0.6M Budget: 0.2M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Schlesinger | Genres: Drama, Romance |
Stars: Alan Bates, Thora Hird, June Ritchie |
John Schlesinger makes his feature film debut with this adaptation of Stan Barstow’s novel about a factory worker (Alan Bates) and his complicated relationship to a typist (June Ritchie) who he doesn’t fully love. |
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| tmdb-56942 |
Gone: | RT: 80/87 IMDB: 7.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ken Loach | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Grace Cave, Bill Dean |
Ken Loach's hard-hitting drama about a schizophrenic woman struggling to cope with an oppressive family and unsympathetic medics. |
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| tmdb-13581 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 93/86 IMDB: 7.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden | Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall |
An architect senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales. |
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| tmdb-32961 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 100/86 IMDB: 7.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Charles Crichton | Genres: Comedy, Crime |
Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James |
A mild-mannered bank worker plans to rob £1million from the Bank of England in this evergreen Ealing comedy, starring Alec Guinness. |
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| tmdb-8129 |
Gone: | RT: 89/86 IMDB: 7.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ken Loach | Genres: Drama, Romance |
Stars: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay |
Ken Loach's intense drama boasts a majestic performance from Peter Mullan as a recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, struggling with his feelings for a local health worker. |
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| tmdb-11167 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 96/85 IMDB: 7.7 Revenue: 0.1M Budget: 0.1M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Michael Powell | Genres: Horror, Thriller, Drama |
Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey |
A disturbed filmmaker literally kills with his camera in this ahead-of-its-time shocker. Released in 1960, the film's combination of voyeurism, eroticism, and horror outraged critics. |
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| tmdb-28430 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 85/85 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Val Guest | Genres: Science Fiction, Romance |
Stars: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd |
The BFI’s new HD remaster of the British sci-fi classic. A journalist discovers that the Earth has been knocked off its axis and is moving ever closer to the sun. Is the Earth doomed? |
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| tmdb-70842 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 43/85 IMDB: 6.5 Revenue: 0.3M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ken Russell | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace |
Ken Russell's wild and wickedly extravagant tale of Oscar Wilde's experience in a brothel, where the prostitutes perform his banned play, Salome. |
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| tmdb-13385 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 95/85 IMDB: 7.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Boulting | Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell |
Richard Attenborough’s unforgettably sinister turn as ‘Pinkie’ pervades this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. |
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| tmdb-16914 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /84 IMDB: 7.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Charles Frend | Genres: Drama, History, War |
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott |
Classic naval thriller from Ealing studios. The story of the Compass Rose, a British warship, and its crew following them from the dire days before Dunkirk, through to the end of World War 2. |
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| tmdb-26535 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 94/84 IMDB: 7.3 Revenue: 0.0M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Schlesinger | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie |
Tom Courtenay is the clerk whose overactive fantasies compensate for a dull provincial life, in this classic film from the British New Wave. |
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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-110115 |
Gone: | RT: /83 IMDB: 7.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Bill Douglas | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith |
The second part of the revered Bill Douglas Trilogy follows Jamie as he ends up in a children’s home. |
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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-83015 |
Gone: | RT: /83 IMDB: 7.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Frank Launder | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull |
After a mistake at the Ministry of Education, the girls of St. Swithin's School are forced to move in with the boys of Nutbourne College, causing calamitously comedic chaos for their headmasters. |
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| tmdb-16307 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 88/82 IMDB: 7.5 Budget: 0.8M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Robin Hardy | Genres: Horror |
Stars: Edward Woodward, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland |
A police sergeant travels to a remote Scottish island and its pagan community, in search of a missing girl. |
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| tmdb-157837 |
Gone: | RT: /82 IMDB: 8.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Penny Woolcock | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: |
This fascinating and moving film by award-winning director Penny Woolcock is a lyrical portrait of Britain's coastline which features a score by British Sea Power. |
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| tmdb-58470 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /82 IMDB: 7.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Robert Day | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jill Adams |
Hitting all of his targets at work, Harry Hawkins is a born assassin, however his apparently easy next target, a dud Cabinet minister, will see Harry up to his neck in hilarious hi-jinks. |
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| tmdb-32568 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 100/81 IMDB: 7.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick | Genres: Comedy, Drama |
Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker |
A young scientist's new invention leads to fervent interest from industrialists and trade unionists alike, in this classic Ealing comedy. |
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| tmdb-18174 |
Gone: | RT: /81 IMDB: 7.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Guy Hamilton | Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance |
Stars: Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, Arthur Young |
A prosperous and pampered provincial family are visited by a police detective (Alastair Sim - in a signature role), who believes the family has been involved in the suicide of a young girl. |
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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-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-43103 |
Gone: | RT: 100/81 IMDB: 7.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Jack Clayton | Genres: Drama, Romance |
Stars: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears |
Jack Clayton directs this romantic, love-triangle drama featuring Simone Signoret in an Oscar-winning performance. |
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| tmdb-44201 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 67/80 IMDB: 6.4 Revenue: 1.7M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Terry Jones | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Danny Schiller |
As she struggles to pay her rent, one woman finds a provocative new way to make ends meet, in this steamy comedy from Monty Python's Terry Jones. |
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| tmdb-84880 |
Gone: | RT: /80 IMDB: 8.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Herbert G. Ponting | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: |
The BFI Archive's restoration of Herbert Ponting's official film record of Captain Scott's tragic expedition to the South Pole, with a new score by Simon Fisher Turner. |
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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-83995 |
Gone: | RT: 80/79 IMDB: 7.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Guy Green | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Richard Attenborough, Anna Maria Pierangeli, Michael Craig |
Richard Attenborough plays a factory worker who’s ostracised after refusing to support a strike, in this gritty industrial drama. |
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| tmdb-39507 |
Gone: | RT: 93/78 IMDB: 7.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Huston | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll |
The final film of legendary director John Huston, based on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. |
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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-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-273482 |
Gone: | RT: /78 IMDB: 7.8 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Lionel Ngakane | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Nicolette Robinson, Patrick Hatfield, Thomas Baptiste |
Touching short about the friendship between a white boy and a black girl in 1960s Notting Hill. |
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| tmdb-2926 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 87/77 IMDB: 7.2 Revenue: 22.0M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Richard Lester | Genres: Adventure, Comedy, History |
Stars: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain |
A mixture of comedy and adventure based on the Alexander Dumas classic novel of three rollicking musketeers who are "all for one and one for all!" |
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