Movies By highest audience rating on BFIC

Hoffman (1970)

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Gone: RT: /77 IMDB: 6.9 chan: BFIC
Directors: Alvin Rakoff Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch
Peter Sellers gives a rare - and remarkable - dramatic performance as Benjamin Hoffman, a lonely middle-aged businessman who blackmails a beautiful young secretary (Sinead Cusack) into spending a week with him.

I'm All Right, Jack (1959)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 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.

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: /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.

Hue and Cry (1947)

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Gone: RT: /75 IMDB: 6.8 chan: BFIC
Directors: Charles Crichton Genres: Crime, Comedy, Adventure
Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Valerie White
An army of schoolchildren fight crime on the bomb-torn streets of postwar London in this ripping Ealing classic.

ANCHORESS (1993)

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Gone: RT: /75 IMDB: 6.4 chan: BFIC
Directors: Christopher Newby Genres: Drama
Stars: Natalie Morse, Eugene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox
Chris Newby’s poetic debut feature addresses the gulf between patriarchal power and female ritual and rebellion against the backdrop of a remote Medieval village.

The Four Musketeers (1974)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 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.

Madagascar Skin (1995)

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Gone: RT: /74 IMDB: 6.3 chan: BFIC
Directors: Christopher Newby Genres:
Stars: Bernard Hill, John Hannah, Mark Anthony
John Hannah stars as a painfully shy gay man who escapes the city in Chris Newby’s extraordinary second feature.

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)

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Gone: RT: /74 IMDB: 7.4 Revenue: 6.2M Budget: 1.6M chan: BFIC
Directors: Walter Summers Genres: Drama, Documentary
Stars:
This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War is one of the finest films of the British silent era.

Death and Transfiguration (1983)

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Gone: RT: /74 IMDB: 7.4 Budget: 0.5M chan: BFIC
Directors: Terence Davies Genres: Drama
Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Iain Munro, Jeanne Doree
The Terence Davies Trilogy reaches its astonishing climax as tortured Liverpool clerk Robert Tucker prepares to meet his maker.

The Colditz Story (1955)

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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.

The Blue Lamp (1950)

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Gone: RT: /73 IMDB: 6.9 chan: BFIC
Directors: Basil Dearden Genres: Crime, Drama
Stars: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde stars as a loose-cannon crook with Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) on his tail, in the classic Ealing policier.

Speak Like a Child (1998)

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Gone: RT: /73 IMDB: 7.3 chan: BFIC
Directors: John Akomfrah Genres: Drama
Stars: Richard Mylan, Rachel Fielding
Moving drama about three close friends forever tied to a dark secret from their teenage past.

A Private Enterprise (1975)

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Gone: RT: /73 IMDB: 7.3 chan: BFIC
Directors: Peter K. Smith Genres: Drama
Stars: Salmaan Peer, Marc Zuber, Ramon Sinha
The trials and tribulations of Shiv, a South Asian entrepreneur trying to set up a business in industrial Birmingham

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 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.

Elstree Story (1952)

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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.

A Friend of Dorothy (1994)

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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.

Two Way Stretch (1960)

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Gone: RT: /72 IMDB: 6.9 chan: BFIC
Directors: Robert Day Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries
Criminal mastermind Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) hatches a plan to break out of jail, steal a sultan's diamonds and then break back into jail before morning.

Accident (1967)

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Gone: RT: 76/72 IMDB: 6.9 Budget: 0.6M chan: BFIC
Directors: Joseph Losey Genres: Crime, Drama
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
When a fatal car accident occurs, an Oxford don reconsiders the effect an Austrian girl has had on the people around her.

Dunkirk (1958)

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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.

Paperhouse (1989)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 100/71 IMDB: 6.7 Revenue: 0.2M chan: BFIC
Directors: Bernard Rose Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Stars: Charlotte Burke, Glenne Headly, Gemma Jones
Bernard Rose’s cult adult fantasy follows a young girl who discovers an increasingly dark and dangerous dream world.

Friendship's Death (1987)

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Gone: RT: /71 IMDB: 6.2 chan: BFIC
Directors: Peter Wollen Genres: Science Fiction, Drama
Stars: Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton plays an extra-terrestrial android discussing life’s big questions with a British war correspondent in this unique sci-fi by influential film theorist Peter Wollen.

Terminus (1961)

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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.

Smart Alek (1993)

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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.

The Farmer's Wife (Silent) (1928)

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Gone: RT: /71 IMDB: 5.9 chan: BFIC
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock Genres: Drama
Stars: Jameson Thomas, Lilian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker
Alfred Hitchcock's enjoyable and rustic 1928 silent comedy explores the exploits of farmer Samuel Sweetland who is unsuccessful at finding himself a bride. What he doesn't know is he is secretly loved by his devoted housekeeper.

Darling (1965)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 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.

Together (1956)

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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.

Soapbox Derby (1958)

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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.

Murder in the Cathedral (1952)

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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.

Johnny on the Run (1953)

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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).

The Silent Village (1943)

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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.

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 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.

To Have and to Hold (2001)

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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.

London Can Take It! (1940)

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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.

The Big Melt (2013)

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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.

Recluse (1981)

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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.

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 81/69 IMDB: 6.7 Budget: 1.5M chan: BFIC
Directors: Nicolas Roeg Genres: Drama, Science Fiction
Stars: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
Nicolas Roeg’s cult sci-fi stars David Bowie as an alien attempting to amass a fortune to save his home planet, but unable to escape his decadent earthly lifestyle.

The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)

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Gone: RT: 67/69 IMDB: 6.8 chan: BFIC
Directors: Frank Launder Genres: Comedy
Stars: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole
The Belles of St. Trinians follows the riotous antics of schoolgirls at Britain's bawdiest school, as a new pupil arrives, sparking interest in her father's prize racehorse.

We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)

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Gone: RT: /69 IMDB: 6.9 chan: BFIC
Directors: Karel Reisz Genres: Documentary
Stars: John Rollason, Thomas Ahearne, Patrick Ahearne
Karel Reisz’s honest depiction of South London teens aimed to challenge the media perception of ‘Teddy Boys’.

Requiem for a Village (1976)

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Gone: RT: /69 IMDB: 6.9 chan: BFIC
Directors: David Gladwell Genres: Drama
Stars: Vic Smith, The Witnesham villagers, The Metfield villagers
The idyllic, pastoral past of a Suffolk village is reborn through memory in this extraordinary, little-known film from director David Gladwell.

Robinson in Space (1997)

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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.

Aces High (1976)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: /68 IMDB: 6.6 Budget: 1.2M chan: BFIC
Directors: Jack Gold Genres: Action, Drama, War
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward
New airforce recruit Peter Firth takes an instant dislike to his embittered squadron leader, Malcolm McDowell. But as the young pilot experiences the tensions and stresses of warfare, his dislike turns to admiration.

Maeve (1983)

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Gone: RT: /68 IMDB: 6.8 chan: BFIC
Directors: Pat Murphy, John Davies Genres: Drama
Stars: Mary Jackson, Mark Mulholland, Bríd Brennan
Pat Murphy and John Davis’ experimental film brings a feminist alternative to the conventional narrative of the Troubles.

Above Us the Earth (1977)

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Gone: RT: /68 IMDB: 6.8 chan: BFIC
Directors: Karl Francis Genres:
Stars: Windsor Rees, Gwen Francis, Dai Morgan
Karl Francis’ docu-drama about the closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley by the National Coal Board in 1975.

The Man from Nowhere (1975)

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Gone: RT: /68 IMDB: 6.8 chan: BFIC
Directors: James Hill Genres: Drama, Mystery
Stars: Sarah Hollis Andrews, Ronald Adam, Anthony McCaffery
Victorian orphan Alice Harvey - arriving to live at her great uncle's spooky house - is frightened by a mysterious, dark-clad intruder.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 81/67 IMDB: 6.7 Revenue: 0.9M Budget: 0.8M chan: BFIC
Directors: J. Blakeson Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan
Can a cheap apartment become a prison? Two men kidnap the daughter of a rich man, and hold her ransom for a sum of her father's money, in this unrelentingly intense thriller.

Incident At Loch Ness (2004)

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Gone: RT: 63/67 IMDB: 6.5 Revenue: 0.0M Budget: 1.4M chan: BFIC
Directors: Zak Penn Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Horror
Stars: Werner Herzog, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain
The German film director Werner Herzog lends his name and cinematic gravitas to this mockumentary about the myth of the Loch Ness Monster.

Out of the Darkness (1985)

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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.

Night Mail (1936)

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Gone: RT: /67 IMDB: 6.8 chan: BFIC
Directors: Harry Watt, Basil Charles Wright Genres: Documentary
Stars: Pat Jackson
The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.

Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

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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.

Burning an Illusion (1981)

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Gone: RT: /67 IMDB: 6.7 chan: BFIC
Directors: Menelik Shabazz Genres: Drama
Stars: Cassie Mcfarlane, Victor Romero Evans, Beverley Martin
Menelik Shabazz’s pioneering first feature traces the emotional and political growth of a young black couple in Thatcher’s London.