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| tmdb-26427 |
| 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. |
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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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| 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-37193 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-116233 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-12310 |
| 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-172868 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-287262 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-48143 |
| 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. |
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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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| tmdb-54392 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-220695 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-223848 |
| 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 |
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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-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-39948 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-74544 |
| 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. |
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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-41965 |
| Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 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. |
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| tmdb-230915 |
| 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. |
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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-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-143750 |
| 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. |
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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-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-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-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-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-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-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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| 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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| tmdb-991 |
| Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 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. |
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| tmdb-11402 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-117484 |
| 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’. |
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| tmdb-85516 |
| 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. |
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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-44630 |
| Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: /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. |
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| tmdb-360929 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-377054 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-217669 |
| 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. |
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| tmdb-38542 |
| Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 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. |
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| tmdb-48463 |
| 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. |
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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-77963 |
| 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. |
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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-166393 |
| 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. |
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