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| tmdb-117477 |
Gone: | RT: /67 IMDB: 6.7 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Claude Goretta, Alain Tanner | Genres: Documentary |
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The swirling neon frenzy of Piccadilly Circus is perfectly captured in this innovative short; a bewildering collage of image and sound. |
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| tmdb-11938 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 80/66 IMDB: 6.6 Revenue: 1.5M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Christopher Morahan | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: John Cleese, Penny Leatherbarrow, Howard Lloyd-Lewis |
John Cleese stars in this delightful British comedy as Brian Stimpson, the headmaster of a British high school whose obsession with punctuality is a source of humor for his students and joy for himself. |
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| tmdb-172214 |
Gone: | RT: /66 IMDB: 6.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Lothar Mendes | Genres: Drama, History, Romance |
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, Gerald du Maurier |
Conrad Veidt plays a Jewish man seeking power in the British version of Lion Feuchtwanger’s novel, later adapted by the Nazis |
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| tmdb-56612 |
Gone: | RT: /66 IMDB: 6.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Jeremy Summers | Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
Stars: Reggie Winch, Lawrie Mark, David Young |
Puny young Sammy gets a super-strength makeover when his lucky t-shirt is imbued with special powers, in this classic from Children’s Film Foundation. |
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| tmdb-76068 |
Gone: | RT: /66 IMDB: 6.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Robert Hamer | Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
Stars: Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers |
Gordon Jackson stars in a seething tale of family conflict, murder and blackmail in Victorian Brighton. |
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| tmdb-117470 |
Gone: | RT: /66 IMDB: 6.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson | Genres: Documentary, Music |
Stars: The Chris Barber Band |
This lively profile of a night out at the Wood Green Jazz Club is one of the key works of Free Cinema, from directors Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson. |
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| tmdb-242081 |
Gone: | RT: /66 IMDB: 6.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Frank Godwin | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Jack McNicholl, Neville Watson, Tracey Ann Morris |
11-year-old Terry runs away from home and is drawn into a gang of bullies, in a gritty Children's Film Foundation drama. |
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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-465189 |
Gone: | RT: /65 IMDB: 6.5 Budget: 0.0M | chan: BFIC |
Directors: David Bailey | Genres: |
Stars: Eric Swayne, Caroline Munro |
In this ultra-rare short directed by David Bailey, an ageing pop singer is hounded by mysterious assassins. |
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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-49176 |
Gone: | RT: /65 IMDB: 6.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Lindsay Anderson | Genres: Documentary, Comedy |
Stars: |
Lindsay Anderson’s ground-breaking short film about a Margate amusement park, which helped to launch a new documentary movement. |
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| tmdb-165913 |
Gone: | RT: /65 IMDB: 6.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ken Russell | Genres: Comedy |
Stars: Mercedes Quadros, Míka van Bloemen, Helen Ulman |
A young angel scours London for her wings in this tender short by the young Ken Russell. |
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| tmdb-377037 |
Gone: | RT: /65 IMDB: 6.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Simon Pummell | Genres: |
Stars: Douglas Henshall, Sian Thomas |
Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. |
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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-525563 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 6.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Philip Leacock | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Kathleen Byron, Bernadette O'Farrell, Jacqueline Charles |
Kathleen Byron - of Black Narcissus fame - stars in one of the most ambitious recruitment films ever made. |
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| tmdb-210925 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 6.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: John Krish | Genres: Family, Adventure |
Stars: Alimami Allen, Amanda Coxell, Frazer Hines |
John Krish directs this beautifully photographed Children’s Film Foundation caper about four children scavenging bomb-damaged London for scrap metal. |
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| tmdb-306731 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 6.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: David Eady | Genres: Action, Family, Mystery |
Stars: Graham Fletcher-Cook, Engin Ashref, Jayne Tottman |
A schoolboy aims to avert a dastardly plan to smuggle antiques out of the country in this rousing kids’ crime yarn. |
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| tmdb-77822 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 7.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Anthony Asquith | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford |
Exemplary adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play about a naval cadet accused of stealing a postal order |
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| tmdb-51619 |
Gone: | RT: 80/64 IMDB: 6.8 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: David Lean | Genres: Drama, Romance, War |
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick |
David Lean delivers a profoundly humanist story about the development of high speed aircraft. |
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| tmdb-51992 |
Gone: | RT: 29/64 IMDB: 6.6 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Robert Fuest | Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
Stars: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès |
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust? |
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| tmdb-228187 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 6.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Andrew Bogle | Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery |
Stars: Andrew Keir, Barbara Ewing, Bob Sherman |
A ghostly boy returns from the grave to warn against reopening 'The Devil's Mine' in this spooky drama. |
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| tmdb-163349 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 6.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ngozi Onwurah | Genres: |
Stars: Madge Onwurah, Rosie Rowell, Brian Bovell |
Autobiographical account of a mother-daughter relationship, exploring beauty standards and female sexuality. |
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| tmdb-335473 |
Gone: | RT: /64 IMDB: 6.4 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Susan Shapiro, Esther Ronay, Francine Winham | Genres: |
Stars: Rachel Steel, Dave Swarbrick, Margaret Ford |
An imaginative, experimental and playful look at myth, storytelling and female identity. |
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| tmdb-122268 |
Gone: | RT: /63 IMDB: 6.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Douglas Hickox | Genres: Drama, Comedy, Crime |
Stars: Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery |
Joe Orton’s delicious slice of suburban perversity, in which Beryl Reid’s lascivious landlady and her gay brother attempt to seduce their psychopathic tenant. |
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| tmdb-348764 |
Gone: | RT: /63 IMDB: 6.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: David Eady | Genres: |
Stars: John Moulder-Brown, Kevin Bennett, Sydney Bromley |
John Moulder Brown (Deep End) fronts a crack children’s spy unit in this ripping boy's own adventure. |
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| tmdb-208108 |
Gone: | RT: /63 IMDB: 6.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Humphrey Jennings | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: Laurie Lee |
A rare glimpse into the leisure pursuits of ordinary people in pre-war Britain. |
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| tmdb-128892 |
Gone: | RT: /63 IMDB: 6.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Kevin Brownlow | Genres: Documentary |
Stars: Paul Dickson, Sadie Mcgarvie |
Kevin Brownlow’s atmospheric homage to Glasgow’s tram system follows the last tram to run in September 1962. |
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| tmdb-127633 |
Gone: | RT: /63 IMDB: 6.3 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Margaret Tait | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Jack Shepherd, Celia Imrie, Gerda Stevenson |
Engaging, poetic story of three generations of Scottish women made by artist Margaret Tait. |
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| tmdb-16405 |
Gone: 2022-03-01 | RT: 20/62 IMDB: 6.5 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Milcho Manchevski | Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Western |
Stars: Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester |
At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fight over a young woman, in this high energy western starring Joseph Fiennes. |
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| tmdb-164387 |
Gone: | RT: /62 IMDB: 6.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Clive Donner | Genres: Drama, Music |
Stars: Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, David Hemmings |
Cult 1960s musical drama about a leather boy who forms a Shadows-style guitar band. |
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| tmdb-313028 |
Gone: | RT: /62 IMDB: 6.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Michael Gill | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Stars: Juliet Harmer, Tom Adams, Peter Ustinov |
Meet a very beautiful, very clever girl who adores peaches in Michael Gill's BFI-funded fantasy short. |
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| tmdb-78791 |
Gone: | RT: /62 IMDB: 6.2 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Jan Darnley-Smith | Genres: Family, Science Fiction |
Stars: Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Patrick Troughton |
Two curious kids are sent back in time by an eccentric professor, played by former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. |
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| tmdb-40653 |
Gone: | RT: /61 IMDB: 6.7 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Don Levy | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens |
Helen Mirren makes her film debut in the tale of a young poet (Michael Gothard) intent on turning his suicide into a mass-media spectacle. |
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| tmdb-101711 |
Gone: | RT: /61 IMDB: 6.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Herbert Wilcox | Genres: Comedy, Drama |
Stars: Gerry Wilmot, Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison |
An English lady falls for an American air force sergeant in this romantic WWII drama directed by Herbert Wilcox. |
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| tmdb-163143 |
Gone: | RT: /61 IMDB: 6.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Edward Bennett | Genres: Drama, War, History |
Stars: Julie Covington, Ian Charleson, John Phillips |
An English aristocrat is driven to despair over the effects of violence on her family, in this powerful meditation on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. |
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| tmdb-274945 |
Gone: | RT: /61 IMDB: 6.1 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Lloyd Reckord | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Lloyd Reckord, Winston Stona, Bari Johnson |
An early classic of Black British cinema about the intriguing social dynamics that arise as a ten shilling note is passed around the black community. |
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| tmdb-116345 |
Gone: | RT: 69/60 IMDB: 6.8 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: James Dearden | Genres: Drama |
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Kevork Malikyan |
A secret agent in Turkey is persuaded by his superiors to assist a couple of English cons in the theft of a priceless Greek statue. |
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| tmdb-3522 |
Gone: | RT: /60 IMDB: 6.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ken Russell | Genres: Comedy, Drama |
Stars: James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell |
A deckchair attendant stages a film festival in a sleepy seaside town, in Ken Russell's evocative first feature. |
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| tmdb-358969 |
Gone: | RT: /60 IMDB: 6.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Ian Shand | Genres: Family |
Stars: Teresa Codling, Adrian Hall, David Williams |
It looks like the quaint village of Byway will be bulldozed to make way for a motorway – until alien outcast Kadoyng arrives from Outer Space to help. |
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| tmdb-369328 |
Gone: | RT: /60 IMDB: 6.0 | chan: BFIC |
Directors: Timothy Neat | Genres: Drama, Romance |
Stars: Charlie Barron, Lucia Lanzarini, John Berger |
Tilda Swinton stars in a playful and ingenious cine-essay on the art of storytelling, from art critic John Berger and filmmaker Timothy Neat. |
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