The Loneliness Of A Long Distance Runner
(1962) [M]

Following the success of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen, this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen, defiant Colin, refusing to...  More

The Go-Between
(1970) [PG]

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a...  More

The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)
(1952) [G]

This star-studded version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is full of charm and remains the definitive version of his work. Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) and Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison) are two wealthy bachelors in love. Jack is in love with Gwendelon Fairfax (Joan Greenwood) and...  More

Confidential Report (Mr Arkadin)
(1955) [PG]

Guy Van Stratten, a convicted American smuggler, leaves an Italian prison term with one asset, a dying man's words about the wealthy, mysterious and elusive Gregory Arkadin. Guy sets out in search of the enigmatic Arkadin and starts to scrutinize him through his lovely daughter Raina. To thwart...  More

Shake Hands With The Devil
(1959) [M]

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean...  More

The Dam Busters
(1954) [G]

Dr Barnes Wallace (Michael Redgrave) was possessed with a seemingly crazy idea - the creation of a bouncing bomb, designed to destroy the Ruhr dams and paralyse the enemy's industrial nerve centre. He fought persistent scepticism and disbelief that such a feat was possible. Through the matchless...  More

The Way To The Stars
(1945) [G]

In 1940, an airfield somewhere in the heart of England becomes a Bomber Command station. In 1942 advance units of the American Air Force arrive to join the Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of World War II. So unfolds the story of a group of flyers. Peter Penrose (John Mills), a young RAF...  More

The Hill
(1965) [PG]

Sean Connery stars in this disturbing study of military misfit, soldiers sent to a prison compound in North Africa. Looming over the prison is the ''hill'', a man made purgatory of rock and sand where the men are disciplined by mental and physical torture. Connery, in one of his finest ever...  More

The Lady Vanishes
(1938) [G]

Intrigue and espionage - and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge, when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday, strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who, during the journey mysteriously...  More

The Heroes Of Telemark
(1965) [G]

Physics Professor Dr Pederson (Kirk Douglas) and underground leader Straud (Richard Harris) must convince British Intelligence that the Nazis are planning to build the A-bomb. The Norse Hydro Plant at Telemark is central to enemy strategy and the Allies decide to send in a task force to destroy...  More