Dirty Pretty Things
(2002) [MA]

From director Stephen Frears, Dirty Pretty Things stars Audrey Tautou in a harrowing tale of struggle and survival for two immigrants who learn that everything is for sale in London’s secret underworld. Part of an invisible working class, Nigerian exile Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Turkish...  More

Mrs Henderson Presents
(2005) [M]

London, 1937: Mrs Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), a woman of wealth and connections, has just buried her beloved husband and finds herself widowed, alone... and bored! Her friends suggest she take up a hobby and, to their surprise, she buys the derelict Windmill Theatre in London’s West End. She...  More

Prick Up Your Ears
(1987) [M]

'Prick Up Your Ears' is a celebration of the outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Olman), and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) was one of the 1960s golden boys, from working class Leicester...  More

The Grifters
(1990) [M]

When con artist Roy Dillon is visited by his conning Mother, Lilly, she forces him off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend Myra, the third con artist, comes to visit Roy and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he's...  More

Dangerous Liaisons
(1988) [M]

Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her...  More

My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985) [M]

Set within the Asian community in London, My Beautiful Laundrette is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years. Omar (Gordon Warnecke) takes over the running of his wheeler-dealer uncle's laundrette with the intention of turning it into a...  More

Gumshoe
(1971) [M]

A Liverpudlian bingo caller dreams of becoming a Bogart type private eye. He decides to advertise his services as a private investigator, and that's when his troubles really start...  More

The Snapper
(1993) [M]

Welcome to the helter-skelter Curley household. Dessie and Kay are proud parents of six loud, lively children. When their daughter Sharon announces that she is pregnant and refuses to name the father, shock-waves reverberate through the family and the neighbourhood. The follow-up to 'THE...  More

Sammy And Rosie Get Laid
(1987) [M]

A fine social drama which tells of Sammy and Rosie, who regularly get laid, but not always by each other. Rosie's radical politics land her in everyone's bed but Sammy's, but if they want to inherit Sammy's dad's fortune, they'll have to come up with the grandchild he wants.  More

The Van
(1996) [M]

The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy' depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo. Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo and his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a chipper (a fish and chips van); but will the...  More