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Whistle Down The Wind
(1961) [G]

Bryan Forbes' enchanting film, based on the novel by Mary Hayley Bell, is a family classic. Three children (Hayely Mills, Diane Holgate and Alan Barnes) living on their widowed father's farm in the north of England discover a wanted man (Alan Bates) hiding out in a barn. They come to the...  More

Room At The Top
(1959) [M]

Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) arrives in a new town with burning ambitions and a head full of dreams. He may be just a lowly town hall clerk, but with his charm and good looks, he's determined to "marry into money" and set himself up for life. The ground-breaking Room At The Top won two Oscars...  More

The Mouse That Roared
(1959) [PG]

In this classic satire, the Duchess and the Prime Minister of the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick (both played by Peter Sellers) have come up with a brilliant plan to keep their country from going broke - make war on the United States, lose, then collect lots of American post-war aid. The only...  More

The Cruel Sea
(1953) [PG]

Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna star in a powerful and moving documentary-style account of life on board a British warship during World War 11. Directed by Charles Frend, it is the courageous story of the Battle of the Atlantic – a story of an ocean, a ship and...  More

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
(1943) [G]

In the Powell and Pressburger classic The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays British officer Clive Candy, through the trials and tribulations of three wars, three loves and a lifelong friendship across enemy lines. During the Boer War, Candy is sent to Berlin to...  More

The African Queen
(1951) [G]

Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn...  More

Jabberwocky
(1977) [PG]

Gadzooks! These be terrible times in the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable! At the darkest hour of the Dark Ages, the dreaded Jabberwock roams the land. His eyes aflame, his talons bared - a bone-crushing horror! Which brave knight shall slay the beast and save the kingdom? Who shall win the hand...  More

This Happy Breed
(1944) [G]

'This Happy Breed' is a splendidly acted classic portraying how an ordinary British family lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. The inhabitants of 17 Sycamore Road are ordinary people, with their irritable in-laws, their just-plain-folks...  More

Sailor Beware (UK-1956)
(1956) [G]

A much-loved British classic, from the stage play and bringing across its great and talented mouthy star, Peggy Mount, as the loud-voiced matriarch Emma, terrorising her ferret-loving husband Henry (a brilliant performance from Cyril Smith), her sister-in-law Edie (the wonderful Esma Cannon), and...  More

O Lucky Man! (2 disc set)
(1973) [M]

This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone. Music by Alan Price. The second instalment in the "Mick Travers" trilogy with...  More