Two Thousand Women
(1944) [PG]

An amusing tale set in a World War II internment camp for women. Two airman are kept hidden until they can plan their escape.  More

The Smallest Show On Earth
(1957) [G]

Jean and Bill (Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They expect to sell the cinema to gain...  More

Romeo And Juliet (1968)
(1968) [PG]

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the screen world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet, but it was a gamble that resulted in one of the most popular motion pictures of all time, winning international acclaim and four Academy Award...  More

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (2 disc set)
(1975) [M]

Arthur, King of Britons, Defeater of the Saxons and Sovereign of all England with only his trusty servant Patsy by his side has travelled the length and breadth of the land in search of noble knights to join his Court at Camelot. His ranks soon swelled by such illustrious names as Sir Bedevere,...  More

Peter Greenaway Early Works
(1976) [PG]

A writer, painter and filmmaker, Peter Greenaway shot to fame in 1982 with The Draughtsman's Contract. These early shorts display many of that film's obsessions and qualities. The films are an entertaining and intriguing mix of method and madness, pedantry and poetry, landscape beauty and...  More

The Quare Fellow
(1962) [M]

An insight into the effects of capital punishment on the warders and inmates of a Dublin prison. Based on a play by Brendan Behan.  More

I See A Dark Stranger
(1946) [M]

Bridie is an Irish girl who decides that she will return to Dublin to assist in the war against the British. On the train she meets a Nazi officer attempting to rescue an accomplice. He sees Bridie as an attractive decoy so he takes her to England with him. When Miller is killed, Bridie is told...  More

Oliver Twist
(1948) [G]

David Lean's atmospheric production remains the definitive version of the Charles Dickens' masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is expelled from the work house where he lives by the miserly Mr.Bumble (Francis L.Sullivan) for daring to ask for more. After an unhappy apprenticeship...  More

The Rutles
(1978) [G]

Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the...  More

Scott Of The Antarctic
(1948) [G]

John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the South Pole. The British were up against the Norwegians in the Arctic quest for fame and honor which was won by Norway.  More

Porridge: Series 1
(1974) [PG]

'Porridge’ is slang for a jail sentence, and habitual offender Norman Stanley Fletcher (Barker) is doing five years. Six episodes of cynicism, self-preservation and bare-faced cheek as Fletcher takes on the Slade prision system. New Faces, Old Hands "Twenty-three and you want to go...  More

Tommy
(1975) [M]

Ken Russell's flamboyant treatment of the Who's rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who develops an extraordinary ability at pinball. Under his sinister stepfather's influence, he achieves fame and a cult following, but his almost messianic status also spells the beginning of his...  More

Monty Python: And Now For Something Completely Different
(1971) [PG]

England was such a proper place - until the day the Python arrived. Monty Python, that is, a Flying Circus that slithered up the funnybone of an entire nation and gave it fits of laughter. Here's Monty Python's first feature film - a hilarious collection of their very best twits, skits and bits...  More

Open All Hours : Series 1, Disc 1
(1976) [PG]

Ronnie Barker stars as Arkwright, the stuttering grocer, in the first series of this cornershop comedy. Arkwright's urge to take money from his customers by fair means or foul is second only to his need to prevent Granville, his nephew, from discovering a world beyond the clang of the shop...  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 Titfield Thunderbolt
(1952) [G]

Director Charles Crichton and writer Tibby Clarke teamed up again for the first Ealing comedy to be produced in Technicolor. When an antiquated railway line is threatened with closure, the villagers decide to run it themselves and enter into frenzied competition with the local bus route, with...  More

The Servant
(1963) [M]

The Servent takes a sharp look at British class relations via a dramatic turning of the tables between a rich ineffectual Oxbridge bachelor (James Fox) who is gradually debased and overruled by his sinister manservant (Dirk Bogarde) and his sexy sister(Sarah Miles). Bogarde's servant slowly...  More

The Wooden Horse
(1950) [G]

In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. One British officer has the idea of starting a daily gynmastics routine using a vaulting horse: they can place it near the boundary and start a tunnel from under it. He and...  More

Loot
(1970) [M]

Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder) are inseparable. They are also irreverent, boisterous, highly sexed and eager to acquire a fortune by the most expedient method...robbery. The only problem is that they have to hide their loot. Fortunately Dennis works as an undertaker, so a coffin...  More

The Colditz Story
(1954) [G]

One German maximum security prison was more famous than any other during World War II - Colditz Castle in Saxony. Although Colditz was considered escape proof, its boundaries were challenged many times by Allied prisoners of war with fatal results. On 15 October 1942, a group of British...  More

A Kind Of Loving
(1962) [M]

The legendary John Schlesinger (Yanks, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy) made his feature film directorial debut with this bittersweet and beautifully acted drama about a young draughtsman, Vic Brown (Alan Bates), whose life comes apart at the seams when he begins a relationship with typist Ingrid...  More

Entertaining Mr Sloane
(1969) [M]

Featuring two of Britain's best character actors, the late Beryl Reid and the late Harry Andrews, this scintillating black comedy is based on Joe Orton's wonderful play of the same name. Reid is marvellous as aging nymphomaniac Kath and Harry Andrews provides a superb foil as her rogue brother...  More

Billy Liar
(1963) [PG]

Tom Courtenay stars as Billy Fisher, an ambitious but ultimately lazy young man with a dreary life who spends most of his time daydreaming about a land where he is a hero. A number of minor indiscretions causes Billy to lie in order to avoid the penalties. As these events start catching up with...  More

Murder Most Foul
(1964) [G]

After hearing all the evidence as a juror at the trial of a man charged with a murder set within a theatrical troupe, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is not convinced that the police have got the killer. As the only member of a jury who has faith in the defendant's innocence, she joins the...  More

Dr Who: The Tomb Of Cybermen
(1967) [G]

The once-feared Cybermen have disappeared from the Universe without trace. An expedition form Earth arrives on Telos--homeworld of the Cybermen--to try and discover exactly what has become of the silver giants. Soon after the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join the archaeological party, the first...  More

Expresso Bongo
(1959) [PG]

Adapted from the hit stage show, Expresso Bongo perfectly captures the essence of the late '50s London coffee bar scene – cool cats, hip chicks and Cappucino daddio! Cliff Richard makes his full debut in a film that bristles with energy, wit, vitality and g-r-e-a-t music. The background and...  More

The Tragedy of Macbeth
(1971) [PG]

Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt and the dead king's son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.  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

The Purple Plain
(1954) [PG]

Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised...  More

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