Classic

British comedy adaptated from the play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can...

Adaptation of the risqué play by Joe Orton. Kath (Beryl Reid) and Ed (Harry Andrews) are a lonely middle-aged brother and sister who live together. When Kath meets Mr Sloane (Peter McEnery) in a cemetery and falls for his charms, she invites him to...

Collection of five classic British comedies. In 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) an embittered aristocrat sets out to murder the eight heirs that stand between him and succession to the family title. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) holds no love for the...

Classic British thriller adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie. Excitement runs high when the feuding film stars Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) arrive in the sleepy English village of St Mary Mead, ready to begin work on...

Bryan Forbes writes and directs this classic British drama adapted from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron stars as Jane, a young woman abandoned by the father of her unborn child. She contemplates an abortion after taking refuge in a boarding...

Hailing from the Golden-Age of Ealing comedies, KIND HEARTS & CORONETS stars DENNIS PRICE as the debonair yet impoverished Louis Mazzini, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was disinherited by her noble family, for marrying beneath her. When her...

Nicolas Roeg's finest film and, arguably, one of the best British films ever made. Starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, this is a brilliant adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier short story. On a cold, bright autumn day in Suffolk, England, a...

Cliff Richard stars in this classic British musical. Faced with a miserable British summer, Don (Richard) and his friends at the Aldenham Works head off on a European holiday in a red double decker bus, given to them by their employers at London...

Julie Christie stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by L.P. Hartley. A young teenage boy, Leo (Dominic Guard), is invited to a wealthy school friend's family estate and is drawn into a love affair between his friend's twenty-something sister,...

1970s British thriller. Susan George stars as Amanda, a young babysitter who arrives at the isolated home of Helen and Jim Lloyd (Honor Blackman and George Cole) to look after their young daughter, Tara (Tara Collinson), for the evening. Shortly after...

Atmospheric thriller set in the French countryside. British nurses Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) take a cycling holiday through rural France, but end up quarrelling and separating. Racked with guilt, Jane decides to return to the...

British musical drama starring David Essex and Ringo Starr as friends who make good on the rocky road to rock and roll stardom. Set in the 1950s, the film follows Jim MacLaine (Essex) as he dreams of stardom but finds himself in a series of dead-end jobs...

David Essex returns to star in this musical drama sequel to 'That'll Be the Day' (1973). Set in the 1960s and '70s, the film charts the inevitable decline of Jim MacLaine (Essex)'s rock band, The Stray Cats, as the lead singer falls into a world of...

1940s fantasy drama directed by Basil Dearden. After sheltering from a storm in a Welsh inn a group of strangers, each with something to hide, begin to notice that all is not as it seems with their new surroundings. Welcomed by Halfway House innkeeper...

Anthony Asquith directs this British drama based on Terence Rattigan's play. When young Ronnie Winslow (Neil North) is expelled from the Royal Naval College after being accused of stealing a postal order, his father (Cedric Hardwicke) remains convinced...