Vintage Classics

Ealing Studios drama following the love lives of a group of factory workers in post-war London. Escaping the drudgery of their day jobs, Eve (Natasha Parry), Georgie (Petula Clark), Mary (Jane...

Classic post-war drama based on the play by Wynyard Browne. Ralph Richardson stars as Reverend Martin Gregory, a clergyman in a remote Norfolk village whose commitment to his religious duties leads...

In England, 1947; Dr. Rossiter (Anton Diffring) botches an operation and scars his patient's face for life, so he and his assistants (Kenneth Griffith & Jane Hylton) evade the police and escape to...

THE COMEDY MAN is a 1964 British kitchen sink drama directed by Alvin Rakoff, featuring a performance fromKenneth More critics hailed as his finest work. With a superior supporting cast in Cecil...

Jack Clayton's 1959 feature length debut ROOM AT THE TOP paved the way for the British New Wave, considered one of the first Kitchen Sink Dramas. Starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret, ROOM AT...

Directed by Carol Reed (The Third Man) starring Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) and Diana Dors (Yield to The Night). In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and...

Starring Ray Milland and Patricia Roc. U.S. citizen Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) comes to London to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, who served as a Commando with the British Forces...

An influential cinematic masterpiece written by Leo Marks (Twisted Nerve) and starring Carl Boehm (Sissi), Anna Massey (Frenzy), Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) and Maxine Audley (A King in New York)...

KING AND COUNTRY is a 1964 uncompromising WW1 drama, directed by Joseph Losey, featuring outstanding performances from Tom Courtenay (who won the 1964 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor) and...

Filmed in 1971, Kira Muratova's THE LONG FAREWELL was banned and shelved, not to be screened until 1987. Despite the continued censorship Muratova's work received, she still managed to emerge as one...

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (1967) was the debut feature from Kira Muratova. It was here we saw the beginnings of Muratova's impressionistic style, blending observational realism with new wave experimentation...

This is the inspiring story of mans' first conquest of the world's highest mountain. Made in 1953, the film documents the breathtaking ascent of Everest by Hunt, Hillary, Tenzing et al, directed by...

THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN (1957), which Muriel Box called her most personal film, reveals the complex lives of women and the assertion that women can and should be 'an equal partner in the business of...

THE PASSIONATE STRANGER (1957) centres around happily married house-wife Judith Wynter (Margaret Leighton) who keeps the fact she is a best-selling author of steamy romance novels, a closely guarded...

RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN (1964) directed by Muriel Box follows Percy Winthram (Harry H Corbett), a shy, naïve 39-year-old who is in London with his friends for the Cup Final. When he meets beautiful...

One for all and all for one! With D'Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king's service, his army besieges the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling by the...

In 17th century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D'Artagnan leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. He soon makes friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos, comically arrogant...

Vivianne is a young woman ostracised when her boyfriend is arrested for murder, and is forced to rent a room in a decrepit boarding house for unmarried mothers ran by Nellie Alistair, a ruthless...

In the 18th century, Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is forced into marriage with Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), an aristocrat destined to inherit the British crown. But after he becomes king,...

Based upon a short ghost story by celebrated Russian author Alexander Pushkin, THE QUEEN OF SPADES is considered legendary filmmaker Thorold Dickinson's most accomplished piece of work. Starring...

1960s British comedy drama directed by Wendy Toye. Kenneth More stars as Lieutenant Commander Badger, whose honesty tends to get him into trouble. When his latest blunder lands him on the front page...

Wendy Toye directs this thriller starring John Justin as Philip Chance, a successful writer. Philip's publisher Maurice (Raymond Huntley) calls Philip back from the south of France with an invitation...

Classic French underworld drama set in Paris at the turn of the century. When Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani) falls for Marie (Simone Signoret), he faces the wrath of her boyfriend, the petty crook...

THE SLEEPING TIGER is a 1954 British noir directed by Joseph Losey (under the credit of Victor Hanbury, due to his blacklisting in the McCarthy era). This was the first collaboration between Dirk...

1950s British crime drama directed by Compton Bennett. An American crime syndicate crosses the Atlantic to attempt the daring robbery of half a million pounds, on its way to the Bank of England...

After a successful day at the races, Major Arthur Hill (Basil Radford) and Harold Temple (Hugh Griffith) decide to raise a £300 syndicate to buy a certain racehorse. With excited help from their...

This 1954 drama directed by Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob, The Avengers, A Fish Called Wanda) starring Cornell Borchers (Never Say Goodbye), Yvonne Mitchell (Woman in a Dressing Gown, The...

Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters star in this 1950s British drama based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood and the play by John Van Druten. In 1930s Berlin, young English...

A new restoration of the classic romantic comedy directed by Gordon Parry, starring the crème de la crème of British cinema including Alistair Sim & Margaret Rutherford and featuring cameos from...

The Wrong Arm of the Law is a 1963 British comedy directed by Cliff Owen and starring Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, John Le Mesurier and Bill Kerr. In London, a gang of criminals...

At the height of World War II, Terry (John Mills) and his younger brother Matt (Dirk Bogarde) are undercover IRA foot-soldiers working in London. But While Matt is fully committed to the cause, Terry...

British crime drama directed by Joseph Losey. During his three years in prison Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker) has been devising his next robbery - the biggest of his career. Once out of prison he...