Vintage Classics

John Mills stars in this docu-drama which captures the ill-fated final expedition to the South Pole in 1912 of British explorer Robert Scott .This classic drama highlights the problems which beset...

Kitchen sink drama directed by Ken Loach. Young mother Joy (Carol White) is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband, Tom (John Bindon), is put in jail. Joy finds brief...

John Schlesinger's screen adaptation of Stan Barstow's 'kitchen-sink' novel tells a gritty story of love in an industrial Lancashire town. Draftsman Vic Brown (Alan Bates) sleeps with Ingrid (June...

The film follows the turbulent relationship between Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), following their love affair from their first encounters on the London Punk...

A small-time smuggler finds himself in over his head in this gritty crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. Wisecracking merchant seaman Dan MacDonald (Bonar Colleano) makes ends meet by dabbling in a...

British crime drama written and directed by Ken Hughes. The film follows Sammy Lee (Anthony Newley), the master of ceremonies at a sleazy London strip club, as he tries to come up with enough money...

Classic British crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. After being called to the scene of an armed robbery, veteran PC George Dixon (Jack Warner) is shot and killed by young criminal Tom Riley (Dirk...

Classic British drama directed by Carol Reed. Set during the Cold War, James Mason stars as sardonic double agent Ivo Kern who finds himself falling in love with beautiful British schoolteacher...

Pen Tennyson directs this early Ealing Studios drama set in a Welsh coal mining valley. Paul Robeson stars as David Goliath, a charismatic African-American seaman who washes up in a small mining...

Waris Hussein directs this British drama starring Mark Lester and Tracy Hyde. After falling in love with his classmate Melody (Hyde), ten-year-old schoolboy Daniel (Lester) announces his intention to...

Will Hay co-directs and stars in this classic British comedy. The film follows inept schoolmaster William Potts (Hay) as he is parachuted into Nazi Germany after British intelligence discover that he...

Alexander MacKendrick directs this British drama adapted from Hilda Lewis's novel. The film follows Mandy Garland (Mandy Miller), a young deaf girl who has also been mute for most of her childhood...

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...

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...

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...

Classic British thriller adapted from Agatha Christie's novel. When beautiful socialite Arlena Marshall (Diana Rigg) is found strangled on a Mediterranean island, there is no shortage of suspects for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alec Guinness stars in this 1950s black comedy about a salesman who learns he has months to live. When told by his doctor of his terminal illness, agricultural salesman George Bird (Guinness) decides...

1970s crime drama starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane and Nigel Davenport. Based on James Barlow's novel 'The Burden of Proof', the film follows East End gangster Vic Dakin (Burton) as he plans what...

Starring Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries' adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved bestseller, The Railway Children is a timeless and enduring affair. After their father is...

John Hurt stars as John Merrick, aka the elephant man, in this biographical drama directed by David Lynch. Brutalised in childhood for his deformities, Merrick has been ostracised throughout his life...

Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills star as young newly-weds in this 1960s British comedy drama based on Bill Naughton's play. Following their reception, the couple stay the night at Arthur (Bennett)'s...