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British cinema: Romance (Page 1 of 5)

A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)

Anthony Asquith

One night, a convict escapes from Dartmoor prison and races across open countryside towards a remote farm cottage. Unaware of the trouble that is coming her way, the young woman inside this solitary building is putting her child to bed. The man enters the cottage and confronts the woman, who realises in an instant what is to be her fate... [More...]

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West. The latter pretend to be brother and sister but are in fact lovers who intend to double-cross George and Ken after the robbery... [More...]

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Michael Powell

During WWII, an RAF fighter pilot Peter Carter is returning to England after a raid over Germany when his plane is hit. Realising his has no parachute, he sends one last radio message, which is received by a young American radio operator, June, before bailing out to certain death. Miraculously, he survives and wakes up to find himself on a beach in the south of England, where he meets June and falls in love with her... [More...]

A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

Ralph Thomas

In 1775, the banker Jarvis Lorry travels to Paris to be reunited with his old friend, Dr Alexandre Manette, who has been held prisoner in the Bastille for the last eighteen years. Dr Manette is revived from his near-catatonic state when he sets eyes on his daughter Lucie and the pair leave for England to start a new life together... [More...]

A Town Like Alice (1956)

Jack Lee

In 1942, Jean Paget is working in Malaya when the Japanese army begins to attack the country. In no time, she ends up with a party of women and children who are instructed to walk fifty miles to Kuala Lumpur, where they will be allowed to leave the country for Singapore. Before they reach their destination, the party is halted by more Japanese soldiers and sent in another direction... [More...]

The African Queen (1951)

John Huston

In 1914, Rose Sayer assists her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, in leading a missionary village in German East Africa. Their supplies are brought to them by Canadian Charlie Allnut on his steam-driven barge, The African Queen. The Sayers disregard Charlie’s advice to leave the village now that Germany is at war with England and decide to stay on... [More...]

Alfie (1966)

Lewis Gilbert

Alfie likes women, he likes them a lot. In fact, you could say that women are his main interest in life, his raison d’être so to speak. However, he’d rather leap stark naked into a bubbling volcano than get himself shackled to the same woman for the rest of his life. To him, a woman is like a hire car... [More...]

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)

Alfred Zeisler

The life of the idle playboy millionaire does not agree with Ernest Bliss. Worried about his deteriorating health, he is persuaded to see a Harley Street consultant who advises him to give up his extravagant life style for one year and try to get by on less than five pounds a week. Ernest rises to the challenge and wagers £50,000 that he can give up his old life for one full year... [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors? As night falls, they enter an inn named The Slaughtered Lamb, hoping for rest and refreshment. Instead, they receive a deathly cold reception from a sinister collection of locals who, not liking foreign folk, drive them away with a warning not to stray on the moors... [More...]

Angel (2007)

François Ozon

England, 1905. The daughter of a poor shopkeeper, Angel Deverell refuses to accept her humble place in society. Determined to rise to better things, she embarks on a literary career and starts to churn out shallow melodramatic romances which she considers to be masterpieces of literary art. Thanks to her publisher, Theo, and a marked lack of discrimination in the book-buying public, her novels prove to be an immense success... [More...]

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Charles Jarrott

England, 1525. King Henry VIII is anxious to produce a male heir to secure the Tudor lineage but his queen, Katherine of Aragon, has passed child-bearing age and has borne him only a daughter and dead sons. Anne, the 18-year-old daughter of the courtier Sir Thomas Boleyn, makes such an impression on Henry that he resolves to make her his mistress... [More...]

Billy Liar (1963)

John Schlesinger

Billy Fisher is 19, lives with his parents in a glum north English town and works as a desk clerk for a firm of undertakers. He retreats from the boredom of his everyday existence into his own dream world, Ambrosia, where he is the leader of a great militaristic nation. Billy is also a compulsive liar and now tries to convince everyone that he has been offered a job writing gags for the famous comedian Danny Boon... [More...]

Brief Encounter (1945)

David Lean

Each Thursday, housewife Laura Jesson treats herself to a day in the nearby town of Milford, to do some shopping and watch a film at the cinema. Afterwards, she takes the train back to her comfortable suburban home where her husband and two children await her. It’s a drab life but Laura is not unhappy... [More...]

The Captive Heart (1946)

Basil Dearden

In August 1940, a German prisoner-of-war camp receives a fresh intake of captured British soldiers. These include Captain Hasek, a Czech soldier who, after escaping from a Nazi concentration camp, stole the uniform and papers from a dead British soldier named Captain Mitchell. The other soldiers grow suspicious of Hasek because of his ability to speak German fluently but the Czech wins them around and convinces them that if his true identity is discovered he will be executed by the Nazis... [More...]

Carry on Cruising (1962)

Gerald Thomas

Wellington Crowther is the captain of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the SS Happy Wanderer. If his next cruise goes well, he expects to get a transfer to a brand new transatlantic liner, which for him would be a dream promotion. Unfortunately, it looks as if this dream might be scuppered, since five of his crew have been replaced by what, at first sight, look like category one imbeciles... [More...]

Carry on Emmannuelle (1978)

Gerald Thomas

The French ambassador, Emile Prevert, is taken by surprise when his sexy young wife Emmannuelle suddenly turns up on the doorstep of his London residence. Realising that he can no longer satisfy his wife’s insatiable sexual appetite, owing to a close encounter with a church steeple, Emile encourages Emmannuelle to look elsewhere, and she does just that... [More...]

Carry on Girls (1973)

Gerald Thomas

Fircombe is a dreary English seaside resort which is having difficulty attracting tourists. In the hope of reviving the glum little town, district councillor Sid Fiddler suggests that a beauty contest be held on the pier. The mayor Frederick Bumble endorses the proposal but Augusta Prodworthy, the leader of a militant women’s lib group, is vehemently opposed to it... [More...]

Carry on Henry (1971)

Gerald Thomas

King Henry VIII is having a bad heir day. When his present queen fails to provide him with a male offspring, he has her beheaded and takes Marie of Normandy as his new bride. The King’s loyal advisers, Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey, are hopeful that the union will improve relations with France and are therefore understandably miffed when Henry immediately asks for the marriage to be dissolved... [More...]

Carry on Jack (1963)

Gerald Thomas

After eight years, Albert Poop-Decker finally achieves his dream, to serve as midshipman in the British navy. The year is 1805 and the navy needs men like Albert, to protect Britain from the French and Spanish. But before he can join his ship, the Venus, he is waylaid by a tavern serving maid, Sally, who knocks him out, steals his clothes and disappears... [More...]

Carry on Loving (1970)

Gerald Thomas

Sidney Bliss and his long-term girlfriend Sophie Plummett run a marriage agency that prides itself on bringing together lonely hearts and setting them on the path to matrimonial success. Ironically, Sid seems strangely reluctant to tie the knot with Sophie and is more interested in vetting one of his clients, Esme Crowfoot... [More...]

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