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British cinema: Comedy/Drama
The 39 Steps (1935)
Alfred Hitchcock
Not long after arriving in London, the Canadian Richard Hannay visits a music hall theatre to watch the star act, Mr Memory, a man who startles his audience with his infallible recollection of trivial facts...
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Alfred Hitchcock
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Michael Powell
One summer during WWII, three complete strangers are thrown together when they get off a train one evening at Chillingbourne village, several miles from Canterbury...
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Michael Powell
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Carol Reed
Joe is an 8-year old boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in the East End of London. His father is away trying to make his fortune in Africa, and Joanna is anxiously awaiting news so that she and Joe can go and join him...
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Carol Reed
A King in New York (1957)
Charles Chaplin
Igor Shahdov, the King of Estrovia, leaves his country just as it is plunged into revolution. He arrives in New York City, hoping to make his fortune by selling his blueprints for an atomic power station...
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Charles Chaplin
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Tony Richardson
Jo is a 17-year-old schoolgirl who lives with her alcoholic mother, Helen, in the industrial northwest English town of Salford...
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Tony Richardson
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Billy Elliot (2000)
Stephen Daldry
In the mid-1980s, coal mining is no longer a profitable industry in the UK and the Conservative government is at war with the miners' union over pit closures... [More...]
Stephen Daldry
In the mid-1980s, coal mining is no longer a profitable industry in the UK and the Conservative government is at war with the miners' union over pit closures... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
The Card (1952)
Ronald Neame
Bursley is one of the Five Towns in Staffordshire, the heartland of Britain's ceramics industry. Despite his humble origins as the son of a poor washerwoman, Edward Henry Machin would rise to become Bursely's most famous figure in the 1890s, a man who can quite rightly be called a Card... [More...]
Ronald Neame
Bursley is one of the Five Towns in Staffordshire, the heartland of Britain's ceramics industry. Despite his humble origins as the son of a poor washerwoman, Edward Henry Machin would rise to become Bursely's most famous figure in the 1890s, a man who can quite rightly be called a Card... [More...]
Carry on Cabby (1963)
Gerald Thomas
Charlie Hawkins is the owner of a successful taxi firm, Speedee Cabs. His job has become the main passion in his life and, understandably, his wife Peggy feels neglected... [More...]
Gerald Thomas
Charlie Hawkins is the owner of a successful taxi firm, Speedee Cabs. His job has become the main passion in his life and, understandably, his wife Peggy feels neglected... [More...]
Champagne Charlie (1944)
Alberto Cavalcanti
In 1860, Joe Saunders and his brother Fred give up their mining jobs and try to find work in London. Joe immediately gets a job as a bar singer in a public house... [More...]
Alberto Cavalcanti
In 1860, Joe Saunders and his brother Fred give up their mining jobs and try to find work in London. Joe immediately gets a job as a bar singer in a public house... [More...]
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
José Ferrer
During WWII, Major Stringer, an American officer recently assigned to the Royal Marines, devises a daring plan that will help to break Germany's blockade of Britain's sea lanes... [More...]
José Ferrer
During WWII, Major Stringer, an American officer recently assigned to the Royal Marines, devises a daring plan that will help to break Germany's blockade of Britain's sea lanes... [More...]
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Roman Polanski
Two American gangsters, Dickie and Albie, are on the run after a robbery that has gone disastrously awry. Both men are in a bad way, and Albie needs treatment for a serious gunshot wound he has sustained... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Two American gangsters, Dickie and Albie, are on the run after a robbery that has gone disastrously awry. Both men are in a bad way, and Albie needs treatment for a serious gunshot wound he has sustained... [More...]
Darling (1965)
John Schlesinger
In swinging sixties London, Diana Scott is a beautiful young model who appears to be on a perpetual quest to find meaning in her life... [More...]
John Schlesinger
In swinging sixties London, Diana Scott is a beautiful young model who appears to be on a perpetual quest to find meaning in her life... [More...]
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich
England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment... [More...]
Robert Aldrich
England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment... [More...]
Educating Rita (1983)
Lewis Gilbert
26-year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita has decided to get herself an education and so begins an Open University course in English literature... [More...]
Lewis Gilbert
26-year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita has decided to get herself an education and so begins an Open University course in English literature... [More...]
Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
Fargo (1996)
Joel Coen
Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money... [More...]
Joel Coen
Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money... [More...]
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Alfred Hitchcock
For some time, farmer Samuel Sweetland has been without a wife. On the day of his daughter's wedding, he decides it is time that he re-married... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
For some time, farmer Samuel Sweetland has been without a wife. On the day of his daughter's wedding, he decides it is time that he re-married... [More...]
The Full Monty (1997)
Peter Cattaneo
Sheffield, England in the mid-1990s. Unable to find work, former steelworker Gaz and his best friend Dave are forced to steal scrap metal so that they can make ends meet... [More...]
Peter Cattaneo
Sheffield, England in the mid-1990s. Unable to find work, former steelworker Gaz and his best friend Dave are forced to steal scrap metal so that they can make ends meet... [More...]
Gideon's Day (1958)
John Ford
A day in the life of George Gideon, a family man and redoubtable chief inspector at Scotland Yard. The day starts badly, with Gideon collecting a summons for a minor parking offence from an over-enthusiastic bobby, P.C... [More...]
John Ford
A day in the life of George Gideon, a family man and redoubtable chief inspector at Scotland Yard. The day starts badly, with Gideon collecting a summons for a minor parking offence from an over-enthusiastic bobby, P.C... [More...]
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Sam Wood
England, 1933. Although officially retired, Mr Chipping still maintains a visible presence at Brookfield School For Boys, a private school to which he has devoted 63 years of his adult life... [More...]
Sam Wood
England, 1933. Although officially retired, Mr Chipping still maintains a visible presence at Brookfield School For Boys, a private school to which he has devoted 63 years of his adult life... [More...]
Gregory's Girl (1981)
Bill Forsyth
Gregory is a typical teenage boy at a Scottish comprehensive school. His main interest in life is football and so he is understandably perturbed when his coach, Phil Menzies, tells him that he intends to make some radical changes to the school team... [More...]
Bill Forsyth
Gregory is a typical teenage boy at a Scottish comprehensive school. His main interest in life is football and so he is understandably perturbed when his coach, Phil Menzies, tells him that he intends to make some radical changes to the school team... [More...]
The Halfway House (1944)
Basil Dearden
June 1943. Ten disparate individuals badly in need of a rest arrive at a small hotel, The Halfway House, lost in the Welsh valleys... [More...]
Basil Dearden
June 1943. Ten disparate individuals badly in need of a rest arrive at a small hotel, The Halfway House, lost in the Welsh valleys... [More...]
Hobson's Choice (1954)
David Lean
In the 1880s, Henry Horatio Hobson manages both his Salford boot shop and his three daughters with an iron hand. One day, he declares it is high time he found husbands for his two younger daughters, Alice and Vicky... [More...]
David Lean
In the 1880s, Henry Horatio Hobson manages both his Salford boot shop and his three daughters with an iron hand. One day, he declares it is high time he found husbands for his two younger daughters, Alice and Vicky... [More...]
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Michael Powell
For her entire life, Joan Webster has always known where she is going. Now aged 25, she intends to make her fortune by marrying Sir Robert Bellinger, one of the richest men in England... [More...]
Michael Powell
For her entire life, Joan Webster has always known where she is going. Now aged 25, she intends to make her fortune by marrying Sir Robert Bellinger, one of the richest men in England... [More...]
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
John Guillermin
England, 1944. The German High Command are apprised of the Allies' intention to launch a full-scale invasion of France but remain in the dark as to where the attack will commence... [More...]
John Guillermin
England, 1944. The German High Command are apprised of the Allies' intention to launch a full-scale invasion of France but remain in the dark as to where the attack will commence... [More...]
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Anthony Asquith
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised when he discovers that his dear friend, Mr Worthing, is apparently leading a double life... [More...]
Anthony Asquith
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised when he discovers that his dear friend, Mr Worthing, is apparently leading a double life... [More...]
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Robert Hamer
In the early 1900s, Louis Mazzini, tenth Duke of Chalfont, finds himself in prison, condemned for murder. On the eve of his execution, he begins to write an account of how he came to arrive at such a sorry end... [More...]
Robert Hamer
In the early 1900s, Louis Mazzini, tenth Duke of Chalfont, finds himself in prison, condemned for murder. On the eve of his execution, he begins to write an account of how he came to arrive at such a sorry end... [More...]