Soundtrack: Marc Wilkinson

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Sandy Ratcliff · Bill Dean · Grace Cave · Malcolm Tierney

Plot A 19 years old London girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without...

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Malcolm McDowell · David Wood · Richard Warwick · Robert Swann

Plot In an inditement of the British Boys School, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Graham Green · Carolyn Nicholson · Tony Pitts · Roy Haywood

Plot Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work,...

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...

Direction Alan Bridges

Cast Robert Shaw · Sarah Miles · Peter Egan · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot This is a thoughtful film that lays bare the iniquities of the so-called upper class and those who work for them; the haves and have-nots. Robert Shaw does a creditable...

Direction Michael Apted

Cast Glenda Jackson · Oliver Reed · Brian Deacon · Anthony May

Plot Barton is a soldier in WW2 England; he meets Alice, who is looking after her farm single-handed as her husband is a prisoner of the Japanese. Barton stays overnight and...

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast John Mills · Simon MacCorkindale · Barbara Kellerman · Margaret Tyzack

Plot The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name. Like the earlier Quatermass projects of the 1950s and 1960s, the guiding force...

Direction Anthony Harvey

Cast Martin Sheen · Sam Waterston · Harvey Keitel · Stéphane Audran

Plot A white trapper steals a white mustang called Eagle Wing from a Kiowa Indian who pursues him to get his horse back.

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Patrick Wymark · Linda Hayden · Barry Andrews · Michele Dotrice

Plot Horror thriller set in 17th century England about the children of a village slowly converting into a coven of devil worshipers.

Direction Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Martin Sheen · Sam Neill · Derek Jacobi · Brigitte Fossey

Plot Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an...

Direction Irving Lerner

Cast Robert Shaw · Christopher Plummer · Nigel Davenport · Michael Craig

Plot The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire...

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Peter Sellers · Helen Mirren · David Tomlinson · Sid Caesar

Plot Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir,...

Direction Barry Davis

Cast Rowena Cooper · Kenneth Cranham · Edward Hardwicke · Patricia Heneghan

Plot TV Mini-Series (1982-). 4 episodes.

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Laurence Olivier · Alan Bates · Jane Asher · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted...

Direction Philip Haas

Cast David Hockney

Plot A groundbreaking essay documentary which featured an ebullient David Hockney discussing a late seventeenth-century Chinese scroll by artist Wang Hui.

Direction Brian Gibson

Cast Colin Welland · Michael Elphick · Robin Ellis · Helen Mirren

Plot On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in...

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast John Mills · Simon MacCorkindale · Barbara Kellerman · Ralph Arliss

Plot In the near future, civilization has broken down to the barest fragment of recognizable life. Young people are forming gangs and dominating the wrecks of cities like London. But the...

Direction John Davies

Cast Peter O'Toole · Bryan Brown · John Rhys-Davies · Ravi Sheth

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast John Gielgud · Ralph Richardson · Billie Whitelaw · Kenneth Haigh

Plot 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon.

Direction Robert Knights · Moira Armstrong · John Irvin · Jack Gold

Cast Maggie Smith · Jean Simmons · Rupert Graves · Joan Plowright