Rodelinda (1998)

Director: Jean-Marie Villegier

Starring: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Umberto Chiummo, Andreas Scholl, Artur Stefanowicz, Kur...

An obscure, 8th-century plot of ancient intrigues is updated to the era of silent movies, in Jean-Marie Villegier's innovative adaptation of the Hande... Read more

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Starring: Gillian Anderson, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, James Fleet, Stephen Fry, Naomie Har...

As with their previous collaboration ('24 Hour Party People'), Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan subvert the medium; making a film about a 'docume... Read more

Green Ice (1981)

Director: Ernest Day

Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif

A skilled team of professionals plot to steal an enormous cache of emeralds, but their daring get-rich-quick scheme lands them in the middle of the co... Read more

Three Up, Two Down: Series 1 and 2 (1985)

Director: Mandie Fletcher, John B Hobbs

Starring: Michael Elphick, Angela Thorne, Lysette Anthony, Ray Burdis

When young couple Nick and Ange decide to bring another little person into the world, they soon find finances stretched to the limit and decide to ren... Read more

Hell Drivers (1957)

Director: Cy Endfield

Starring: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Sid James, William...

A hard-bitten Brit-noir about a corrupt trucking company forcing its drivers to work to the limit in order to make bonuses. Nominated for a BAFTA and... Read more

Powder Her Face (1999)

Director: Gerald Fox

Starring: Mary Plazas, Heather Buck, Dan Norman, Graeme Broadbent

A contemporary opera, written in 1995 by 24-year-old Thomas Ades, it is based on the life of the brazen and flamboyant Duchess of Argyll as she recall... Read more

A Home Of Your Own (1964)

Starring: Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth, Bernard Cribbins, Bill Fraser

This wordless, though noisy comedy is a satire on Britain's building industry and stars Ronnie Barker as the put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth... Read more

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)

Director: Steve Roberts

Starring: Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Denise Coffey, Harry Fowler, J.G Devlin, Sheila Re...

Based on a radio play by Vivien Stanshall (who acts as narrator), Trevor Howard stars as an eccentric-to-the-point-of-insane nobleman who attempts to... Read more

The King (2005)

Director: James Marsh

Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Paul Dano, Laura Harring, Pell James

Elvis (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a troubled, though charismatic young man, who's just left the navy and is on his way to Corpus Christi to find a father... Read more

Bullet Boy (2005)

Director: Saul Dibb

Starring: Ashley Walters, Luke Fraser, Leon Black, Clare Perkins, Curtis Walker

A powerful and moving examination of inner city gun culture in the UK. With a compelling cast of unknowns this gritty and realistic film tells the st... Read more