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- A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what could be his death trip or his awakening.
- A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
- A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
- Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
- The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard, in this extraordinary film directed by David Gladwell. Although best known for his celebrated work as editor on Lindsay Anderson's If. - and O Lucky Man!, Gladwell has, until now, rarely been recognised as the director of a number of ground-breaking films. This title is also available on DVD / Blu-ray in the BFI's Flipside collection.
- A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is put to the test.
- A successful young couple's sheltered, affluent world is shattered when they each make a decision to neglect the needs of a troubled teenage girl.
- Pop follows a young boy, Jack, as he explores his own identity by befriending the recently released ex-convict, Pop. The pair bond, but Pop's past and his inability to control his emotions threaten to put Jack in danger.
- A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.
- Stewart Mackinnon's avant-garde adaptation of Marquis de Sade's infamous erotic novel has been near impossible to see since 1976.
- Two former patients of Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier, reopening the wounds of the past, and questioning whether they were healed.
- A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.
- A group of people discuss chance encounters they have had that has led to sex with complete strangers. One girl recounts her experiences in the middle of a busy club, another being caught by the police. A lady describes a lesbian clinch in the toilets, a man recounts his 30 second affair on a train and a woman takes a coach journey.
- Maeve (Mary Jackson) returns to Belfast after being away for several years, and she stays in the family home with her sister and father.
- Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
- A dramatisation of selected parts of John Berger's and Jean Mohr's 1967 book 'A Fortunate Man" about an English General Practitioner (doctor), John Eskell [called 'John Sassall' in the book] and his work in his Practice in St Briavels, Gloucestershire, England.
- Rapunzel's story from Grimm's fairytales is retold and reinterpreted several times to examine feminist issues. There's the male voyeur as film noir detective; a raunchy cartoon Venus who's a witch; a melodrama of menopausal angst and Rapunzel's own live-action tale.
- One of the earliest music videos, the film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.
- People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
- A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
- Behind the faded grandeur of a seaside resort, the vulnerable and poor become prey for local predators
- Childish scrawl, devilish cartoon figures and black and white photography compete to represent the woman in what's been described as a literal battleground, with animator and animated fighting over the editing machine and fantasising each other's murder. Nothing is taken for granted, including the authority of representation itself - a restitution of the phallus which masculanises even feminist film into daddy's neatly sprocketed long legs?
- A Yorkshire girl begins to see and hear things that are apparently unseen by others.
- A six-part documentary series using a collection of World War Two era shorts, designed by the Ministry of Information and produced by the Crown Film Unit, for the British civilian and military viewing audience. All to entertain, inform and warn, plus used as a weapon, propaganda through entertainment. Comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, even cartoons, all now stored in the British Film Institute. Some of these shorts are used here with background information and interspersed commentary by the presenter, Jim Carter.
- Presented as found footage à la The Blair Witch Project, this chilling and provocative fake home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Will Knightley (father of Keira) plays one of the guerrillas who kidnap and torture a cabinet minister. Tony Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness. Pre-punk in its semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values, this is strong stuff.
- In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a lone machine-gunner returns to his camp to find his compatriots murdered. Tracking their killers, he is shaken to discover they are two young girls. He kills the older one but seeing the younger is demented, he just leaves her to die - a decision he will live to regret.
- A visually woven response to Sylvia Plath's own readings of her poetry - which celebrates her macabre humour and cinematic vision.
- A white South African is shocked on a weekly visit to her sister's farm.
- An experimental narrative based on Oscar Wilde's tale "The Birthday of the Infanta".
- In this animated short, a half-naked woman dances with her black-suited partner.
- Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.
- In this short subject, a renowned performer plays a well known solo for the trombone.
- A man believes that his dead wife has returned in the form of a cat to haunt him.
- Documentarian Nick Broomfield examines the problems of slum demolition and the removal of residents to new housing blocks.
- Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.
- Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold's imagination.
- The story of a young man undergoing treatment by a Czech psychoanalyst.
- Companion film to The Nightcleaners, showing how conditions have changed in the time since its release, as well as providing a portrait of one of the cleaners, Myrtle Wardally.