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- DirectorRichard LesterStarsRita TushinghamRalph RichardsonPeter CookIn post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Ethel Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Ethel Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even--yes, a bed-sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on its windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily-pregnant girl.Released 2010
- DirectorArnold L. MillerNorman CohenStarsDavid GellCaron GardnerNoel Harrison"The world's greatest city laid bare!", roars the tagline to LONDON IN THE RAW (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging city.Released 2010
- DirectorArnold L. MillerStarsDavid GellMacDonald HobleyBilly J. KramerExploitation film documentary on 'Swinging London' as it actually happened. Arnold Louis Miller, the director of 'Nudist Memories', interviews mods, rockers and beatniks. Wife Swapping, an overworked stripper, child birth, the killing of chickens and an interview with Billy J. Kramer also feature.Released 2010
- DirectorDon LevyStarsMichael GothardGabriella LicudiPeter StephensWhen young poet Max (Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.Released 2010
- DirectorGerry O'HaraStarsTom BellJudy CarneEdward HigginsA married theatre lighting technician with two small children has an affair with a teenage actress.Released 2010
- DirectorPete WalkerStarsMichael LatimerLuan PetersDerek AylwardA mercenary joins forces with 2 crooked cops in an attempt to steal a fortune in gold bullion from a corrupt Arab country.Released 2010
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsPaul JonesJean ShrimptonMark LondonBritain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie (Jean Shrimpton), is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.Released 2010
- DirectorGerry O'HaraStarsMargaret Rose KeilLinda MarloweDavid WestonLondon is in full '60s swing in "That Kind of Girl," a shamelessly entertaining exploitation film that revels in sexual titillation while moralizing about the dangers of STDs.Released 2010
- DirectorLindsay ShonteffStarsMaggie StrideGay SingletonGilbert WynneSuzy arrives in London with nowhere to stay and meets Fiona, a groupie who has settled into a relationship with Lee, a singer/bassist in a rock band.Released 2010
- DirectorGerry O'HaraStarsFrancesca AnnisAnneke WillsTony TannerA beautiful young girl arrives in London to pursue a modeling career, and finds herself caught up in the whole "swinging '60s" scene.Released 17th May 2010
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsOliver ReedClifford DavidAnn LynnAn American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.Released 17th May 2010
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsBarry EvansJudy GeesonAngela ScoularA high-school dropout, obsessed with sex, is determined to lose his virginity.Released 13th Sep 2010
- DirectorBarney Platts-MillsStarsDel WalkerAnne GoodingSam ShepherdDel and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.Released 13th Sep 2010
- DirectorBarney Platts-MillsStarsSusan PenhaligonBruce RobinsonMichael FeastLove story between a young depressive girl and a talented young writer and the first steps into their adult life.Released Jan 17th 2011
- DirectorJoseph DespinsWilliam DumaresqStarsKit GleaveErna MayWilliam DumaresqAn intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.Released Jan 17th 2011
- DirectorMichael SarneStarsGeneviève WaïteChristian DoermerCalvin LockhartA provincial girl is entangled in the mod morality of London.Released 25th Apr 2011
- DirectorJames HillStarsShirley Anne FieldRobert StephensKay WalshThe relationship and possible affair between a young designer and a married executive plays out over a series of lunch hours.Released 25th Apr 2011
- DirectorDavid GladwellStarsRoger BurroughesThe 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.Released 18th Jul 2011
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsJane AsherJohn Moulder-BrownKarl Michael Vogler15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan.Released 18th Jul 2011
- DirectorStuart CooperStarsJohn HurtJohn McEneryDavid WarnerAn art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near-fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance, and which attracts a couple of other unsavory confused characters.Released 24th Oct 2011
- DirectorChristopher MongerStarsIan McNeiceBish NethercoteJohn CassadyA sheltered late night radio show host who offers escapism to his audience via his narrations of his 19th century romance novels, finds a brutalized young woman and takes her in to take care of her, which makes his psyche start to crack.Released 24th Oct 2011
- DirectorNorman J. WarrenStarsLucia ModugnoTerence SkeltonDaniel OllierA young Italian girl comes to London and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.Released 20th Feb 2012
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsJulie ShawBerwick KalerElaine ShoreWhile living rough on the streets of London's East End, a young man, Dink encounters the mysterious Dee and they begin a relationship. When tenderness gives way to cruelty they become consumed by darkness.Released 28th May 2012
- DirectorIan MerrickStarsDonald SumpterDebbie FarringtonMarjorie YatesA gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.Released 28th May 2012
- DirectorB.S. JohnsonStarsWilliam HoylandBarry ColeGordon GridleyWilliam Hoyland stars in this legendary, multi award-winning short film directed by the modernist writer and film-maker BS Johnson. You're Human Like the Rest of Them is an adaptation of Johnson's decasyllabic poem about mortality. A teacher recites the poems lines first in a hospital surrounded by aging pensioners and then at work in a classroom, and finally in the school staff room. This title is also available on the DVD/Blu-ray 'You're Human Like the Rest of Them: The films of BS Johnson' in the BFI Flipside collection.Released 15th Apr 2013 (+ 9 other short movies)
- DirectorJohn KrishStarsAnthony Farrar-HockleyWilfrid BrambellRay BrooksDocudrama, made for Military Intelligence, about what it was like to be a British prisoner of the North Koreans in the 1950-1953 war.Released 15th Apr 2013
- DirectorSaxon LoganStarsJoanna DavidNickolas GraceHeather PageRich couple Angela & Richard travel to the home of brother and sister Alex and Marion for dinner but end up clashing with their hosts over their different views. And when a destructive storm ruins their dinner plans they go out to a restaurant where they meet strange owner (Fulton MacKay) and his employee, As the foursome continue to argue the tension rises and the night takes a bloody turn for the worst.Released 23rd Sep 2013
- DirectorLeslie MegaheyStarsJeremy ClydeMaurice DenhamCheryl KennedyCan Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?Released 18th Nov 2013
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsTom MannionEddie BurtRichard DemarcoRonnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.Released 21st Apr 2014
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsDavid FarrarNoëlle AdamChristopher LeeAn impetuous teenage girl becomes involved with Soho's beatnik and striptease scenes to spite her staid architect father and her French ex-stripper stepmother.Released 25th Apr 2016
- DirectorVal GuestStarsLaurence HarveySylvia SymsYolande DonlanSleazy talent agent Johnny Jackson discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. The deal they cut, however, is highly exploitative of the young singer, and their relationship begins to go bad.Released 25th Apr 2016
- DirectorJosé Ramón LarrazStarsAngela PleasencePeter VaughanLorna HeilbronA young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.Released 25th Apr 2016
- DirectorDon SharpStarsGeorge SandersBeryl ReidNicky HensonAn amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an "undead".Released 26th Sep 2016
- DirectorMaurice HattonStarsCharles GormleyNeville SmithAnn ZeldaFilmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking.Released 26th Jun 2017
- DirectorChristian MarnhamStarsBill WallisTracy HydeClive MantleCharthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway halt, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station keeper, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. That evening, the hunchback discovers Ewen with Pauline's body in the shack where he lives, and helps him to bury the corpse in the orchard. Later, however, Ewen inadvertently betrays himself: the body is disinterred by the police and Ewen breaks down hysterically. Years later, the hunchback, who has disavowed Ewen, encourages the friendship of another village youth. Peter Jessop's carefully textured camera work initially lends this mini-feature an edge of the picturesquely sinister. But the resolution of the anecdote is rather forced and anti-climactic, and some of the details (like the police searching the orchard at the dead of night) ring distractingly false. All the same, it represents a debut of some promise.Released 24th Jul 2017
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsPatricia HealeyArthur LoweJohn SharpAn impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal Big city life, back to a city in North England, on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity.(Red, White & Zero) Released Dec 10th 2018
- DirectorPierre RouveStarsJames MasonGeraldine ChaplinBobby DarinJohn Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.Released 25th Feb 2019