British cinema

Her Private Hell

The cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad who gets caught up in the sleazy world of modelling, Her Private Hell was the debut feature of Briti

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

This glossy coming-of-age comedy, directed by Clive Donner (The Caretaker), follows the exploits of sex-obsessed Jamie (Barry Evans) as he attempts

Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow

This collection of documentaries, unseen television reports and silent film footage reveals how powerful and enduring the folk traditions of Great Britain have always been.

Herostratus

When a young poet (Michael Gothard – The Devils, The Valley) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle,

Highway Patrolman / Three Businessmen

Highway Patrolman

If War Should Come

The BFI National Archive, in partnership with the British Postal Museum & Archive, Royal Mail and BT Heritage, has cur

The Innocents

In the performance of her career Deborah Kerr plays Miss Giddens, an emotionally repressed vicar’s daughter, who becomes the guardian of two,

The Innocents

“The best ghost movie I’ve ever seen.” Pauline Kael

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife’s Lodger

This second release of the BFI’s pioneering Adelphi Collection brings together two films directed by Maurice Elvey.

Joanna

Seventeen-year-old Joanna is cool, stylish, and determined to start a new life as an art student in swinging London.

That Kind of Girl

In 1960s London, a beautiful continental au pair finds herself wrestling with the affections of an earnest peace-protester, a dashing young toff an

Land of Promise

This extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence.

Little Malcolm (And His Struggle Against the Eunuchs)

Delusional revolutionary Malcolm Scrawdyke (a mesmerising John Hurt) leads his Party of Dynamic Erection – Wick (John McEnery), Irwin (Raymond Plat

London / Robinson in Space

Patrick Keiller’s imaginative and highly original films each document a journey undertaken by the unseen ‘researcher’ Robinson and his simila

London in the Raw

Legendary British low-budget movie mogul Arnold Louis Miller presents a cynical, sometimes startling vision of life in 1960s London with this fascinating exploitation-style documentary.