British fiction
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
The Innocents
“The best ghost movie I’ve ever seen.” Pauline Kael
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,
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
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 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.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin (Tom Courtenay) is a defiant teenager who rebels against the system, refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job, railing against
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin (Tom Courtenay) is a defiant teenager who rebels against the system, refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job, railing against
The Long Day Closes
Terence Davies’s follow-up to Distant Voices, Still Lives extends his autobiographical memoirs into the 50s.
Looking for Langston
In this lyrical and poetic consideration of the life of revered Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, award-winning British filmmaker Isaac Juli
Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Exploring the territory where art, love and sex collide, Love is the Devil charts the powerful and dangerous relationship betweens one of Britain
Loving Memory
An extraordinary debut from one of Hollywood’s most bankable UK expats, Tony Scott’s Loving Memory (1970) follows an isolated brother a
Lunch Hour
Shirley Anne Field gives a fiery performance as a young designer on the brink of starting an affair with a married male supervisor (Robert Stephens
Man of Violence
In a world of gangs and villains, one man – Moon – will stop at nothing to get the girl and take the spoils.
Miss Tulip Stays the Night / The Great Game
A delicious double dose of effervescent vintage comedy-drama starring Britain’s blondest bombshell, the one and only Diana Dors, at her saucy
Night and the City
Adapted from the lowlife novel by Gerald Kersh, Night and the City is a baroque masterpiece of corruption, paranoia and doom that ranks among the t
Nightbirds
A curious relationship develops between a mysterious young man, and the woman who invites him to stay with her.
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