Movies

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.

A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews...

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.

George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests...

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair...

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous...

Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he...

A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.