The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire 1984

5.60

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.

1984

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960

7.00

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

1960

Kes

Kes 1970

7.48

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.

1970

Tom Jones

Tom Jones 1963

5.92

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

1963

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962

7.20

A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as a prized athlete.

1962

A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey 1961

6.90

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.

1961

The Knack... and How to Get It

The Knack... and How to Get It 1965

5.92

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.

1965

Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly 1970

4.80

Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

1970

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968

6.00

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

1968

Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger 1959

6.60

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

1959

Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes 1964

6.60

A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

1964

Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle 1966

7.20

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

1966

Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews 1977

4.70

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

1977

The Entertainer

The Entertainer 1960

6.10

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

1960

Hamlet

Hamlet 1969

5.60

Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.

1969

Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark 1969

4.00

Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.

1969

Red, White, and Zero

Red, White, and Zero 1979

5.00

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.

1979

The Sailor from Gibraltar

The Sailor from Gibraltar 1967

5.71

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.

1967

One Way Pendulum

One Way Pendulum 1965

5.50

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.

1965