Gentlemen’s club owner Cosmo Vitelli is a man dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of a group of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his...
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the...
Jamie is in his final year at school and works part-time at the local supermarket. However, he prefers to spend his time with his friends, going to parties and chasing girls. He is determined to lose his virginity and therefore...
The film that brought Jacques Tati international acclaim also launched his on-screen alter ego: the courteous, well-meaning, eternally accident prone Monsieur Hulot with whom Tati would from now on be inseparably associated. As...
A reckless young man, working as a lathe operator in a British industrial town, lives for his
weekends of boozing, schmoozing, and bedding his co-worker's wife. When she get's pregnant
and he gets beaten to a pulp for it, he...
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men - gentle Bill and brash Bert - meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station.
Viaggio in Italia
BFI Video | 1954 | 97 min | Rated PG | Region B (A, C untested) | Aug 19, 2013
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and...
In the late 60's, after graduating in Mathematics, the German Stefan Brückner hitchhikes from Lübeck to Paris to see the world without money. He befriends Charlie in an arcade and they go to a party. When Stefan meets gorgeous...
La vallée
BFI Video | 1972 | 106 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Region free
| Feb 14, 2011
Viviane, a straightforward young woman, sets out on a birding expedition in New Guinea, where she meets Olivier, an adventurer who's about to leave with some friends on an expedition into the jungle. The goal is to discover an...
Pier Paolo Pasolini was a celebrated poet, writer, and all-around intellectual, but it was his maverick, controversial filmmaking that distinguished him as an influential artistic force. The director's last film, '120 Days Of...
Blu-ray + DVD
BFI Video | 1926 | 67 min | Region B (A, C untested) | Aug 19, 2013
Taken from "The Arabian Nights," the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse which sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the evil plan...
A film director, Jean, his producer, Marc, and his assistant, Lucette, board the Trans-Europ-Express in Paris bound for Antwerp. Once in their compartment it occurs to them that the drama of life aboard the train presents...
Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional...
A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after...
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo.
