UK movies



Modesty Blaise (1966)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Vitti, Monica | Stamp, Terence | Dirk Bogarde | Andrews, Harry | Craig, Michael | Revill, Clive | Knox, Alexander | Falk, Rossella | Gabel, Scilla | Chow, Michael | Melia, Joe | Urzì, Saro | Aumont, Tina | MacGreevy, Oliver
Directors: Losey, Joseph
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Great Britain is giving 50 million pounds worth of diamonds to a Middle East sheik in return for oil concessions. There are rumors of a plot by arch-criminal Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) to steal the diamonds, so the Secret Service Chief (Harry Andrews) seeks the help of sexy spy Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti), who brings along her sidekick Willie Garvin (Terence Stamp).

Hamlet (1948)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Laurie, John | Knight, Esmond | Quayle, Anthony | MacGinnis, Niall | Williams, Harcourt | Troughton, Patrick | Tarver, Tony | Cushing, Peter | Holloway, Stanley | Thorndike, Russell | Sydney, Basil | Herlie, Eileen | Wooland, Norman | Aylmer, Felix
Directors: Olivier, Laurence
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William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father’s death and mother’s hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother’s chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.

Cass (2008)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Anozie, Nonso | Press, Nathalie | Gregory, Leo | Brocker, Gavin | Bartlett, Nick | Beevers, Geoffrey | Bence, Jack | Demetriou, Mario | Ellis, Winston | Gee, Robbie | Hassan, Tamer | Ineson, Ralph | Jennings, Rory | Johnson, Jack | Kaluuya, Daniel
Directors: Baird, Jon S.
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The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. CASS found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with a dilemma; whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past. This is the extraordinary story of his life.

Killing Me Softly (2002)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Ian | McElhone, Natascha | Fiennes, Joseph | Graham, Heather | Thomsen, Ulrich | Jason Hughes
Directors: Chen Kaige
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A London website designer ops out of her comfortable but ordinary relationship with a nice boyfriend when she forms a dangerously obsessive bond with a handsome, mysterious mountaineer, who turns out to have some secrets.

Long Good Friday, The (1980)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Paul | Dolan, Leo | McNally, Kevin | Love, Patti | Moriarty, P.H. | Thompson, Derek | Marshall, Bryan | Hoskins, Bob | Mirren, Helen | Head, Ruby | Cork, Charles | Pierre, Olivier | Brosnan, Pierce | O'Malley, Daragh | King, Dave
Directors: Mackenzie, John
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Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.

Assassination Bureau, The (1969)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Reed, Oliver | Rigg, Diana | Savalas, Telly | Jürgens, Curd | Noiret, Philippe | Mitchell, Warren | Reid, Beryl | Revill, Clive | Griffith, Kenneth | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Incontrera, Annabella | Conrad, Jess | Coulouris, George | Michael, Ralph | Kath, Katherine
Directors: Dearden, Basil
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For her first assignment a lady journalist tracks down the head of an organisation offering to kill, for money, people deserving of such a fate. She thinks herself very clever when he agrees to take a contract with himself as the target. What she doesn’t know is that her paper’s owner is second-in-command in the Bureau and has his own reasons for supporting her challenge.

Fire Down Below (1957)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Helgenberger, Marg | Lang, Stephen | Hunt, Brad | Kristofferson, Kris | Stanton, Harry Dean | Helm, Levon | Collie, Mark | Harvey, Alex | Bruce, Ed | Neighbors, Amelia | Masur, Richard | Krawic, Michael | Jeter, Clay | Pollard, Yvonne
Directors: Enríquez Alcalá, Félix
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Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

Passage to India, A (1984)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Judy | Banerjee, Victor | Ashcroft, Peggy | Fox, James | Guinness, Alec | Havers, Nigel | Wilson, Richard | Pemberton, Antonia | Culver, Michael | Malik, Art | Jaffrey, Saeed | Swift, Clive | Firbank, Ann | Seth, Roshan | Hotz, Sandra
Directors: Lean, David
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community’s insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies.

Black Narcissus (1947)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Robson, Flora | Simmons, Jean | Farrar, David | Sabu | Knight, Esmond | Byron, Kathleen | Laird, Jenny | Furse, Judith | Hallatt, May | Noble, Shaun | Whaley Jr., Eddie | Roberts, Nancy | On, Ley | Foster, Maxwell
Directors: Powell, Michael
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Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy “palace”, former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school for children and girls, and an infirmary for the local dwellers. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is assigned as the superior sister, and her liaison with civilization is the rude government agent Mr. Dean (David Farrar). The lonely and exotic place and the presence of Mr. ‘Dean awake the innermost desires in the flesh of the sisters, and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) becomes mad with the temptation.

Gandhi (1982)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: India | UK
Actors: Kingsley, Ben | Bergen, Candice | Fox, Edward | Gielgud, John | Howard, Trevor | Mills, John | Sheen, Martin | Charleson, Ian | Fugard, Athol | Halmer, Günther Maria | Jaffrey, Saeed | James, Geraldine | Padamsee, Alyque | Puri, Amrish | Seth, Roshan
Directors: Attenborough, Richard
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When ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ (qv) first set foot in British India, he had already been to Britain and South Africa, and had created quite a stir for the betterment of the people. But in India, he realized that he had first to live the life of a peasant to understand what it is to be an Indian. This resolve will lead him to shed his westerners clothing, and don a simple loincloth, be subjected to racial slurs from none other than Winston Churchill (Half naked Indian Fakir); Mobilize awareness of local industry and less dependence on imported clothing and material; the historic dandee march for withdrawal of the salt tax; a fast unto death to stop the virtual slaughter of British troops by irate Indian mobs; and be imprisoned several times. His resolve was to work with stalwarts such as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sardar Valabhbhai Patel, Professor Gokhale, J.B. Kripalani, Maulana Azad, and Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru to ensure first of all to get the British to quit India, and then run an Indian Government under the Congress party. Gandhi will soon realize that it is not enough to be just an Indian, for India has many facets - Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, and Christian. The British relied on these many facets as an excuse for their continuance as they wanted to ensure that the minorities are not oppressed by the Hindu majority. Concerned over the inroads made by Gandhi to unite the Hindus, Muslims, and all others under a common umbrella, the British invited Jinnah for talks, and it is here that a seed was laid for a separate country called Pakistan. When Gandhi came to know about this, he pleaded with Jinnah to unite the Muslims, even take over as the first Prime Minister with his choice of Muslim candidates for Parliament, but separatist Jinnah had already made his mind. The World Wars of 1914 and 1944 having taken it’s toll on Europe and Britain in particular, the weary British finally decided to leave India in 1947 - not the India they had conquered - but an India that was ready to be divided in East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Now after the much awaited independence was the real test for Gandhi - a test that will make him or break him - as he started a fast unto death to try and stop the violence that was threatening to break out into a civil war, not realizing that he had indirectly fanned Hindu extremism, which would later be called the Shiv Sena, into taking the matter directly in their hands to ensure that Muslims are kept out of their Hindustan forever.