Fawlty Towers (1975)

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)

Summary: Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to find the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions.

Release Date: March 05, 2009

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Julian Jarrold

Writers: David Peace

, Tony Grisoni

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Channel 4, Screen Yorkshire, Lipsync Productions, Screen Yorkshire Production Fund

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 151,644

Quadrophenia (1979)

Summary: Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.

Release Date: November 02, 1979

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Franc Roddam

Writers: Dave Humphries

, Martin Stellman

, Franc Roddam

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Who Films, Polytel

Distributor: VH1 Television, Rhino Home Video, Sirius Publishing, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Sorcerers (1967)

Summary: An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Michael Reeves

Writers: Michael Reeves

, Tom Baker

, John Burke

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Tony Tenser Films, Curtwel Productions, Global, Tigon British Film Productions

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures, Allied Artists Home Video, Cinefear, Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000

Bronco Bullfrog (1970)

Summary: Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.

Release Date: June 25, 1971

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Barney Platts-Mills

Writer: Barney Platts-Mills

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Maya Films

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000

Domestic: $ 13,171

American Dream (1990)

Summary: Recounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees' wages and benefits were cut.

Release Date: October 06, 1990

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Barbara Kopple

, Cathy Caplan

, Thomas Haneke

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cabin Creek Films, Catholic Communication Campaign, Channel Four Films

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 269,823

Comfort and Joy (1984)

Summary: Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Gl...

Release Date: October 10, 1984

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bill Forsyth

Writer: Bill Forsyth

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lake (Comfort and Joy), Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Scottish Television (STV)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,057,368

This Happy Breed (1944)

Summary: Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.

Release Date: October 31, 1944

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: David Lean

Writers: David Lean

, Ronald Neame

, Anthony Havelock-Allan

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Two Cities Films, Noel Coward-Cineguild

Distributor: Standard Television, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

The Dam Busters (1955)

Summary: Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.

Release Date: July 16, 1955

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Michael Anderson

Writers: Paul Brickhill

, Guy Gibson

, R.C. Sherriff

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC)

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Holding (2022)

Summary: Follows PJ Collins, a gentle mountain of a man, who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work.

Release Date: March 05, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, Happy Prince, ITV Studios

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

A Bigger Splash (1973)

Summary: Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. Titled after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.

Release Date: October 16, 1974

Genres: Drama, Documentary, Biography

Director: Jack Hazan

Writers: Jack Hazan

, David Mingay

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Buzzy Enterprises, Circle Associates Ltd.

Distributor: New Line Cinema, Metrograph Pictures, Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000

Domestic: $ 95,826

International: $ 34,501

Edward II (1991)

Summary: In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wif...

Release Date: October 18, 1991

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Derek Jarman

Writers: Christopher Marlowe

, Derek Jarman

, Stephen McBride

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: British Screen Productions, BBC Films, Working Title Films, Uplink

Distributor: Fine Line Features, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 699,264

International: $ 7,166

Raining Stones (1993)

Summary: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and dete...

Release Date: October 08, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Ken Loach

Writer: Jim Allen

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Channel Four Films, Parallax Pictures

Distributor: Northern Arts Entertainment, Fox Lorber, Twilight Time

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 89,388

International: $ 1,214

Keyboard Fantasies (2019)

Summary: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a Black transgender musician, becomes a cult icon three decades after the release of his album Keyboard Fantasies.

Release Date: September 17, 2020

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Posy Dixon

Runtime: 1 h 11 min

Production: LUCA Productions

Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Dreamchild (1985)

Summary: Ian Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson.

Release Date: October 04, 1985

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Gavin Millar

Writer: Dennis Potter

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: PfH Ltd., Thorn EMI

Distributor: Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, EastWest Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Thorn EMI/HBO Video, Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,215,923

McLibel (2005)

Summary: McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

Release Date: May 20, 2005

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Ken Loach

, Franny Armstrong

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Spanner Films

Distributor: Cinema Libre Studio, Journeyman Pictures

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,337

International: $ 2,897

Khartoum (1966)

Summary: In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Oli...

Release Date: June 15, 1966

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Basil Dearden

, Eliot Elisofon

Writer: Robert Ardrey

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Julian Blaustein Productions Ltd.

Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Threads (1984)

Summary: The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Release Date: September 23, 1984

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, War

Director: Mick Jackson

Writer: Barry Hines

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Nine Network Australia, Western-World Television Inc.

Distributor: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Severin Films, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS)

Countries: United Kingdom, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000