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  • 1979
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    Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)

    Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)

    6.00 1979 HD

    A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

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    Cast: Max Wall

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  • 1965
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    Boy and Bicycle

    Boy and Bicycle

    5.65 1965 HD

    A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tony Scott

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  • 1958
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    Amelia and the Angel

    Amelia and the Angel

    6.25 1958 HD

    A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mercedes Quadros

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  • 1956
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    A Short Vision

    A Short Vision

    6.35 1956 HD

    The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James McKechnie

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  • 1959
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    Refuge England

    Refuge England

    7.50 1959 HD

    Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tibor Molnár

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  • 1955
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    Round the World in 80 Days

    Round the World in 80 Days

    1 1955 HD

    Animation. Part of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days", depicting scenes in the Reform Club and Phineas Fogg's adventures in India.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Donald Pleasence

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  • 1955
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    Bride and Groom

    Bride and Groom

    1 1955 HD

    I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob...

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    Cast: Bob Godfrey

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  • 1967
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    Herostratus

    Herostratus

    6.20 1967 HD

    When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Gothard

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  • 1956
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    Together

    Together

    7.08 1956 HD

    The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Andrews

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  • 1958
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    Alone with the Monsters

    Alone with the Monsters

    4.50 1958 HD

    An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Nazli Nour

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  • 1952
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    Animated Genesis

    Animated Genesis

    6.00 1952 HD

    The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Edric Connor

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  • 1964
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    An Untitled Film

    An Untitled Film

    6.50 1964 HD

    A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky...

    Genre: Drama

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  • 1961
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    Man of Rope

    Man of Rope

    1 1961 HD

    Story of a man in prison, condemned to death, and his subsequent execution. Inspired by "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Vladek Sheybal

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  • 1961
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    Michael

    Michael

    1 1961 HD

    Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1963
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    Ten Bob in Winter

    Ten Bob in Winter

    5.00 1963 HD

    An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lloyd Reckord

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  • 1965
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    In Separation

    In Separation

    1 1965 HD

    In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut...

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    Cast: Drewe Henley

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  • 1964
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    The Peaches

    The Peaches

    1 1964 HD

    A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Juliet Harmer

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  • 1961
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    The First Step

    The First Step

    1 1961 HD

    A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

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  • 1955
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    Rowlandson's England

    Rowlandson's England

    1 1955 HD

    England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Alec Guinness

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  • 1957
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    Nice Time

    Nice Time

    6.00 1957 HD

    A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.

    Genre: Documentary

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