Dennis Price
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mr. S. Potter is headmaster of a school which gives instruction on "How to win without actually cheating." The school teaches the ways to seduce a women, gain points in a conversation, or beating someone who plays a better game. One of Mr. Potter's pupils is a desperate Henry Palfrey whose every attempt to win the heart of April Smith has been thwarted by the cad Raymond Delauney. Needless to say Mr. Potter's instructions allow Henry to vanquish his...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. Nominated for Best British Film at the **BAFTA Film Awards.** WInner of the Best Production Design Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system." - Ben Walters, **Time Out***...
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's beloved classic is a profoundly personal journey to Powell's bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amid the tumult of the Second World War, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims -- a melancholy 'landgirl', a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant -- who are waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion of a military family, enters the scene as Sinclair₂s replacement, the two men engage in a fierce struggle for control of both the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
6) Victim
Language
English
Description
"A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 325
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man. He expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion from a traditional military family enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
Publisher
Twientieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Concerned that their children aren't growing up as "civilized" as they would in their native England, a couple decides to leave Jamaica and return home with their family. However, when they inadvertently find their way onto a pirate ship, the children befriend, outwit and even frighten their shipmates.
Publisher
Shout! Factory, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments. But when the doctor runs out of fresh body parts for his 'research', he turns to murder to complete his gruesome creation. Now, his monster has unleashed its own ghastly killing spree ...
Publisher
FIlm Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Belles of St. Trinian's: A farce set among the uninhibited pupils of an unorthodox school. A sultan sends his daughter to St. Trinian's because it is near his racehorse stables. One of the students kidnaps the sultan's prize mare and pandemonium ensues.
School for Scoundrels: Mr. S. Potter is headmaster of a school which gives instruction on "How to win without actually cheating." The school teaches the ways to seduce a women, gain points in...
12) British noir: II
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Cosh boy: A gang of teenage delinguents, led by Roy, is earning money by mugging women on the streets of London. The police catch up with them and at their hearing, the judge sentences them to a youth club to reform their ways. The boys use the club as the base for their growing operation.
Time is my enemy: Radley is a small-time crook, believed to be dead, who returns to his wife after a long absence to find her remarried to a wealthy publisher....
13) British noir
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They met in the dark: During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
The October man: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Snowbound: A British Army vet exposes a plot...