British cinema pioneer Claude Friese-Greene, known for his beautiful colour travelogue The Open Road (1926), liked to feature young ladies gracefully posing within a scene. Bordering on the risqué, ...

Ancient ancestors of Wallace, Gromit and Morph abound in this trick film filled with malleable magic. Walter Booth made a number of films that began to explore the potential of stop-motion to bring ...

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Yorkshire sheep farmer Johnny (O’Connor) is dedicated to keeping his family’s farm afloat after his father’s stroke. He finds release from his exhausting everyday life through binge drinking and ...

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Now a favourite on the festival circuit, Glendining’s debut feature documentary is thought-provoking and funny – a sensitive film that challenges you to stop and re-evaluate. Glendining set out to ...

One of Waters’ most notorious films is Pink Flamingos (1972), a film which legendary critic Roger Ebert famously offered zero stars. With scenes involving chicken sex, a singing orifice and the ...

A newlywed Indian couple arrive in London, 1979, and attempt to make a home out of their new lives. As they navigate 40 years of marriage through the food they make and the meals they share, their ...

Queen Victoria's long reign famously saw extraordinary advances: in industry, transport, science, culture... But one vital innovation is too often missed: the moving image, the last great invention of ...

Steely and serious care-worker Grace (Brie Larson) projects a dedicated front to the vulnerable teenagers in her charge, belying her younger years and also occasionally annoying her co-worker ...

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of Chinese, Sikhs and Europeans. It is the only known ...