Flipside - Cult British Cinema

Jerzy Skolimowski’s darkly comic and utterly compelling story of teenage infatuation in a run-down swimming pool.

An evil and enigmatic entity throws a family into turmoil in Lindsey C. Vickers' much sought-after cult horror.

The idyllic, pastoral past of a Suffolk village is reborn through memory in this extraordinary, little-known film from director David Gladwell.

A haunting blend of edgy mystery story and existential road movie.

Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted black youths in 1970s London.

A short playful film about the famous May Day ceremony of Padstow, a fishing village in Cornwall.

Soulful story of the love and war between a queer woman and her mother, spanning across decades and continents.

Nigel Wingrove's experimental depiction of the erotic imaginings of the 16th Century Carmelite nun.

A ghostly boy returns from the grave to warn against reopening 'The Devil's Mine' in this spooky drama.

Derek Jarman's passionate and poetic lament on the rise of Thatcherism and corporate dealings.

Andrew Kötting takes a terrific, twisting coastal tour of the UK with his family.

In modern Liverpool, a couple meet and begin a transgressive, sexually charged affair set against a background of crime and encroaching danger.

Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone are members of a criminal gang that tears itself apart after a heist goes wrong, in Antonia Bird’s stylish thriller.

When martial law is declared back home, a Polish builder (Jeremy Irons) decides not to tell his colleagues in Jerzy Skolimowski's Cannes-winning drama.

The first in Patrick Keiller’s highly imaginative trilogy of films is a photographic trip through London, recounted by our unseen narrator.

Marcos Mereles’ archly funny, endlessly inventive and reflexive puzzle piece explores a strange disappearance at a hip London fashion shoot.

When an English widow, Anne (Sarah Miles, Ryan’s Daughter) falls in love with a dashing American sailor (singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson), her jealous teenage son goes to horrific lengths to restore the status quo.

Tilda Swinton stars in a playful and ingenious cine-essay on the art of storytelling, from art critic John Berger and filmmaker Timothy Neat.

French cinema’s dream weaver Lucile Hadžihalilović returns with a haunting, eerie tale about a child with teeth of ice and her anxious guardian.

A British indie crime film of great style and ingenuity, executive produced by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Meeten and Alice Lowe.

Filmmaker Tim Plester's deeply personal journey to reclaim Morris dancing from national joke to one of England's most ancient and enduring roots traditions.

Following a series of inventive shorts, Peter Greenaway arrived fully formed as a feature filmmaker with this highly confident, audacious epic.

Ben, an innocent immigrant from a remote village in Guyana, arrives in Brixton and falls prey to an assortment of streetwise characters in Anthony Simmons' Palme d’Or nominated comic drama.

Grant McPhee’s chilling fairytale horror about a young art student who gets her dream job working for a famous artist.

Carine Adler’s sexy and dark debut, starring Samantha Morton in her first major feature film role.

A schoolteacher juggles everyday life with nights spent cruising for Mr Right in this fascinating landmark in British gay cinema

In this personal film, Richard Billingham delves into his upbringing to recreate family memories and desperate living in Thatcher’s Britain.

An apparently miraculous birth is exploited by the authorities in medieval France in Greenaway's disturbing film about corruption.