Charming character comedy, unseen for decades, starring Peter Sellers as a school teacher corrupted by big business.

Defying opposition from his conservative Pakistani family, Zaf Ayub dreams of becoming Southall's greatest gift to country & western.

In one of Liam Neeson’s earliest starring roles, he plays an errant priest who kidnaps a vulnerable boy from an abusive Catholic school

In-your-face 70s documentary exploring the lives of Hell's Angels, hippies, skinheads, rudeboys, mods and drug addicts.

John Maybury’s dark, queer state of the nation film starring Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett

When she inherits an Italian palazzo, a young woman takes on more than she bargained for

Hammer thriller in which a wrongly imprisoned man escapes to find the real murderer.

When the RAF tries to take over an island for target practice, the locals rally to prevent them.

A truant schoolboy sabotages the secretive power station he believes killed his friend. With Glenda Jackson.

A stirring tale of love, music, and coalmining in Abergwynfi, South Wales.

Pickpockets, mad puppets, and murder – all from the 1840 press accounts of a real case that lead to the gallows – conceived as a musical by the Children’s Film Unit.

Beeban Kidron’s first feature film follows Clive Owen, David Thewlis and Diana Quick as they take to the road in a bubblegum-pink Chevrolet.

The trials and tribulations of 1950s working class family life are engagingly evoked in this warm-hearted drama of urban England.

The great James Mason has a juicy early role in this dynamic vintage drama of false imprisonment, disgrace, deception and family intrigue.

When one of the ladies at a posh couturier is poisoned, all the staff come under suspicion.

Exciting British B-movie about a Cornish poacher who clashes with dangerous international spies.

Valerie Hobson stars as the scheming governess with designs on taking over the Fury estate, in this atmospheric Gothic melodrama

A warning tale about the dangers of taking sweets from strangers.

A child's-eye-view of one of the capital's most iconic landmarks, with stunning views of the Thames and its traffic.

Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson star in the rarely seen drama about an AWOL soldier who disguises as a woman to avoid capture.

Stewart Mackinnon’s avant-garde adaptation of Marquis de Sade’s infamous erotic novel has been near impossible to see since 1976.

Britain’s top star Margaret Lockwood plays a devoted wife who is not quite what she seems.

Joseph Losey’s 1958 film tells the engaging and twisty story of a golddigging Belle (Melina Mecouri) who meets her match in the cunning Sir. Paul Deverill (Keith Michell).

Ken Loach’s documentary focuses on the 1984 Miner’s Strike, capturing a range of complicated emotions, situations, and circumstances.

Epic tale set in 5th century Sri Lanka, following the battle for the throne between Kassapa and his father King Dhatusena.

A brilliantly constructed, melancholic ode to the passing of time by Malcolm Le Grice

On the road with New Age travellers: political disquiet in the apocalyptic years of the mid-80s.

Richard E. Grant leads a dramatic reunion as friends and lovers gather to perform Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in Stephen Poliakoff’s romantic comedy.

Five stories of forbidden desire, courageously collected to tell the hidden truths of LGBT life in Kenya.

David Oyelowo makes his first feature film role as one of posse of DJs who enrage a local drug baron after stealing his dog.

Reluctant newlywed travellers Angela and Michael try to smuggle goods across the border in this lyrical Irish road movie written by Neil Jordan.

The trials and tribulations of Shiv, a South Asian entrepreneur trying to set up a business in industrial Birmingham

Six regions, six films appraised for cultural and historical meaning. Produced by Jean-Luc Godard.

Karl Francis’ docu-drama about the closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley by the National Coal Board in 1975.

Pat Murphy and John Davis’ experimental film brings a feminist alternative to the conventional narrative of the Troubles.

During World War Two, a German airman crash-lands in a wood and is looked after by a naïve 12-year-old girl.

Glenda Jackson and Jon Finch play Welsh investigative journalists covering the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.

When a young black wide-boy rescues a rich white girl from a heroin overdose – and falls for her – he’s drawn into a world of high-class crime.

A madman harbours murderous thoughts about an old relative with an evil eye in this chilling Edgar Allan Poe adaptation

Legendary British actress Eileen Atkins stars as a woman with no memory or recollection, only knowing her own name.

The moving and passionate story of illicit love between a Welsh girl and a Jewish boy, set against a backdrop of industrial unrest in the Welsh Valleys of 1911.

In a medieval Scotland where sorcery still reigns, a young knight joins a band of warriors but becomes enmeshed in a power struggle with their leader.

British-Chinese filmmaker Xiaolu Guo follows her ageing parents' journey to the West as they visit Europe. A rare chance to see one of Guo’s most personal films.

A decadent, controversial tale of London's seedy underbelly, where an elegant Chinese club host enslaves the weak with white powder.

Young 'Swanky' Clarke, leader of the Burton Bullets Cycle Speedway Club, foils bicycle thieves on the streets of 1950s Bermondsey.

Billed as 'a kind of post-modern queer soap opera for Britain', Andrea Weiss' documentary tells a sharp story.

From the director of Heimat, a mini-epic about the history of German cinema.

An inspirational and star-laden journey through Chinese cinema in the company of John Woo, Chen Kaige, Ang Lee and Tsui Hark.

Irish images, foreign fathers: asking why a nation's cinematic identity has been outsourced.

Take a trip with Sam Neill through his country's celluloid culture.

Mad Max director George Miller explores the tradition of film production in Australia.

A history of Polish movies perceived by cinemagoers of all ages.

Hong Kong newlyweds seek a fresh start in 60s Britain, but fall foul of the Triad underworld in this adaptation of Timothy Mo's blackly comic novel.

Moving drama about three close friends forever tied to a dark secret from their teenage past.

A young lawyer has to execute the will of a Chinese man found dead in a phone box in a witty comic thriller - the first British-Chinese feature film.

Neeta and her crew rise to dancehall fame in North West London's Caribbean community, in the first Black British musical.

Tilda Swinton plays an extra-terrestrial android discussing life’s big questions in this unique sci-fi by influential film theorist Peter Wollen.

Charles Dance stars in Stephen Poliakoff’s debut feature film about a writer whose research uncovers a conspiracy of hidden artefacts.

Arrival of the British Army in France

Two cultures collide in a beautifully photographed love story - an ode to Morocco, its music, its people and way of life.

Battle film made as a memorial to the dead of WWI, documenting events at Ypres using reconstructed and genuine footage.

Artist Gillian Wearing’s ‘documentary’ observes seven people creating (fantasy?) identities in collaboration with a drama teacher. Raw and revealing.

Two boys answer the call of the sea as Royal Navy recruits in this adventure of the seven seas.

Edgy mixture of black comedy and urban drama about a woman uncovering the hidden truths about her dead lover.

Powerful wartime drama that sees rivals in love becoming comrades-in-arms in the trenches of the Western Front.

Cerebral thriller about a German art critic who reconnects with his radical past when he agrees to be involved with an assassination attempt.

Tony Bicât’s radical, found-footage record of a revolutionary act, in which three dissidents kidnap a cabinet and torture a cabinet minister.

An English aristocrat is driven to despair over the effects of violence on her family.

Ben Lewin’s 1976 film captures a moment in Britain's evergreen immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.

Chris Petit’s sparse moody thriller begins with a mysterious death.

Chris Newby’s poetic debut feature addresses the gulf between patriarchal power and female ritual and rebellion against the backdrop of a remote Medieval village.