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  • 1965
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    Boy and Bicycle
    Boy and Bicycle

    5.70 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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  • 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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    A Short Vision
    A Short Vision

    6.40 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1961
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    Circus at Clopton Hall
    Circus at Clopton Hall

    1 1961 HD

    On a summer's day, a group of children improvise a circus at an abandoned farm in Suffolk.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Vanessa Redgrave

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  • 1958
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    Amelia and the Angel
    Amelia and the Angel

    6.38 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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    Together
    Together

    7.10 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    Cast:

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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

    Cast:

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  • 1962
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    The Pit
    The Pit

    8.00 1962 HD

    Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Brian Peck

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1958
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    Miss Thompson Goes Shopping
    Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

    7.00 1958 HD

    Adaptation of Martin Armstrong's poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can't see. It becomes apparent that she is looking...

    Genre: Documentary

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