5.2

The Jigsaw Man

1984, UK

• Actors: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray, Morteza Kazerouni, Michael Medwin, Eric Sevareid, Sabine Sun, David Kelly, Patrick Dawson, Vladek Sheybal, Peter Burton, Maggie Rennie, Richard Aylen, Anthony Pullen Shaw, Maureen Bennett, Anthony Dawson, Peggy Marshall, John Franklyn-Robbins, Thomas Heathcote, Matthew Scurfield, Robert Austin, Jana Shelden, Peter Hutchins, Yuri Borionko, Bill Shine, David Allister, Jennifer Jayne, Ian Masters
• Genre: Thriller
• Director(s): Terence Young
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

  5.3

Carry on at Your Convenience

1971, UK

• Actors: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Cope, Patsy Rowlands, Jacki Piper, Richard O'Callaghan, Bill Maynard, Davy Kaye, Renee Houston, Marianne Stone, Margaret Nolan, Geoffrey Hughes, Hugh Futcher, Simon Cain, Leon Greene, Harry Towb, Peter Burton, Larry Martyn, Shirley Stelfox, Alec Bregonzi, Bill Pertwee, Terry Scott, Philip Stone, Amelia Bayntun, Duncan Flanning, Anouska Hempel
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Gerald Thomas
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

  8.5

A Clockwork Orange

1971, UK, USA

• Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, John Savident, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Pauline Taylor, Margaret Tyzack, Steven Berkoff, Lindsay Campbell, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Barrie Cookson, Jan Adair, Gaye Brown, Peter Burton, John J. Carney
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Protagonist Alex is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.

  8.5

Lawrence of Arabia

1962, UK

• Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller, John Barry, Bruce Beeby, Fred Bennett, John Bennett, Steve Birtles, Robert Bolt, Peter Burton, J.R.M. Chapman, Tim Clutterbuck, Barbara Cole, John Crewdson, Basil Dignam
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
• Director(s): David Lean
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wrecking and camel attacks. Eventually, he leads his army northward and helps a British General destroy the power of the Ottoman Empire.

  7.3

Dr. No

1961, UK

• Actors: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, Zena Marshall, John Kitzmiller, Eunice Gayson, Lois Maxwell, Peter Burton, Yvonne Shima, Michel Mok, Marguerite LeWars, William Foster-Davis, Dolores Keator, Reggie Carter, Louis Blaazer, Colonel Burton, Anthony Chinn, Eric Coverley, Margaret Ellery, John Hatton, Bettina Le Beau, Byron Lee, Henry Lopez, Stanley Morgan, Tim Moxon, Malou Pantera, Lester Prendergast
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Terence Young
• Available languages:
  • English English.

James Bond (007) is Britain's top agent and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamacia, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal CIA agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons" and a trio of assassins, known as the three blind mice. Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No.

  7.2

Sink the Bismarck!

1960, UK

• Actors: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Karel Stepanek, Michael Hordern, Maurice Denham, Michael Goodliffe, Esmond Knight, Jack Watling, Jack Gwillim, Mark Dignam, Ernest Clark, John Horsley, Peter Burton, Sydney Tafler, John Stuart, Walter Hudd, Sean Barrett, Edward R. Murrow, Michael Balfour, John Barron, Victor Beaumont, Brandon Brady, Johnny Briggs, Roy Castle, Robert Desmond, Walter Gotell, John G. Heller
• Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Lewis Gilbert
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled.

  6.9

The Long Arm

1956, UK

• Actors: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Michael Brooke, Sam Kydd, Glyn Houston, Richard Leech, Newton Blick, Geoffrey Keen, Sydney Tafler, Peter Burton, George Rose, Arthur Rigby, Ralph Truman, Ian Bannen, Maureen Davis, John Warwick, Joss Ambler, Barry Keegan, Alec McCowen, Harry Locke, Nicholas Parsons, Warwick Ashton, Ursula Howells, Meredith Edwards, Julie Milton, Harold Goodwin, John Welsh, Gillian Webb, Maureen Delaney
• Genre: Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Charles Frend
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.