Forgotten Features

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.

An old house near a remote, rural railway station provides the setting for this grisly tale of terror set in 1960s England.

Deadpan satire about a Scottish film producer trying to make his debut feature.

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

Long-unavailable Utopian fantasy (or 'socialist propaganda'?) - a true oddity from the wartime Ealing Studios.

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

A young woman becomes haunted by terrifying dreams, which soon begin to pull people around her into a nightmarish netherworld.

Bernard Rose’s cult adult fantasy follows a young girl who discovers an increasingly dark and dangerous dream world.

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

Peter Sellers is superb in a warm, wistful family drama, in which two Battersea kids forge an unlikely alliance with a faded music hall star.

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.

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

Michael Redgrave's construction worker is embroiled in murder and intrigue in this lively British thriller, packed with pre-war London locations.

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

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

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.

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.

Alastair Sim is in splendid form as a staid, slightly seedy solicitor in this cheerfully patriotic war-time espionage comedy.

A young Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh star as two tormented WWI veterans who strike up a friendship when they meet in a rural Yorkshire village.

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

Big Audio Dynamite’s Don Letts made his acting debut in this gripping, gritty 1990 drama of dreads, drugs, and music business corruption.

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

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

This merry jape set in an olde worlde castle is an exuberant star vehicle for Gracie Fields, with a mix of songs and comedy.

A theatre critic's secretary is caught up in a love triangle involving the stars of a production of Othello.

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

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

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

The Wishing Well Inn in rural Wales is the bustling centre of love and intrigue in this charming romance starring Petula Clarke.

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

An atmospheric thriller about two sisters who fall for the charms of a mysterious and charismatic caretaker, after they inherit a Neapolitan villa.

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.

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

A swirling Skye-set melodrama about the murderous grudge between two Scottish clans, aroused by the arrival of a newcomer to the isle.

The plight of women in the 1840s London rag trade is explored and deconstructed in this multifaceted documentary

Alan Bates stars as an illustrator whose life begins to unravel as fantasy and reality collide in Dennis Potter’s psychosexual drama.

Prison drama focusing on the seamy side of life in post-war Britain.

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

Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth cook up red hot jazz together live on stage, chat about married life together, and recall lengthy musical careers.

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

A rare serious performance by Peter Sellers drives this tale of eight men buried in a bunker for three years at the end of WWII.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Michael Radford (Il Postino) directs this war-time drama set in Scotland. The passions of a young housewife are aroused by the arrival of an Italian POW.

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

Honor Blackman and Diana Dors star in a tale of love, theft and deception in a Yorkshire cycling club.

Frustration seethes beyond the trimmed lawns of suburbia in this post-war melodrama

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

This British noir delivers a disquieting story of obsession and manipulation, with Rex Harrison as a man accused of murdering his mistress.

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

Splendid lead performances and a well-crafted, witty script make this adaptation of the Frederick Lonsdale play a delight.

An unusual comedy about a stranger who arrives on the eve of the millennium to erase London, mankind and existence.

Young women audition for a movie they know nothing about, and are tested and interrogated.

A strikingly-filmed tale of a young tinker boy who finds his true calling on a mining apprenticeship scheme in Easington, County Durham.

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

Arrival of the British Army in France

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

Gordon Jackson stars in a seething tale of family conflict, murder and blackmail in Victorian Brighton.

From an original scenario by Graham Greene, this is a neat crime thriller about a girl (René Ray) who witnesses a murder, becomes a suspect herself, and gets mixed up with a sleazy Soho gangster (John Mills).

Burgess Meredith stars in this powerful psychological drama, as a psychiatrist struggling with his own inner demons who's enlisted to treat a traumatised WWII veteran.

Musical comedy with John Cleese. In Singapore, 1948, the Song and Dance Unit tour their 'Jungle Jamboree' review.

After their aircraft is shot down, four military men cast adrift must struggle to survive in this gripping WWII drama.

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

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

The Drakes' dream of making an old Sussex farm successful comes to a halt after one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg

Racy sea tale of unbridled passions with Ray Milland's Walmer lifeboatman caught in the vice-like grip of a sultry French vamp.

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