BFI Mediatheque List
by Emma_Duffy | created - 09 Sep 2015 | updated - 12 Aug 2017 | PublicAn almost-complete list of the films and shows you can access at the BFI mediatheque.
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1. 1984 (1956)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff
Votes: 4,153
2. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
R | 117 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell
Votes: 39,488 | Gross: $1.13M
3. 28 Up (1984 TV Movie)
136 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield
Votes: 3,083
4. 3 Non-Blondes (2003)
30 min | Comedy
Gary Reich, the man who started the hidden-camera careers of Sacha Baron Cohen (Da Ali G Show) and Dom Joly (Trigger Happy TV), has found three women to take to the streets and carry the ... See full summary »
Stars: Ninia Benjamin, Tameka Empson, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Evelyn Duate
Votes: 156
5. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,250
6. 4D Special Agents (1981)
60 min | Adventure, Family
A group of kids, who are part of the police-sponsored scheme 4D Special Agents, tackle a gang of Cockney crooks.
Director: Harold Orton | Stars: Lisa East, Dexter Fletcher, Sarah Jerkins, Paul J. Medford
Votes: 55
7. 64 Day Hero (1986)
89 min | Documentary
Documentary about the life of Randolph Turpin who in 1951 defeated the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson to win the World Middleweight Title.
Director: Franco Rosso | Stars: Gordon Williams, Jack Birtley, Maurice Mancini, George Middleton
Votes: 35
8.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
84, Charing Cross Road
(1975)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Director: Mark Cullingham | Stars: Anne Jackson, Frank Finlay, Kate Binchy, Marcella Markham
Votes: 67
9. 90° South
72 min | Documentary
A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
Director: Herbert G. Ponting | Stars: Herbert G. Ponting, E.R.G.R. Evans, Edward Leicester Atkinson, Albert Balson
Votes: 200
10. A Is for Autism (1992)
11 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
An animated collage of drawings, live-action sequences and voice-overs which offer insight into different aspects and forms of autism. A rare glimpse at the very private and personal worlds of autistic children and adults.
Director: Tim Webb | Stars: Matthew Beguley, Sheila Beguley, Temple Grandin, Luke Hemstock
Votes: 136
11.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Abigail's Party
(1977)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Arguably the most famous edition of Play For Today, and one of the most beloved, as Mike Leigh directs a comedy of manners. Middle-class suburbia gets to reveal its darker side over the course of an increasingly uncomfortable drinks party.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse
Votes: 2,326
12. Above Us the Earth (1977)
85 min | Documentary, Drama
A mixture of actors and real people in a human story about the affects of pit closure on a close-knit Welsh village mining community.
Director: Karl Francis | Stars: Windsor Rees, Gwenllian Francis, Dai Morgan, Evan Jones
Votes: 12
13.
Performance (1991–1998)
Episode:
Absolute Hell
(1991)
120 min | Drama
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Judi Dench, Susan Porrett, Paul Birchard, Sylvia Barter
Votes: 181
14. Absolutely (1989–1993)
30 min | Comedy
Comedy sketch show.
Stars: Peter Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter
Votes: 283
15. Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012)
TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy
The wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness.
Stars: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield
Votes: 21,426
16.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
Episode:
A.D.A.M.
(1973)
60 min | Drama
Roger Empson builds a house for his disabled wife Jean that is completely automated and monitored by a computer called A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). When she was a child,... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Georgina Hale, Mark Jones, Madge Ryan, Tom Kempinski
Votes: 31
18. The Adventure Game (1980–1986)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Two celebrities and a member of the public take a trip to the planet Arg - sometimes willingly, sometimes not - and attempt to work their way through a series of puzzles set by the alien Argonds.
Stars: Christopher Leaver, Charmian Gradwell, Anne Palmer, Richard Lewis
Votes: 228
19. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1960)
Approved | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Robin of Loxley, otherwise known as Robin Hood, and his band of Merry Men protect England from the evil machinations of Prince John while King Richard the Lionheart is away fighting in the Crusades.
Stars: Richard Greene, Victor Woolf, Archie Duncan, Alexander Gauge
Votes: 874
20. A Fond Kiss (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Sparks fly in Glasgow's south side when a young Asian man enters into a relationship with a Caucasian woman.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz, Shamshad Akhtar
Votes: 7,290
21.
Timewatch (1982– )
Episode:
The African Trade
(1997)
Documentary, History
Director: Jonathan Lewis
22.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
Episode:
After a Lifetime
(1971)
80 min | Drama
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Len Annett, Jimmy Coleman, Laidlaw Dalling, Bill Dean
Votes: 13
23.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Evil Under the Sun
(2001)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot's rehabilitative health retreat on an island resort becomes an even more stimulating mental exercise when a flirtatious film star is found strangled on a nearby beach.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,650
24. Agony (1979–1981)
25 min | Comedy
Jane Lucas is an agony aunt with a call-in radio show, but off the air she certainly has her own set of troubles with her husband Laurence and her (very Jewish) mother. Then there are the ... See full summary »
Stars: Maureen Lipman, Simon Williams, Maria Charles, Diana Weston
Votes: 143
25. Akenfield (1974)
98 min | Drama
As the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Garrow Shand, Peggy Cole, Barbara Tilney, Lyn Brooks
Votes: 139
26.
The South Bank Show (1978– )
Episode:
Alan Bennett
(2005)
Documentary
In this exclusive 'South Bank Show' one of Britain's best loved playwrights and diarist agrees to talk candidly about his life, work and what inspires him. Filmed with specially shot monologues and pieces to camera.
Director: Archie Powell | Stars: Samuel Barnett, Alan Bennett, James Corden, Frances de la Tour
28. Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A girl named Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 962
29. The Alien Sky (1956 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: John Jacobs | Stars: Gordon Bell, Robert Brown, Sheila Burrell, Maureen Connell
30. All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in Yorkshire from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Stars: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham
Votes: 4,346
31.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
All Good Men
(1974)
63 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly politician looks back over his career while being interviewed by a TV producer.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Bill Fraser, Ronald Pickup, Jack Shepherd, Frances de la Tour
Votes: 22
32. All Hands (1940)
10 min | Short, War
This propaganda short illustrates the danger of careless talk by naval men. It demonstrates how a sailor's talk of recall is overheard by a waitress who ultimately betrays his ship to a U-boat.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: John Mills, Leueen MacGrath, Eliot Makeham, Gertrude Musgrove
Votes: 37
33. All in Good Time (1964)
26 min | Short
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Robert Brown, Joan Newell, Richard Briers, Ann Davies
Votes: 13
34.
Record Breakers (1972–2001)
Episode:
The All Star Record Breakers: 1976
(1976)
Documentary, Family
Stars: Roy Castle, Norris McWhirter, Toni Arthur, Keith Chegwin
35. All Your Own (1952–1961)
Family
Showcase for youngsters to display their talents or discuss their hobbies.
Stars: Huw Wheldon, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Logan, Brian Johnston
36. Always Tell Your Wife (1923)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Two couples, the Hawkeses and the Chessons, engage in an affair.
Directors: Hugh Croise, Seymour Hicks, Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Seymour Hicks, Stanley Logan, Gertrude McCoy, Ellaline Terriss
Votes: 174
37. The Amazing Adventures of Morph (1980–1981)
5 min | Animation, Family
The Gobbledygook spouting, shape-shifting little Plasticine man who first appeared in the 1977 arty TV show "Take Hart" gets his own series. Morph, his pet nailbrush and naughty "twin" Chas have all sorts of adventures.
Star: Tony Hart
Votes: 310
38. Amelia and the Angel (1958)
26 min | Short
Young Amelia is feeling distressed and guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. She notices an angel and follows it into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Mercedes Quadros, Míka van Bloemen, Helen Ulman, E. Collins
Votes: 257
39.
Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
Episode:
Amy, Wonderful Amy
(1974)
Drama
Barbara lives in her own dream world and imagines becoming a pilot like her heroine Amy Johnson.
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Dixon Adams, Frances Bennett, Kim Butcher, Gloria Connell
40.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Angela Carter's Curious Room
(1992)
Not Rated | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Kim Evans | Stars: Angela Carter, Sheila Hancock, Neil Jordan, Joanna Mays
41. The Angelic Conversation (1985)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama
An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench, Dave Baby
Votes: 904
42. Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge (2003 TV Movie)
29 min | Comedy
Z list celebrity will do anything to become A list
Director: Adam Tandy | Stars: Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham, Amelia Bullmore, Simon Greenall
Votes: 2,583
43. The Angry Silence (1960)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama
A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee
Votes: 1,674
44. Anna Karenina (1961 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
In the Russia of the 1880s, Anna Karenina sacrifices her marriage when she has a passionate affair with an army officer.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Claire Bloom, Sean Connery, Jack Watling, Valerie Taylor
Votes: 172
45. Anita & Me (2002)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence... See full summary »
Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster
Votes: 1,813
46. The Anniversary (1968)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.
Directors: Roy Ward Baker, Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James Cossins
Votes: 2,831
47. Another Case of Poisoning (1949)
15 min | Short, Drama
Albert doesn't understand how he can get food poisoning, but a series of flashbacks tell a different story.
Director: John Waterhouse | Stars: Gus McNaughton, Philip Ray, Thelma Rea, John Warren
Votes: 16
48. Another Country (1984)
PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
Director: Marek Kanievska | Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie
Votes: 6,901
49.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Another Flip for Dominick
(1982)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Peter Firth, Caroline Langrishe, Pippa Guard, Patrick Magee
Votes: 145
50. Another Sky (1954)
86 min | Drama
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Director: Gavin Lambert | Stars: Catherine Lacey, Ahmed Ben Mohammed, Lee Montague, Victoria Grayson
Votes: 114
51. The Ant & Dec Show (1995–1996)
60 min | Comedy, Family, Talk-Show
Late-afternoon children's entertainment series.
Stars: Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Peter Simon, Katy Hill
Votes: 11
52. Antigone (1959 TV Movie)
75 min
Stars: Dorothy Tutin, Basil Sydney, Noel Willman, David McCallum
53. Any Evening After Work (1930)
27 min | Short
British silent public health film from around 1930. The main protagonist fears he may have contracted venereal disease but is reluctant to seek the help of a Doctor. He attends a public ... See full summary »
Director: Mary Field
Votes: 15
54. Any Man's Kingdom (1956)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.
Director: Tony Thompson | Star: Stephen Murray
Votes: 28
55. The Arbor (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Natalie Gavin, Parvani Lingiah
Votes: 2,129 | Gross: $0.02M
56. Are You Being Served? (1972–1985)
TV-PG | 28 min | Comedy
The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.
Stars: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard
Votes: 9,159
57.
There Was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman (1972–1973)
Episode:
Arise Ye Workers
(1973)
Comedy
Director: Brian Hulme | Stars: Roy Kinnear, Henry McGee, Harry Towb
58. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sport
When a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean, Liane Linden
Votes: 701
59. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (1980)
TV-G | 25 min | Documentary, Mystery
"Mysterious World" was a 1980 series of investigation of unexplained phenomena and mysteries around the world.
Stars: Arthur C. Clarke, Gordon Honeycombe, Arne Eggebrecht, Alex Campbell
Votes: 237
60. The Ascent of Man (1973)
50 min | Documentary, History
An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
Stars: Jacob Bronowski, Joss Ackland, Roy Dotrice, Stefan Bor-Grajewicz
Votes: 896
61. The Ash Tree (1975 TV Movie)
32 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Man of leisure Sir Richard (Edward Petherbridge) receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its lands. On his return to England he ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood, Barbara Ewing, Lalla Ward
Votes: 756
63. At Last the 1948 Show (1967)
30 min | Comedy
Written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman, "At Last the 1948 Show" is a groundbreaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch comedy series.
Stars: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Marty Feldman
Votes: 586
64. At the Fountainhead (of German Strength) (1980)
96 min | Drama
Directors: Nick Burton, Anthea Kennedy | Stars: Paul Geoffrey, Michael Mellinger, Val Kennedy, Brigitte Kahn
65. At the Villa Rose (1920)
Crime, Drama
In Monaco, jewel thieves kidnap a fraudulent medium and frame her for strangling a widow.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Manora Thew, Langhorn Burton, Teddy Arundell, Norman Page
Votes: 18
66. Atlantis (1930)
Drama
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
Directors: Ewald André Dupont, Jean Kemm | Stars: Maxime Desjardins, Alice Field, Constant Rémy, Marcel Vibert
Votes: 32
67. The Attendant (1993)
8 min | Short
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The ... See full summary »
Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Thomas Baptiste, Cleo Sylvestre, John Wilson, Paul Bernstock
Votes: 87
69. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever-growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Düsseldorf. Follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Stars: Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy, Kevin Whately
Votes: 3,961
70. Along Came Sally (1934)
84 min | Comedy, Musical
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Sam Hardy, Phyllis Clare, Billy Milton
Votes: 73
71.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Auto-Stop
(1965)
75 min | Drama
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
Director: Brian Parker | Stars: David Hemmings, Delphi Lawrence, Kevin Stoney, Janice Dinnen
72. 'Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss? (1973)
5 min | Short
Faced with the facts a young man does the right thing, and visits a chemist.
Stars: Eelco De Jong, Pip Springhall, John Perkins, Sue Stoodwell
Votes: 44
73. The Avengers (1961–1969)
TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson
Votes: 8,837
74. B.D. Women (1994)
20 min | Short
A 1920s love story between a jazz singer and her butch lover is interspersed with documentary interviews with contemporary black lesbians.
Director: Campbell X
Votes: 10
75. Baby (2000)
12 min | Short
A teenage boy finds all around him has sexual overtones as he lives a teenage life of drugs and masturbation.
Director: WIZ Andrew John Whiston | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Janet Mitchell, Clive Hayward, Alex Michael
Votes: 234
76.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Baby Blues
(1973)
73 min | Comedy, Drama
After ten years of trying, Lavinia, and a large team of medics, finally manage to produce a live baby. She should now be able to start living her dream, but what happens next is not at all the paradise she has been looking forward to.
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Zena Walker, Norman Rodway, Sydney Tafler, Robin Hunter
77.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Baby Love
(1974)
58 min | Comedy, Drama
After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to nine months in prison.
Director: Barry Davis | Stars: Patti Love, Donald Gee, Dev Sagoo, Tony Melody
78. Babylon (1980)
95 min | Drama
The movie centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in South West London (Brixton). The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.
Director: Franco Rosso | Stars: David N. Haynes, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, Brian Bovell
Votes: 1,930 | Gross: $0.11M
80. Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
94 min | Comedy
German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Eric Barker
Votes: 193
81. A Bad Day for Levinsky (1909)
Short, Comedy
A Jew puts a sovereign in a slot machine by mistake.
Director: T.J. Gobbett
82.
Dramarama (1983–1989)
Episode:
Badger
(1989)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director: Gareth Morgan | Stars: Moonea Aahraf, Emma Belton, David Haig, Jenny Howe
83. Bagpuss (1974)
15 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Bagpuss and his friends are toys in a turn of the century shop for 'found things'. When young Emily brings them a new object, the toys come to life to work out what the strange new thing could possibly be.
Stars: Oliver Postgate, Sandra Kerr, John Faulkner, Emily Firmin
Votes: 1,079
84. Ballad of Reading Gaol (1989)
12 min | Short
Director: Richard Kwietniowski | Star: Quentin Crisp
Votes: 15
85. Band of Gold (1995–1997)
290 min | Crime, Drama
In Bradford, England, several desperate streetwalkers team up to run the business for themselves. They must deal with competition, mobsters, moralists, psychos and cops, but at least now they have each other and a plan.
Stars: Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson, Samantha Morton
Votes: 751
86.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Bar Mitzvah Boy
(1976)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Jeremy Steyn, Maria Charles, Bernard Spear, Adrienne Posta
Votes: 97
87.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
The Barber of Stamford Hill
(1960)
Drama
A lonely Jewish barber contemplates matrimony; but this may not be as good an idea as he thinks it is.
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: John Graham, Danny Green, Rose Hill, Malcolm Knight
88. The Barber of Stamford Hill (1963)
64 min | Drama
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn't really got one - he's a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: John Bennett, Megs Jenkins, Maxwell Shaw, Wensley Pithey
Votes: 20
89. Barnaby Rudge (1960)
30 min | Drama, History
Murder mystery interwoven with the historical events of England's Gordon riots of 1780, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Stars: John Wood, Barbara Hicks, Newton Blick, Neil McCarthy
Votes: 33
90. The Basil Brush Show (1968–1980)
Comedy, Family
Jokes and comical stories told by the red fox puppet "Basil Brush" with the help of guests.
Stars: Basil Brush, Bert Hayes, Derek Fowlds, Roy North
Votes: 125
91. Thunder in the East (1934)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It ... See full summary »
Directors: Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Votes: 49
92. The Battle of Orgreave (2001 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike. The dispute lasted for over a year and was the most bitterly fought since the general strike of 1926, marking a turning point in ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Russell Alden, Richard Allen, Barry Askham, Wayne Banham
Votes: 51
93. Battling Bruisers (1925)
16 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Adrian Brunel | Stars: Adrian Brunel, Miles Malleson
94.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Bavarian Night
(1981)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Bob Peck, Sarah Badel, Malcolm Terris, Arwen Holm
Votes: 8
95. The Beacons and Beyond (1979)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Director: C. David Lochner | Star: David Lloyd Meredith
Votes: 5
96. Beautiful Thing (1996)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jamie is a shy teenager, often bullied at school. His neighbour Ste has a rough time at home, being beaten by his father and brother. This issues bring them together and they find that what they feel for each other is more than friendship.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Glen Berry, Linda Henry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson
Votes: 25,645 | Gross: $1.50M
97. Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Frank Cvitanovich | Star: Geoffrey Morton
98.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
Bed Among the Lentils
(1988)
Comedy, Drama
Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife who has to travel into Leeds to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shop keeper, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Bennett, Stuart Burge | Star: Maggie Smith
Votes: 85
99. Bedelia (1946)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Bedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes, Anne Crawford
Votes: 442
100. Before the Fringe (1967)
30 min | Comedy
A series featuring some of the talent who were in vogue before the new broom of Beyond the Fringe swept through comedy.
Stars: Alan Melville, Joan Sims, Peter Reeves, Ronnie Barker
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