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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

September 19, 1962

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner...

Our Life

May 20, 2010

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple a...

Wasp

July 31, 2003

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared t...

Room at the Top

December 28, 1958

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman....

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

October 26, 1960

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married....

A Taste of Honey

September 30, 1961

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's ...

This Sporting Life

February 6, 1963

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver....

Kes

April 2, 1970

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon...

On Falling

March 6, 2025

Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora ...

Look Back in Anger

September 14, 1959

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values....

A Kind of Loving

April 11, 1962

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go w...

The Entertainer

July 24, 1960

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business....

Poor Cow

December 4, 1967

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's m...

The L-Shaped Room

November 19, 1962

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London board...

Life at the Top

December 13, 1965

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leavin...

Spring and Port Wine

October 1, 1970

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England....

Christine

September 22, 1987

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent....

Four in the Morning

December 15, 1965

The parallel stories of two couples in crises and their connections to a drowned woman found in a river....

One Man's War

January 17, 1974

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is e...