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The Yellow Balloon (1953) was one of the first films to be passed with an X certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, which judged the chase through the London Underground station too frightening […]
James Caan makes his first movie as director with the 1980 real-life thriller Hide in Plain Sight. Director James Caan’s 1980 real-life thriller Hide in Plain Sight is based on the novel by Leslie Waller, and […]
Director Terence Fisher’s cheery 1955 British black and white comedy Children Galore is a spirited comic effort that tells this tale of a titled couple, Lord and Lady Redscarf (Evan Thomas, Marjorie Hume), who offer […]
‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]
Director Mark Stuart’s rather feeble and obvious though entirely genial enough 1971 Please Sir! is the big-screen film version of the deservedly highly popular TV school sitcom, in which caring but hapless teacher Mr Hedges […]
Director Moshé Mizrahi’s 1977 drama Madame Rosa [La Vie Devant Soi] [The Life Before Us] stars Simone Signoret, who gives a great performance as a Jewish Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who lives in a […]
With its marvellously gorgeous production and beautiful gleaming, retro-style photography, director Brad Silberling’s 2004 Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a dream-looking children’s film, based on three of the books by Lemony Snicket […]