Great Directors
British cinema has produced some of the most acclaimed directors in film history, from those such aas Alfred Hitchcock who found great success at home and in Hollywood, to those who forged distinctive bodies of work in Britain along, such as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The filmmakers collected her are renowned for producing ground-breaking and influential cinema with a distinctive style and artistic voice of their own. Explore our tribute to their resounding talents through a collection of their legendary works.
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Human Resources
Business graduate Franck returns to his hometown to take up an internship at the factory where his father works. However, his attempts to introduce an initiative intended to empower the workforce backfire when his manager uses it as an excuse to restructure and cut jobs. As tensions simmer on the...
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Vera Drake
Mike Leigh’s acclaimed story of a selfless woman who helps ladies with unwanted pregnancies – in 1950s Britain when abortion was illegal – is both an affecting drama and vital slice of social history.
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Alphaville
In Godard's dystopian sci-fi, detective Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels to the soulless technopolis of Alphaville on a secret mission to capture the dictatorial Professor Von Braun and destroy the Alpha 60 computer that has outlawed human emotions. Love comes to his aid in the form of ...
