Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) wraca do swojej szkoły po wakacjach spędzonych w Londynie. College House to typowa brytyjska placówka z internatem. Panuje w niej podział hierarchiczny, w którym uczniowie znajdujący się na niższych szczeblach, codziennie padają ofiarami brutalnego traktowania. Mick, mając już dość ogólnego terroru, postanawia się zbuntować. Razem z dwójką przyjaciół rozpoczynają walkę przeciwko biernym opiekunom i kolegom.
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
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.
The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
An isolated brother and sister live with their memories and a grisly secret.
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.