Franco Rosso's incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for "being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension" (Vivien Goldman, Time Ou...
Pete Walker's film FRIGHTMARE has achieved almost legendary status in British horror history due to its initial condemnation. Sheila Keith stars as a former patient of a mental institution, who has se...
Jay, a failed musician, finds himself involved with a woman who comes to his house once a week for violent, graphic sex. When he follows her home to find out more about her, he gets involved with her ...
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
An important film in the evolution of “video nasties” (especially violent films that brought about stricter censorship in the UK in the early 1980s), KILLER'S MOON sets a quartet of drug-a...
A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) stars Alain Delon (Le samoura) and Marianne Faithfull—two actors at the height of their impressive cool&mdas...
Helmed by veteran director Val Guest, AU PAIR GIRLS represents slap-and-tickle cinema at its finest, as it follows the sexual misadventures of a group of young women who have come to England to broade...
A gritty artifact from Britain's 1970s counter-culture, PERMISSIVE is a tragically moving account of a young woman's initiation into the world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Go Go Mania, also known as Pop Gear, is a rollickin’ British music revue film featuring concert footage from legendary rock acts like The Beatles, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Herman’s Her...
In his first starring role, Sir Ian McKellen gives a sensational performance as D.H. Lawrence, working alongside Hollywood legend Ava Gardner and director Christopher Miles. PRIEST OF LOVE provides a ...
An outrageous jolt of British exploitation, PRIMITIVE?LONDON (1965) is an exposé of the hidden desires and bizarre vices that percolate behind the exterior of English life.
NEW 4K RESTORATION! Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country r...
Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the s...
In this classic '70s slasher film (British filmmaker Pete Walker's answer to Hitchcock's PSYCHO), Lynne Frederick stars as a beautiful ice skater who has witnessed the gruesome murder of her mother as...
Marianne (Susan George, STRAW DOGS), following the sudden death of her mother, stands to inherit the family fortune, along with several documents that could incriminate her corrupt judge of a father. ...
Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in La...
Before becoming the director of some of British cinema's most gruesome horror films (such as Frightmare, Schizo, and The Flesh and Blood Show), Pete Walker was a pioneer of the distinctively British s...
Living on the island of Malta, Ziggy is an 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination and a habit of telling wild lies. But when he sees the brutal assassination of a visiting African president by...
This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as De...
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, a...
With a serial killer on the loose, Police Inspector Halloway (Patrick Wymark, Where Eagles Dare, Repulsion) investigates a pattern of grisly murders whose perpetrator leaves a small doll by the body o...