The screen version of John Osborne's 1950s drama depicts a rough period in the married life of angry young graduate Jimmy and Allison, a young English couple of disparate backgrounds whose turbulent relationship appears doomed. Richard Burton gives an intense performance as Jimmy, whose love for Allison, played by the ethereally lovely Mary Ure, only occasionally breaks through the anger he takes out on her in merciless verbal assaults, but when the clouds do part, their mutual devotion is beaut find out more...

Very much part of the harsh kitchen sink drama school of British film and play that was around in the 1960s; Loach's film focuses on a young mother whose piggish husband has been sent to jail. With him away she starts up a relationship with his mate, a fellow criminal, but a far more sensitive, caring man. Inevitably he to is nicked and she finds herself drifting in and out of relationships, and work, while trying to care for her young child. "Poor Cow" is not deemed one of Loach's best films an find out more...

The story of an ambitious young clerk who abandons his real love so he can marry into a rich family. The first of the British "realist" pictures - films that dealt with working class people and the realities of the English class structure - as a change from cosey middle class drama. find out more...

Arthur Seaton is a factory worker who lives for women and booze and doesn't give a damn for the consequences. He is two-timing with Doreen whilst Brenda is pregnant and forced to face his responsibilities without losing his fighting spirit. 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. A classic early 1960s angry young men neo-realist drama.

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A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the other but they actually know each other as well. Despite this, they are willing to put up with the situation through fear of losing Elkin who switches freely between them. Schlesinger's film highlights some worrying facts about how much people's attitudes to re find out more...

A surprisingly gritty slice of Rock and Roll nostalgia. David Essex is Jim Maclaine, a working-class West Country lad who, having been abandoned by his father at an early age, drops out of the exams that would lead to university and heads of to find his fortune as a rock star in a shabby seaside town. That'll Be the Day is made in the same downbeat, naturalistic way as the kitchen sink films of a decade before, but with a very upbeat rock'n'roll soundtrack. Some strange cameos (what was Ringo St find out more...

The Accident (1967):- a languid Oxford summer is the background to this self-assured treatment of Harold Pinter's screenplay. A calm veneer of civilization is laboriously peeled away, after an undergraduate is killed in a car crash and his girlfriend stays with a philosophy professor, setting the six central characters (three men, two wives and the girl) at odds as they gradually tear each other to shreds. Superb performances and a disconcertingly urbane atmosphere. find out more...

Married life is proving difficult for cashless and homeless newlyweds Jenny and Arthur. With well meaning, but interfering, parents, nosey neighbors and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? Will there ever be any good news? The Family Way was deemed worthy of an 18 certificate, upon its release back in 1966, merely because it dealt with the concept of physical intimacy in a thoughtful and no-nonsense manner. A touching, observant film, adapted from Bill Naughton's 'All in Good find out more...

L-Shaped Room - Leslie Caron was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA for this story of a jilted pregnant girl alone in her shabby Notting Hill suburban room of the title, sharing her desperation with her low-life neighbours and considering abortion in this sensitive tale of social morals at the dawning of the 60s. One of the classic 'social realism' films of the era. find out more...

A Borstal boy has nothing going for him bar his ability to run. When selected to run against a public school he begins a rigorous training programme whilst reliving his troubled past and planning his confrontation with authority. One of the classic early '60s working class dramas. To be seen. find out more...