Rita wants to be educated. She's a young working class girl who becomes involved with a cynical and alcoholic university tutor. A brilliant comedy of social attitudes and class differences, with more than a hint of romance. The film drew best ever performances from the two lead actors.

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The always excellent, but occasionally dreary, Ken Loach delivers a truly gripping human drama set in the seedier side of Glasgow. Jobless Joe (a superb performance from Peter Mullan) is a recovering alcoholic who manages the crappest football team in Scotland whilst attempting to stay on the straight and narrow. An initially unlikely-looking alliance with wary care worker Sarah turns into a touching romance, but, when one of Joe's players gets him involved with the local lowlife, events start t find out more...

Ray Winstone makes a mesmerising anti-hero in Gary Oldman's grim portrait of routine domestic violence in working-class Britain. Set in the grim surroundings of a South London tower block, Kathy Burke is heartbreakingly brilliant as the abused and battered wife of Winstone's volatile middle-aged loser. Hard-going but well worth it. find out more...

Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran find out more...

One of the best Ealing Comedies. Wartime Scotland is blighted with the curse of whisky rationing, but for the inhabitants of one remote Hebridean island, Barra, a shipwreck brings them vast quantities of their fave beverage. Can they keep the stuff hidden from the Customs and Excise? Brilliant! find out more...

It's 1969 and the end of an era. Withnail and ‘I' are two "resting" actors enjoying a decadent lifestyle in Camden on a diet of booze and drugs. Finding themselves in need of rejuvenation, they set off on holiday to the country cottage of Withnail's mad uncle Monty in Penrith. A sharp and witty romp, and one of the greatest, and quintessentially British, films of all time. find out more...