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1.Alfie [1965] starring: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher directed by: Lewis Gilbert August 26, 2002
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Alfie is simply a walking penis. He thinks with it, eats with it and dies with it - he thinks with his head not his head. He has no notion of the pain and suffering he causes. This men like many simply does his thing. End of. But he is not the only one at 'fault'. These women are not children. They know what sex and pregnancy mean, etc. Alfie does not rape them. They partake in his fantasy. Maybe humdrum lives are the reason. This is simply a life mixing up the gene pool. I like too the song sung excellently by Cilla Black and which portrays Alfie's ignorance - what's it all about, Alfie?

2.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington directed by: Karel Reisz February 05, 2002
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A Brilliant film and about as British as they come. Filmed entirely on location in the midlands (Nottingham) at the beginning of the 1960s it documents the life of Arthur Seaton (Finney) and the pure drudgery of the working week where all there is to live for is the weekends; a time to get down the pub and binge drink and, at every opportunity, get to bed his friend's middle aged wife, Brenda. Powerful performances by all the cast, especially Finney who plays the part of Arthur with incredible vitality. It demonstrates how even 40 years ago there were individuals who were unashamedly amoral and against authority of any kind. This film is a classic and a piece of social history.

3.The Entertainer [1960] starring: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates directed by: Tony Richardson March 01, 2004
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Laurence Olivier stars as a sleazy, third-rate music hall performer in 1960's "The Entertainer", one of the first and best films of the so called Free Cinema movement, and a movie that is somewhat neglected today (it should be better known). Based on a play by John Osborne, Olivier plays Archie Rice, a mediocre performer in grim seaside town theaters. His shows attract few people (early in the film, we see passersby sneering at the theater marquee that falsely advertises Archie as a television comedian). His father, Billy, was once a talented and successful comedian, but now he is just a cranky old man living with him and Archie's wife, the unstable Phoebe. Archie has three grown children, played respectively by Alan Bates, Albert Finney and Joan ... Read More:

4.Horrors Of The Black Museum [1959] starring: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen directed by: Arthur Crabtree July 19, 2004
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Laurence Olivier stars as a sleazy, third-rate music hall performer in 1960's "The Entertainer", one of the first and best films of the so called Free Cinema movement, and a movie that is somewhat neglected today (it should be better known). Based on a play by John Osborne, Olivier plays Archie Rice, a mediocre performer in grim seaside town theaters. His shows attract few people (early in the film, we see passersby sneering at the theater marquee that falsely advertises Archie as a television comedian). His father, Billy, was once a talented and successful comedian, but now he is just a cranky old man living with him and Archie's wife, the unstable Phoebe. Archie has three grown children, played respectively by Alan Bates, Albert Finney and Joan ... Read More:

5.Shag, the Movie [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Scott Coffey, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah directed by: Zelda Barron May 22, 2001
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I loved this film when I was a teenager and it's still a great girls night in movie. It has all the innocence and humour of the era it portrays. Pheobe Cates is outstanding and Bridget Fonda gives one of her best performances.

6.The War Lover [1962] starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell, Michael Crawford directed by: Philip Leacock June 16, 2003
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The War Lover is a mostly botched but still watchable watering down of John Hersey's novel about a sociopathic bomber pilot (Steve McQueen, playing an airborne variation of his psychotic soldier from Hell is For Heroes). Unfortunately the film is less interested in the thin line between heroism and psychopathic behavior than Robert Wagner's romance with Shirley Ann Field (in a performance so bad that at times her vocal delivery is so far off-target it's like nails on a blackboard), leaving the feeling that the real story has been sidelined for much of the film. Some good airborne sequences keep it watchable if you lower your expectations, but this could have been much more.

7.My Beautiful Laundrette [1985] starring: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Derrick Branche directed by: Stephen Frears September 10, 2001
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Allegedly 'groundbreaking' when released, what's surprising today is how theatrical and shamelessly unrealistic this film is. Frears creates a surreal London night landscape which is mostly lit with coloured gels, peopled by bootshod racist yobs who would be more at home in A Clockwork Orange, and besuited Asian mafiosi who try (and fail) to look mean. All this could be quite entertaining, except the visuals are let down by a Kureishi's awful, clunking script and some very wooden acting - even Day-Lewis looks awkward and embarrassed. The synth-driven original soundtrack is wince-inducing.

8.U.F.O. - The Movie [1993] starring: Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Sara Stockbridge, Amanda Symonds, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Shirley Anne Field directed by: Tony Dow August 19, 2002
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Allegedly 'groundbreaking' when released, what's surprising today is how theatrical and shamelessly unrealistic this film is. Frears creates a surreal London night landscape which is mostly lit with coloured gels, peopled by bootshod racist yobs who would be more at home in A Clockwork Orange, and besuited Asian mafiosi who try (and fail) to look mean. All this could be quite entertaining, except the visuals are let down by a Kureishi's awful, clunking script and some very wooden acting - even Day-Lewis looks awkward and embarrassed. The synth-driven original soundtrack is wince-inducing.

9.Kings of the Sun [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter directed by: J. Lee Thompson March 25, 2008
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Allegedly 'groundbreaking' when released, what's surprising today is how theatrical and shamelessly unrealistic this film is. Frears creates a surreal London night landscape which is mostly lit with coloured gels, peopled by bootshod racist yobs who would be more at home in A Clockwork Orange, and besuited Asian mafiosi who try (and fail) to look mean. All this could be quite entertaining, except the visuals are let down by a Kureishi's awful, clunking script and some very wooden acting - even Day-Lewis looks awkward and embarrassed. The synth-driven original soundtrack is wince-inducing.

10.Hear My Song [1991] starring: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Shirley Anne Field, Tara Fitzgerald, William Hootkins directed by: Peter Chelsom
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It doesn't matter if you have never heard of this Irish tenor, or even like that kind of music, this is a marvelously warm film. Adrian Dunbar is a promoter of a club, in the UK, who normally books look-a-likes, however after several disasters he decides to find the man himself - Josef Locke (yes, this is the correct spelling). He travels to Ireland and after some searching he finally meets him and persuades him to come back and do one last performance. The reason for Josef being in Ireland is to avoid UK tax, of which he owes an undisclosed amount. With the UK police trying to catch him this is a more than pleasant caper. (And I bet you can't help humming the main theme, "Hear my song") PS Don't miss the cow and the well scene. Read More:

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