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...

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...