Classic Ealing caper with Guinness in fine form as a timid and retiring bank clerk who has the perfect plan to rob the Bank of England of a fortune in gold bullion. Delightful nostalgic comedy, including a cameo from the (then) unknown Audrey Hepburn.
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THE LOVE BUG (1968)
CertificationU Our Rating
Herbie helps a luckless racing driver get back his self-esteem but the foolish human takes some persuading to acknowledge that it's his cheeky little Aryan dream machine that's making everything possible. A motorised Disney classic.
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THE PINK PANTHER (1963)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Peter Seller's first movie as bumbling Inspector Closeau. Not only is his wife double-crossing him but she is doing it with his arch enemy the jewel thief. This is the version with all those people dressed up in gorilla suits.
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THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1938)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Two brothers struggle as wildcat truck drivers, battling the dangers of the open road, and with one of them accused of his friend's murder. A gripping drama with great wisecracking performances.
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THUNDER ROAD (1958)
CertificationU Our Rating
War veteran Luke Doolin returns home to the family business of transporting illegal moonshine through the mountains whilst dodging the local police. But soon the bootleggers are having a new threat in the shape of Kogan, a businessman who is buying up the stills. If they refuse to hand over their profits to Kogan, he will take them by force, and starts by shooting one of the drivers. With the police, taxmen and the gangsters on his trail, will Luke survive?
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TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1971)
Certification15 Our Rating
In this controversial and acclaimed story of drag-racing drifters, the drivers of a Pontiac GTO and a '55 Chevy fight an obsessive battle across the back roads of America for possession of each other's 'pinks' and the affections of a mysterious young hitchhiker. Dominating this hypnotic existential journey is Warren Oates as the obsessive ‘GTO', with James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (in their first and only acting roles) his rivals for both car and woman. "Two-Lane Blacktop" is an existentialist 6
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VANISHING POINT (1971)
Certification18 Our Rating
Pissed off rebel Kowalski accepts a challenge to drive from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. Fired up by a tankful of gas in his 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with its 4-speed manual transmission, Hurst "pistol grip" shifter and controlling a 4 barrel/440 cubic inch "Magnum" V-8 engine, he begins his solitary odyssey, spurred on by a blind black DJ, Super Soul, to become 'the last American hero'. Kowalski gathers a following amongst counterculture denizens, bikers and hippies flock to KOW radio
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WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960)
CertificationPG Our Rating
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece.
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