GREAT EXPECTATIONS Director: David Lean Producer(s): Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame Principal Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager 118 min UK, 1946 Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip... Read more

OLIVER! Director: Carol Reed Producer(s): John Woolf Principal Cast: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed 153 min UK, 1968 Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. Read more

A TALE OF TWO CITIES Director: Ralph Thomas Producer(s): Betty E. Box, Earl St. John Principal Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Marie Versini, Cecil Parker 117 min UK, 1958 During the French Revolution, French national Lucie Manette meets and falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay. He is however hiding his true identity as a member of the French aristocratic Evrémonde family, who he has denounced in private. The Marquis St. Evrémonde in particular was a cruel man, those he wronged have vowed to see the end of the family line at any cost. Lucie's father... Read more

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Director: Douglas McGrath Producer(s): Simon Channing-Williams, Gail Egan, John Hart, Michael Hogan Principal Cast: Stella Gonet, Andrew Havill, Henry McGrath, Tom Courtenay 132 min UK, 2002 Young Nicholas and his family enjoy a comfortable life, until Nicholas's father dies and the family is left penniless. Nicholas, his sister and mother venture to London to seek help from their Uncle Ralph, but Ralph's only intentions are to separate the family and exploit them. Nicholas is sent to a school run by the cruel, abusive and horridly entertaining Wackford Squeers. Eventually,... Read more

NO GREATER LOVE Director: Michael Whyte Producer(s): Janine Marmot, Michael Whyte Principal Cast: Mary of St. Philip, Mary of the Immaculate Conception and Mary of Christ 105 min UK, 2010 After ten years of correspondence, Michael Whyte was given unprecedented access to the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, in London’s Notting Hill. The monastery, which was founded in 1878, is home to the Discalced Order of Carmelite Nuns. The nuns lead a cloistered life dedicated to prayer and contemplation, rarely leaving the monastery except to visit a doctor or dentist. Silence is... Read more

TYRANNOSAUR Director: Paddy Considine Producer(s): Diarmid Scrimshaw, Sarada McDermott Principal Cast: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell, Ned Dennehy 91 min UK, 2011 Tyrannosaur is the story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil, a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Read more

ERASING DAVID Director: David Bond Producer(s): Beadie Finzi, Maxyne Franklin Principal Cast: David Bond 80 min UK, 2010 David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear – a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey... Read more

THE UNLOVED Director: Samantha Morton Producer(s): Andrew Eaton, Liza Marshall, Michael Winterbottom, Suzanne Alizart Principal Cast: Molly Windsor, Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch, Lauren Socha 106 min UK, 2010 Lucy is eleven years old. Neglected by her estranged mother and father, she ends up being placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow Lucy's struggle to cope with the system. Her saving is her self-belief and her certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit; hers is a heroic quest for love, beauty and transcendence. Read more

LIFE IN A DAY Director: Kevin MacDonald Producer(s): Ridley Scott Principal Cast: Cindy Baer, Moica and Hiroaki Aikawa 94 min UK, 2010 LIFE IN A DAY is a historical global event to create the first user generated feature film documenting a single day on Earth. From Academy Award winning director Kevin MacDonald and producer Ridley Scott. Read more

SON OF BABYLON Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji Producer(s): Antonia Bird, Nashwa Alruwaini, Hugo Heppell Principal Cast: Yasser Taleeb, Shehzad Hussen Mohammed, Bashir Al-Majid 90 min UK, 2010 April 2003, three weeks after the fall of Saddam. A journey through Iraq, a troubled land where no one knows what lies ahead. On hearing the news that prisoners of war have been found alive in the South, a curious young boy Ahmed and his obstinate grandmother set out to uncover the fate of the boy's missing father, one of the many soldiers who never came home since the gulf war 1991. From... Read more

CHARIOTS OF FIRE Director: Hugh Hudson Producer(s): James Crawford, Dodi Fayed, David Puttnam, Jake Eberts Principal Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell 119 min UK, 1981 The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. Read more

LOOKING FOR ERIC Director: Ken Loach Producer(s): Eric Cantona, Pascal Caucheteux, Vincent Maraval Principal Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, John Henshaw, Stephanie Bishop 114 min UK, 2009 Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers. His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don’t help, but it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In... Read more

FIRE IN BABYLON Director: Stevan Riley Producer(s): Ben Elliot, Ben Goldsmith Principal Cast: Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Clive Lloyd, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Desmond Haynes, Gordon Greenidge, Colin Croft, Bunny Wailer, Frank I, Colin Cumberbatch 83 min UK, 2011 Charting the glorious supremacy of the West Indies cricket team throughout the late 70s and 80s, this film describes how the bat and ball was more effective than gunfire in the battle against racial injustice and the struggle for black rights. It is told by the men who were there - such as Viv Richards, Michael Holding, Clive Lloyd. Fire in Babylon boasts dynamic archive, classic music by... Read more

SENNA Director: Asif Kapadia Producer(s): Kevin Macdonald, Manish Pandey Principal Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Viviane Senna, Frank Williams 105 min UK, 2011 Spanning Ayrton Senna's years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, the film will explore the life and work of the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual achievements on the track, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained. Read more