Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), The Passionate Friends (1949), I Became a Criminal (1947), Term of Trial (1962), The Entertainer (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Post-war Britain movies.
Storyline: Pretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison camp, Adam proves to be on the verge of severe schizophrenia. In his risky struggle to help Adam, Felix finds his none-too-functional home life deteriorating, and is unable to help himself as he helps others. The situation rushes headlong to a suspenseful climax.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, film noir, psychoanalysis, trauma, suspense, mental illness, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Plot Keywords: crime, social issues, police, gangs, violence, british film, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british film, 1970s, historical, class conflict, emotional turmoil ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tony Kent returns home after 3 years in the Navy to find his children are strangers. After his wife is suddenly called away, Tony takes his brood to his father's windmill home where he tries to bond with Peter, Anne, and Fusty.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, british film, black and white, parenting, children, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In war-torn London, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson) falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr). They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.—Robert Bole <rjbmbv@teleport.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british, 1950s, novel adaptation, extramarital affair, psychological conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1947 in a small town in England. The war has been over for two years, but there's still rationing of meat. When Princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a group of businessmen wants to impress (or probably bribe) the local government by giving a big party. They want to slaughter an illegally raised pig for this event. Unfortunately, someone steals the pig.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, class conflict, black comedy, social commentary, british humor, eccentric characters ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Psychotherapist Dr. Clive Esmond (Alexander Knox) attempts to rehabilitate convict Frank Clemmens (Sir Dirk Bogarde) in his house after Frank tries to hold him up. The criminal cooperates rather than being handed over to the Police. The therapist's wife Glenda (Alexis Smith) becomes infatuated with the man in the hopes he will take her away.
Plot Keywords: crime, psychological thriller, film noir, british film, 1950s, suspense, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.—Eric Wees <eric_wees@pch.gc.ca>
Plot Keywords: children, fantasy, british film, 1950s, london, poverty, hope ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
Plot Keywords: drama, social issues, children, poverty, orphans, london, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Then the Korean War begins, and the Greer family starts to worry: kid brother Jack, courting the lovely daughter of the draft board chairman, is next on the list. A character study examining American attitudes of that era.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british film, black and white, 1950s, classic film, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: british film, comedy, drama, social realism, working class, 1960s, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The hilarious highlight of John Boorman's Hope and Glory (1987), nominated for five Oscars: nine-year-old Bill Rohan rejoices in the destruction of his school by an errant Luftwaffe bomb. This movie picks up the story nearly a decade later as Bill (Boorman's alter-ego) (Callum Turner) begins basic training in the early fifties, during the Korean War. Bill is joined by a trouble-making Army mate, Percy (Caleb Landry Jones). They never get near South Korea, but engage in a constant battle of wits with the Catch-22-worthy, Sergeant Major Bradley (David Thewlis). Richard E. Grant is their superior, the very infinitely put-upon, aptly-named, Major Cross.—Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum
Plot Keywords: war, military, family, coming of age, british, historical, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. Her father, an often absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret one day.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, british film, 1950s, black and white, psychological drama, emotion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barbara (Glynis Johns) is a teenager with a crush on her teacher, Stephen Barlow (Leo Genn), who tries to discourage Barbara's fantasy. After Stephen's wife, Kay (Gene Tierney), scolds Barbara for her feelings, Stephen goes after the girl to console her. When Barbara disappears, Stephen is suspected. As the town seethes with gossip and Barlow's reputation is forever damaged, Barbara's father, Henry (Walter Fitzgerald), tries to decipher whether Stephen is hiding the truth or not.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british film, black and white, 1950s, teacher-student relationship, emotional entanglement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adaptation of Noel Coward's play traces a number of years in the life of a middle-class London family.
Plot Keywords: family drama, world war ii era, british film, social change, working class, life struggles, marriage ...
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