Constance Chapman

O Lucky Man!

Lindsay Anderson

Малкольм Джон Тейлор, Ralph Richardson

This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.

Lent

Peter Barber-Fleming

Graham McGrath, Harry Andrews

It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmaster. The weather is beautiful, the countryside is lovely, but all is far from peaceful as the adults quarrel and Paul grows up.

Do as I Say

Barry Davis

Angela Down, Kate Nelligan

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.

The Raging Moon

Bryan Forbes

Малкольм Джон Тейлор, Nanette Newman

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.

In Celebration

Lindsay Anderson

Alan Bates, Brian Cox

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.

Mummy and Daddy

Barry Davis

Neil Wilson, Constance Chapman

Arthur takes early retirement, and with his wife Marion, moves into a bungalow by the sea, bought by their son. However, disillusionment sets in after a year when the plans he had do not work out and life is not what they expected or hoped.

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Peter Medak

Alan Bates, Janet Suzman

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.

Hearts and Flowers

Christopher Morahan

Anthony Hopkins, Donald Churchill

A family gather together for the funeral and cremation of the head of the family.

Hedda

Trevor Nunn

Glenda Jackson, Timothy West

Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provide her with an elegant home. But when she learns that Jorgen's rival for a university position, Ejlert, has made a surprising comeback with a recent publication, she's quick to push him back into his former alcoholism, steal the sequel to his book and even encourage the writer to kill himself.

My Friend Walter

Gavin Millar

Prunella Scales, Polly Grant

Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, determined to escape the Tower of London once and for all and return to Devon. When Sir Raleigh learns that a pair of dastardly brothers have designs on his ancestors' farm, he devises a plan to thwart them.

A Kind Of Loving

Clive Wood, Joanne Whalley

Following the story of Vic Brown, a West Riding miner's son. It starts in 1957 with a casual affair with Ingrid Rotherwell, which develops into an emotional crisis...

Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre

Noella Smith

Pam Ferris, Ken Christiansen

When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centre with a difference - offering sex, drugs and personalised water births.