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In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton.

Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts falling apart.

A married writer has an affair with his secretary.

Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion.

Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie (Jean Shrimpton), is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

In crime-ridden 1970s New York City, cops Willie and Cy have had enough. Along with other disgruntled people, they decide to take matters into their own hands - only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.

The film concerns an elderly couple played by Rosamund Greenwood and Roy Evans, who we later discover to be brother and sister, who accidentally run over and kill a young cyclist played by David Pugh on a lonely northern moor - but instead of reporting the incident to the police the woman decides to take the corpse home with them. There she dresses him in the clothes of a second brother, killed in the Second World War, shows him her photo-albums, and tries to engage him in conversation. Her brother, meanwhile, gathers wood to build a coffin. Greenwood has the only speaking part in the movie and largely carries it; she gives a subtle, heart-rending performance as a sister clinging to her past. Memories of the War hang heavily over the house - quite literally in the form of an aircraft propeller suspended from the ceiling that the woman booby-traps in order to prevent her brother burying the corpse.

The burning end of an unhappy relationship.

A white South African is shocked on a weekly visit to her sister's farm.

A young executive spends a devastating afternoon trying to borrow money to pay for an engagement ring that cost more than he expected.