Classic

The genre formally known as "Nostalgia", we determine "Classics" to be all titles that now pre-date 1990(!), but don’t hold us to it…

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Private Road (1971): Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast…; The other lost gem from British independent film-maker Barney Platts-Mills, who follows up “Bronco Bullfrog” (1970) with a rough-hewn love story charting the first steps into adult life for a young depressive girl and a cocky young writer. Susan Penhaligon would go on to become a well-known television…
Bronco Bullfrog (1969): Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd; Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law. Part of the BFI Flipside series.
Lucky Jim (1957): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith…; A likeable British comedy adapted from the beloved novel by Kingsley Amis about the constant frustrations of a young history lecturer with his university colleagues.
Family Way, The (1966): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills…; This Boulting Brothers classic is a hilarious yet affecting portrait of the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple (Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills) who are forced to live in a crowded house with the husband's family (including Mills' real-life father, John Mills). Based on the Bill Naughton play…
Spring and Port Wine (1970): Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. James Mason, Diane Coupland, Susan George; James Mason and Diana Coupland play a stern father and a lenient mother who are trying to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton. Based on the play of the same name.
Up The Junction (1968): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Maureen Lipman…; A compelling later example of the British kitchen sink drama that follows a bored rich London girl from Chelsea who decides to "slum it" in depressed Battersea, where she gets a flat and a job in a factory before confronting the propsect of an illegal abortion. Based on the book by Nell Dunn, with a…
Up Tight (1968): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera…; In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."