British independent films

Helvetica

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007...

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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

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Shame

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apar...

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Charlie Is My Darling

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1966 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Charlie Is My Darling, directed by Peter Whitehead, was the first documentary film about The Rolling Stones. The movie was shot during the band's two-day tour of Ireland on 3 and 4 September 1965, and...

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Carol

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.2

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

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Only Lovers Left Alive

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable you...

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Truly Madly Deeply

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1991 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested...

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Quills

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The...

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Quadrophenia

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his sco...

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