The National Health

Jack Gold Director

Clive Swift as Ash

Jim Dale as Barnet

Michael Heath as Catering Manager

Colin Blakely as Edward Loach

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.

Who?

1974

English

5.8

♡ 2

Jack Gold Director

Trevor Howard as Colonel Azarin

James Noble as General Deptford

Bruce Boa as Miller

Elliott Gould as Sean Rogers

After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".

Escape from Sobibor

1987

English

7.3

♡ 32

82%

Jack Gold Director

Rutger Hauer as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky

Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler

Joanna Pacula as Luka

Hartmut Becker as Sgt. Gustav Wagner

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

The Visit

1959

English

5.7

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Jack Gold Director

Alice Spaul as Alice

George Wood as Alice's Father

Eunice Phelps as Alice's Mother

Denyse Alexander as Neighbour

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

Man Friday

1975

English

6.2

33%

Jack Gold Director

Peter Cellier as Carey

Joel Fluellen as Doctor

Richard Roundtree as Friday

Peter O'Toole as Robinson Crusoe

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.

The Tenth Man

1988

English

6.9

♡ 8

65%

Action

Drama

War

Jack Gold Director

Anthony Hopkins as Jean Louis Chavel

John Bennett as Jules

Jim Carter as Pierre

Kristin Scott Thomas as Therese Mangeot

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.

Goodnight Mr Tom

1998

English

7.8

♡ 5

based on children's book

based on novel or book

Jack Gold Director

Annabelle Apsion as Mrs. Beech

Geoffrey Hutchings as Ralph Briggs

John Thaw as Tom Oakley

Geoffrey Beevers as Vicar

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

Aces High

1976

English

6.5

♡ 4

67%

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

royal flying corps (rfc)

squadron

War

world war i

Jack Gold Director

David Daker as Bennett

Peter Firth as Croft

Malcolm McDowell as Gresham

Trevor Howard as Silkin

The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980

English

7.5

♡ 8

80%

Jack Gold Director

Ricky Schroder as Lord Fauntleroy

Connie Booth as Mrs. Errol

Bill Nighy as Officer

Patrick Stewart as Wilkins

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

The Naked Civil Servant

1975

English

7.9

♡ 7

92%

based on memoir or autobiography

Jack Gold Director

Charles Pemberton as Court PC

Roger Lloyd Pack as Liz

Jan Chappell as Neurotic Girl

John Hurt as Quentin Crisp

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

The Reckoning

1970

English

6.8

♡ 3

based on novel or book

Drama

liverpool, england

revenge

Jack Gold Director

Tom Kempinski as Brunzy

Godfrey Quigley as Dr. Carolan

Joe Gladwin as Drunk

Aileen Lewis as Lady in Butchers Shop

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.

The Return of the Native

1994

English

6.0

♡ 5

48%

Jack Gold Director

Ray Stevenson as Clym Yeobright

Clive Owen as Damon Wildeve

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Eustacia Vye

Celia Imrie as Susan Nunsuch

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.

The Medusa Touch

1978

English

6.9

♡ 10

73%

Jack Gold Director

Philip Stone as Dean

Gordon Jackson as Dr. Johnson

Jennifer Jayne as Mother

Jeremy Brett as Parrish

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

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The National Health

Who?

Escape from Sobibor

The Visit

Man Friday

The Tenth Man

Goodnight Mr Tom

Aces High

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Naked Civil Servant

The Reckoning

The Return of the Native

The Medusa Touch