Woodfall Film Productions.
1) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Sullen, defiant Colin refuses to follow his dying father into a factory job, railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving. Arrested for burglary and sent to borstal, Colin discovers a talent for cross-country running, earning him special treatment from the governor and the chance to redeem himself from anti-social tearaway to sports day hero.
3) Mademoiselle
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1994
Language
Français
Description
A sleepy farm village in the south of France is the unlikely setting for this study of perversion and evil. A malicious, frustrated schoolteacher's suppressed sexual desire leads her to commit devilish acts of destruction. The earthy, virile woodcutter awakens her illicit passions.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Porter is a university graduate who rejects middle class dreams and operates a candy stall in a local flea market. His wife, Allison, endures his anger and frustration because of his intense love. But when an actress friend of Allison's temporarily moves in with them, Jimmy becomes a twisted figure of bitterness and pain as disillusionment and anger overtake him.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country servant struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country lad struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A rambunctious (and contentious) young man stuck in a factory job is having an affair with the wife of a co-worker. Frustrated by his economic confines, he drinks up much of his paycheck on the weekends. He also meets a young girl his own age and his affections begin to shift toward her.
9) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
10) Ned Kelly
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Feature film about Australia's most notorious outlaw of the 19th century.
11) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters,"...
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
A motley clan of eight lovable misfits, the Berry Family sets out on an adventure to fulfill their lifelong aspiration of owning a hotel. The quest takes them around the world, and they greet every new location with their own brand of outrageous humor.
13) Ned Kelly
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In peaceful pursuit to live off the land, but harassed by both law and his neighbors, bushranger Ned Kelly eventually turns to a life of crime when his mother, unjustly accused of murder, is sentenced to prison.
14) Joseph Andrews
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Andrews who ascends from mere servant to become the personal footman and the fancy of Lady Booby. He battles seductions, robberies, and rogues while trying to remain faithful to his true love an equally innocent servant girl. Meanwhile, Lady Booby carefully tries to conceal her humble origins and a couple of not-so-well-kept secrets.
15) Tom Jones
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned at birth and raised by a wealthy squire, Tom Jones romps through English society, leading a lusty life of brawling and bed-hopping.