Lindsay Anderson Movies

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

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

Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a...

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and...

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by...

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the...

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond...

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but...

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

A short documentary profiling male impersonator Hetty King, a star of the Edwardian music hall still performing in her 87th year. Accompanied by her...

Award winning director Lindsay Anderson subverts the mockumentary genre and presents to the audience a detailed and humored account of what truly...

Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in...

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone...

Lindsay Anderson's early documentary film of a British amusement park, the irony of its manufactured fun on full display.