One of the greatest spy films ever made, The Ipcress Files begins with a kindap, a killing and a cup of coffee.

Kind Hearts and Coronets is one of a kind, a superb pitch-black comedy about gentle serial killing.

The Dam Busters begins in 1942, where a bespectacled man plays marbles with his children under a silver sky.

From Charles Frend, this 1948 drama tells the story of Robert Falcon Scott’s failed attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

As Mike Hodges’ flamboyant science fiction epic and Queen’s iconic rock song declares, Flash Gordon will be the saviour of the universe.

Directed by John Schlesinger in 1963, Billy Liar is one of the signature films of the British New Wave, the dynamic naturalism of the sixties.