british film Archives - Desperate Living

The unimpressive world of soccer on the big screen is explored via football hooligans, ageing male fantasies and unlikely rom-coms.

The uniquely grotty world of the 1970s British softcore sex film is explored through its highlights and lowlights

More British cult film trailers from the golden age of UK horror, science fiction, arthouse and exploitation cinema.

A 71-minute collection of classic previews for cult British horror and exploitation movies.

A 1969 movie that takes a pleasingly non-judgemental view of single motherhood in the 1960s, signalling the end of old moral certainties.

Bela Lugosi makes a rare British film appearance in this 1939 crime melodrama based on the work of Edgar Wallace.

Continuing our festival previews with a look at Sean Hogan’s relentlessly creepy slice of Folk Horror.

A once-lost, now beloved British short that is perhaps not quite the masterpiece that some would claim.

The British censorship board’s new price reduction scheme is not as generous as they would have you believe.

Remembering the king of low-budget, high-concept straight-to-supermarket British horror.

The pioneering and popular British science fiction TV series that has become lost in time and space.

Taking a look at one of the less beloved films in a surprisingly busy sub-genre.