Film noir meets black comedy in this British effort from director Jim Groom. Paul Herzerg stars as Connor, a hired hitman with obsessive compulsive disorder who is waiting in room 38 of a sleazy Paddington hotel to meet female MP Helen Woods (Paula Booroff), with the intention of blackmailing her over a set of implicating photographs. Meanwhile, in room 36, an obese travelling salesman with a penchant for wearing women's underwear (Frank Scantori) is waiting for a prostitute. Mayhem ensues when the number on the door of room 38 is damaged by a warring pair of newlyweds, & the prostitute ends up in the wrong room... ...

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy directs this semi-fictionalised account of the childhood & early life of Russian poet, essayist & Nobel Laureate in Literature, Joseph Brodsky (Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy), who was forced into American exile in 1972. Weaving together actual footage & dramatised sequences with readings from Brodsky's poetry & prose, the film depicts his childhood in Leningrad & his development into an outspoken political thinker & intellectual, which leads first to his exile to a remote village & finally to his expulsion from his beloved Russia. ...

Classic 'kitchen sink drama' from the British New Wave of the 1960s. Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is an ambitious young man who is tired of slaving away at his job & sets his sights on his boss's daughter, Susan, thinking she will provide a short-cut to the top. Hindered by his working class background, & frustrated by the opposition of Susan's parents, Joe seeks solace in the arms of a lonely older woman named Alice (Simone Signoret). But when he then inadvertently causes Alice's death in a road accident, Joe's whole world begins to unravel. ...