Leon Clore

1867년 영국의 작은 해변 마을 ‘라임’. 런던 출신의 아마추어 고생물학자 찰스 스미스(제레미 아이언스)는 약혼녀 어네스티나 프리먼과 해변을 산책하던 중 파도가 휘몰아치는 방파제에 한 여자가 서 있는 모습을 목격하고 약혼녀의 만류에도 방파제로 뛰어가 여자에게 위험하다고 소리친다. 여자의 이름은 사라 우드러프(메릴 스트립). 마을 사람들은 그녀를 ‘프랑스 중위의 여자’라고 경멸하지만 찰스는 사라의 강렬한 첫인상에 마음이 끌리고, 그녀가 몰인정하고 도덕적으로 완전무결함을 강조하는 폴트니 부인의 가정교사가 되자 연민을 느낀다. 찰스의 이런 감정을 눈치챈 사라는 처음에는 약혼녀가 있는 찰스를 밀어내지만 어느덧 해변 으슥한 곳에서 만나달라는 편지를 보내고 자신의 불행한 처지를 털어놓는다. 사라는 한 프랑스 중위를 사랑했지만 자신은 중위에게 그저 즐기기 위한 여인 중 한 명이었음을 깨닫고 스스로를 벌하기 위해 오명을 쓰고 살아왔음을 고백한다. 찰스는 부유한 사업가의 외동딸 어네스티나 프리먼과 자신의 마음을 통째로 뒤흔들어놓는 사라 사이에서 갈등한다. 그러던 어느 날 사라가 라임에서 쫓겨날 위기에 처하고, 찰스는 사라를 돕기 위해 그녀를 런던으로 보낸다. 런던에서 다시 만난 두 사람은 서로의 사랑을 확인하고, 라임으로 돌아온 찰스는 약혼녀와 파혼한 후 다시 사라에게 돌아가지만 사라는 이미 종적을 감춘 뒤다. 그로부터 3년 후 사라의 행방을 찾았다는 연락이 온다. 알고 보니 미술가로 성공해 온전히 살아가고 있는 사라가 자신이 있는 곳을 일부러 알려온 것이다. 찰스는 억압에서 벗어나기 위해 자신을 이용했던 사라에게 분노를 쏟아내지만, 자신을 아직도 사랑한다면 용서해 달라는 사라의 간청에 그녀를 용서한다.

On an English farm, six reckless children play at being a fierce band of Apache warriors, unaware of the many dangers to which they are exposed. (Public information short film produced on behalf of the British Government to warn children living in rural areas about the risks of playing near farm machinery.)

Young Socialists from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea march to London and discuss their economic struggles en route. Supporting them are Ken Loach, Corin Redgrave, Arnold Wesker and other leading cultural figures of the left of British politics. The march is intercut with scenes dramatising parallel injustices in the English Civil War era and earlier - featuring Frances de la Tour in queenly mode as Elizabeth I. The film's unconventional structure also features frequent extracts of the rousing pop concert, with the band Slade, which culminated the epic march.

A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.

A BAFTA award winning film providing an analysis of a new method of mathematics teaching, through the use of practical apparatus, for primary school-children in England.

Car manufacture at a Ford factory.

A sports documentary about association football that follows a week in the life of West Bromwich Albion football club.

Made for the NSPCC by the noted film director John Krish, They Took Us To The Sea follows a group of children taken by Inspectors of the NSPCC on an outing from Birmingham to Weston-Super Mare.

A refugee family comes to terms with living in England and adjusting to a new language and culture.

A BAFTA award winning dramatisation of a threatened strike at a factory.

See how Sally Jenkins and her driver, Thomas, run Hertfordshire's mobile library service with military precision.

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.

A short film by Joseph Losey.

A documentary featuring mid-century design. Includes footage of many products, plus some architecture.

Birthright, which presents the work of the Family Planning Association, is a valuable record of the organisation of contraception and fertility services before the introduction of the contraceptive pill. But, more than this, in its filmmaking style it conveys much about the social attitudes of this era, and the spirit in which those services were conceived and delivered.

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 the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look At Britain" series.

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.

Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

A montage of scenes from East End life set to a soundtrack of music hall songs with appropriate lyrics.

From The World of Life film series. A documentary narrated by Robert Beatty, of a working day of Laurie Smith - the Head Keeper of London Zoo.

A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest in 1953.

London families spend a day at Southend-on-Sea.

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst soldiers on the frontline wasn't the sole cause. Back on the home front, for many women, like Joan from No. 19, loneliness or newfound independence acted as an incentive to extramarital promiscuity.