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After all, dates that involve aimless walks and visits to the chip shop will ring just a little bit more true-to-life than American cinema's endless parade of proms, beach parties and sporting events. It's a familiar set-up, but it's almost never been as beautifully observed or intelligently written as it is here, for which all credit to Bill Forsyth. John Gordon Sinclair is the youngster struck down with adoration for the gorgeous, football-playing Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), while Grogan plays Susan, Dorothy's friend and a far better bet for the awkward Romeo. None, however, come close to Gregory's Girl, a story of love and lust burning in all its teenage intensity that manages both realism and unspeakable hilarity without ever forgetting to sympathise with its subjects. There are many teen comedies, and teen sex comedies. Starring: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Claire Grogan Few debuts are this powerful or memorable. It's not a feelgood effort - quite the opposite – but a semi-autobiographical exorcism of the demons of Oldman's own south London upbringing that shows a side of life that we might all prefer to ignore.

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But no less capable is Kathy Burke, previously best known for TV comedy, who gives a three dimensional performance in what could have been a simple "victim" role. A disturbingly honest and unflinching look at the practice and results of domestic violence, this gave Ray Winstone an astonishing chance to shine and established him as both a hardman and an actor capable of great subtlety and range even as he plays someone capable of neither. We all know that Gary Oldman is an actor's actor – he's established his reputation beyond doubt over the past three decades – but this (as yet) sole effort as auteur shows that he's an actor's director too. Starring: Steve Coogan, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson Filled with the hummable tunes from the trenches and boasting one of the most heartbreaking final shots in cinema, it's an unsung epic. If the chronological approach gives it an occasionally episodic quality, Attenborough choreographs it all with such flair and compassion that it feels like the world's most dazzling history lesson. But stardom aside, it adds up to an indictment of the War's immeasurable suffering that's both scathing and deeply moving. And aren't those Dirk Bogarde, John Mills and Vanessa Redgrave doing their bit for the war effort? Oh! What A Luvvie War might have been a better title. That recruitment drive chanteuse? Maggie Smith. The general behind that bushy moustache? Laurence Olivier, of course. At times it plays like the most thespian game of I-spy in history.

The director assembled the cream of '60s acting talent, garbed it in khaki and set it lose on a uniquely British satire.

Starring enough Redgraves to populate a small island, Richard Attenborough's Great War musical flaunts one of the chunkiest contacts book in British movie history. Starring: Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Paul Shelley There's decent support too (most notably from Gordon Jackson), but the adventures are worth watching for Michael Caine's (arguably) most iconic role, where his unique brand of cockney cool really started to shine. Despite coming from the Bondian creative team (supremo Harry Saltzman, designer Ken Adams, editor Peter Hunt, scorer John Barry), this labyrinthine thriller provides a credible everyman alternative to Bond while embracing British everydayness. While investigating kidnapped scientists, undisciplined surveillance man Harry Palmer doesn't globe-trot, bed-hop or trade verbage with cat-stroking megalomaniac villains he spends his time on mundane form-filling tasks in drab offices. Furie's first adaptation of cook-turned author Len Deighton's Cold War novels goes the other way. Since it simply wasn't possible to compete with Connery's 007 in the super-spy stakes during the '60s, Sidney J.