A perfect stranger. The boy next door. A sparring partner. A friend from abroad. Peccadillo’s 23rd edition of their Boys on Film series presents ten encounters from across the globe, where the ...

Fleeting encounters, conversations about identity, and experiencing life and love in the most authentic way. Six contemporary stories of men exploring love, lust and modern dating. These award-winning ...

Lisa Gornick's funny and frank drama sketches a most unexpected meeting of minds. Gabrielle (Gornick herself) is a London-based illustrator hoping to publish her book of risqué sex drawings. She gets ...

Is this Britain's oldest erotic film? Modern viewers might question how genuinely erotic it is, But it certainly pushes the boundaries of what was permissible in 1896 - and there's little doubt that ...

From Victorian voyeurism to Soho striptease: how a hidden film industry emerged to satisfy the sexual appetites of (male) viewers.

A taut crime thriller about the hunt for a mysterious stranger who is poisoning small children with barbiturates. A tough and compelling film, which offers a gritty reflection of life in 1960s South ...

In the early 1960s, with women's lib just a twinkle on the horizon, the Tynemouth lido on the rocks is the much-loved 'show pool' backdrop for a popular spectacle of style and glamour in swimwear.

Bush’s approach to music changed when he discovered the once famous composer, Rutland Boughton who was a member of the English Communist Party. Bush composed a series of operas which he hoped would ...

Striking, illuminating and sometimes surprising images of black culture, community and characters, spanning over a century of British film and TV.

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Poetry was Ellis Evans' passion- his life's ambition to be chaired at a National Eisteddfod. He achieved this at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1917. Unfortunately, he never knew of his success as he ...

Resilient working-class heroine Jo (Rita Tushingham) flees her uncaring single mother (Dora Bryan) and gets pregnant by a black sailor (Paul Danquah). She seeks solace from another social outsider, a ...