ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

From IMDb:  Two London brothers are hard-up for cash, and both have girls to look out for, too. When rich Uncle Howard comes to town and agrees to help them out, he admits his finances are under investigation, and he asks them to do him a favor and "take care of" an old business relation to keep his trouble under wraps. He says that they're family, and since he always takes care of them, the least they could do is help him out this once as they're the only ones he can trust. The film follows their struggle with the immorality of this request and how each brother chooses to deal with it.

[Lynne]

This post is dedicated to Kelda!! 

From Wiki:

Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966) is the second of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller "Dr. Who". It also featured Bernard Cribbins and Andrew Keir.

[Kelda]

This post is dedicated to Kelda!! 

From Wiki:

Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966) is the second of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller "Dr. Who". It also featured Bernard Cribbins and Andrew Keir.

Thaks Lynne! Yup Dalek is an anagram of Kelda!!!

[oilgun]

Plot: Teen heartthrob Cliff Richard stars as Bongo Herbert a young rocker who plays the bongos in a London coffee house. Lawrence Harvey plays talent agent Johnny Jackson. Harvey discovers Cliff performing in a café & believes that he has the talent to become a star. The two strike up a partnership but in no time at all the relationship turns sour. The London nightlife of the late 1950's complete with smoky bars, strippers, sleazy characters, neon-lights & noisy streets is depicted well & forms an excellent backdrop for this musical drama. Look out for bit player Susan Hampshire who is the only cast member to carry her part over from the popular stage play. At the 1960 BAFTA film awards "Expresso Bongo" received two nominations, Laurence Harvey for Best British Actor & Wolf Mankowitz for Best British Screenplay. "Expresso Bongo" is an entertaining romp down memory lane it features some over-the-top musical numbers & could be best described as an intelligent satire of British pop culture in the late 1950's. Cliff Richard fans won't want to miss this early musical gem.

[Fran]

From IMDb:  The story takes place during WWII, starting out in London, where four French women, on orders from the head of Special Operations Executive (the British department of covert warfare), are recruited by a French officer (Julien Boisselier) and his sister (Sophie Marceau), to attempt the rescue of an English agent from a hospital in Nazi-occupied France, who is in possession of important strategic information and in danger of being discovered and taken prisoner by the Germans.

[southendmd]

Plot summary:  Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle...

[memento]

From IMDB: An interesting little movie with great looks, this is one of the hard to find, hidden gems of UK independent film making. With great film noir photography and a superbly haunting soundtrack, this surprisingly well-crafted movie creates a uniquely atmospheric and oppressive view of contemporary London. Good performances too, especially from the excellent Stuart McQuarrie as the dubious private detective, as well as some promising new faces.

[Lynne]

From Wiki:

After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Anna Sophie (Hewitt), dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Alex Warie(Nicholls), living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.

[southendmd]

Plot:  A Swiss-German horror film with Klaus Kinski as the notorious Jack the Ripper. A respected doctor by day, Kinski dismembers London prostitutes by night, until the local Inspector's girlfriend (Josephine Chaplin) goes undercover to catch him.

(All right, not so jolly.)

[Fran]

From IMDb:  A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.