List of the best Avis Bunnage movies: No Surrender(1985), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner(1962), The L-Shaped Room(1963), Sparrows Can't Sing(1963), The Whisperers(1967), The Krays(1990), Expresso Bongo(1959) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1985
101 Minutes
Martha Gorman
Michael Angelis Avis Bunnage Bernard Hill Ray McAnally James Ellis Mark Mulholland Joanne Whalley-Kilmer Michael Ripper Elvis Costello J.G. Devlin Tom Georgeson
manager old man pretty woman punk rocker magician amusing rousing liverpool, england pub religious differences celebration performance confrontation old age rivalry wretched excess 1980s
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Drama
UK
1962
103 Minutes
Mrs. Smith
Tom Courtenay Michael Redgrave Avis Bunnage Peter Madden James Bolam Julia Foster Dervis Ward Raymond Dyer Alec McCowen Joe Robinson John Thaw
rebel athlete headmaster juvenile delinquent bully intense powerful brooding spirited reform school nottingham, england track anger rehabilitation rebellion running reform rivalry growing up revenge
A juvenile offender (Sir Tom Courtenay) at a tough reform school impresses its Governor (Sir Michael Redgrave) with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
Drama
UK
1963
125 Minutes
Doris
Leslie Caron Tom Bell Brock Peters Avis Bunnage Emlyn Williams Cicely Courtneidge Bernard Lee Patricia Phoenix Nanette Newman
writer doctor boyfriend pregnant woman bleak gritty powerful moving london france boarding house romance abortion pregnancy friendship growing up love sacrifice discovery 1960s
A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1963
94 Minutes
Bridgie Gooding
James Booth Barbara Windsor Roy Kinnear Avis Bunnage Brian Murphy George Sewell Barbara Ferris Griffith Davies Murray Melvin Arthur Mullard Peggy Ann Clifford
seaman wife bus driver baby emotional melodramatic intense touching sad sea boat home returning home new love fatherhood doubt past loves adventure love forbidden love
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1967
106 Minutes
Mrs. Noonan
Edith Evans Eric Portman Nanette Newman Gerald Sim Avis Bunnage Ronald Fraser Leonard Rossiter Kenneth Griffith Harry Baird Margaret Tyzack Clare Kelly
old woman husband friend son thief brooding disheartening tense suspenseful apartment england welfare office alley old age schizophrenia senility robbery deception family discovery
Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.
Crime, Drama, Biography
UK
1990
119 Minutes
Helen
Billie Whitelaw Gary Kemp Martin Kemp Susan Fleetwood Charlotte Cornwell Jimmy Jewel Avis Bunnage Kate Hardie Alfred Lynch Tom Bell Steven Berkoff
crime boss twin brother mother older man homosexual dark chilling shocking london club underground alley twins crime ring ronnie kray rise to power schizophrenia reggie kray fall
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1959
111 Minutes
Laurence Harvey Sylvia Syms Cliff Richard Yolande Mallott Meier Tzelniker Ambrosine Philpotts Eric Pohlmann Hermione Baddeley Reginald Beckwith Wilfrid Lawson Martin Miller
promoter talent scout pop star musician teenager melodramatic spirited disheartening london music hall coffee shop music industry rock 'n' roll media circus rags to riches exploitation fame underdog rise temptation
Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny ... See full summary »