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(1932-50, Network, PG)

This third collection of less well-known (or unknown) movies from the British studio that ran from the early 1930s to 1959 includes two very minor low-budget B-movies from those early years when it was called Associated Talking Pictures and was run by Basil Dean, and two polished dramas from its glory days in the 40s and 50s under Michael Balcon's aegis. From the Dean era, only the motor-racing drama Death Drives Through (1935) is worth a look because John Huston co-wrote it. The Balcon productions, however, are polished dramas of considerable historical interest. Both are directed by the prolific Basil Dearden and star David Farrar, famous for playing cruel, handsome, middle-class cads in British movies and later for villains in Hollywood epics.

In Frieda (1947), Farrar plays an Raf officer who escapes from a PoW camp at the end of the second world war with the aid of a young German woman (Mai Zetterling,...

Ealing: Light And Dark, London

Over the years, Ealing has become a byword for quintessentially British comedy, as with familiar classics such as The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob, but this two-month retrospective shows just how much more there was to the studio. You'll find fine noir thrillers embedded in the landscape of austerity Britain, such as East End tragedy It Always Rains On Sunday, Next Of Kin or Cage Of Gold, in which Jean Simmons is led astray by an homme fatal.

BFI Southbank, SE1, Mon to 30 Dec

Africa In Motion, Edinburgh & Glasgow

Between Nollywood and the Arab spring, there are plenty of stories to tell in African cinema right now. However, in addition, this growing festival brings you African sci-fi, children's and art movies, including 20 British premieres, and films from Libya, Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Congo. Africa is literally in motion in festival closer Restless City, a...