The blue lamp / Bogarde, Dirk

This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Aveteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley and Spud. Rookie cop Andy Mitchell, who looked up to the veteran policeman as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring his mentor's killers to justice. Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style by Gordon Dines (Pool ofLondon), the film focuses on ordinary heroes and a new breed of young criminal, hardened by the war years, whose recklessness and violence contrasts with the discipline of the older criminal fraternity.

Wolves of war / Breaking Glass Pictures (Firm)

At the end of World War II, a tough British officer leads a covert band of Allied commandos behind enemy lines on one last impossible mission. Their task is to abduct an American scientist held hostage, in order to stop the Nazi's work on developing an atomic bomb - all while evading the Nazi forces who are determined to continue the war at any cost.