Regency Seniors: Monday Matinees for Over 55's

Watch the late Academy Award-winning Sidney Poitier in one of his most loved performances. Mark Thackery is an idealistic engineering trainee who takes a job as a senior school teacher in London's tough East End. Realising that book-learning isn't the key to success with his rambunctious, resistant scholars, Mr Thackery - aka "Sir" - discovers creative new ways to deliver a valuable education.

Celebrate St Valentine with the love of this seminal British big screen romance. Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Their casual friendship soon develops into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.