Moira Shearer and Marius Goring in The Red Shoes (1948) This film is ninth in the “BFI 100”, a list of 100 of “the best British films ever” compiled by the British Film Institute in 2000. | Old Hollywood

Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis star in the critically acclaimed 1985 film MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, directed by Stephen Frears and written by bisexual screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, who received an Academy Award nomination for his work. Set in Thatcher-era London, the film follows Omar (Warnecke), who is taken under the wing of his influential uncle and given a laundrette to run. Omar hires his childhood friend and lover, Johnny (Day-Lewis)—a former right-wing extremist—to help him renovate a

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