London After Dark

The other London starts when the offices empty: Soho neon, lock-ups, upstairs rooms where deals go quietly wrong. Six films across forty years that know the city best by night.

1. 1
   Peeping Tom

   1960 · Horror · 1h 41m

   The camera as murder weapon, London as its darkroom — the scandal that ended Powell’s career.

2. 2
   Performance

   1970 · Crime · 1h 45m

   A gangster on the run goes to ground in a Notting Hill basement and comes apart there.

3. 3
   The Long Good Friday

   1980 · Crime · 1h 54m

   One Easter weekend to sell the Docklands dream, while somebody dismantles it bomb by bomb.

4. 4
   Mona Lisa

   1986 · Crime · 1h 44m

   Hoskins ferries a call girl through neon Soho and King’s Cross, falling for her as he drives.

5. 5
   Naked

   1993 · Drama · 2h 12m

   Johnny drifts across the sleepless city, picking arguments with anyone still awake.

6. 6
   Sexy Beast

   2000 · Crime · 1h 29m

   Hauled off a Spanish sunlounger for one last London job: a bank vault, a bathhouse, Don Logan.