Classic

Jack Clayton's 1959 feature length debut ROOM AT THE TOP paved the way for the British New Wave, considered one of the first Kitchen Sink Dramas. Starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret, ROOM AT THE TOP was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning...

Directed by Carol Reed (The Third Man) starring Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) and Diana Dors (Yield to The Night). In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanna...

Curtis Bernhardt directs this 1950s American film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a gunrunner operating in 1920s war-torn Syria and supplying weapons to the rebel forces. Harry Smith (Bogart) must work under increasing pressure as the French military...

Humphrey Bogart (Sirocco) stars with Alexander Knox (The Damned), and Florence Marly (Queen of Blood) star in Tokyo Joe, a post-war film noir tale of smuggling, treason, and blackmail. World War II veteran Joe Barrett (Bogart) returns to his Tokyo...

Humphrey Bogart (The Harder They Fall), Lizabeth Scott (Pitfall), and Morris Carnovsky (Gun Crazy) star in Dead Reckoning, a dark tale of blackmail, vengeance, and murder. When Captain 'Rip' Murdock (Bogart) learns that his war buddy has been murdered,...

With its sparkling screenplay by Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story), this much-loved romantic comedy paired screen legends Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve, Forty Guns) and Fred McMurray (Double Indemnity, The Absent-Minded...

Starring Ray Milland and Patricia Roc. U.S. citizen Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) comes to London to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, who served as a Commando with the British Forces. Suspecting that it was not a German bullet that killed...

An influential cinematic masterpiece written by Leo Marks (Twisted Nerve) and starring Carl Boehm (Sissi), Anna Massey (Frenzy), Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) and Maxine Audley (A King in New York). Now regarded as a ground-breaking masterpiece of the...

KING AND COUNTRY is a 1964 uncompromising WW1 drama, directed by Joseph Losey, featuring outstanding performances from Tom Courtenay (who won the 1964 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor) and Dirk Bogarde. During World War I, a young soldier, Hamp...

Three British wartime musicals starring 'forces' sweetheart' Vera Lynn. In 'We'll Meet Again' (1942), chorus line dancer Peggy Brown (Lynn) is given her own radio show by the BBC, but proves unlucky in love when the soldier she loves (Donald Gray) falls...

Collection of six classic films produced by Columbia Pictures. 'It Happened One Night' (1934) is Frank Capra's Oscar-winning romantic drama starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Heiress Ellie Andrews (Colbert) flees her disapproving millionaire...

Based on a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat (author of The Cruel Sea) and directed by Basil Dearden (The Blue Lamp, The League Of Gentleman) The Ship That Died Of Shame takes place during the bleak aftermath of the Second World War a crew of navy...

Filmed in 1971, Kira Muratova's THE LONG FAREWELL was banned and shelved, not to be screened until 1987. Despite the continued censorship Muratova's work received, she still managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in Ukrainian and Russian cinema,...

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (1967) was the debut feature from Kira Muratova. It was here we saw the beginnings of Muratova's impressionistic style, blending observational realism with new wave experimentation. Despite the continued censorship Muratova's work...

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert star in this romantic drama directed by Frank Capra. Heiress Ellie Andrews (Colbert) flees her disapproving father Alexander (Walter Connolly) when he forbids her from marrying playboy King Westley (Jameson Thomas). As...