Classic

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...

Universal Noir #2 - focusing on the celebrated film noir output of Universal Pictures - collects six crime classics from Hollywood's golden age. Starring the cream of US and British acting talent - including Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Phyllis Calvert,...

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well?, Dead of Night), They Made Me a Fugitive is a prime example of British film noir. Trevor Howard (Who?, The Missionary) plays Clem Morgan, an RAF officer during the war, now unemployed since...

Marlene Dietrich (Blonde Venus) took a break from her classic run of films with Josef von Sternberg to make The Song of Songs, an atmospheric romantic drama co-starring Brian Aherne (A Bullet Is Waiting) and Lionel Atwill (The Devil Is a Woman). Peasant...

This is the inspiring story of mans' first conquest of the world's highest mountain. Made in 1953, the film documents the breathtaking ascent of Everest by Hunt, Hillary, Tenzing et al, directed by fellow expedition member George Lowe.

THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN (1957), which Muriel Box called her most personal film, reveals the complex lives of women and the assertion that women can and should be 'an equal partner in the business of life'. A witty and touching comedy with a great cast...

THE PASSIONATE STRANGER (1957) centres around happily married house-wife Judith Wynter (Margaret Leighton) who keeps the fact she is a best-selling author of steamy romance novels, a closely guarded secret. As her husband Roger (Ralph Richardson),...

RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN (1964) directed by Muriel Box follows Percy Winthram (Harry H Corbett), a shy, naïve 39-year-old who is in London with his friends for the Cup Final. When he meets beautiful hostess Cyrenne (Diane Cilento) in a Soho strip club...

Howard Hawks (Twentieth Century) made his first film for Columbia Pictures with this pre-Code prison movie. The great Walter Huston (Dragonwyck) stars as a district attorney-turned-prison warden who gets to witness first-hand the effects of his...

One for all and all for one! With D'Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king's service, his army besieges the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de...

One for all and all for one! With D'Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king's service, his army besieges the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de...

In 17th century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D'Artagnan leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. He soon makes friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos, comically arrogant Porthos and chivalric Aramis. Their enemy is aristocratic...

In 17th century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D'Artagnan leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. He soon makes friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos, comically arrogant Porthos and chivalric Aramis. Their enemy is aristocratic...

Vivianne is a young woman ostracised when her boyfriend is arrested for murder, and is forced to rent a room in a decrepit boarding house for unmarried mothers ran by Nellie Alistair, a ruthless woman with sinister motives, who takes pleasure exploiting...

In the 18th century, Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is forced into marriage with Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), an aristocrat destined to inherit the British crown. But after he becomes king, Sophie meets suave Swedish mercenary Count Philip...