Modern Classic

US comedy directed by Mel Brooks. Failed Broadway producer Max (Zero Mostel) and timid accountant Leo (Gene Wilder) come up with a foolproof plan to make a fortune, by staging a musical which is guaranteed to flop and close after one night. A mad Nazi...

US comedy directed by Mel Brooks. Failed Broadway producer Max (Zero Mostel) and timid accountant Leo (Gene Wilder) come up with a foolproof plan to make a fortune, by staging a musical which is guaranteed to flop and close after one night. A mad Nazi...

Otto Preminger directs this classic thriller starring Laurence Olivier and Carol Lynley. A young American mother who has recently moved to England goes to pick her daughter Bunny up from her first day at school only to find she's missing. As the police...

John Huston directs this epic adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel. Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck), skipper of the whaling vessel Pequod, sets sail from New Bedford in 1840, determined to wreak vengeance on Moby Dick, the great white whale that...

Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills star as young newly-weds in this 1960s British comedy drama based on Bill Naughton's play. Following their reception, the couple stay the night at Arthur (Bennett)'s family home in a small Lancashire village prior to...

Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn star in this 1950s drama based on Tennessee Williams' play. After witnessing her cousin's death while travelling with him in Europe, Catherine Holly (Taylor) suffers a mental breakdown and is confined to a mental...

Drama directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the novel 'Call for the Dead' by John le Carré. Charles Dobbs (James Mason) is a British intelligence officer who is sent to investigate an anonymous letter sent to the Foreign Secretary accusing a key officer,...

Crime thriller directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Jocelyn Brando. Police officer Dave Bannion (Ford) suspects that his police force is being manipulated by a brutal gangster and doggedly follows his trail. After a...

Classic crime drama directed by Arthur Penn and starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. A young convict by the name of Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves (Redford) escapes from the state penitentiary and heads for his hometown in the American Deep...

Stanley Kramer directs this classic comedy drama starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. Upper class couple Matt Drayton (Tracy) and wife Christina (Hepburn) are lost for words when their daughter, Joey (Katharine Houghton), returns...

British classic starring Lynn Redgrave as a frumpy but fun-loving girl named Georgy, who is content to live vicariously through her more glamorous flatmate Meredith (Charlotte Rampling) until her father's older employer, James Leamington (James Mason),...

British classic set in the Victorian era which follows Masterman and Joseph Finsbury (John Mills and Ralph Richardson), two brothers who are the last surviving members of a tontine: an investment scheme set up many years before in which the last...

The powerful story of salesgirl Mary Hilton (Diana Dors) who, after being convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, spends her final weeks in a condemned cell remembering the events that led to her crime. She met and fell hopelessly in love with...

Classic Ealing comedy in which a group of bank robbers struggle to silence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime. Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in King's Cross with her parrots. She has been led to believe that the group of men...

The legendary Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, La Ronde) directs this tense and stylish 1949 film noir melodrama. Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street, Suspiria) stars as a suburban housewife who covers up a murder to protect her teenage daughter, only...