Powerhouse Films

Triple bill of fantasy adventure films. In 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' (1958) when his beloved Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) is turned into a miniature by an evil magician, Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews)...

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...

Immediately recognisable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler known as El Santo (`The Saint') was Mexico's most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular...

Released the same year as Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci's Django, The Big Gundown (La resa di conti) is a classic spaghetti western. Directed by the great Sergio...

Starring Vince Edwards (City of Fear) and Herschel Bernardi (The Front), Murder by Contract is a bleak investigation into the mind of a professional killer. Tasked with murdering a witness in a...

Screen legends Ginger Rogers (Swing Time), Edward G Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking) and Brian Keith (5 Against the House) team up for this tense film noir drama. US attorney Lloyd Hallet offers...

Six years after their success in film noir classic Gilda, Glenn Ford (The Undercover Man, Experiment in Terror) and Rita Hayworth (The Lady from Shanghai) reunited for Affair in Trinidad. When...

Broderick Crawford (The Undercover Man) goes up against the Mob in this exposé of underworld involvement in America's docklands. After failing to apprehend a cop-killer, Detective Johnny Damico must...

Edmund O'Brien (The Web) gets involved in the mob's bookmaking racket in 711 Ocean Drive, also starring Joanne Dru (Red River), and Otto Kruger (Escape in the Fog). Telephone operator Mal Granger...

Glenn Ford (The Big Heat, Experiment in Terror) and Barry Sullivan (Forty Guns) star in this atmospheric film noir tale of deceit and treachery in a mining town. Down-on-his-luck trucker Mike Lampert...

Joseph Losey's lurid and often misunderstood drama stars the great Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) as an ageing London prostitute who befriends a young woman (Mia Farrow, See No Evil) that...

Shocking and highly controversial at the time of release, The Snake Pit broke new ground in Hollywood cinema for its depiction of mental illness and its treatment. Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the...

Don Siegel (Madigan) directs The Lineup, a brutal film noir loosely based on the radio and television series of the same name. Beginning as a straightforward police procedural, the film shifts into...

Kerwin Matthews (5 Against the House) and J Lee Cobb (The Family Secret) star in a film noir exposé of murder and corruption in the fashion world. When a Korean war veteran takes a job at his...

Guy Madison (The Beast of Hollow Mountain) and Kim Novak (Pushover) head an all-star cast in the film noir caper 5 Against the House, briskly directed by Phil Karlson (Scandal Sheet). A group of...

Moving away from the family comedies and musicals that had made him famous, Drive a Crooked Road finds a Mickey Rooney (National Velvet) as a girl-shy mechanic and racing driver. When a beautiful...

Based on Federal Agent Frank J Wilson's pursuit of Al Capone, The Undercover Man is a noir classic from one of its master directors, Joseph H Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo). Glenn Ford (The Big...

A nurse has a recurring dream about a man being murdered. When she meets that man in real life, they team up to tackle a Nazi spy ring in the fog of San Francisco. An early directorial effort from...

One of the few bona fide counter-cultural films to be produced by a major studio, The Swimmer is a sun-scorched and surreal suburban satire that boasts a fine performance from Burt Lancaster (Castle...

Starring Kris Kristofferson (The Last Movie) in his first leading role, and boasting an impressive supporting cast - including Gene Hackman (The Conversation), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces), Harry...

Patricia Neal (fresh from her 1963 award-winning role in Martin Ritt's Hud) stars as a woman suffering from hysterical blindness, and a blank in her memory which may hide the cause of her affliction...

Richard Attenborough's renowned, star-studded historical biopic follows the early years of one of Britain's most beloved and controversial figures - Winston Churchill. Writer-producer Carl Foreman...

Playwright Peter Nichols adapted his own blackly comic 1967 Tony Award-winning play for this confrontational film version by director Peter Medak. Alan Bates and Janet Suzman play a married couple...

Jack Gold's film about life and death in a shabby London hospital interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy one which exists in the soap-opera world of `Nurse Norton's Affair', where...

Stanley Kramer's star-studded, Oscar-winning adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel about passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933 forms a potent allegory of a world...

Loosely inspired by the story of Mata Hari, the real-life spy, Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich's second Hollywood collaboration focuses on a war widow who is recruited by the Austrian...

The penultimate collaboration of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich was also their most ambitious and, maybe, their very best. Dietrich plays Catherine, a young woman who is married into a...

One of six films Cary Grant made in 1932, the first year of his Hollywood career, Blonde Venus also found him co-starring with the formidable Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich plays a cabaret singer who...

Marlene Dietrich stars as Shanghai Lily, a courtesan travelling from Peking to Shanghai amid the Chinese civil war, and inspiring scandal and romance among her fellow passengers - portrayed by an...