Powerhouse Films

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1930s Mexican horror directed by Ramón Peón. Based on Mexican folklore, the film tells the story of the wailing woman who kills herself and her two children before returning in spectral form to...

1970s horror starring Donald Pleasence and Peter Cushing. When a number of tourists disappear from a picturesque Greek village, anxious priest Father Roche (Pleasence) turns to his old friend,...

Robert Hartford-Davis directs this 1960s British horror starring Peter Cushing and Sue Lloyd. When his fiancée, fashion model Lynn (Lloyd), is badly scarred in an accident, plastic surgeon Sir John...

Carl Franklin stamped his claim as one of the key voices to emerge from the nineties neo-noir revival when he followed up the 1991 modern classic One False Move with this 1995 adaptation of Walter...

1970s British horror starring Calvin Lockhart and Peter Cushing. A variety of guests assemble at the lodge of wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Lockhart), each of them in some way possessing a...

1970s British horror starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. In 19th century London, Dr Charles Marlowe (Lee) has manufactured a new drug which relieves inhibitions. After successful trials on...

Whilst defending a man who stands accused of murdering his wife, attorney Paul Lukas comes to suspect that his own wife is being unfaithful. Following her through the streets of Vienna, he becomes...

Frank Capra directs Spender Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in this classic satirical comedy. Tracy plays Grant Matthews, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, backed by his...

Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper star in this classic 1930s romantic comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Millionaire Michael Brandon (Cooper) is used to getting what he wants when he wants it, but he...

Musician Paul Renard is haunted by the memory of Walter, a German soldier he killed during the First World War. He travels to Walter's home town and, passing himself off as a friend of the deceased,...

Perhaps the quintessential exemplar of New French Extremism, Irreversible amazed and outraged audiences across the world upon its release in 2002, with its harrowing scenes of rape and violence. Now...

George C. Scott and Lester Rawlins star in this classic comedy from director Anthony Harvey. Retired New York judge Justin Playfair (Scott) struggles with his new reality after the death of his wife...

Dramatisation of five years in the life of the vastly influential psychologist and inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The film follows Freud (Montgomery Clift) as he attempts to make his mark...

Marlon Brando stars as a ruthless kidnapper who, along with his two partners, abducts a young girl in Paris and takes her to a remote Normandy beach house owned by a drug-addicted air stewardess. The...

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...