Powerhouse Films

Gerry Otley (Tom Courtenay - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Billy Liar, 45 Years) is a charming scrounger who stumbles unwittingly into espionage, murder and double crossing as he is...

For almost half a century, June, Ron and Tim Ormond, a Nashville mother-father-son trio, cranked out a wild bunch of movies, from Lash LaRue westerns to the stripper-gore-musical outrage The Exotic...

Tom Berenger (Platoon, Inception) plays a blue-collar NYPD detective assigned to protect a wealthy murder witness (Mimi Rogers, The Rapture). Soon, the relationship becomes an affair, threatening...

Erotic drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway. In Japan in the 1970s, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face. When the little girl grows up, Nagiko (Vivian...

Jonathan Miller's film of Kingsley Amis' comic novel (adapted for the screen by George Melly), casts Hayley Mills (Whistle Down the Wind, Twisted Nerve) as a naïve young girl who moves from the...

Investigating the murder of a young woman in a small English town, a brusque Superintendent (John Mills - Hobson's Choice, Ice Cold in Alex, Young Winston) discovers that virtually everybody he...

By day, blind orphans Henriette and Louise seem to be the picture of innocence. But when darkness falls, their sight returns, and they wander the streets of Paris, encountering the city's strange...

By day, blind orphans Henriette and Louise seem to be the picture of innocence. But when darkness falls, their sight returns, and they wander the streets of Paris, encountering the city's strange...

Arriving at a decrepit chateau for their honeymoon, young newlyweds undergo a series of surreal and sinister encounters, and come to realise that they are the prey of the resident vampires...

The second film Howard Hawks (The Criminal Code) made at Columbia Pictures is among his greatest works. John Barrymore plays a theatre impresario down on his luck. Carole Lombard is his former...

An impressive neo-noir, which sees writer/director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Hardcore, Blue Collar) revisit rainswept New York, Light Sleeper tells of John LeTour (Willem Dafoe, Auto Focus), a drug...

Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage star in this 1980s US drama based on the novel by William Wharton. Vietnam veteran Birdy (Modine) has always had an almost obsessive affinity with birds, but following...

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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...

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...

1960s Western starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne. When the Texas town of Cottonwood Springs decides it is time for Marshal Frank Patch (Widmark) to retire, his refusal to stand aside sparks a...

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...

1960s action drama starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno. Criminals Bud (Brando) and Leer (Boone) abduct a young heiress in Paris and take her to a remote Normandy beach house owned...

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...

Collection of low-budget films directed by Michael J Murphy. The collection includes: 'Tristan and Iseult' (1970), 'Happy Ever After' (1974), 'Secrets' (1977), 'Almost a Movie' (1979), 'The Cell'...

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...