Powerhouse Films

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...

Six classic films noir produced by Universal Pictures in the 1940s and '50s. The collection includes 'The Web' (1947), 'Larceny' (1948), 'Kiss the Blood Off My Hands' (1948), 'Abandoned' (1949),...

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...

Double bill of 1960s adventure dramas produced by Hammer Films. In 'Sword of Sherwood Forest' (1960) Robin Hood (Richard Greene) and his band of merry men encounter a man who has been wounded by the...

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...

Don Chaffey directs this Hammer Films production of the prehistoric tale of two tribes in a bitter battle for power. The daughter of the chieftan of one of the tribes is offered to the opposing...

Based on the true story of Dan Morgan - the infamous Australian outlaw once described as `the most bloodthirsty ruffian that ever took to the bush' - Mad Dog Morgan provides the perfect showcase for...

Marlene Dietrich stars in this romantic drama about a love-triangle involving a femme fatale, directed by Josef von Sternberg. Set against the background of Spain's Carnival, young army officer...

Classic romantic drama starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich. When Legionnaire Tom Brown (Cooper) meets Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Dietrich) at a smoky cabaret bar in 1920s Morocco, the two fall...

Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella and Carrie Snodgrass star in this 1970s comedy drama based on the novel by Sue Kaufman. Tired of being mistreated by her abusive husband Jonathan (Benjamin),...

Based on his own controversial and incendiary stage play about a young college student who accuses her much older professor of sexual harassment, David Mamet's riveting drama features two grandstand...

Robert Shaw (Young Winston), Harrison Ford (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Barbara Bach (Short Night of the Glass Dolls) and Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal) star alongside Carl Weathers (Rocky),...

The final feature by Sidney Gilliat, Endless Night capped a career that encompassed screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed, the anarchic St. Trinian's comedies, and his own directorial gems...

This brilliant feature debut from director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters) is an affectionate - and uniquely British - tribute to the Hollywood detective...

After achieving international renown as one of the finest actors of his generation in films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Tom Jones, Albert Finney turned director for this surreal...