Powerhouse Films

Having been exiled from Hollywood in the 1950s, American filmmaker Joseph Losey settled in Britain, where he made a series of remarkable and highly individual works. A film about the horrors of the...

Perennially undervalued, Hammer's take on Robert Louis Stevenson's oft-filmed tale of dual personalities is one of the novel's most unique cinematic adaptations, turning down the horror elements to...

Marlon Brando in his breakthrough - and most iconic - role as Johnny Strabler, ruthless leader of the Black Rebels motorcycle gang who terrorise a small town. Based on real-life events, the film was...

What if there were a list? A list that said: Our finest actors weren't allowed to act. Our best writers aren't allowed to write. Our funniest comedians aren't allowed to make us laugh. What would it...

Neurotic, self-obsessed Robert Cole (Albert Brooks) is a successful film editor who splits up with his on-off girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold), only to try and win her back when he finds he can't live...

Boasting a strong female cast - including Judy Geeson (10 Rillington Place), Stephanie Beacham (Tam-Lin) and Victoria Tennant (Flowers in the Attic) - and co-financed by Run Run Shaw of the Shaw...

For his first foray into horror cinema - the genre in which he would ensure his legacy - Norman J Warren teamed up with critic-turned-screenwriter David McGillivray (House of Whipcord) and Hammer...

Norman J Warren's final feature as director is also one of his most unclassifiable. Filmed in Wales, it focuses on a group of teens who find themselves on a stranded island while holidaying. The...

Influenced by Dario Argento's horror classic Suspiria, director Norman J Warren and screenwriter David McGillivray - reteaming two years after the success of Satan's Slave - created an offbeat blend...

The feature debut of the great Bob Fosse based on the Broadway hit, Sweet Charity is a musical re-imagining of Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, starring the wonderful Shirley MacLaine as a taxi...

MacArthur is a thoughtful look at the life and times of controversial American military leader General Douglas MacArthur. Directed by Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), this...

The daring and provocative films of maverick American filmmaker Samuel Fuller were some of the most hard-hitting, outspoken, politically progressive, and visually audacious works of the Hollywood...

Samuel Fuller re-worked and reinvented popular film genres as lenses through which to examine American history, ideals, and topical events. His detective thriller The Crimson Kimono, with its frank...

Two Columbia noirs from the pen of Samuel Fuller. Directed by the great Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) and based on an original screenplay by Fuller, Shockproof is a story of forbidden love...

Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, soldier, filmmaker - Samuel Fuller was one of American cinema's most prolific and multi-faceted talents. However, the films based on Fuller's early work as a...

Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Richard Franklin's 1981 Australian horror classic, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Read Window. Keach plays Quid, an American trucker...

When Mae West went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, she was already a major star. Having sensationalised Broadway, it was time for the movies to receive the same. Her fame allowed her control,...