Powerhouse Films

One of the most notorious films to emerge from Mexico's horror-film boom, The Brainiac (El barón del terror) is a terrifying tale of vengeance across the centuries. In 1661, the Inquisition...

The Witch's Mirror (El espejo de la bruja) is a beautiful, atmospheric, and uniquely Mexican take on the Gothic horror film. When Elena (Dina de Marco) is murdered by her husband, Eduardo (Armando...

From the vaults of Alameda Films comes the bone-chilling Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba). Doctor Mazali (Rafael Bertrand) makes a pact with his dying colleague, Dr Aldama (Antonio...

The murder of a black sergeant on a segregated army base in Louisiana in 1944 is investigated by a black soldier and lawyer, revealing deep-seated racism in the Deep South. Adapted from Charles...

One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, Hoffman sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary (Sinéad Cusack, Tam Lin, Revenge) and,...

Unfairly neglected since its original low-key cinema run, Secret Friends is the only feature to be written and directed by Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective). Made shortly...

The concluding instalment in Lindsay Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy, following If.... and O Lucky Man!, Britannia Hospital finds the filmmaker casting a sourly satirical eye over Thatcher's Britain...

Joan Crawford (Berserk) gives an astonishing performance in Strait-Jacket, a shocking psychological thriller from director William Castle (The Tingler) which also stars Diane Baker (Marnie), and Leif...

Tom Poston (Zotz!), Robert Morley (Theatre of Blood), Janette Scott (Paranoiac), Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming!), and Joyce Grenfell (Stage Fright) star in The Old Dark House, a riotously...

Murray Hamilton (Jaws) teams up with first-timer Kathy Dunn in 13 Frightened Girls, a candy-coloured spy spoof from director William Castle (Homicidal). Candy Hull (Dunn), daughter of the American...

Tom Poston (The Old Dark House) and Julia Meade (Pillow Talk) star in Zotz!, an outrageous Cold War comedy from director William Castle (13 Ghosts). Eccentric professor Jonathan Jones (Poston)...

Invincible was the first dramatic work by Werner Herzog in a decade. He assembled a typically eclectic cast - including Tim Roth (Meantime), Udo Kier (Exposé) and two-time World's Strongest Man...

Mark Robson directs this 1950s American sports drama starring Humphrey Bogart in his final screen role as sports writer Eddie Willis, who takes a job as a publicist for boxing promoter Nick Benko...

Henry Levin directs this 1950s American film noir starring John Derek, Lee J. Cobb and Whit Bissell. Criminal lawyer Howard Clark (Cobb) is reeling from the news that his son, David (Derek), has...

Curtis Bernhardt directs this 1950s American film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a gunrunner operating in 1920s war-torn Syria and supplying weapons to the rebel forces. Harry Smith (Bogart) must...

Humphrey Bogart (Sirocco) stars with Alexander Knox (The Damned), and Florence Marly (Queen of Blood) star in Tokyo Joe, a post-war film noir tale of smuggling, treason, and blackmail. World War II...

Humphrey Bogart (The Harder They Fall) and John Derek (The Family Secret) star in Knock on Any Door, a hard-hitting amalgam of film noir, social commentary, and courtroom drama. Nick Romano (Derek)...

Humphrey Bogart (The Harder They Fall), Lizabeth Scott (Pitfall), and Morris Carnovsky (Gun Crazy) star in Dead Reckoning, a dark tale of blackmail, vengeance, and murder. When Captain 'Rip' Murdock...

Real-life husband and wife David Hemmings (Blowup, Deep Red) and Gayle Hunnicutt (Eye of the Cat, Fragment of Fear) star in this tense British shocker from director Kevin Billington (The Rise and...

Dick Clement followed the success of his first feature Otley with this wry adaptation of Iris Murdoch's celebrated 1961 satirical novel, a harbinger of the sexual liberation that was to blossom in...

This high-concept, big-budget screwball comedy directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Wolf) stars Warren Beatty (Mickey One, Bonnie and Clyde) as a slick con man and Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over...

The Demoniacs (Les Démoniaques) sees director Jean Rollin eschew his regular subject of vampirism for a brutal nautical tale of ritual horror and supernatural vengeance. A gang of ruthless pirates,...

Sadistic horror directed by Jean Rollin. A gang of pirates kidnap, rape and murder two young girls. The spirits of the two girls make a pact with the devil to avenge themselves on the pirates, and...

Jean Rollin's second feature film, and his first in colour, The Nude Vampire (La Vampire nue) finds the master of the fantastique combining his trademark erotic-vampire themes with an homage to the...

French gothic horror directed by Jean Rollin in which a young man (Oliver Martin) uncovers evidence that his father is involved in a sinister cult. After further investigations, he decides to rescue...

El Santo, the Silver-Masked Man, rides into the Wild West in Santo vs. the Riders of Terror (Santo contra los jinetes del terror), a unique blend of gunplay and lucha libre action. When a group of...

René Cardona directs this Mexican sci-fi action thriller starring Maura Monti in the eponymous role. A luchadora named Gloria (Monti) masquerades as a crime-fighting vigilante known as Bat Woman...

Gothic horror and lucha libre collide in The Panther Women (Las mujeres panteras), which showcases a host of Mexico's top female stars, including Elizabeth Campbell, Ariadne Welter, and Yolanda...

Richard Conte (The Big Combo), Dianne Foster (Gideon's Day), Larry Gates (Underworld U.S.A.), and Kathryn Grant (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) lead the cast of The Brothers Rico, a tough film noir...

A war hero enters a crime syndicate in a film noir classic starring Dennis O'Keefe (Walk a Crooked Mile), Paul Stewart (Kiss Me Deadly), Allison Hayes (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), and the real-life...

Jean Simmons (Footsteps in the Fog), Rory Calhoun (The Colossus of Rhodes), Stephen McNally (The Lady Gambles) and Brian Aherne (The Song of Songs) star in A Bullet Is Waiting. Sheriff Munson...

Richard Quine (Drive a Crooked Road) directs Pushover, a film noir classic featuring a top-notch cast including Fred MacMurray (Remember the Night), Kim Novak (5 Against the House), Phil Carey (The...