Powerhouse Films

Following the runaway success of Love Affair, Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth) and Charles Boyer (A Woman's Vengeance) were reunited for When Tomorrow Comes, a heartbreaking romantic melodrama. Despite...

Sylvia Sidney (An American Tragedy), George Raft (Spawn of the North), and Harry Carey (The Long Gray Line) head up the cast of this powerful film from the great Fritz Lang (Ministry of Fear). When...

Based on the disclosures of mobster Joe Valachi, as recounted in Peter Maas' best-selling biography and at a sensational congressional hearing, The Valachi Papers tells the story of one man's brutal...

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974-1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by...

Renowned Scottish actor Peter Mullan (Trainspotting, My Name Is Joe) made his feature film directing debut with this fierce jet-black comedy of familial grief shot in and around the streets of...

A Western couple (played by Melissa Leo and James Wilby) working in Pakistan visit an unconventional holy shrine to harness its spiritual powers to help them conceive a child. There, they are...

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...

Richard Dreyfuss, riding high on the success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl (for which he won an Oscar), produced and starred in this quirky 1978 comedy-thriller, adapted...

In The Brute, Sarah Douglas (Superman II) gives a courageous performance as Diane, a glamorous fashion model trying to escape the brutal blows of her sadistic husband, fearsomely portrayed by Julian...

Recreating the famous sea battle between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Midway finds director Jack Smight (Airport 1975) confidently handling epic battle scenes and a stellar cast...

The films of director Stanley Kramer (Ship of Fools, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?) reflected social and political concerns of their time and tackled controversial subjects head on. This little-seen...

Penned by Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano and directed by film and TV movie veteran David Lowell Rich (The Horror at 37,000 Feet), Eye of the Cat is a skilfully crafted, San Francisco-set chiller...

Oliver Reed stars in this action adventure set in India during the 1850s. After being thrown out of his regiment when he is accused of cowardice in action, Lt. Case (Ronald Lewis) exacts his revenge...

English Civil War adventure starring Lionel Jeffries and Oliver Reed. After King Charles I (Robert Rietty) is captured by Roundhead supporters Colonel Judd (Jeffries) and Captain Sylvester (Reed), it...

Kerwin Mathews (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), Glenn Corbett (The Crimson Kimono), and Christopher Lee (The Face of Fu Manchu) star in Hammer's adventure classic, The Pirates of Blood River. Imprisoned...

Richard Basehart (La Strada), Athene Seyler (Night of the Demon), and Lisa Gastoni (Eve) star in Visa to Canton (aka Passport to China), a classic spy film from Hammer. Don (Basehart) is a former...

British comedy drama about a group of conscripted soldiers serving in Singapore in the 1950s. Young and inexperienced, the men have yet to prove themselves in bed or battle - and seem to be failing...

Stewart Granger (Footsteps in the Fog), Donna Reed (Scandal Sheet), George Sanders (Endless Night), and Italian sex symbol Gianna Maria Canale (I vampiri) star in The Whole Truth, a wry suspense...

Starring Robert Newton (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), Phil Brown (The Camp on Blood Island), Sally Gray (They Made Me a Fugitive), and Naunton Wayne (Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes), Obsession...

Oscar Homolka (Mr. Sardonicus), Derek Farr (Town on Trial), Muriel Pavlow (Doctor in the House), and Kenneth Griffith (Love on the Dole) star in the British crime classic The Shop at Sly Corner...

John Clements (The Four Feathers), Godfrey Tearle (Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps), Hugh Sinclair (The Four Just Men), and Greta Gynt (Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror) star in Tomorrow We Live, a...

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures' film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series...

The atmospheric Mexican chiller The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona) fuses the tropes of Gothic horror cinema with Mexican folklore's most terrifying figure. The beautiful...

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...