Powerhouse Films

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...

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...