Powerhouse Films

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...

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...

When the quiet German village of Altdorf is taken over by an SS platoon which proceeds to enforce Hitler's ideals upon its inhabitants, a kindly pastor questions the agenda of 'The New Order' while...

In the early 1970s, three ambitious friends - Peter Crane, Michael Sloan and Nigel Hodgson - combined the first letters of each of their names and set up the Pemini Organisation, a young and vital...

The final entry in the five-film cycle reviving Sax Rohmer's Chinese super-villain, Fu Manchu, from maverick British producer and writer Harry Alan Towers (Count Dracula). Jesús Franco (Vampyros...

Things take a decidedly weird turn in The Blood of Fu Manchu, the fourth entry in the five-film cycle reviving Sax Rohmer's Chinese super-villain, Fu Manchu, from maverick British producer and writer...

A Shaw Brothers co-production directed by Jeremy Summers (Five Golden Dragons) and co-starring Horst Frank (The Etruscan Kills Again) and Maria Rohm (Marquis de Sade: Justine), The Vengeance of Fu...

The second in a cycle of five films reviving Sax Rohmer's Chinese super-villain, Fu Manchu, from maverick British producer and writer Harry Alan Towers (Venus in Furs). Directed with aplomb by Don...

The first in a cycle of five films reviving Sax Rohmer's Chinese super-villain, Fu Manchu, produced and written by British maverick Harry Alan Towers (The Bloody Judge). After faking his own...

Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class) gives one of his most spirited and memorably performances in Murphy's War, a blood-and-thunder adventure film directed with grit by Peter Yates (The Friends of Eddie...

When enigmatic school master James Wallraven (Michael Redgrave, Time Without Pity) rents a small room adjacent to Wanda's (Bette Davis, The Nanny), an ageing cellist, he soon realises that the...

Once dubbed the `King of Sexploitation' by the tabloid press, Stanley Long was the godfather of the British sex film. Starting out with 8mm striptease reels in the 1950s before moving into nudist...

Based on the novel A Fragment of Fear by former MI5 spy John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, this stylish cine-trip from Vanishing Point director Richard C. Sarafian features David Hemmings and Gayle...

Shot in glorious Technicolor by award-winning cinematographer Christopher Challis (The Tales of Hoffmann, A Dandy in Aspic, Villain), this classic Gothic melodrama stars the then real-life husband...