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Alfie
(1966) [M]

Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. He has a series of reversals in which his health is threatened, he has a child who is adopted by another man, gets a married woman pregnant and must procure an abortion...  More

Catch 22
(1970) [M]

Mike Nichols' superbly directed cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy, Catch 22 is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together, they are frightened, nervous, often...  More

King Creole
(1958) [PG]

The year was 1958. Everybody's datin' at the drive-in. America launches its first satellite. The novel Lolita stirs up controversy. And Elvis Presley gives Bourbon Street a new beat in King Creole. He plays a troubled youth whose singing sets the French Quarter rockin'. With a sweet girl to love...  More

Brief Encounter
(1945) [M]

Noel Coward's sensitive portrayal of what happens when two happily married strangers, played by Trevor Howard and Celia Johnston, meet and their acquaintance deepens into affection and eventually into love. It is a story of two people, thrown together by the chance meeting of the title, helpless...  More

The Hidden Fortress
(1958) [PG]

The story follows two greedy peasants in feudal Japan, Tahei and Matashichi, who are returning home from a failed attempt to profit from a war between neighboring clans. En Route they encounter the remnants of the defeated tribe that consists, most notably, of a famous General and a Princess who...  More

Easy Rider
(1969) [M]

Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America, on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead their lives. On the journey they encounter bigotry and hatred from small-town...  More

A Taste Of Honey
(1961) [M]

Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey had already played in the West End and on Broadway when Tony Richardson made his film adaptation, shot on location in Salford and Blackpool. Rita Tushingham made her indelible screen debut as Jo, a young girl who falls pregnant after leaving home and her...  More

Cape Fear (1962)
(1961) [M]

Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum star in Hollywood's classic tale of revenge and murder. Robert Mitchum is unforgettable as Max Cady, an ex-con determined to exact a terrible revenge on Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) and his family. Sam is a small-town lawyer whose worst nightmare comes true when the...  More

Bleak Moments
(1971) [PG]

This first film by one of Britain's most acclaimed theatrical creators already contains the seeds of such later successes as Abigail's Party and High Hopes. A tippling spinster, a tongue-tied schoolteacher and a would-be pop star from Scunthorpe are just some of Mike Leigh's brilliantly conceived...  More

The Four Feathers (1939)
(1939) [G]

A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation to a mission against Egyptian rebels seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades disguised as an Arab. When his unit is overwhelmed and captured by the rebels, the hero finds an...  More