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Lift To The Scaffold (L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud)
(1957) [PG]

Whether the face of Jeanne Moreau, or the mournful trumpet of Miles Davis, this film is forever etched into the memory of all who have watched it. Narrative centres around a bungled crime of passion, but the lingering memories of the film stem from the black & white photography, the creeping...  More

The Man With The Golden Arm
(1955) [M]

Frank Sinatra is unforgettable as Frankie Machine, a recovering heroin addict and poker-dealer, who on release from prison wants to pursue a new career as a drummer. However, shaking off the past doesn't prove to be easy. Based on the 1949 novel by Nelson Agren, Otto Preminger's The Man With The...  More

The First Of The Few (Spitfire)
(1942) [G]

This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features...  More

Bad Day At Black Rock
(1955) [PG]

The tense story of a one-armed stranger who alights from a train at a sleepy desert town and is greeted by the hostile locals with something to hide. Based on a true story by Howard Breslin.

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All Night Long
(1961) [M]

Set in London's jazz scene of the 1950s, this atmospheric updating of Shakespeare's 'Othello' features a strong cast and appearances by some of the best known names from the music world (Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Dankworth).

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Bright Eyes
(1934) [G]

When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple her mother used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned.  More

The 49th Parallel
(1941) [PG]

49th Parallel is a powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda, which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked to make a flag waver by the Ministry of Information, the brilliantly gifted film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric...  More

Seance On A Wet Afternoon
(1964) [M]

Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley give outstanding performances in Bryan Forbes' tense, supernaturally tinged thriller Seance On A Wet Afternoon. Myra Savage (Stanley) is an aspiring psychic who persuades her husband to abduct a child. Their plan is to stage a seance to "entrance" the victim...  More

Sunday Bloody Sunday
(1971) [M]

A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the other but they actually know each other as well. Despite...  More

The Asphalt Jungle
(1950) [PG]

You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. As in The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, director John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in...  More