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Secret Agent
(1936) [G]

Alfred Hitchcock filmed Somerset Maugham’s WWI spy story 'Ashenden' with his typical mix of ironic humour and suspenseful set pieces. Novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) has his death faked by British Intelligence. Giving him a new identity as Richard Ashenden, they persuade him to undertake...  More

Miss Sadie Thompson
(1953) [M]

Rita Hayworth turns it on...! At a lonely military outpost on American Samoa, sticky heat alternates with torrential rain. A ship quarantine strands here Sadie Thompson, a "breezy dame" who sets the Marines afire... and self-righteous Mr. Davidson, powerful head of the Mission Board, who suspects...  More

Bad Timing
(1980) [R]

Art Garfunkel stars in this powerful psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg. Told in flashback, it tells the story Alex (Garfunkel) who whilst lecturing in Vienna begins a passionate affair with a young American Milena (Theresa Russell). Unable to cope with her promiscuity Alex becomes...  More

The Deer Hunter
(1978) [R]

The Deer Hunter remains an astonishing, powerful and vivid epic about three men, steelworkers from Pennsylvania, whose lives are changed irrevocably by the Vietnam War. When Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced...  More

Butterfield 8
(1960) [M]

Gloria Wandrous is a call girl with a disturbing past. Weston Liggett is a philandering lawyer unhappily married into a wealthy family. When they meet, Liggett is just another notch on the bedpost for Gloria, but their relationship soon develops into something more. Will Gloria and Liggett leave...  More

Being There
(1979) [M]

Peter Sellers delivers an unforgettable performance as Chance the gardener in this adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's book, along with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Warden. Isolated all his life in a Washington, DC townhouse, Chance knows only what he's seen on T V. Cast into the world, he stumbles into...  More

Equus
(1977) [R]

Sidney Lumet's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play erupts on the screen with the same power and passion as the stage original. Richard Burton gives one of his best performances ever in this elegant and provocative tale of myth and madness. What would drive Alan...  More

Moby Dick (1956)
(1956) [G]

The Creature All Men Feared Became One Man's Obsession. Seeking adventure on the high seas, a young sailor called Ishmael ships out aboard the whaling schooner Pequod. But as Ishmael soon learns, this will be no ordinary voyage...because their captain is no ordinary man. He is the infamous Ahab....  More

Bonnie And Clyde
(1967) [M]

Adrift in the depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns...  More

Notorious
(1946) [PG]

Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia...  More