Oliver Twist
(1948) [G]

David Lean's atmospheric production remains the definitive version of the Charles Dickens' masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is expelled from the work house where he lives by the miserly Mr.Bumble (Francis L.Sullivan) for daring to ask for more. After an unhappy apprenticeship...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More

The Greatest Show On Earth
(1952) [G]

Step right up for Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular Academy Award-winning Best Picture - The Greatest Show On Earth. The master showman brings the thrills, chills and exhilaration of the Ringling Brothers - Barnum & Bailey Circus to the screen via an Oscar-winning story and an all-star cast that...  More

This Sporting Life
(1963) [M]

Adapted from David Storey's novel of the same title, this is a gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Richard Harris gives a remarkable performance as Machin, a proud man who wants to quit his job as a miner and...  More

The Silver Fleet
(1943) [G]

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?...  More

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
(1960) [PG]

A key film of the British New Wave, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy, the gritty realism of its setting, and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's...  More

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969) [M]

Maggie Smith won a well deserved Best Actress Academy Award in 1969 for her tour de force performance in this fine screen adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel. Miss Jean Brodie is an eccentric and outspoken schoolteacher at an exclusive Edinburgh school for girls in the 1930's. She regards her...  More

The Loneliness Of A Long Distance Runner
(1962) [M]

Following the success of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen, this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen, defiant Colin, refusing to...  More

La Ronde (1950)
(1950) [PG]

An all-knowing narrator (Anton Walbrook) guides us through a series of stories about love affairs in Vienna, 1900. In each story, a new character forms a liaison with a character from the previous story, creating the circular effect represented in the title of the film.  More

Darling
(1965) [M]

Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a young, attractive and vivacious model and socialite who is determined to become rich and famous. Although married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair...  More

Histoires Extraordinaires (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination) (Spirits of the Dead)
(1968) [MA]

Three of Europe's finest filmmakers - Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini - direct compelling remakes of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Louis Malle's take on "William Wilson" features Alain Delon as an officer troubled by a mysterious doppelganger; Roger Vadim's journey into supernatural...  More

The Entertainer
(1960) [PG]

Career first. Everything else second. According to vaudevillian Archie Rice (an Oscar nominated Laurence Olivier), the show must go on - even if it means stringing along his fellow performers, exploiting the hopes and money of a starlet and neglecting his own family. This is Archie's world, but...  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Caddie
(1976) [M]

Joan Long's screenplay tells of a fiercely independent young mother who when confronted with her husband's infidelity, takes her children and leaves their comfortable middle class surroundings behind, to fend for herself. Without skills, and faced with the responsibility of housing and feeding...  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

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

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

Don't Bother To Knock
(1952) [PG]

Jed, an airline pilot, (Widmark) is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell (Monroe), a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realizes that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be. A unique thriller featuring a rare dramatic performance from...  More

Bus Stop
(1956) [PG]

A well known comedy-drama which proved Miss Monroe's versatility as an actress. Don Murray plays the part of a young and innocent cowboy who discovers the girl of his dreams and kidnaps her, hoping to make her his wife.  More

The Lion Has Wings / Q Planes
(1939) [G]

- "The Lion Has Wings": A documentary-drama produced by Alexander Korda, which was intended as a propaganda weapon designed to show the splendid efforts of the British people who bravely fought, both abroad and at home, against the evil Nazi war machine. - "Q Planes": Major Hammond of...  More

The Prisoner - Volume 1 of 5 (Episodes 1-4)
(1967) [PG]

Following his resignation, a high ranking Government Official is abducted from his home and taken to a picturesque seaside location known as "The Village". However, the idealic surroundings hide a sinister world where "guests" are simply labelled as numbers and escape is impossible. His captors...  More

The Silent Enemy
(1958) [PG]

In the Mediterranean in 1941 the Italians start using underwater chariots to mine the undersides of allied ships. Explosives expert Lieutenant Lionel Crabb (Laurence Harvey) arrives in Gibraltar to learn the rudiments of deep-sea diving and organise defences, but finds only two British divers...  More

Peter Brook's Marat Sade (aka "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade")
(1967) [M]

The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become...  More

Escape From Alcatraz
(1979) [M]

Clint Eastwood and director Don (Dirty Harry) Siegel reteamed for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary was only broken once - by three...  More