Martin Ritt directs this 1970s US drama starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Andrea Marcovicci. Set during the early 1950s at the time of Joseph McCarthy\'s communist witch-hunt, Howard Prince Allen is a restaurant cashier who is asked to \'front\' for several blacklisted television writers by submitting their scripts under his name. At first, being politically uninterested, Howard does this in order

Mike Leigh writes and directs this class struggle comedy drama which portrays the intertwined lives of an extended working-class family in London during the Thatcher years. The story follows left-wing bike messenger Cyril Bender Philip Davis, his girlfriend Shirley Ruth Sheen and Cyril\'s conservative mother Edna Dor, who lives in the last council house on her street next to the appallingly upper-class

Classic wartime drama directed by Michael Anderson. The film tells the story of Dr Barnes Wallis Michael Redgrave, whose invention of the \'Bouncing Bomb\' is greeted with scepticism in World War II. However, RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson Richard Todd proves the bomb\'s worth in a daring mission to destroy the German Ruhr dams. The cast also includes Basil Sydney and Ursula Jeans.

Jacques Rivette writes and directs this French drama based on the novel by Denis Diderot. Set in 18th century France, the film follows young Suzanne Simonin Anna Karina as she is forced to become a nun against her will. Mistreated by a number of her elders, Suzanne falls into a depression and attempts to get the church to absolve her vows. When this is denied, a desperate Suzanne is forced to go to

1970s British thriller. Susan George stars as Amanda, a young babysitter who arrives at the isolated home of Helen and Jim Lloyd Honor Blackman and George Cole to look after their young daughter, Tara Tara Collinson, for the evening. Shortly after the couple leaves, a series of frightening events set Amanda\'s nerves on edge, but the real terror begins when Helen\'s ex-husband Ian Bannen turns up at

Sci-fi comedy starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. In San Dimas, California, Bill S. Preston Esq and Ted Theodore Logan Winter and Reeves are high school no-hopers who dream of forming a rock band, but unless Ted can pass a history exam, he will be shipped off to military school. When a figure from the future arrives with a time-travelling telephone booth, Bill and Ted use it to leap in and out of

1960s British sci-fi comedy based on the writings of Jules Verne. Fleeing his creditors back home, American showman Phineas T. Barnum Burl Ives sets up shop in England in 1875, and sets about persuading a syndicate of Brits to fund a rocket ship to the moon. The group set about constructing their rocket with the intention of blasting it into orbit from a gigantic cannon, but the interference of foreign

Ali MacGraw and Ryan O\'Neal star as ill-fated lovers in this 1970s romantic drama based on Erich Segal\'s novel. Rich undergraduate Oliver Barrett O\'Neal meets Jenny Cavilleri MacGraw, the daughter of a poor Italian baker, and the two fall deeply in love. Even when Oliver is cut off by his wealthy family and must take a night job in order to finish college, the testing circumstances only serve to

Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins star in this Academy Award-winning romantic drama based on the novel by E.M. Forster. In 1910, sisters Helen Helena Bonham Carter and Margaret Schlegel Thompson live in London with their brother, but the lease on their flat is about to expire. Margaret has recently befriended the ailing Mrs Wilcox Vanessa Redgrave who decides to bequeath her house, Howards End, to

Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in Terrence Malick\'s ambitious, fantasy-tinged, coming-of-age tale. Jack Hunter McCracken is one of three brothers brought up in the 1950s by his spiritually-minded mother Jessica Chastain and pragmatic, no-nonsense father Pitt. After witnessing a disturbing event that shakes his world to the core, the young Jack struggles to reconcile the differing world views of his

Dennis Hopper directs and stars in this American cult classic. Bikers Billy Hopper and Wyatt Peter Fonda, having just smuggled a huge amount of cocaine across the border from Mexico to LA, sell their haul to the mysterious Connection Phil Spector and take off on their bikes in the hope of reaching New Orleans in time for the Mardi Gras festival. After being arrested in Texas for joining a street parade

Satyajit Ray directs this Bengali drama starring Chhabi Biswas and Gangapada Basu. The film follows the story of aristocrat Huzur Biswamghar Roy Biswas who has recently fallen on hard times. Roy prides himself in living a lavish lifestyle and shows off his wealth at every opportunity. Although his assets are dwindling due to his reckless spending, Roy refuses to admit defeat and decides to sell some

Kelly Reichardt writes and directs this US drama starring Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy, the film follows the lives of several women in Montana as they become woven together as each of them makes their own way through the obstacles presented to them. Small-town lawyer Laura Wells Dern is being harassed by a disgruntled client who was involved

Samuel Fuller writes, produces and directs this 1960s drama starring Peter Breck as Johnny Barrett, an ambitious reporter who feigns insanity in order to be committed to an asylum where three patients witnessed a brutal murder. Intending simply to uncover the murderer, Johnny soon finds that his own paranoia and the treatment in the institution is pushing him close to real madness. He is caught in

African-American, independent film director, Charles Burnett\'s low-key drama centres on the dynamics of a black middle-class family living in South Central Los Angeles. When Harry Danny Glover turns up on the doorstep of his old friend Gideon Paul Butler looking for a roof over his head, Gideon cannot refuse. Gideon\'s wife, however, does not want another person in the family house as their grown

Musical revue starring bandleader Paul Whiteman. Featuring sketches and performances from Bing Crosby, John Boles, Laura La Plante and Slim Summerville, the revue showcases the on-stage talent from the time, all under the leadership of Whiteman and his orchestra.

Maureen O\'Hara stars in this classic musical drama directed by Dorothy Arzner. Aspiring ballerina Judy O\'Brien O\'Hara dreams of being a star but as she repeatedly clashes with fellow dancer Bubbles Lucille Ball, she wonders if she will ever truly make it.

Psychological drama from the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman following a group of down-on-their-luck circus performers as they face love, jealousy, humiliation and loss as they travel through the countryside at the turn of the century.

Harold Lloyd stars in this classic silent film, directed by Ted Wilde. In his attempt to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in New York City, Lloyd comes across all sorts of obstacles that are determined to stand in his way. The cast also includes Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict and Ann Rutherford.

Cult black comedy written and directed by John Waters. Divine portrays Lady Divine, a drag queen who travels around the country with her sideshow \'Cavalcade of Perversions\' which showcases all kinds of bizarre fetishes and perverse behaviours. When she tires of her usual routine, she decides to murder all of her paying customers instead of just robbing them. The film follows Divine over the course