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 Ealing comedy in which a group of bank robbers struggle to silence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime. Mrs Wilberforce Katie Johnson lives alone in King\'s Cross with her parrots. She has been led to believe that the group of men renting rooms from her, Professor Marcus Alec Guinness, the Major Cecil Parker, Louis Herbert Lom, Harry Peter Sellers and One-Round Danny Green, are

Classic Ealing comedy about a group of villagers who, angered by British Rail\'s decision to close down their local branch line, make a bid to run the service themselves, making use of an antique locomotive liberated from a local museum.

James Ivory directs this romantic period drama based on the novel by Henry James. In the 1850s, Baroness Eugenia Munster Lee Remick travels from Europe with her brother Felix Tim Woodward to live with her puritanical relatives in New England, the Wentworths, who regard Eugenia and Felix as a pair of dangerous European bohemians. Felix falls in love with Gertrude Wentworth Lisa Eichhorn and Eugenia

Set in the medieval period, this light-hearted comedy was written by Terry Gilliam and Charles Alverson and stars Michael Palin, supported by the Monty Python team. Dennis Cooper Palin, a cooper\'s apprentice, is mistaken for a prince and declared the Dragonslayer. However, he must live up to his name by killing the \'Jabberwocky\', a beast who is terrorising the kingdom. Is Dennis brave enough to

Michael Curtiz directs this 1940s classic based on the novel by James M. Cain. Joan Crawford stars as Mildred Pierce, a struggling mother and wife whose husband Bert Bruce Bennett seeks affection in the arms of another. When the couple decide to separate, Mildred is left to raise their daughters alone. As the money begins to dry up, Mildred decides to open up a restaurant and with the help and advice

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this classic 1930s musical directed by George Stevens. John \'Lucky\' Garnett Astaire is soon to be married to Margaret Watson Betty Furness. To prove his worthiness of his daughter\'s hand, Margaret\'s father tells Lucky he must earn 25,000 before he will permit the marriage. As Lucky and his friend Pop Victor Moore travel to New York to try to earn the money,

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Sidney Poitier stars in this screen version of the play by Lorraine Hansberry. When the Younger family receive a substantial insurance payment after the death of their patriarch, the money provides each of them with the opporunity to escape from their cramped Chicago apartment. Walter Lee Poitier wants to buy a liquor store, his mother Lena Claudia McNeil wants a house and Walter\'s sister Ruth Ruby

James Caan stars in this crime comedy directed by Wes Anderson. Three friends, Anthony Luke Wilson, Dignan Owen C. Wilson and Bob Robert Musgrave all dream of being on America\'s most wanted list as notorious thieves. The problem is that they\'re not very good. As the trio embark upon a series of hare-brained schemes to rob people and companies of their hard-earned money, they realise that they have

Kenji Mizoguchi directs this Japanese period drama starring Eitaro Shindo, Kyoko Kagawa and Yoshiaki Hanayagi. In eleventh century Japan, a noble family are rent asunder after the father, a local governor, attempts to treat peasants in a humane manner. The son Zushio Hanayagi and daughter Anju Kagawa are sold into slavery to evil bailiff Sansho Shindo. Eventually, Zushio begins to adopt Sansho\'s barbaric

Marcel Camus co-writes and directs this Portuguese retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The film transposes the tale to the city of Rio de Janeiro at the height of the Brazilian Carnival with a streetcar conductor as Orpheus Breno Mello and a local country girl as Eurydice Marpessa Dawn. With the streets of the city awash with samba music, frenetic movement and colourful costumes, the

Gregory La Cava writes and directs this screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard and William Powell. Set on Park Avenue in New York, socialite Irene Bullock Lombard wins a scavenger hunt at a party when she locates a lost man at a rubbish tip. Feeling sorry for Godfrey Powell, Irene decides to give him a job as her butler but she soon finds herself falling for him.

Edouard Molinaro directs this Franco-Italian comedy farce starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault. Homosexual couple Renato and Albin Tognazzi and Serrault are, respectively, manager and star drag attraction of the Saint-Tropez nightclub. For years they have kept up an illusion that they are husband and wife to protect their son Laurent Remi Laurent from potential persecution. However, when Laurent

Psychological drama from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, adapted from the Stanislaw Lem novel of the same name. The film charts the strange events which befall a group of young cosmonauts who work on a space station orbiting the ocean-covered planet Solaris. Fellow cosmonaut Chris Kelvin Donatas Banionis is sent to investigate the occurrences, and soon begins encountering a variety of supernatural

Japanese action drama directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Tatsuya Nakadai plays Ryunosuke Tsukue, a sociopathic samurai with no morals or feelings of consequence for what he does. When he kills a man in a fencing match, the brother of the deceased man vows to train with a master fencer and track down Ryunosuke to get his vengeance.

Albert Brooks writes, directs and stars in this 1990s romantic fantasy comedy. After he is killed in a car accident on his 39th birthday, successful advertising executive Daniel Miller Brooks finds himself in Judgment City, a shopping mall-style heaven where he must defend his life\'s worth in order to graduate to paradise. While he awaits judgment, Daniel falls in love with recently deceased Julia

Remake of Kern and Hammerstein\'s famous musical about life on a Mississippi show boat. Magnolia Hawks Kathryn Grayson\'s marriage to gambler-turned-entertainer Gaylord Ravenal Howard Keel is in trouble. The couple live on the show boat run by Magnolia\'s father, Captain Andy Hawks Joe E. Brown. Help for Magnolia is on hand in the form of Julie LaVerne Ava Gardner, but there is trouble in store for

Collection of works brought together by director Orson Welles that serves to examine the idea of forgery and fakes. The film features the work of forger Elmyr de Hory who claims that most of the major collections of paintings in the world contain one of his fakes, and also Clifford Irving who wrote a fake autobiography of famous recluse Howard Hughes. There are stories of Welles\' relationship with

Classic British comedy starring Stanley Baxter and Julie Christie. Murdoch Troon Baxter is a shy civil servant attracted to the vivacious Claire Christie, the daughter of a prominent business man. In an attempt to impress Claire, Troon acquires a vintage Bentley sports car named The Fast Lady and undertakes a series of driving lessons to learn how to handle the car. Needless to say, Troon\'s attempts