1970s British horror directed by Norman J. Warren. 19-year-old Catherine Yorke Candace Glendinning loses both of her parents in a bizarre accident at the beginning of a short break at her uncle Alexander Michael Gough\'s country mansion. At the funeral Catherine is inexplicably drawn to the grave of one of her ancestors who was burned as a witch in 1753. As she learns more about her family Catherine

Classic French drama directed by Alain Resnais. In a luxury hotel somewhere in Europe, an unnamed man Giorgio Albertazzi attempts to persuade one of his fellow guests, a similarly unnamed married woman Delphine Seyrig, that they have not only previously met, but that they had an affair and made plans to elope together. The woman, however, does not appear to recognise him and does her best to rebuff

Barbara Sukowa stars in the title role of this biographical drama, written and directed by Margarethe Von Trotta. The film traces the life of Polish revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, depicting her activism and arrests in Poland and Germany, her founding of the anti-war Spartacus League with Karl Liebkecht Otto Sander during the First World War and her subsequent capture and execution in 1919

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

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

1960s crime drama starring Sean Connery as Paddy Damion, a thief who is recruited by mobster Harry Foulcher Alfred Marks to oversee his money collection. Paddy is no thug but takes the job because his partner has been injured in a robbery and he feels obligated to support him. Foulcher is actually the puppet of criminal mastermind Zhernikov Herbert Lom, who has the image of a respectable businessman

1960s Senegalese drama written and directed by Ousmane Sembene. When Ibrahim Dieng Makhouredia Gueye, who lives in Dakar with his two wives and seven children, receives a substantial money order from his nephew in Paris, his life is thrown into disarray as he tackles bureaucracy, desperate neighbours and family members, mounting debt and corruption.

Joseph Losey directs this classic British drama, adapted by Harold Pinter from Robin Maugham\'s original novel. Spoiled young British aristocrat Tony James Fox buys a handsome Georgian townhouse in London and employs Hugo Barrett Dirk Bogarde as his servant. Initially appearing to settle in well to his new position, Barrett, however, soon begins to exert his influence over his master, subtly ingratiating

Michael Winner directs this classic British crime drama starring Alfred Lynch. Set in Notting Hill during the 1960s, the film follows Joe Beckett Lynch, an unemployed and emotionally cold young man living in a bedsit who frequents the area\'s jazz clubs and coffee bars. When Beckett is approached by a war veteran offering him the chance to earn some money by murdering his wealthy aunt, Beckett sees

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

Academy Award-nominated drama by Australian director Gillian Armstrong, telling the turbulent story of one woman\'s fight for independence. Sybylla Melvyn Judy Davis is the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined, she dreams of succeeding as an acclaimed writer. But in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla has frequent clashes with procrustean

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,

Mike Leigh directs this comic look at one of light opera\'s most famous creative partnerships. In 1880s London, the writing team of William Gilbert Jim Broadbent and Arthur Sullivan Allan Corduner looks set to split after the comparative failure of their latest collaboration, \'Princess Ida\'. Sullivan is keen to prove himself as a serious composer, feeling that Gilbert\'s writing has become too formulaic.

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

Classic drama based on the novel \'Washington Square\' by Henry James and starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland. Catherine Sloper de Havilland is a naive young woman and heiress to a considerable fortune, who is swept off her feet by the charming Morris Townsend Clift in 19th century New York. Against the wishes of her domineering father Ralph Richardson, Catherine continues her romance.

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.

Director Claire Denis\' intensely physical study of tensions within a platoon of legionnaires stationed in North Africa. Fearing for his position within the group, Sergeant-Major Galoup Denis Lavant is growing increasingly jealous of the popular new recruit Sentain Grgoire Colin and decides to bring about his downfall. Eventually, when the platoon have left on a series of exercises, Galoup manages

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