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Classic Cinema

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Josephine Hull, Jean Ad...

An hilarious adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's hit play about two seemingly harmless old ladies who murder lonely gentlemen callers - out of the goodn... Read more

As Young As You Feel (1951)

6.6/10
Director: Harmon Jones
Starring: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Constance Bennett, Maril...

John Hodges (Monty Woolley) is due to be 'retired' when he turns 65, but his family don't want him hanging round the house and traditional pursuits of... Read more

Asphalt (1929)

7.6/10
Director: Joe May
Starring: Betty Amann, Gustav Frohlich, Else Heller

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era from acclaimed director Joe May. A by-the-book traffic cop (Gustav Frohlich) catche... Read more

At War with the Army (1950)

5.8/10
Director: Hal Walker
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen

In this, their first starring feature, Dean Martin plays a sergeant in girl trouble who tries to get Private First Class Jerry Lewis to help him out.... Read more

Auntie Mame (1958)

8/10
Director: Morton DaCosta
Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne

Rosalind Russell re-creates her Broadway triumph as the flashy, lovably eccentric socialite who takes her orphaned nephew under her wing and shows him... Read more

Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s (2005)

5.7/10

Culled from the collection of noted movie archivist Raymond Rohauer, this two-disc set features more than 20 artistically diverse experimental short f... Read more

Baby Doll (1956)

7.5/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock

Tennessee William's drama of a backwoods child bride, her obsessive husband and the stranger who enters their lives was the most controversial film of... Read more

Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)

7.8/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Eric...

Spencer Tracy gives one of his greatest performances in this suspenseful, action-packed drama as one-armed war vet John J. McCreedy who stirs up troub... Read more

Ballad of Narayama (1958)

8/10
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara

Based on the novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, and recounting an ancient Japanese custom whereby, in times of hardship, the young inhabitants of a remote vi... Read more

Bank Holiday ( Three on a Weekend ) (1938)

6.6/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge, Hugh Williams

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the sea-side. Doreen Richards under the name Miss Fulha... Read more