5.8/10

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Helen Haye, C V France, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden

Early Hitchcock drama, based on John Galsworthy's popular stage play, that was decidedly atypical of the Master's subsequent suspensers. The aristocra... Read more

Director: Basil Dearden

Starring: Bernard Miles, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenn...

Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Anatole Litvak

Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan

Based on Mary Jane Ward's best-selling novel, the film "The Snake Pit", which follows the story of a woman grappling with mental illness, broke cinema... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Henry King

Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner

Based on Ernest Hemingway's short story about a renowned writer who reflects on his life and loves while lying wounded on the slopes of the East Afric... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Rowland V Lee

Starring: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Lionel Royce, Florence Bates

Louis Hayward stars as the sword-slinging hero, Edmond Dantes Jr., in this swashbuckling adventure from director Rowland V Lee. Masquerading as a fopp... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Henry King

Starring: Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J Cobb, Glad...

This excellent story of the 19th-century French peasant girl who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary and found herself at the centre of a worldwide contro... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Joris Ivens

In 1937 Joris Ivens directed THE SPANISH EARTH, a film designed to inform Americans about the Spanish Civil War and to raise funds for allies (the Loy... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Billy Wilder

Starring: James Stewart, Patricia Smith, Murray Hamilton

Jimmy Stewart plays America's greatest flying hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, in Billy Wilder's filming of the aviator's autobiography. Follow 'Lucky Lind... Read more

7/10

Director: Michael Powell

Starring: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw

Aka "U-Boat". An unusual espionage cum-romance story of German agent Conrad Veidt and his love affair with British agent Valerie Hobson. This was Emer... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Martin Ritt

Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner

Perhaps the best of the Cold War spy movies. Good writing coupled with magnetic performances make it that rare film based on a novel that is the equal... Read more