Classic Cinema
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine
When a cargo plane crashes in the desert, the only hope for the survivors is to try to rebuild the craft before they all perish from heat, deprivation... Read more
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Matter of Life and Death ( aka Stairway to Heaven ) (1943)
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, David Niven, Kim Hunter, Raymond Ma...
"The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp" (1943, 157 minutes). Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays British officer Clive Candy, through the trials and trib... Read more
Cromwell (1970)
6.9/10
Director: Ken Hughes
Starring: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Richard Harris plays the fiery Oliver Cromwell in this Hollywood story of the 17th century Englishman determined to rid England of tyrannical rule. Al... Read more
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
7.6/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Roo...
A veritable 'who's who' of film comedy were brought together in this classic slapstick extravaganza about a race to find $350,000 in hidden loot. Spen... Read more
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more
Nosferatu (1922)
8/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder
Aka 'Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror'. The first and the greatest (not to mention scariest) Dracula movie ever made starring Max Schreck as Nosferatu,... Read more
The Lady Eve (1941)
8/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Martha O'Driscol...
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune - a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast - and attempt to bamboozle him at a... Read more
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
8.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton
Agatha Christie's play about a sensational London murder trial features great performances from Charles Laughton as the ageing lawyer, and from Tyrone... Read more
M*A*S*H (1969)
8.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff,...
Director Robert Altman's innovative dark comedy about the everyday escapades of an Army medical unit during the Korean War stars Elliott Gould, Donald... Read more
The Old Man and the Sea (Tracy) (1958)
7/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy
Alone in a small skiff, an aging Cuban fisherman catches a huge marlin - and must defy the sea, marauding sharks and his own flagging strength to brin... Read more