8.1/10

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura

Kurosawa's version of 'Macbeth' spares no effort in creating an atmosphere of obsessive madness and supernatural compulsion. The black and white contr... Read more

8/10

Director: Billy Wilder

Starring: Ray Milland, Phillip Terry, Jane Wyman

Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning social drama stars Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer who falls into a maelstrom of delusion and dementia and winds up in... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Starring: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi Lopez, Doug Jones, Maribel Verdu, Alex Angulo

Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbindin... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Starring: Alex Angulo, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdu, Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones

It's 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are le... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano

Author Thomas Mann's classic is splendidly brought to the screen in this study of an artist, his loves, his homosexuality and continuous search for be... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari

One of the masterpieces of Italian Neo-Realist cinema - the Italian postwar Renaissance. The story centres on a retired civil servant, living only on... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier

A riveting thriller and a nightmare of urban alienation, this is director Melville's reinterpretation of the dark world of Hollywood's gangster 'noirs... Read more

7.8/10

Director: John Ford

Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald

Galway in the 1920's. After a long and profitable career as a boxer, Irish-born American Sean Thornton returns to his home village to settle down and... Read more

8/10

Director: Michael Apted

Dubbed 'the definitive documentary' produced and directed by Michael Apted. Beginning in 1963 a camera has followed a group of children from the age o... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Michael Apted

Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield

In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary '7 Up'. He's been back to film them every seven yea... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Michael Apted

And now they are 49. Michael Apted's legendary social experiment continues with 10 of the original 12 participants taking part. With each entry seem... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Michael Apted

Called 'the definitive documentary' produced and directed by Michael Apted. Beginning in 1963 a camera has followed a group of children from the age o... Read more

6/10

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto P Quintavalle, Aldo Valetti

Pasolini's final and most controversial film has been banned, censored and reviled the world over since it's first release. The film is based on the M... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Robert Flaherty

Standing the test of time, this groundbreaking silent film detailing the harsh existence of an Eskimo tribe living on the shores of Canada's Hudson Ba... Read more

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret

Inspired by a real article on housewife prostitution, the film examines Godard's theory that those living in 60s Paris had to prostitute themselves to... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Jane Campion

Starring: Anna Paquin, Genevieve Lemon, Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Kerry Walk...

Ada (Holly Hunter), her nine-year-old daughter (Anna Paquin) and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in nineteenth century New Zealand in this Pa... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Jane Campion

Starring: Anna Paquin, Genevieve Lemon, Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Kerry Walk...

Ada (Holly Hunter), her nine-year-old daughter (Anna Paquin) and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in nineteenth century New Zealand in this Pa... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Terrence Malick

Starring: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteas, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack

Returning to the screen after a 20-year absence, writer/director Terence Malick adapts James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel about the pivotal WWII... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Terrence Malick

Starring: Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, George Clooney, Jared Leto, Jim Caviezel, John C Reil...

In 1942, Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) is a U.S. Army absconder living peacefully with the locals of a small South Pacific island. Discovered by his com... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Michael Haneke

Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot

George (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) seem to have the perfect middle-class lifestyle until one day mysterious videotapes and d... Read more