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Vanishing Point (1971)
7.3/10
Director: Richard C Sarafian
Starring: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger
This now classic cult number stars Barry Newman as a Vietnam vet and ex-cop who bets a friend he can drive a car from Denver to San Francisco in fifte... Read more
Rio Bravo (1959)
8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson
Howard Hawks' western classic stars John Wayne as a sheriff whose town is under siege by the army of gunmen brought in by crooked cattle baron John Ru... Read more
Children of Paradise ( Les Enfants du Paradis ) (1945)
8.3/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with "Children of Paradise" ("Les Enfants du Paradis"), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four diffe... Read more
Hard Target (1993)
6.1/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen
Crashes, shoot-outs, massacres and explosions are the hallmark of John Woo's (ex Hong Kong cult filmmaker) outing in New Orleans. Jean-Claude Van Damm... Read more
La Bete Humaine (1938)
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette
Based on the classic Emile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's "La Bete Humaine" was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes - and earned sta... Read more
Viva Zapata! (1952)
7.5/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
An account of a Mexican peasant's rise to power and eventual Presidency. Marlon Brando is terrific as Zapata and Anthony Quinn is equally so in an Osc... Read more
The Butcher Boy (1998)
7.2/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Ian Hart, Sean McGinley
A blackly comic study of an Irish boy who doesn't have a chance in life; his father is a perpetual drunk, his mother a mentally fragile soul. Yet he g... Read more
Shane (1953)
7.7/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Alan Ladd, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, B...
George Stevens' legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Screenplay, Best Director and B... Read more
Event Horizon (1997)
6.7/10
Director: Paul W S Anderson
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Sean Pertwee
The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has been detected, and th... Read more
Entrapment (1999)
6.3/10
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sean Connery, Ving Rhames, Will Patton
Stylish thriller stars Sean Connery as a master thief who is tracked down by insurance investigator Catherine Zeta-Jones after a Rembrandt is swiped f... Read more
The Boondock Saints (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Troy Duffy
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly
A clever, funny, high energy tale focusing on two Irish brothers in Boston who become, by accident, the "saints" of the neighbourhood by killing some... Read more
In Like Flint (1967)
6.2/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Jean Hale
Super-suave super spy James Coburn returns, this time he must fight a group of powerful female tycoons who have developed a way of brainwashing women... Read more
Killing Zoe (1993)
6.5/10
Director: Roger Avary
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Julie Delpy
Writer-director Roger Avary, co-scripter of 'Pulp Fiction' spreads mayhem and body tissue in his own directorial debut revealing a style of his own an... Read more
The 400 Blows (1959)
8.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy
Aka 'Les quatre cents coups'. Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart,... Read more
Masculin Feminin (1966)
7.6/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Chantal Goya, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marlene Jobert
Godard was at the peak of his powers when he directed this tale of a young man, fresh out of the army, who becomes disillusioned with his life. For a... Read more
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
8.1/10
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Haggiag
Director Gillo Pontecorvo brilliantly recreated the street riots and other events that led up to Algeria's independence from France in this astonishin... Read more
Belle De Jour (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page
This classic French drama from Luis Buñuel, based on the 1928 novel of the same name, stars Catherine Deneuve as the bourgeois wife of a surgeon. Feel... Read more
For Roseanna ( Roseanna's Grave ) (1997)
7.2/10
Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Polly Walker, Mercedes Ruehl, Jean Reno
A.k.a. "Roseanna's Grave". A warm, infectious film centering on Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) who expresses the desire to be buried next to her prematurel... Read more
Godzilla (1998)
5.3/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Hank Azaria
He'll take Manhattan, if biologist Matthew Broderick, mystery man Jean Reno and his team don't stop the towering, radiation-mutated lizard, whose been... Read more
Niagara (1953)
7.1/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
Marilyn Monroe in full Technicolour does her best to upstage one of the Natural Wonders of the World. All that rushing water just can't compete with a... Read more
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
6.7/10
Director: Joshua Logan
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin
Musical set during the gold rush days in California features Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood as prospectors who share a wife (Jean Seberg) whom they pur... Read more
L'Atalante (1934)
7.9/10
Director: Jean Vigo
Starring: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Daste
Naturalism and surrealist fantasy blend beautifully in this restored all-time masterpiece about a young couple who begin their life together sailing d... Read more
The Last Metro (1980)
7.4/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret
Truffaut's poignant, compelling drama, set in Nazi-occupied Paris, unfolds in the Theatre Montmartre, as a group of actors rehearse. But everyone harb... Read more
Les Fugitifs (1986)
5.1/10
Director: Francis Veber
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Pierre Richard, Jean Carmet
The story of two men, Lucas and Pignon. Lucas (Gerard Depardieu), who has just done five years in prison, has decided to go straight. Pignon (Pierre R... Read more
Guys and Dolls (1955)
7.2/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons star in Joseph Mankiewicz's quality adaptation of the Broadway hit about the gamblers, missionaries and... Read more
The Yearling (1994)
6.6/10
Director: Rod Hardy
Starring: Peter Strauss, Jean Smart, Wil Homeff
This remake of the 1946 production based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's is the sensitive tale of a boy's attachment... Read more
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
8.2/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
James Stewart stars in Frank Capra's famous film as the naive Jeff Smith, appointed a U.S. senator by a corrupt political party machine. Famous for it... Read more
Orpheus ( aka Orphee ) (1949)
8/10
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: Maria Casares, Jean Marais, Francois Perier
Jean Cocteau's 1940s update of the Orphic myth depicts Orpheus (Jean Marais), a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his... Read more
Pickup on South Street (1953)
7.8/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
A tough, brutal and well-made film, starring Richard Widmark as a petty thief who inadvertently acquires a top secret microfilm and becomes a target f... Read more
The Visitors ( Les Visiteurs ) (1993)
5.9/10
Director: Jean-marie Poire
Starring: Valerie Lemercier, Jean Reno, Christian Clavier
A record-breaking hit in its native France, Jean-Marie Poire's fantasy/comedy stars Jean Reno and Christian Clavier (who co-scripted with Poire) as a... Read more
Pickup on South Street (Blu-ray) (1953)
7.7/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
A tough, brutal and well-made film, starring Richard Widmark as a petty thief who inadvertently acquires a top secret microfilm and becomes a target f... Read more
Betty Blue (1986)
7.4/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Beatrice Dalle, Gerard Darmon, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Jean-Jacques Beineix has restored 62 minutes to his romantic masterpiece ('Version Integrale') expanding the adventures of Betty and Zorg. There are s... Read more
Mon Oncle (1958)
7.9/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
A masterpiece by the great French comic Jacques Tati which concentrates on young Gerard Arpel and his Uncle Hulot (Jacques Tati) in a house where gadg... Read more
Straight Time (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey
A recently released con (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself trapped between an indifferent criminal system and his own unconscious bent toward self destruc... Read more
Irma Vep (1996)
7/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard
This dig at French film-making stars Jean-Pierre Leaud as a faded auteur, who having seen Maggie Cheung in some Hong Kong action flicks, casts her as... Read more
The Love Bug (1968)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Buddy Hackett, Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Herbie
Herbie, the Volkswagon with a mind of his own made his debut in this charming Disney comedy. Dean Jones and Buddy Hackett star. Read more
Bed and Board ( Domicile Conjugal ) (1970)
4.8/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Hiroko Berghauer
This warm and affectionate film, the penultimate in the Antoine Doinel series, depicts French middle-class life with ironic and wry humour. Jean-Pierr... Read more
Les Amants ( aka The Lovers ) (1958)
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Alain Cuny
'The Lovers'. A bored wife (Jeanne Moreau) meets one of her house guests (Jean-Marc Bory) in a moonlit garden and decides to make love with him then a... Read more
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
6.9/10
Director: Duwayne Dunham
Starring: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Jean Smart, Benj Thall
A magical live-action adventure from the Disney studios about a golden retriever, a cat and a bulldog puppy who are separated from their human family... Read more
The Robe (1953)
6.8/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie
A lavish costume drama set during the crucifixion of Jesus and the birth of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Richard Burton, Jean Simmons star. Trivi... Read more
Stealing Beauty (1996)
6.6/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Jean Marais
19 year old Lucy (Liv Tyler) spends a summer in Tuscany after her mother commits suicide. She stays with her mother's friends and has her picture pai... Read more
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
6.3/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan
In this charming comedy, three women make wishes for romance at Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain, spurring several amorous adventures. Won Oscars for... Read more
Z (1969)
8.2/10
Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras
Starring: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant
A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras's "Z" was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains... Read more
Betty Blue (Blu-ray) (1986)
7.4/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Beatrice Dalle, Gerard Darmon, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Jean-Jacques Beineix has restored 62 minutes to his romantic masterpiece ('Version Integrale') expanding the adventures of Betty and Zorg. There are s... Read more
War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us (1995)
Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Pamela Quill, Flo Small, Tui Preston, Jean Andrews
Seven women discuss their secret lives during World War II in this unique, moving, unforgettable film. Featuring Pamela Quill, Flo Small, Tui Preston,... Read more
Black Narcissus (1947)
8/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Sabu, Jean Simmons
Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in... Read more
Legionnaire (1998)
5.4/10
Director: Peter MacDonald
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
In 1920's France, boxer Jean-Claude Van Damme skips out on gangsters and joins the French Foreign Legion. Along with a group of new recruits, he must... Read more
Apache (1954)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Charles Bronson
Burt Lancaster plays an Apache warrior who continues to fight the army for his peoples' rights after Geronimo's defeat, (actually based on fact). Jea... Read more
Game Of Death (1978)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp
Bruce Lee died midway through production of this martial arts thriller. Six years later the director reassembled the surviving actors and with the use... Read more
The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965)
7.2/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Earl Holliman
The Duke stars in this entertaining film about four brothers re-united after the death of their mother and forced to fight to get back their land. Wit... Read more
Thunderball (1965)
7/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois M...
Bond (Sean Connery) must thwart SPECTRE's most audacious plot to date, when its agents hijack a British bomber, armed with two nuclear warheads, and h... Read more
Dragonheart (1995)
6.4/10
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Julie Christie, Sea...
In this fantasy, Dennis Quaid is a swordsman-for-hire who teams with Draco, the world's remaining dragon (voiced by Sean Connery) in an arrangement by... Read more
One From the Heart (1982)
6.8/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton
An extraordinarily visual film examining the bittersweet romance between Teri Garr and Frederic Forrest, with support from Nastassia Kinski and Harry... Read more
The Straight Story (1999)
8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton
In a gentle, G-rated change of pace that still features his trademark fascination with rural American quirkiness, director David Lynch recounts the tr... Read more
Love on the Run ( L'amour En Fuite ) (1979)
7.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Dani
Antoine Doninel, separated from his family, is still having girl trouble. The further amorous adventures of the character first glimpsed in 'The 400 B... Read more
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
6.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Charles Gray, Jill St John, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Ma...
This seventh instalment of the Bond series sees the British Government become suspicious when large shipments of uncut diamonds begin disappearing dur... Read more
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
7.4/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompso...
Shakespeare's comedy of the wooing of Benedick (played by actor-director-screenwriter Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (his real life wife Emma Thompson)... Read more
And God Created Woman (1956)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand
Brigitte Bardot's best known film. She plays a man teasing 18-year-old whose lustful encounters with the irresistible opposite sex are enacted out ami... Read more
Queen Margot ( La Reine Margot ) (1994)
7.5/10
Director: Patrice Chereau
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Jean-Hugues Anglade
An intelligent and moving epic based on a Dumas' novel of the events surrounding the notorious St Bartholemew's Day massacre in 16th Century France. T... Read more
French Kiss (1995)
6.6/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton, Jean Reno
Meg Ryan kicks off in top Meg Ryan form as the cute-as-a-button neurotic Kate, who while travelling to the city of the banquette to meet up with her i... Read more
My Name Is Nobody (1974)
7.5/10
Director: Tonino Valerii
Starring: Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin, Leo Gordon
An enjoyable western spoof with Terence Hill as an easygoing gunfighter who worships an aging Henry Fonda, a gunfighter who wants to retire. Produced... Read more
Leon: The Professional (1994)
8.6/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello
Jean Reno is Leon, a deadly and elusive killer. He lives a routine life, alone in New York with just his pot-plant for company - until the day his twe... Read more
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
7.8/10
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood, James Dean, Dennis Hopper
In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town. Stark's loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those... Read more
Return to Oz (1985)
6.8/10
Director: Walter Murch
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie
A very dark sequel to the classic "The Wizard of Oz", with Dorothy returning to Oz (after a bout in a sanitarium) but finding its famed inhabitants un... Read more
Sudden Death (1995)
5.7/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Ross Malinger
The US Vice President is held hostage in a private box during an ice hockey playoff in Pittsburgh, with the captor demanding a few billion or he'll bl... Read more
Timecop (1994)
5.8/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver
In the year 2004, a new law enforcement agency polices time-tripping criminals; top agent Jean-Claude Van Damme is determined to nail the ringleader o... Read more
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
7/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr
The story plays out in Climax, Nevada, a name not lost on the sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dino (played to a tee by sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dean Martin... Read more
The Thin Red Line (1998)
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
Just Cause (1995)
6.4/10
Director: Arne Glimcher
Starring: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ruby...
This high-powered, stylishly directed adaptation of John Katzenbach's novel has Harvard Law professor Sean Connery squaring off with southern detectiv... Read more
Being John Malkovich (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Charlie Sheen, Orso...
What would you do if you found a doorway in your workplace that led, via a mysterious portal, into the head of actor John Malkovich, giving you the ch... Read more
The Goonies (1985)
7.8/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, Josh Brolin, Kerri Green, Martha Plim...
From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, 'The Goonies' plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling, surprise-around-every-corner quest beyond... Read more
Hurlyburly (1998)
5.8/10
Director: Anthony Drazan
Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Chazz Palminteri, Garry Shandling, Anna P...
David Rabe's blistering play about addiction, sexual confrontation and moral bankruptcy is bought to the screen with a stellar cast, including Sean Pe... Read more
Blue Velvet (1986)
7.8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Stockwell
The most talked about film of the '80s, David Lynch's controversial, surreal mystery is set amid the manicured lawns of small town America where a wor... Read more
A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987)
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Dean Shek
This dynamite sequel focuses on the original's leading characters' exploits and pays homage to Sam Peckinpah and the American gangsters in intoxicatin... Read more
Fool for Love (1985)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid, Sam Shepard
The minimalist, barren landscapes energize the smothering, claustrophobic interiors of Sam Shepard's play in this Robert Altman adaptation. Starring S... Read more
La Grande Illusion (1937)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
One of the very first prison escape movies, 'Grand Illusion' is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars... Read more
Europa ( aka Zentropa ) (1992)
7.7/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst Hugo
This penetrating and mesmeric trip into the dark soul of Europe follows a young American pacifist of German descent who sojourns to post-WWII Deutschl... Read more
A Man Called Horse (1970)
6.9/10
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Starring: Jean Gascon, Judith Anderson, Richard Harris, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th centur... Read more
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
8.3/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Harrison Ford, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Ju...
This time the man in the hat joins his father's lifelong quest for the Holy Grail, battling the Nazi's who also want the sacred relic. Harrison Ford,... Read more
Ridicule (1996)
7.5/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Judith Godreche, Bernard Giraudea...
A delightful tale of a young landowner who tries to obtain an audience with King Louis XVI in order to get grant money to drain a swamp. He soon disco... Read more
The Langoliers (1995)
6.1/10
Director: Tom Holland
Starring: David Morse, Bronson Pinchot, Dean Stockwell, Patricia Wettig, Frankie Faison
In this eerie adaptation of Stephen King's novella, ten passengers on a nighttime transcontinental flight awaken to discover that the rest of the plan... Read more
Stolen Kisses ( Baisers Voles ) (1968)
7.8/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Jade
This alternately touching and hilarious film about an inept but likeable jerk-of-all-trades, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Legud) which began with 'The... Read more
Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo (1977)
5.6/10
Director: Vincent McEveety
Starring: Dean Jones, Roy Kinnear, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Herbie
Herbie the Volkswagon falls in love with a sports car as they compete in a race from Paris to Monte Carlo in this grand outing. Dean Jones and Don Kno... Read more
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
8.1/10
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Harry Dean Stanton
A taut honest drama greatly aided by Stuart Rosenberg's direction and a marvellously controlled and artful performance by Paul Newman as a gutsy priso... Read more
Breaking the Waves (1996)
7.9/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier
The extraordinary story of a young, simple-minded, God-fearing Scottish woman who willingly takes on lovers in the belief that it will cure her paraly... Read more
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
7.6/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie
One of the most controversial films of recent years, this adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel is essentially about the battle raging within Jesus w... Read more
Beethoven (1992)
5.6/10
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci
An adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family and promptly grows into 185 pounds of romping, drooling, disaster-prone St. Be... Read more
Christine (1983)
6.7/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Keith Gordon, Alexandra Paul, John Stockwell, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton
Stylish adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a 1958 Plymouth Fury which comes off the assembly line possessed by evil powers. A great soundtrack i... Read more
Rebel Rousers (1970)
3.8/10
Director: Martin B Cohen
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton
Filmed in 1967 and not released until three years later, after the success of "Easy Rider", this film focuses on a philosophising leader of a pack of... Read more
The Big Country (1958)
7.9/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck, Burl Ives, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston
Gregory Peck is the retired sea captain who comes to marry Carroll Baker, but instead is thrown into a battle against Burl Ives and his son's over wat... Read more
Michael (1996)
5.7/10
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Jean Stapleton, John Travolta, Robert Pastorelli, William Hurt
A pair of Chicago-based tabloid reporters and a beautiful "angel expert" investigate a woman's claim that the archangel Michael is living in her Iowa... Read more
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
8.3/10
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Starring: Millard Mitchell, Jean Hagen, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Cyd...
Silent movies are giving way to Talking Pictures and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol (Gene Kelly) is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his budd... 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
Carlito's Way (1993)
7.9/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo, Luis Guzman, Viggo Mo...
Al Pacino gives an electrifying performance as former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante, who is sprung from prison by his high-powered attorney (Sean Penn... Read more
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
7.2/10
Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Harry Dean Stanton, John Ireland, Robert Mitchum, Sylvester...
Wonderfully evoking the time and mood of Raymond Chandlers 1940s Los Angeles, this film noir detective drama stars Robert Mitchum as an aging, down-on... Read more
Robin And The 7 Hoods (1964)
6.5/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Sammy Davis Jr
The last of the "Rat Pack " films is set in Roaring Twenties Chicago, and Sinatra and crew play garrulous gangsters who rob from the rich and give to... Read more
Castle Keep (1969)
6.2/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Falk, Bruce Dern
An unusual WWII story from Sydney Pollack starring Burt Lancaster as a one-eyed U.S. Army major who leads a squad of misfit soldiers to an art-filled... Read more
Secrets and Lies (1996)
7.7/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rus...
A 27 year old black London Optometrist decides to seek out the woman who gave her up for adoption after she was born. The search leads to a surprising... Read more
The Game (1997)
7.8/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carr...
David Fincher's suspenseful follow-up to the magnificent 'Seven' deals with an investment banker (Michael Douglas) who has everything he could ever wa... Read more
The Mighty (1998)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Sharon Stone, Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gi...
This wonderful, sensitive family comedy/drama focuses on the friendship between two young outcasts who bond together and become, in their hearts and i... Read more
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Blu-ray) (1988)
6.9/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Martin Landau, Mako , Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell...
Jeff Bridges is Preston Tucker, American inventor and the designer of an automobile too many years ahead of its time to succeed against the major car... Read more
Catchfire ( Backtrack ) (1989)
5.4/10
Director: Alan Smithee, Dennis Hopper
Starring: Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, John Turturro, Fred...
A contemporary melodrama about hitman Dennis Hopper hired to rub out murder eyewitness Jodie Foster - but falling in love with her instead. Great supp... Read more
Robin and Marian (1976)
6.6/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Nicol Williamson, Richard Harris, Den...
Richard Lester continues the high-spirited Robin Hood adventure as Robin regroups the members of his Sherwood Forest band when King John assumes the t... Read more
Great Expectations (1946)
7.9/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Jean Sim...
One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more
Where The Day Takes You (1992)
6.8/10
Director: Marc Rocco
Starring: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake, James L...
A compelling look at the homeless LA street kids, as related by Dermot Mulroney to prison psychologist Laura San Giacomo. With Sean Astin, Lara Flynn... Read more
Mumford (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Ted Danson, Martin Short, Robert Stack, Mary McDonnell,...
Writer/director Lawrence Kasdan's ("The Big Chill") charming comedy is set in the bucolic small town of Mumford, where new psychologist Loren Dean's o... Read more
The Public Enemy (1931)
7.7/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Beryl Mercer, Eddie Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook...
The charismatic James Cagney in the role that rightly made him a star! He plays a small-time hood who claws his way to the top, only to find it's furt... Read more
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
6.9/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Martin Landau, Mako , Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell...
Jeff Bridges is Preston Tucker, American inventor and the designer of an automobile too many years ahead of its time to succeed against the major car... Read more
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
6.6/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nicholson, John Ryan, Marlon Brando,...
Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton... Read more
Gardens of Stone (1987)
6.4/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D B Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary...
James Caan is a career soldier assigned to the Burial Detail of the Arlington National Cemetry. It's 1968 and he is getting more business than he woul... Read more
Gattaca (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Alan Arkin, Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gor...
Set in the 21st century where genetic engineering is the accepted norm to produce perfect people - and anyone conceived out of love is handicapped by... Read more
Spartacus (1960)
7.9/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, T...
Director Stanley Kubrick directed this tale of the slave rebellion that took place in 71 B.C., led by the famous and indomitable gladiator, Spartacus,... Read more
Enemy Of The State (1998)
7.3/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Barry...
Will Smith is on the run from dangerous, secretive forces who believe he is carrying essential, covert information. Gene Hackman plays the contact who... 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
Alien (1979)
8.5/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hu...
On its way back to Earth, a spacecraft is re-routed to a remote planet to investigate a distress call. When a member of the landing party returns to t... Read more
The Young Lions (1958)
7.3/10
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, Maximili...
Fascinating WWII story parallels the lives of three individual characters: A handsome German ski instructor turned Nazi who questions his orders and t... Read more
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
7.3/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: William L Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darla...
Gritty, fast-paced police thriller with William Petersen as a Secret Service agent who will stop at nothing to capture slimy counterfeiter Willem Dafo... Read more
You've Got Mail (1998)
6.6/10
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Dabney Coleman, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn...
The 1940 film "The Shop Around the Corner" gets a high-tech revamping in this contemporary romantic comedy. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star as New York bu... Read more
Hamlet (Gibson) (1990)
7.8/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Alan Bates, Glenn Close, Mel Gibson, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Cart...
'God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another' wrote William Shakespeare in his classic tale of vengeance and obsession. Franco Zeffire... Read more
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
6.9/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Larry Hagman, Jean Marsh, Donald Pl...
An action-packed W.W.II thriller about a Nazi plot to sneak paratroopers into England to kidnap Winston Churchill. This twist-laden tale has a top-not... Read more
Mission: Impossible (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom...
The hit TV series is turned into a suspenseful, explosive feature starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent with the top secret 'Impossible M... Read more
Escape From New York (1981)
7.2/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Sea...
1997. New York City is a maximum security prison. When the President's plane crash lands within it's walls, he is taken prisoner by criminals demandin... Read more
Pret-a-Porter ( Ready-to-Wear ) (1994)
3.9/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Kim Basinger, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stephen Re...
Aka 'Ready-to-Wear'. A sprawling Altman's-eye view of the fashion world, set in Paris. While not the masterpiece the director's fans were waiting for,... Read more
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
7.2/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan, Madchen Amick, Moira Kelly, Harry Dean St...
Prequel to the surreal TV series dealing with the last seven days of Laura Palmer's life; the homecoming queen with the plethora of secrets in her clo... Read more
The Player (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Brion J...
A savagely satirical black comedy about a paranoid young movie executive (Tim Robbins), threatened by a disgruntled screenwriter - until he begins tak... Read more
The Longest Day (1962)
7.8/10
Director: Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Eddie Albert, Gert Frobe, Henry Fonda, Jeffrey Hunter, John Wayne,...
Acclaimed as one of Hollywood's greatest epics, producer Darryl F. Zanuck's brilliant re-creation of the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944 fo... Read more
The Green Mile (1999)
8.5/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, David Morse, Graham Greene, Harry Dean Stanton, James Cromwell, Pat...
This superlative adaptation of Stephen King's novel is from the writer and director of 'The Shawshank Redemption', Frank Darabont. Tom Hanks is the he... Read more
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
7/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Frobe...
...or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes. From the opening prologue by Red Skelton, who gives a hysterical aviatic history les... Read more
Pi - Faith in Chaos (1998)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis
This original work focuses on an obsessed math prodigy. A strange numeric pattern thrown up by the fluctuations of the stock market, which only he can... Read more
You Only Live Twice (1967)
6.9/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Akiko Wakabayashi
The talented novelist Roald Dahl adapted the Ian Fleming original in this expansive and colourful James Bond entry. Sean Connery is the British spy wo... Read more
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling, this rousing adventure from John Huston stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine as shrewd British sergeants Dr... Read more
The Falcon and the Snowman (Blu-ray) (1985)
6.8/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, Lori Singer, David Suchet
A based-on-fact dramatic thriller starring Timothy Hutton as a defense plant employee who uncovers proof that the CIA is secretly influencing the acti... Read more
Le Boucher ( The Butcher ) (1969)
7.6/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passallia
'The Butcher'. An intense psychological thriller about a schoolteacher who begins an affair with the town butcher, but the affair is interrupted when... Read more
The Rock (1996)
7.4/10
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe
An action/suspense tale of a disgruntled marine General (Ed Harris) who takes over Alcatraz, threatening to obliterate San Francisco with high-tech po... Read more
Greed (1925)
7.9/10
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Starring: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
One of the wonders of film, this miracle of filmmaking made against the most impossible of odds, stars Gibson Gowland as a dentist who marries the dau... Read more
The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parely
AKA 'La Regle du Jeu'. One of the greatest films of all time, a satirical anatomy of polite bourgeois society, with a mixture of farce and black comed... Read more
Goldfinger (1964)
7.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Honor Blackman, Sean Connery, Shirley Eaton, Gert Frobe, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwe...
In one of the most popular Bond adventures, 007 must foil Goldfinger - the man with the plan to irradiate Fort Knox and corner the world's gold market... Read more
Dr No (1962)
7.3/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Ursula Andress, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman, Lois Maxwe...
The first of the phenomenally successful Bond movies. 007's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where another agent has been murdered,... Read more
From Russia with Love (1963)
7.5/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Pedro Armendariz, Daniela Bianchi, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Lotte Lenya, Rober...
The second Bond film is one of the best, with 007 going up against the evil SPECTRE organisation in a race to sieze a Soviet decoding machine. His ene... Read more
East of Eden (1955)
8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fle...
The film that catapulted James Dean to cult status! Adapted from the John Steinbeck novel, this powerful family drama examines modern conflict and neu... Read more
Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
7.3/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Joh...
Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot solves a murder on a train in this stylish movie based on the Agatha Christie mystery. Albert Finney is terrific as t... Read more