7.5/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli

Aka 'The Innocent'. An elegant, visually beautiful exploration of the constraints of marriage and its disintegration. Featuring a remarkable, sensuous... Read more

8/10

Director: Jean Cocteau

Starring: Josette Day, Jean Marais

Once upon a time, in a world of magic and wonder, the true love of a beautiful girl finally dispelled the torment of a feral but gentle-hearted beast.... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Jean Renoir

Starring: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim

An incredible spectacle that lavishly documents the French Revolution from the summer of 1789 to the final collapse of Louis XVI's monarchy. This vivi... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Francois Truffaut

Starring: Jean Desailly, Francoise Dorleac

A.k.a. 'Silken Skin', 'La Peau Douce'. This carefully balanced mixture of comedy and melodrama has a middle-aged married man leaving his wife for an a... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Max Ophuls

Starring: Anton Walbrook, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux

Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Federico Fellini

Starring: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart

AKA 'The Road'. Fellini's Oscar-winning study of a brutish carnival strongman (Anthony Quinn) who uses a simple minded girl (Giulietta Masina) to serv... Read more

7/10

Director: Ken Russell

Starring: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby

Director Ken Russell's version of the D.H. Lawrence novel has Joely Richardson as the lady and Sean Bean the gamekeeper. A handsome TV production by a... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Trevor Nunn

Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood

An excellent costume drama about Lady Jane Grey, accidental successor to the British throne after the deaths of Henry VIII and his son, Edward VI. A w... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker

One of Hitchcock's best British films; Dame May Whitty stars as the kindly old woman who befriends a young English girl on a European train, and then... Read more

5.9/10

Starring: Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie

Littlefoot the brontosaurus and his prehistoric friends are back in this all-new, feature-length adventure, as a trip from peaceful Great Valley to th... Read more

5.9/10

Starring: Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie

On the distant edge of the Great Valley stands mysterious Saurus Rock, and twin baby Threehorns, Dinah and Dana have run away to find it. It's up to L... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Howard Franklin

Starring: Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Linda Fiorentino

When the circus clown father he never knew dies and leaves him with a four-ton elephant named Vera, Bill Murray sets off on a wild cross-country odyss... Read more

5.4/10

Director: Peter Markle

Starring: Dennis Hopper, Daryl Hannah, Kiefer Sutherland

Dennis Hopper plays a runner for a neighbourhood thug (Michael Madsen) who's looking to get out in this yet another 'Pulp Fiction' clone. Read more

7.8/10

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Victor Wong

A stunning milestone in the history of cinema; John Lone stars as Pu Yi, emperor of China, who comes from a long history of a tradition that is irreve... Read more

8.2/10

Starring: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan

From 1952 to 1960, 'The Goon Show' played the airwaves. For the BBC's 50th anniversary in 1972, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan reform... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Don McKellar

Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie

"Party like there's no tomorrow...because there isn't". With the world about to come to an end at midnight on January 1, 2000, a group of people in To... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Michael Mann

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Means, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, Jodhi May, Steven W...

The American wilderness of the 1750s is the setting for director/co-scripter Michael Mann's grand adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper adventure cl... Read more

7/10

Director: Dick Lowry

Starring: Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Keith Carradine

This adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel is set after the Civil War where Confederate soldier Tom Selleck attempts to reunite with his family and rec... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Nick Castle

Starring: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy

A young video game master becomes part of a real outer space war when he's called on to help defend the Star League of Planets from their arch-enemy,... Read more

Director: Christopher Menaul

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Denis Quilley, Paul Freeman

This informative look at T E Lawrence at the Paris Peace Conference, as he serves as the liaison to the Hashemite delegation in an effort to have the... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Etienne Chatiliez

Starring: Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azema

'Happiness is in the Field'. The touching tale of Francis Bergeade (Michael Serrault) a successful businessman who owns a toilet seat factory and is p... Read more

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

7.8/10

Director: Marcel Carne

Starring: Jules Berry, Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent

AKA 'Daybreak'. Icon of French fatalism, Jean Gabin, plays Francois, who sits locked in his room, a gun in his hand, having just committed the murder... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Basil Dearden

Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Kieron Moore,...

A humorous, tension-filled heist film about a former British Army officer who organises a group of his somewhat dodgy friends to pull off a 1,000,000... Read more

7.8/10

Director: John M Stahl

Starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price

Gene Tierney received a Best Actress nomination for her depiction of a jealous woman unable to control her possessive instincts. This classic melodram... Read more

8.8/10

Director: John Caird, Trevor Nunn

Starring: 250 Performers, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Recognised as the world's most popular musical, the full magnificence of the score played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is captured on video at... Read more

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

7.6/10

Director: Richard Donner

Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are buddies Riggs and Murtaugh - LA's most action-oriented cops in these highly entertaining and highly successful series... Read more

8/10

Director: Max Ophuls

Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians

Joan Fontaine stars in this classic tearjerker playing a lonely woman who is seduced and abandoned by pianist Louis Jourdan. She marries another, but... Read more

8.6/10

Director: Roberto Benigni

Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi

Receiving Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor, Roberto Benigni's celebrated and popular film boldly blends a sentimental and humourou... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Alfonso Arau

Starring: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torne

A delicious love story with exquisite comedy adapted from Laura Esquivel's best selling novel. Young Tita is forced to nurse her sick mother and, unti... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Starring: Claire Bloom, Charlie Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Nigel Bruce, Norman Lloyd, Buster...

Chaplin blends dark comedy and tragedy in the story of an ageing music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. With Chapl... Read more

7.1/10

Director: David Butler

Starring: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable

In the post-Civil War South, Elizabeth Lloyd marries a Yankee. In response, her stern Confederate father vows to never speak to her again. That is, un... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Jodie Foster

Starring: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick Jr

A moving story of a child genius; his single working-class mother can't give him the support and stimulation he needs - but neither can the director o... Read more

6.8/10

Director: James Gray

Starring: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave

In this compelling psychodrama, Tim Roth gives his finest performance to date as a hitman who returns to the Russian-Jewish area of New York where he... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Frank Oz

Starring: Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, James Belushi, John...

The film of the off-Broadway musical of the horror movie spoof... an hilarious, tuneful story of a nerd and his man-eating plant starring Rick Moranis... Read more

7/10

Director: Mark Herman

Starring: Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor

Jane Horrocks recreates her celebrated role as an introverted young woman with a remarkable talent for imitating famous singers in this adaptation of... Read more

Director: Gene Quintano

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L Jackson, Tim Curry

After Charlie Sheen's spoofing of Tom Cruise in 'Hot Shots', Emilio Estevez takes on the lighter side of Mel Gibson in this amiable spoof. Samuel L. J... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Michael Anderson

Starring: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, F...

In the 23rd century, life inside the domed city that houses the Earth's population is perfect - except that anyone who tries to live past the age of 3... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Tony Richardson

Starring: James Bolam, Michael Redgrave, Peter Madden, Tom Courtenay

The engrossing story of a rebellious young man chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. A superbly acted film, it also confronts the rig... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Martin Ritt

Starring: Angela Lansbury, Anthony Franciosa, Joanne Woodward, Lee Remick, Orson Welles, P...

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward first met while making this adaptation of several William Faulkner stories. Newman is the wanderer who takes a job on... Read more

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

7/10

Director: Peter Brook

Starring: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin

"Lord of the Flies" is famed theater director Peter Brook's daring translation of William Golding's brilliant novel. The story of thirty English sch... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Martha Coolidge

Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth

Neil Simon's Pulitzer prize-winning comedy-drama about a struggling widower who leaves his two sons with his steely German mother and his sweet but si... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard

Four years on from the events at Jurassic Park on the island of Isla Nubar, dinosaurs have bred on the neighbouring site of Isla Sorna. The park's fou... Read more

6.1/10

Director: C M Talkington

Starring: Gil Bellows, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Peter Fonda, Jeffrey Combs

A lovers-on-the-lam melodrama, about a white-trash couple who become criminals and outlaws. Features the same over-the-top comic-book violence that ma... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Joseph M Newman

Starring: Frank Fay, William Lundigan, Marilyn Monroe, June Haver

Marilyn Monroe co-stars as the 'other woman' in this post-war romantic comedy about an apartment building full of crazy characters. With June Haver, W... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Hal Kanter

Starring: Dolores Hart, Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey

This better than average Elvis Presley vehicle features him as a small town boy who makes good when his singing ability is discovered. Read more

6.8/10

Director: David Seltzer

Starring: Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder

This charming teen-comedy follows the romantic misadventures of a love-struck 14-year-old (played by Corey Haim) who falls for a new girl in town who... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Roman Polanski

Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw

Aka "The Tragedy of Macbeth". Roman Polanski's violent retelling of Shakespeare's story of the Scottish war hero, prompted by supernatural prophecy an... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras

Starring: Alan Alda, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta

Recently fired museum guard John Travolta takes his ex-employer and some schoolchildren hostage while newsman Dustin Hoffman tries to remain ringmaste... Read more

6.2/10

Director: John McNaughton

Starring: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray

An offbeat tale of a detective (Robert De Niro) who does a favour for a Chicago hood (Bill Murray) and is repaid by having Uma Thurman delivered to hi... Read more

5.3/10

Director: Antonia Bird

Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Joan Allen

A teen-lovers-on-the-lam movie with a difference: she's mentally unstable... From the director of 'Priest' and starring Chris O'Donnell and Drew Barry... Read more

7/10

Director: George Miller

Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne

The cult classic that made Mel Gibson a star as the futuristic avenger, a former police officer whose family was murdered by marauders. A bleak desert... Read more

6.3/10

Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie

Starring: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angelo Rossitto

The third in the 'Mad Max' Trilogy pits Max (Mel Gibson) against the sadistic Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) while he leads a tribe of wild children to th... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand

Set in the 1840s in Stockholm, the mystery and enigma of life and death itself are embodied in Vogler, the magician who runs "Vogler's Magnetic Health... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Andrew Lau Wai Keung

Starring: Ekin Cheng, Hsu Chi, Nicholas Tse, Kristy Yeung

One fateful day in 1913, Hero (Ekin Cheng) is accepted as the disciple of sword master Prise (Anthony Wong). It should be his happiest day, but he ret... Read more

7.3/10

Director: George Miller (II)

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton

A thrilling adventure story set in the Australian frontier of the 1880's, starring Kirk Douglas in a dual role, and highlighted by a climactic chase i... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Starring: Bud Cort, John Savage, Karen Young, Keith Carradine, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Mi...

Nastassja Kinski stars as Maria: lovely, innocent and on the brink of sensual discovery, but unable to be loved by her war-scarred husband (John Savag... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Robert Stevenson

Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Glynis Johns

Beloved Disney film combines brilliant, animated sequences with a delightful story about Julie Andrews as a magical nanny who transforms the lives of... Read more

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

7.2/10

Director: Richard Fleischer

Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre

The great Disney version of Jules Verne's famous adventure/fantasy about a sailor (Kirk Douglas) and a scientist who get involved with Captain Nemo, (... Read more

8.2/10

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

6.3/10

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

6.9/10

Director: Walter Hill

Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole

Street-weary cop Nick Nolte springs smart-aleck convict Eddie Murphy for two days in order to capture a mad dog killer. James Remar is the dangerous q... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Michael Powell

Starring: Leslie Howard, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey

A powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda, which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked... Read more

7.3/10

Director: George Pal

Starring: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell

Tony Randall plays six roles in this western/fantasy about a travelling circus that has the power to alter lives. Randall plays the ancient Dr. Lao as... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Federico Fellini

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Ralph Thomas

Starring: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden

Based on a true-life 1943 incident, with most of the film is set in a British midget submarine, commandeered by John Mills. The sub's mission (togethe... Read more

Director: Stephen Frears

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia

Aka 'Hero'. A top T.V. reporter (Geena Davis) is rescued from a plane crash by a stranger (Dustin Hoffman). A reward is offered to the hero but a conm... Read more

6.9/10

Director: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet

John Huston reunites with his 'Maltese Falcon' cast in this lively espionage drama originally focused on a Japanese invasion of Hawaii until real life... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

Legendary Japanese actor Kazuo Hasegawa plays Yukinojo Nakamura, a kabuki actor who - like Hasegawa himself - was renowned for being an onnagata, or f... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Atom Egoyan

Starring: Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin

A provocative examination of voyeurism and the power of images from Atom Egoyan. Elias Koteas plays an insurance adjuster who secretly likes giving aw... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Bruce Beresford

Starring: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook

The clan from Australia gets into all kinds of trouble when they travel to England. From the cartoon strip by Barry Humphries and Nicholas Garland. Wi... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Masanori Hata

Starring: Narrated by, Dudley Moore

An acclaimed live-action movie about the adventures of a curious kitten named Milo and a pug nosed pup named Otis. Narrated by Dudley Moore. Read more

7.6/10

Director: Leo McCarey

Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning

In this poignant and humourous love story, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someo... Read more

8/10

Director: Werner Herzog

Starring: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Helena Rojo

Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, and tells a hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary cit... Read more

7/10

Director: Nick Broomfield

Starring: Aileen Wuornos

A twisted tale of murder, alleged police corruption and conniving opportunists that tracks the sensational trial and conviction of America's First Fem... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Graham Baker

Starring: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp

A gritty sci-fi, crime procedural in the vein of The Hidden and District 9, Alien Nation is a tense tale of urban life in Los Angeles circa 1991. Here... Read more

5.5/10

Director: Larry Leker, Paul Sebella

Starring: Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton, Dom DeLuise

Angelic canines Charlie and Itchy are back on Earth, sent down to find Gabriel's horn. Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton and Dom Deluise provide the voices... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Ken Russell

Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

William Hurt stars in a dazzling debut as a research scientist on an incredible journey into the inner space of the mind. He tries everything from ps... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Tristram Powell

Starring: Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Connie Booth

A gentle, beautifully filmed tale of a middle-aged bachelor's (Michael Palin) torment after meeting two 'American Friends' in the Swiss Alps: An attra... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Don Bluth

Starring: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Will Ryan

Steven Spielberg executive produced this animated heart-tugger about a family of Russian-Jewish mice that become separated on their way to America. Di... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Otto Preminger

Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden

A riveting courtroom drama pitting small town lawyer James Stewart against big city prosecutor George C Scott, in a trial of Ben Gazzara, accused of m... Read more

7.2/10

Director: George Sidney

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson

Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra play two sailors on leave in Hollywood. While setting up his shy friend Clarence (Sinatra), Gene Kelly, as Joe, falls for... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Federico Fellini

Starring: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti

A uniquely Felliniesque ocean voyage, circa 1914, with a journalist (Freddie Jones) acting as our host and introducing us to a variety of celebrated g... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko

Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film 'Andrei Rublev' charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th century Russia... Read more

8.4/10

Director: David Mallet, Steven Pimlott

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Bonnie Tyler, Glenn Close

This extraordinary event celebrating Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday was filmed live at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and features performa... Read more

7/10

Director: James Edward Grant

Starring: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Irene Rich, Harry Carey

In an offbeat Western drama that predated "Witness," John Wayne plays a hardened gunslinger who is tamed by strong-willed Quaker girl Gail Russell, bu... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Basil Coleman

Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson

Nicola Pagett stars as Anna Karenina in this wonderful adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful and timeless tale of passion set in Russia in the 1870s. A... Read more

6.1/10

Director: John Huston

Starring: Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett

Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett and Albert Finney star in this adaptation of the Broadway hit based on the comic strip. With Tim Curry and Bernadette Pete... Read more

8/10

Director: Woody Allen

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall,...

One of Woody Allen's most well-loved and funniest films, with Diane Keaton as the ditsy sometime object of Woody's neurotic affections. Originally co... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Jonathan Miller

Starring: Colin Blakely, Janet Key, Jane Lapotaire, John Paul, Esmond Knight, Ian Charleso...

Colin Blakely and Jan Lapataire star in this BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's passionate tale. Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

Starring: Voices Of, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone

In an ant colony a neurotic worker named Z (voiced by Woody Allen) sets out to, with the help of his soldier buddy Weaver (Sylvester Stallone) prove h... Read more

4.5/10

Director: William Beaudine

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie

Scientist Bela Lugosi turns into a gorilla in this z grade cult horror classic.Jaw-droppingly bad acting, cardboard sets, and "one-take" direction tur... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Bryan Singer

Starring: Elias Koteas, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, David Schwimmer

Bryan Singer's follow-up to his superb 'The Usual Suspects' is this grand psychological number based on a novella by Stephen King. Brad Renfro, a high... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Frank Marshall

Starring: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak, Julian Sands

First time director Frank Marshall spins a taut comic yarn as a wayward tropical spider crawls into small town USA, breeds and weaves a web of terror... Read more

5.8/10

Director: Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman, Bill Bryden

Starring: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris, Bridget...

Ten different directors select a different aria and have free rein to do anything that they want. The world of opera meets the medium of film with a w... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Emir Kusturica

Starring: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis, Lili Taylor

Celebrated Yugoslavian Director, Emir Kusturica ('Underground') comes to America to paint this lavish picture about a young dreamer (Johnny Depp) who'... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Richard Donner

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Sylvester Stallone, Julianne Moore

Sylvester Stallone (in tweeds) is the old timer hitman looking for a way out while Antonio Banderas ('Desperado') is the young pretender looking to be... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Christian Duguay

Starring: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley

Convinced by the CIA and Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) that he closely resembles international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, U.S. naval officer Aidan... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Phillippe Grimond

Starring: Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, Vitalstatistix

Gaulish custom requires that a would-be chief must challenge and defeat another to become the leader of two tribes in this animated tale based on the... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Irwin Winkler

Starring: Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis

Based on a true story by Dr Oliver Sacks ("Awakenings") about a blind masseur (Val Kilmer), blind since childhood, who falls in love with client Mira... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Louis Malle

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kate Reid, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Robert Joy

Burt Lancaster delivers a stunning performance as the seemingly washed-up gangster, with Susan Sarandon as his lost-soul companion. A moving portrait... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Luc Besson

Following on from his success with 'The Big Blue', Luc Besson has created this 'Marine Opera' containing superb images from the Seychelles to the Nort... Read more

8/10

Director: Louis Malle

Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette

'Goodbye, Children'. Louis Malle returns to the days of the German occupation during World War II to recount the story of friendship between two schoo... Read more

3.7/10

Director: Jeremiah S Chechik

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent

Set in a surreal 1999 London where scientist Ms. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) teams up with dapper secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) to defeat a maxi... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Michael Bay

Starring: Tcheky Karyo, Martin Lawrence, Tea Leoni, Will Smith, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantol...

This fast-paced cop/buddy movie stars a well-matched Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as detectives assigned to investigate the theft of a large quantit... Read more

5.1/10

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Andie MacDowell, Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson

It's Thelma and Louise on horseback as the four leads, (Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson and Drew Barrymore) working girls at a... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori

Reflecting his fondness for American crime films and motifs this stylish Akira Kurosawa thriller stars Toshiro Mifune and delves into corporate corrup... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Starring: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the el... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner

Peckinpah's lyrical, enjoyable fable of a loner who builds a life for himself in a remote part of the Old West. Jason Robards, David Warner and Stella... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Maggie Greenwald

Starring: Bo Hopkins, Carrie Snodgress, David Chung, Ian McKellen, Rene Auberjonois, Suzy...

The gender-bending, true-life sagebrusher about Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis), an outcast from a wealthy Eastern family, who searches for a new life... Read more

8.6/10

Director: Ron Fricke

'Baraka' is an ancient Sufi word meaning a blessing, or the breath or essence of life, from which the evolutionary process unfolds. This gorgeous and... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Glenn Jordan

Starring: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert

A dynamite serio-comedy based on the true story of the leveraged buyout of the giant congolomerate R J R - Nabisco in the greedy 80s. James Garner, Jo... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Frank Henenlotter

Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith

"E.T."as if it were written and directed by a psychopath! The story of Duane Bradley and his little brother Belial who have come to New York looking f... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

Starring: Robert Lowery, John Duncan, Jane Adams, Lyle Talbot

Join superheroes Batman (Robert Lowery) and Robin (John Duncan) as they help Commissioner Gordon (Lyle Talbot) battle The Wizard, a villainous madman... Read more

7/10

Director: Tim Burton

Starring: Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gou...

In this sequel to 1989's "Batman", the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wea... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson

Based on the novel by Leon Uris, a group of servicemen through boot camp then on to New Zealand where even more training takes place (and a romance be... Read more

8/10

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White

The first animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture, Disney's enchanting romance follows the blossoming relationship between the beautiful, bo... Read more

7/10

Director: Stanley Donen

Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's update of the Faust legend, in which timid short order cook Stanley Moon sells his soul to the devil (aka George Spiggot... Read more

7.5/10

Director: James B Harris

Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Martin Balsam

A battle of wits aboard a US destroyer tracking Soviet submarines off Greenland during the Cold War. Richard Widmark is a skipper with an obsession to... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Curtis Hanson

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Shenar

Steve Guttenberg learns his affair with Isabelle Huppert, as a boss's wife, can cost him more than his present job, when he volunteers to be a proxy w... Read more

8/10

Director: Hal Ashby

Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...

Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Fernando Trueba

Starring: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu

Set in 1931, a time of promise and optimism in pre-Franco Spain, this delightfully earthy, cheerful comedy tells of a hearty young army deserter (Jorg... Read more

Director: Jeremiah S Chechik

Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt, D...

Johnny Depp plays a child-like drifter with a fixation on Buster Keaton, who goes to live with Benny (Aidan Quinn) and his mentally disturbed, somewha... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Colin Higgins

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise

A high-stepping fast-talking musical-comedy with Burt Reynolds as the sheriff assigned to the Chicken Ranch, a brothel headed by feisty Madame Dolly P... Read more

4.9/10

Director: Penelope Spheeris

Starring: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, L...

This big-screen version of the backwoods Clampett family's invasion of Beverly Hills stars Jim Varney, Cloris Leachman and Lily Tomlin. Read more

6.6/10

Director: John Boorman

Starring: Patricia Arquette, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray

An extraordinary, brilliantly executed, not-to-be-missed story of a young American doctor who, tormented by her past, travels to Burma with her sister... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Starring: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Meg Tilly, Mary Kay Place, JoBeth Will...

College friends from the 1960's are re-united at the funeral of a mutual friend who committed suicide, and have to re-examine the twenty years that ha... Read more

5.4/10

Director: David Hamilton

Starring: Patti D'arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Gilles Kohler

The sexual awakening of a young woman is the focus of this gorgeously filmed, super-sensual tale from acclaimed photographer David Hamilton ("Laura").... Read more

Director: Peter Hewitt

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler

In this sequel the intrepid duo (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) travel to Heaven, Hell and points in between as they duel with an evil pair of robots w... Read more

8.3/10

Starring: Billy Connolly

Combining personal revelations with original concert footage, this is a fast-moving and entertaining exploration of Billy's homeland. Read more

6.8/10

Director: Richard Brooks

Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn

An excellent cast, featuring Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, and James Coburn, highlights this entertaining Western as a disparate group of riders assemble... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Bruce Beresford

Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg

In the turbulent 17th century, Jesuit priest Father Laforgue travels to Quebec to convert the Indian tribes. Cultures clash, romances flourish and the... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Robert Dalva

Starring: Allen Goorwitz, Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Teri Garr, Woody Strode

In this sequel to the 1979 family favourite Kelly Reno is back as Alec, who finds himself in the exotic Sahara in hot pursuit of his beloved horse Bla... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Carroll Ballard

Starring: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton

Superb photography, an excellent music score and an absolutely gorgeous title star are just some of the many charms of 'The Black Stallion' which foll... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Stephen Norrington

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

Wesley Snipes plays the Marvel Comic's vampire killer, out to cleanse the world of bloodsuckers as he hunts for the vampire who bit his mother during... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Hugh Wilson

Starring: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken, Dave Foley

After spending his entire 35 years in the elaborate underground bomb shelter his parents retreated into during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Brendan... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Ron Shelton

Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin

Paul Newman pulls out all the stops in his energetic performance as Earl K. Long, the wily Louisiana governor whose whirlwind romance with stripper Bl... Read more

7/10

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth

Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "Blood and Sand" is the beautifully rendered story of the rise and fall of a young, cocksure Spanish bul... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Bob Rafelson

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Judy Davis, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez

In this underrated film noir drama, Jack Nicholson is mesmerizing as Alex Gates, a man who appears to have it all - a beautiful wife (Judy Davis), a s... Read more

5/10

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis

Starring: Connie Mason, Mel Arnold, Thomas Wood

Herschell Gordon Lewis invented the modern gore film with this 1963 low budget thriller about a mad Egyptian caterer who uses human victims to spice u... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang

Starring: Lu Liping, Zhang Wenyao, Pu Quanxin

This harrowing tale of a family's struggle to survive in revolutionary China is told from the perspective of a young boy, Tietou, who witnesses first... Read more

7.1/10

Director: John Guillermin

Starring: Anton Diffring, George Peppard, James Mason, Jeremy Kemp, Ursula Andress, Karl M...

During WWI a young German (George Peppard) fresh out of aviation training school competes for the coveted "Blue Max" flying award with other members o... Read more

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

7.9/10

Director: John Landis

Starring: Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Belushi, James Brown, Henry Gibson, Dan Aykro...

Engagingly nutty comedy about John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd trying to raise money to save an orphanage by reuniting their old band and nearly destroyin... Read more