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Safe (1995)

7.2/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, Julianne Moore, James LeGros

This thought-provoking tale of modern-day alienation stars Julianne Moore as an L.A. housewife who develops allergic reactions to everyday household c... Read more

Saint Jack (1979)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers

Ben Gazzara portrays a small-time pimp with big dreams working the pleasure palaces of Singapore in this stunning drama of political corruption and in... Read more

The Salute of the Jugger ( aka The Blood of Heroes ) (1989)

Director: David Peoples
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Anna Katarina, Delroy Lindo

A post-holocaust action thriller in which Rutger Hauer, the leader of a band of armour-clad gladiators, decides to challenge the ruling-laws. Read more

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Steve McQueen

This compelling drama features a splendid performance by Steve McQueen as a jaded sailor on an American gunboat on the Yangtze River in 1926. His incr... Read more

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

7.2/10
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: John Wayne, John Agar, Adela Mara, Forrest Tucker

The Duke was never better than as the haunted Sergeant Stryker, a man hated by his men (with few exceptions) for his unyielding toughness, but it is b... Read more

Sanjuro (1962)

8.2/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama

The hero of Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' returns to help a group of very earnest, very green, very young samurai get their clan rid of corruption. As in 'Yoji... Read more

Scarecrow (1973)

7.3/10
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan

Two towering performances by Al Pacino and Gene Hackman dominate this unusual but fascinating buddy film with Pacino and Hackman as drifters who team... Read more

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)

7/10
Starring: Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, Shaggy

This feature-length adventure begins when Scooby and Shaggy sign on as gym teachers at Miss Grimwood's School for Ghouls - only to discover the pupils... Read more

Scream Blacula Scream (1973)

5.6/10
Director: Bob Kelljan
Starring: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier

'The black prince of shadows stalks the earth again'. An occult ritual summons vampire William Marshall from spirit exile, and only the occult skills... Read more

Screamers (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer

2078: War has devastated a distant planet; the few human survivors are pitted against 'Screamers', self-evolving robots programmed to kill... Based up... Read more

Sea of Love (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Harold Becker
Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman

Al Pacino bounced back from oblivion in this thriller about the investigation by two New York detectives involving a series of killings. Ellen Barkin... Read more

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982)

6.6/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connolly, Sting , Bob Geldof, Phil Collins, J...

More Pythonesque humour from John Cleese and his gang of terrible, tastless and crazy cohorts including; Alexei Sayle, Rowan Atkinson and Barry Humphr... Read more

Send A Gorilla (1989)

4.7/10
Director: Melanie Read
Starring: Carmel McGlone, Katherine McRae, Perry Piercy

A grand romp about the strain of Valentines Day on a Gorilla Singing Telegram Company. Stars Carmel McGlone, Katherine McRae. Read more

The Set-Up (1948)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

One of the best film noirs of the '40s, this atmospheric tale centres around an ageing prize-fighter who refuses to be corrupted by the mob. A great p... Read more

sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

7.2/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Andie MacDowell, James Spader, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Gallagher

An original, quirky film that won newcomer Steven Soderbergh the top prize at Cannes and captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide. Graham Dalt... Read more

Shadow Makers (1989)

Director: Roland Joffe
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C McG...

Aka 'Fat Man and Little Boy'. An arresting film about the development of the atomic bomb, focusing on General Groves (Paul Newman) and the brilliant J... Read more

Shadowlands (1993)

7.4/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Joseph Mazzello

An intelligent, observant, handsome adaptation of William Nicholson's award-winning play, inspired by the late-blooming romance between the fifty some... Read more

Shadows And Fog (1992)

6.8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: John Cusack, Kathy Bates, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen

Woody Allen's wonderful 1920s mystery comedy is the story of one fantastic, Kafka-esque night when the circus came to a small European town and a mani... Read more

Shame (1987)

7.2/10
Director: Steve Jodrell
Starring: Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan

A gripping drama about a motorcyclist who finds herself caught up in a campaign of terror when she pulls into a small town to have her bike repaired.... Read more

Shattered (1991)

6.5/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Corbin Bernsen, Joanne Whalley

Based on Richard Neely's novel this intricate spy/thriller stars Tom Berenger who begins to think the car accident that caused his memory loss may not... Read more

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

9.3/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Tim Robbins, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bello...

Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of the novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as a man serving two life sentences in New England's Sh... Read more

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

6.6/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Spike Lee

The celebrated first feature from independent black filmmaker Spike Lee, a brazenly comic foray into sexual politics. Tracy Camilla Johns stars as Nol... Read more

Shiloh (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Dale Rosenbloom
Starring: Blake Heron, Michael Moriarty, Scott Wilson, Rod Steiger

Based on the award-winning children's novel, this moving family drama follows a boy who tries to rescue a beagle puppy from its abusive owner and lear... Read more

Shining Through (1992)

6.4/10
Director: David Seltzer
Starring: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud

Sweeping WWII romance-drama stars Melanie Griffith as a secretary who falls in love with her mysterious new boss (Michael Douglas). She soon discovers... Read more

Shooting Lily (1996)

7.9/10
Director: Arthur Borman
Starring: Matt Wilson, Amy Smallman

What can a husband do when the woman he loves leaves him for no reason at all? In this case he has it all on tape - his obsessive camcorderings of the... Read more

Short Circuit (1986)

6.6/10
Director: John Badham
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens

No 5, a state-of-the-art military robot develops a mind of its own after being zapped by lightning during a storm! Upon meeting an animal lover, the m... Read more

The Silence of the Lambs (1990)

8.6/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice... Read more

The Silent Partner (1978)

7.5/10
Director: Daryl Duke
Starring: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, John Candy

Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer and Suzannah York star in this terrifying thriller that pits a mild-mannered bank clerk against an evil and sadistic... Read more

Silent Running (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Bruce Dern stars in this sci-fi classic as a botanist preserving the only botanical specimens of life on Earth, under huge geodesic domes, whose rebel... Read more

Sister Act (1992)

6.3/10
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel

Relive all the fun, laughter and irrestible music of the unforgettable hit comedy Sister Act. A sassy lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) is forced to hid... Read more

Sisters (1973)

6/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Director/co-writer Brian De Palma's first foray into Hitchcockian screen suspense in a bloody thriller. Reporter Jennifer Salt witnesses Margot Kidder... Read more

Slacker (Special Edition) (1991)

7.1/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Rudy Basquez, Richard Linklater, Jean Caffeine

A one-of-a-kind pseudo-documentary about the obsessions of the oddball residents of Austin, Texas. This hilarious film celebrates the lifestyle of 'Sl... Read more

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

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

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

7.6/10
Director: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature features a magical story, memorable music and unforgettable characters. The beautiful and kindhearted... Read more

So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)

6.4/10
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Starring: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia

Charlie begins to suspect his new wife Harriet might be the killer he's read about in the tabloids. This delightfully quirky outing stars Nancy Travis... Read more

Solaris (1972)

8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet

A mind-bending, metaphysical film about an investigation into why astronauts on a space station situated above the planet Solaris have suffered mental... Read more

A Soldier's Story (1984)

7.2/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Howard E Rollins Jr, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans

A spellbinding mystery and drama about a black army attorney, sent to investigate a murder on a black army base. Starring Howard E Rollins, music by H... Read more

Solomon and Sheba (1959)

6.2/10
Director: King Vidor
Starring: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders

This grand biblical epic recreates the story of history's greatest temptress and the mighty King of Israel and stars Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida... Read more

Some Like It Hot (1959)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E Brown

Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more

Somebody To Love (1996)

5.2/10
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn, Quentin Tarantino

Harvey Keitel and Rosie Perez team up in this latest feature from the Director of 'In the Soup'. Taxi-dance clubs are the focal point for this screwba... Read more

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

6.8/10
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier

Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay based on his own novel about a mysterious carnival's visit to a turn-of-the-century Midwestern town. Full of wonderf... Read more

Godzilla: Son Of Godzilla (1967)

5.2/10
Director: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda

A group of scientists conducting weather experiments in the Pacific accidentally cause a massive radioactive storm - as a result the local praying man... Read more

Sonatine (1993)

7.6/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Aya Kokumai, Takeshi Kitano, Tetsu Watanabe

'Beat' Takeshi Kitano stars in this very original tale of the last days of a Tokyo gangster. Hard action combines brilliantly with haunting stillness. Read more

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)

8.7/10
Director: Trey Parker
Starring: Eric Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny

When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadian's Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced corrupted, and their parents pressure the United... Read more

Soylent Green (1973)

7.1/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Brock Peters, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten,...

This frighteningly prescient sci-fi tale about the dangers of the "greenhouse effect" was made long before the term became a popular buzzword. Charlto... Read more

Space Jam (1996)

6.3/10
Director: Joe Pytka
Starring: Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Bill Murray

Basketball superstar Michael Jordan stars in this live-action/animated feature where he is 'hi-jacked' into the cartoon world of Bugs Bunny and the re... Read more

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

3.8/10
Director: Jan De Bont
Starring: Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock, Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Glenn Plummer

A romantic Caribbean cruise for feisty Sandra Bullock and new beau Jason Patric becomes a voyage into danger when deranged computer whiz Willem Dafoe,... Read more

Spellbound (1945)

7.6/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Leo G Carroll

Gregory Peck stars as the new director of a mental institution, Ingrid Bergman his love interest, who soon discovers that her lover is actually a ment... Read more

Spice World: The Movie (1997)

3.4/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: Alan Cumming, Claire Rushbrook, George Wendt, Richard E Grant, Roger Moore, The...

Britain's chart-topping all-girl quintet, The Spice Girls, makes the jump to screen stardom with a glitzy musical that could have been called "A Hard... Read more

Splendour in the Grass (1961)

Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle

Warren Beatty (in his film debut) and Natalie Wood portray young lovers in the 1920s Midwest, whose inner struggles to retain a pure and virtuous love... Read more

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

7.1/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens, Richard Kiel

Agent 007 does battle against the arch villain Stromberg and his plans for world destruction. Spectacular underwater footage, beautiful women and the... Read more

Stanley and Iris (1990)

Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz

A sensitive film about illiteracy and isolation. Jane Fonda begins a wary relationship with Robert De Niro as she teaches him to read. Directed with f... Read more

A Star Is Born (Garland) (1954)

7.8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford

The restored version of this masterpiece. Directed by George Cukor this classic musical drama about the doomed marriage of an entertainer whose career... Read more

Star Trek Generations (1994)

6.6/10
Director: David Carson
Starring: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell

The old guard gives way to the new as Captain Kirk (William Shatner) passes the baton to a new Starfleet commander, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) i... Read more

That'll Be The Day (1973) / Stardust (1974)

Director: Michael Apted
Starring: David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Keith Moon, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr,...

'That'll Be The Day' tells the story of a young man (David Essex) growing up in the dreary working-class world of Britain who comes of age and finds h... Read more

Stargate (1994)

7.1/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson

In Egypt, archeologists uncover a gigantic stone ring that, decades later, is found to be an interplanetary nexus. Scientist James Spader and Air Forc... Read more

State Fair (1945)

7.1/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes

An engaging musical of a family's adventures at an Iowa State Fair. Fine Rodgers and Hammerstein songs including Oscar Winning 'It Might as well be Sp... 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

Steel Magnolias (1989)

7.2/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Sam Shepard, Shirley MacLaine

Adapted from the acclaimed stage play about a group of 'Strong Women' or 'Steel Magnolias' in a small southern town. The magnificent cast includes Shi... Read more

Stepping Razor: Red X (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Nicholas Campbell
Starring: Peter Tosh, Lloyd Allen, Edward Allen, Andrea Davis

An absorbing exploration into the life of the late Peter Tosh, Reggae artist, Jamaican folk hero, prophet and radical political activist through archi... Read more

Storm Boy (1976)

7.2/10
Director: Henri Safran
Starring: Peter Cummins, Greg Rowe, David Gulpilil

A wonderful Australian film dealing with the relationships between a boy, his pelican, his Aboriginal friend and his dour father who disapproves of bo... Read more

Storm Over Asia (1928)

7.3/10
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Starring: Valeri Inkizhanov, I Inkizhanov, L Dedintsev

Director Vsevolod Pudovkin's epic is set on the Soviet Asian frontier and tells of a rebellious young Mongol trapper who is set up as a "puppet leader... Read more

Strange Days (1995)

7.2/10
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vi...

As the racially-torn city of 1999 Los Angeles prepares to welcome in the new millennium, ex-cop Ralph Fiennes, eking out a living by peddling computer... Read more

The Stranger (1946)

7.4/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Edward G Robinson

Orson Welles followed his productions of 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Magnificent Ambersons" with this thriller, in which he stars as an escaped Nazi war c... Read more

Street Fighter (1994)

3.8/10
Director: Steven E De Souza
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ming-Na Wen, Raul Julia, Wes Studi, Kylie Minogue, Damian...

Video game fans, get ready for the biggest explosion of live-action excitement to ever hit the screen, as Colonel Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) leads... Read more

Street Fighter II (1994)

7.3/10
Director: Gisaburo Sugii

The future is a dark place where the forces of Shadoland attempt to harness psychic power. If they succeed, it could be the end of civilization. Only... Read more

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Blanche du Bois, the magnificently brooding Vivien Leigh, a faded descendant of the once-proud Southern gentry, comes to live with her matter-of-fact... Read more

Stripes (1981)

6.9/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Warren Oates, P J Soles, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray

This box office hit is a routine army comedy about a loser who enlists and ends up in a platoon of volunteer misfits that a sergeant is doing his best... Read more

The Stud (1978)

3.4/10
Director: Quentin Masters
Starring: Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Mark Burns

The sexual cavortings of the super-rich and the highly unpleasant are looked at in this successful soap opera, telling of a waiter who works his way u... Read more

Sudden Impact (1983)

6.6/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Paul Drake

Clint Eastwood's fourth go-around as San Francisco detective 'Dirty' Harry Callahan puts him on the trail of a woman (Sondra Locke) who is getting rev... Read more

A Summer's Tale (1996)

7.7/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Amanda Langlet, Melvil Poupaud, Aurella Nolin

The third part in Eric Rohmer's "Tales of the Four Seasons" tells the sweet tale of a young man torn between three women. With naturalistic settings,... Read more

Superman II (1980)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder

The Man of Steel is back, Metropolis is in trouble as three super-villans threaten destruction, and Lois Lane marries Clark Kent, only to find him a s... Read more

Suspect (1987)

6.6/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Cher , Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna

Cher stars as an attorney who becomes involved in a case that takes her outside of the law when juror Dennis Quaid provides information about drug tra... Read more

Swamp Thing (1981)

5.4/10
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise

Out of the pages of a DC comic comes this action pic about a scientist who turns into a strong, kindly monster who is half human and half plant. Ray W... Read more

Sweet Revenge (1990)

5.6/10
Director: Charlotte Brandstrom
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, John Sessions

An enjoyable cast has fun with this delightful tale set in Paris about a lawyer (Carrie Fisher) trying to stop paying alimony to her ex by hiring an e... Read more

Swept From The Sea (1997)

Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen

Based on Joseph Conrad's timeless story about a woman in a small coastal town's experience with the sole survivor of a shipwreck. This intoxicating mi... Read more

The Swimmer (1968)

7.7/10
Director: Frank Perry
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule

This fascinating film adaptation from the John Cheever short story stars Burt Lancaster in this splendid, unusual but rewarding film as a businessman... Read more

Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas (1931)

7.6/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: Anna Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Kong Ah

A landmark collaboration of F W Murnau ('Nosferatu') and Robert Flaherty ('Nanook of the North') has been hailed as one of the most stunning films eve... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

7.1/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker

A faithful retelling of the Dickens story in this well-made British production, with Dirk Bogarde a good Sydney Carton. Read more

The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)

Director: Reginald Mills
Starring: The Royal Ballet, Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin

The Royal Ballet, in association with the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, presents a program based on the children's stories of Beatrix Potter. Ma... Read more

Tampopo (1986)

7.4/10
Director: Juzo Itami
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamakazi, Nobuko Miyamoto

One of the funniest, most enjoyable, satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie, the plot of which, loosely concerns the quest for the perfect Jap... Read more

Tango (1993)

6.4/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer, Miou-Miou

A wicked black comedy from the director of 'The Hairdresser's Husband', guaranteed to provoke and delight in equal measure about a man who got away wi... Read more

Taras Bulba (1962)

6.4/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker, Brad Dexter

The legendary tale of the Cossacks' fight for freedom from the Poles over 400 years ago. Yul Brunner stars as a powerful Cossack chieftain leading his... Read more

A Taxing Woman (1987)

7.4/10
Director: Juzo Itami
Starring: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa

Juzo Itami's hilarious follow-up to 'Tampopo' is a satiric comedy of ambition, greed and the battle of the sexes. A disarming and dedicated woman tax... Read more

The Tenant (1976)

7.7/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters

Polanski's most autobiographical film is, like "Repulsion", a journey through the distorted realm of the human mind. Polanski himself plays Trelkovsky... Read more

Tender Mercies (1983)

7.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard

Robert Duvall gives yet another Academy Award winning performance as Mac Sledge, a self-destructive alcoholic and country singer who finds redemption... Read more

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

5.6/10
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow

Leatherface, the Cook, Grandpa, and company are back, proving that the family that slays together stays together, in Tobe Hooper's follow-up to his 19... Read more

That's Entertainment, Part 2 (1976)

Director: Gene Kelly
Starring: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Greer Gars...

An all-singing, all-dancing musical-comedy treat. More magical MGM moments with "more stars than there are in heaven," including hosts Fred Astaire an... Read more

Them! (1954)

7.3/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, James Arness

Classic 50's creature feature about giant ants discovered in New Mexico that lead the authorities into final battle in the storm drains under Los Ange... Read more

Theorem (1968)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti

Terence Stamp plays the mysterious Christ or Devil figure who stays briefly with a wealthy Italian family, seducing them one by one. He then goes as q... Read more

They Call Me Trinity / Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)

Director: E B Clucher
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger

'They Call Me Trinity', is a wild spoof on 'The Magnificent Seven' made international superstars of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer playing half-brothers... Read more

They Were Expendable (1945)

7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed

One of the finest of all World War II films, based on the true story of America's P.T. boat Squadron in the Philippines during the early days of war.... Read more

The Thief (1997)

7.7/10
Director: Pavel Chukhraj
Starring: Vladimir Mashkov, Ekaterina Rednikova

This widely acclaimed film is arresting as both an intense drama about a troubling family dynamic and as an allegory about the tension that filled the... Read more

Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

7/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox, John Gavin, Beatrice...

The 'Roaring Twenties' live on in this Oscar-winning musical comedy of innocent girls, wild flappers, romance and crime. Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler-... Read more

The Three Caballeros (1945)

6.5/10
Director: Norman Ferguson
Starring: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz

A colourful Disney comedy-travelogue that combines animation and live action. Filled with infectious music, eye-popping visuals and amusing cartoon se... Read more

Three Colours: Red (1994)

8/10
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Jacob

Fashion model Irene Jacob meets an embittered retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) by accident, then develops a relationship with him and enters his... Read more

Three Colours: White (1993)

8/10
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos

This story concerns a hapless Pole whose beautiful French wife (Julie Delpy) is divorcing him for no longer being able to perform in bed. Full of iron... Read more

Three Men and a Cradle (1985)

6.6/10
Director: Coline Serreau
Starring: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, Andre Dussollier

One of the funniest French films in recent years; the lives of three happy-go-lucky French bachelors are turned upside-down when a former lover of one... Read more

Threesome (1994)

6.2/10
Director: Andrew Fleming
Starring: Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Charles

Through a computer error, college student Lara Flynn Boyle is assigned to room with two guys - shy, intellectual Josh Charles, who may be gay, and in-... Read more

Throne of Blood (1957)

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

Throw Momma From The Train (1987)

6.2/10
Director: Danny Devito
Starring: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew, Rob Reiner

Billy Crystal has two major problems in this slightly black comedy. One is a severe case of writer's block and the other is Owen, who wants his writin... 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

Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)

6.5/10
Director: David Lane
Starring: Lady Penelope, Virgil

Strap in with the incredible Tracy team and prepare for takeoff. All systems are go as the amazing electronic puppets, in the first feature-length sup... Read more

Tightrope (1984)

6.3/10
Director: Richard Tuggle
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood

Clint Eastwood stars as a New Orleans cop who, while hunting down a vicious sex murderer, suffers his own descent into sexual darkness. This razor-sha... Read more

Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)

3.5/10
Director: Brian Gibson
Starring: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis

Vivid true-life story of the stormy careers and personal relationship between Ike and Tina Turner is further boosted by two remarkable central perform... Read more

To Have And Have Not (1944)

8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran

Director Howard Hawks once bet Ernest Hemingway he could make a good film from one of the author's worst books. Needless to say, he won the bet with t... Read more

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

8.3/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Brock Peters, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall

Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the defence lawyer of a black man accused of rape in the American South. Scripted by Hor... Read more

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner,...

The tale of three drag queens headed for Hollywood whose car breaks down in a small rural town where they are befriended by the local female populatio... Read more

Tokyo Story (1953)

8.2/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara

Aka "Tokyo Monogatari". One of the legendary classics of humanist cinema tells the simple, sad story of an elderly couple who travel to Tokyo to visit... Read more

Tom and Huck (1995)

5.6/10
Director: Peter Hewitt
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Eric Schweig

Those immortal Mark Twain heroes, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, are given the Disney treatment in this colourful and exciting family film. Follow their ad... Read more

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)

6.2/10
Director: Amando De Ossorio
Starring: Cesar Burner, Lone Fleming, Helen Harp, Maria Silva

13th-century Templars are executed and blinded (by crows) for killing women during blood rituals. They return from their graves as mummified, bloodthi... Read more

Touch (1997)

5.7/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken

A satirical fable based on the Elmore Leonard novel about a young ex-monk who may have God-given healing powers and who is pursued by people seeking t... Read more

Tous Les Matins Du Monde (1991)

7.6/10
Director: Alain Corneau
Starring: Anne Brochet, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Aka 'All the Mornings of the World'. One of the most celebrated motion pictures to explore the art of music, this French drama, set in the 17th centur... Read more

The Towering Inferno (1974)

6.9/10
Director: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, F...

The Oscar-winning cinematography stands out in this all-star epic about a burning skyscraper. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden and Faye Duna... Read more

A Town Like Alice (1956)

7.2/10
Director: Jack Lee
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Maureen Swanson

Based on Neville Shute's internationally bestselling WWII tale about Japanese oppression of female British POWs in Malaysia. Virginia McKenna, Peter F... Read more

The Train (1964)

7.9/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau

A gripping high powered action film about the French Resistance trying to waylay a train taking French Art treasures to Germany. Read more

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)

8.1/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn

Peggy Ann Gardner finds that life can be difficult if you are poor and live in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Adapted from Betty Smith's novel,... Read more

The Truce (1997)

6.7/10
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: John Turturro, Massimo Ghini, Rade Serbedzija

This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. It deals with their experiences in readjusting to life and their f... Read more

True Colors (1991)

6.3/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark

Follows two law-school room-mates (John Cusack and James Spader) who take different paths in life; one goes to work for the Justice Department, determ... Read more

True Crime (1999)

6.6/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, James Woods, Denis Leary, Frances Fisher

A gripping story about a down-and-out reporter (Clint Eastwood) who is sent to cover the execution at San Quentin of convicted murderer Isaiah Washing... Read more

Trust (1991)

6.9/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson

This insightful black comedy follows the developing romance between an unlikely pair of misfits. Maria (Adrienne Shelly) an obnoxious, tartily dressed... Read more

Tunes of Glory (1960)

7.7/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Kay Walsh

This riveting adaptation of James Kennaway's novel boasts superb performances by Alec Guinness and John Mills as British army officers locked in a bat... Read more

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

6.5/10
Director: George Miller, Joe Dante, John Landis, Steven Spielberg
Starring: Albert Brooks, Dan Aykroyd, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan, Vic Morrow

An enjoyable tribute to the 60s TV series by Rod Serling. Four stories directed by John Landis ('Prologue', 'Time Out'), Steven Spielberg ('Kick the C... Read more

Twins (1988)

6/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston

About the coming together of two unlikely brothers, the result of an experiment in superior breeding, and their immensely funny, eventful journey to f... Read more

Two Bits (1995)

6.3/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Al Pacino, Joe Grifasi

Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Jerry Barrone star in this poignant memoir of growing up in South Philadelphia during the depression. Read more

The Two Jakes (1990)

6.1/10
Director: Jack Nicholson
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Bl...

The long-awaited sequel to Roman Polanski's 1974 'Chinatown' sees Jack Nicholson taking over the reins as well as reprising his role as private eye Ja... Read more

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

7.3/10
Director: Monte Hellman
Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird, David Drake

Monte Hellman's acclaimed cult film concerns a race around the back-roads of America between a pair of drag-racing drifters (musicians James Taylor an... Read more

The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

7.4/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Robert Burke, Christopher Cooke

Tall, mysterious man returns to his hometown after a stint in prison, causing a variety of reactions from the locals. This quirky, independently made... Read more

Under Milk Wood (1971)

6.3/10
Director: Andrew Sinclair
Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole

This film version of a wonderfully evocative radio play weaves a magical tapestry of words around the lives and dreams of the inhabitants of the tiny... Read more

Unforgiven (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood

Revisionist western that has Clint Eastwood as a one-time mad killer, long since reformed, who comes reluctantly out of 'retirement' to make one more... Read more

The Unforgiven (1960)

6.7/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy

A powerful western drama about racism and family ties directed by John Huston. Set in Texas in the 1850's, a proud and strongwilled family discovers a... Read more

Untamed Heart (1993)

6.8/10
Director: Tony Bill
Starring: Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez

An urban love story involving a waitress (Marisa Tomei) who can't seem to keep a boyfriend and a shy well-meaning orphan with a heart ailment (Christi... Read more

Utu (1983)

7.1/10
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott

Visually beautiful film set in 1870's New Zealand. After the family and village of a Maori tribesman is wiped out in a senseless raid, the tribesman,... Read more

Valentino (1977)

6.2/10
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Carol Kane, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Rudolf Nureyev, Seymour Cassel, Fel...

In 1926, the tragic and untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to co... Read more

The Verdict (1982)

7.8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea

Paul Newman gives one of his finest peformances as a Boston Lawyer who's hit bottom, until a medical negligence case gives him a chance to restore his... Read more

Village of the Damned (1960)

7.3/10
Director: Wolf Rilla
Starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn

An extremely effective adaptation of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about strange goings on in a small English village after all the wome... Read more

Village of the Damned (1995)

5.6/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kirstie Alley, Mark Hamill, Christopher Reeve, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Pare

A strange mist overcomes an idyllic coastal town, causing ten women to give birth to children who turn out to be mind-controlling demons. This remake... Read more

Vincent and Theo (1990)

Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Johanna Ter Steege

Robert Altman's audacious portrait of the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother Theo and his struggle... Read more

Viridiana (1961)

8.2/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Francisco Rabal, Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey

A powerful psychological study of a novice nun (Silvia Pinal) who loses her innocence when forced by her Mother Superior to visit nasty uncle Fernando... Read more

Waiting To Exhale (1995)

5.8/10
Director: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine

Four African-American women support and comfort each other through a year of romantic ups and downs. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon and... Read more

A Walk In The Clouds (1995)

6.7/10
Director: Alfonso Arau
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn

Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn and Giancarlo Giannini star in this romantic drama from the director of 'Like Water for Chocolate' and spins the tale of a... Read more

Wall Street (1987)

7.4/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Terence Stamp, Sean Young, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Daryl Ha...

Oliver Stone invades the stone canyons of the stock market battlezone with the story of a young broker who is willing to do almost anything to land th... Read more

Waltz Of The Toreadors (1962)

5.9/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton

In this robust adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play, Peter Sellers is General Fitzjohn, whose pursuit of a sexy Parisian is thwarted by his put upon wi... Read more

Water (1985)

6.2/10
Director: Dick Clement
Starring: Michael Caine, Leonard Rossiter, Brenda Vaccaro, Billy Connolly

Michael Caine stars in this congenial comedy about the commercial and social exploitation of a small rundown Caribbean outpost, governed by Caine, upo... Read more

Waterland (1992)

6.7/10
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, Sinead Cusack, John Heard

In America in the 1970s, history teacher Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) abandons his planned lessons and recounts his personal history to his students. He t... Read more

Wayne's World (1992)

7/10
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Tia Carrere, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Mike Myers, Lara Flynn Boyle

The youth comedy hit of 1992 about the pleasures of best buddies Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey), who transferred their Saturday Night Live... Read more

The Wedding Banquet (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein

Gay Taiwanese-American Winston Chao tries to fool his parents via a fake wedding, with unexpected complications. This grand comedy knowingly and poign... Read more