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Mad City (1997)

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

Mad Dog and Glory (1992)

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

Mad Love (1995)

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

Mad Max (1979)

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

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

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

The Magician (1959)

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

A Man Called Hero (1999)

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

The Man From Snowy River (1981)

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

Maria's Lovers (1984)

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

Mary Poppins (1964)

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

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

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

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999)

6.4/10
Director: Ian Mune
Starring: Temuera Morrison, Clint Eruera, Nancy Brunning, Pete Smith, Rena Owen

This sequel to "Once Were Warriors" again stars Temuera Morrison as Jake Heke, who having turned his back on his family, must deal with a new set of c... Read more

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

7.7/10
Director: Brian G Hutton
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure

The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to t... Read more

Where The Green Ants Dream (1984)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruce Spence, Roy Marika, Wandjuk Marika

Another fascinating . . sometimes maddening chapter in director Werner Herzog's continuing obsession with the fate of the earth and the fate of himsel... Read more

White Man's Burden (1995)

5.2/10
Director: Desmond Nakano
Starring: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch

Race relations are turned on their head in this thought provoking, speculative drama set in an America where the privileged black majority controls al... Read more

Who Dares Wins (1982)

8.2/10
Director: Ian Sharp
Starring: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Edward Woodward

The British Special Air Services, an anti-terrorist group, is pitted against an organization of international terrorists who plan to take over the U.S... Read more

The Whole Wide World (1995)

7.3/10
Director: Dan Ireland
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renee Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth

A poignant based-on-fact drama, set in Texas during the 1930s and charting the complex relationship between two independent minded souls: pulp novelis... Read more

The Wiggles Movie (1998)

6.6/10
Director: Dean Covell
Starring: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page

The Wiggles star along with characters Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword in this children's feature-length film. Read more

The Wild Bunch (1969)

8/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: William Holden, Warren Oates, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson

Peckinpah at his violent best. In the Southwest of 1913, Pike Bishop (William Holden) is leader of 'The Wild Bunch', a gang of outlaws coerced by a Me... Read more

The Wild One (1953)

6.9/10
Director: Laslo Benedek
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin

Marlon Brando is Johnny, the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed biker seems bent on de... Read more

The Wind Cannot Read (1958)

6.2/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis, John Fraser

A tearful British star crossed romance effort set against the backdrop of World War II. RAF officer Dirk Bogarde is assigned to learn Japanese in orde... Read more

Window To Paris (1995)

7.4/10
Director: Yuri Mamin
Starring: Agnes Soral, Serguei Dontsov, Victor Mikhailov

An unusual fantasy from Russia about a group of St. Petersburg residents who find a strange 'spatial ladder' in the closet of a deceased neighbor that... Read more

Wings of Desire (1987)

8.1/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Curt Bois

'The first time I saw the film I thought it was a knockout; on second viewing it already seemed a classic,' wrote J. Hoberman of Wim Wenders' re-exami... Read more

The Winter Guest (1997)

7.1/10
Director: Alan Rickman
Starring: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid

A beautiful, deeply moving film in which four relationships are explored; a young widow and her mother, who's trying to break through her daughter's d... Read more

Winter Kills (1979)

6.3/10
Director: William Richert
Starring: Richard Boone, Jeff Bridges, Sterling Hayden, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eliz...

A rare example of a film so wild, so utterly rambunctious and so bursting with invention that it defies description. Based on the novel by Richard Con... Read more

Wise Blood (1979)

7.2/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Brad Dourif, Harry Dean Stanton, Ned Beatty, Dan Shor

An unlikely religious leader (Brad Dourif) recruits a ragtag band of followers for his Church of Christ Without Christ in order to expose the hypocris... Read more

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)

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

21 Up (1977)

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

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

48 Hrs (1982)

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

49th Parallel (1941)

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 Faces of Dr Lao (1964)

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

8 1/2 (1963)

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

Above Us the Waves (1955)

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

Accidental Hero (1992)

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

Across the Pacific (1942)

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

An Actor's Revenge (1963)

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

The Adjuster (1991)

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

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

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

The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1989)

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

An Affair to Remember (1957)

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

Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (1972)

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

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer (1992)

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

Alien Nation (1988)

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

All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (1996)

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

Altered States (1980)

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

American Friends (1991)

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

An American Tail (1986)

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

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)

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

Anchors Aweigh (1944)

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

And The Ship Sails On (1984)

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

Andrei Rublev (1966)

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

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration (1998)

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

Angel and the Badman (1947)

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

Anna Karenina (BBC) (1990)

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

Annie (1981)

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

Annie Hall (1977)

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

Antony And Cleopatra (BBC) (1981)

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

Antz (1998)

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

The Ape Man (1943)

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

Apt Pupil (1998)

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

Arachnophobia (1990)

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