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A Doll's House (Fonda) (1973)

6.5/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Jane Fonda, Trevor Howard, David Warner, Edward Fox

Jane Fonda stars as Nora in Joseph Losey's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play. Nora risks destruction in order to save her husband's health, an... Read more

Don Giovanni (1979)

7.7/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Kiri Te Kanawa

The tale of womaniser Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. Giovanni's attempts to woo Donna Anna end in tragedy when he kills her father in a duel.... Read more

Don't Look Now (1973)

7.3/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason

Excellent psychic thriller about a married couple who, just after the accidental drowning of their young daughter, start having strange occurences in... Read more

The Doom Generation (1995)

6/10
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech

Writer-director Gregg Araki knocks off 'Natural Born Killers' with this tale of three teen slackers who go on a cross-country sex-and-violence spree,... Read more

The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)

7.8/10
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Halina Gryglaszewska, Irene Jacob, Kalina Jedrusik

Two women with identical looks, birthdates and names unknowingly have their lives inter-connected in this beautifully crafted thriller. When one of th... Read more

Dragnet (1987)

5.9/10
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Dabne...

Here are the facts, Ma'am: Dan Aykroyd is Sgt Joe Friday, following in his famed uncle's gumshoed footsteps. Tom Hanks is Friday's unconventional, wis... Read more

Dragon Fist (1979)

6.2/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan

Revenge. Honour. These two words become one in the mind of Kung-Fu artist Yuan as he seeks revenge for the death of his master. Jackie Chan stars. Read more

Dream With The Fishes (1997)

7/10
Director: Finn Taylor
Starring: David Arquette, Brad Hunt, Kathryn Erbe

Tells the slightly surreal story of a voyeuristic loner called Terry (David Arquette) whose final attempt to end it all is frustrated by a small time... Read more

Drop Dead Fred (1991)

5.9/10
Director: Ate De Jong
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason

Comic fantasy starring Phoebe Cates as a recently divorced woman who calls on her imaginary childhood friend to help her out of dire emotional straits... Read more

Duck Soup (1933)

8/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern

In postage-stamp sized Freedoria, Prime Minister Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) declares war on neighbouring Sylvania just for the hell of it in this sati... Read more

Duck Tales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)

Starring: Scrooge McDuck

In this feature-length animated tale, Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, have a series of adventures after receiving a magic lantern... Read more

Duel (1971)

7.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dennis Weaver

Dennis Weaver stars as the travelling salesman driving through the American Southwest who wages a desperate battle for survival after he is mysterious... Read more

Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)

6.4/10
Director: Fred F Sears
Starring: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis

A B film elevated to near classic status with stunning special effects by Ray Harryhausen. After misinterpreting a message for peace from the initiall... Read more

Easy Rider (1969)

7.4/10
Director: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector

Counter-culture road movie with Dennis Hopper (also directing) and Peter Fonda getting out their choppers to travel across the Southwest. On their wa... Read more

Eat the Rich (1987)

6/10
Director: Peter Richardson
Starring: Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Katri...

In direct opposition to the advice of Jonathan Swift, (whose 'Modest Proposal' of 1729, suggested the Irish poor sell their children as livestock to e... Read more

El Dorado (1966)

7.6/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: James Caan, John Wayne, Paul Fix, Robert Mitchum, Edward Asner, Michelle Carey,...

Howard Hawks successfully reworks his "Rio Bravo" with John Wayne as a gunslinger who returns to El Dorado, which he visited a year before and found a... Read more

El Topo (1971)

7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky

Aka "The Mole." "I ask of film what most North Americans' ask of psychedelic drugs" said Writer, Director and star Alexandro Jodorowsky of this stunni... Read more

Eleni (1985)

6.9/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt, Oliver Cotton

Haunting images from the past and a present-day, thirst for justice and revenge fuel this true-life story directed by Peter Yates and based on author... Read more

Elvira Madigan (1967)

7.5/10
Director: Bo Widerberg
Starring: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren

Is a simple and tragic story of a young Swedish officer who falls in love with a beautiful circus performer. Outstanding photography makes this film.... Read more

Emma (Paltrow) (1996)

6.7/10
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Alan Cumming, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Jul...

The course of true love runs hilariously askew once would-be Cupid Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets her hands on it in this grand adaptation of t... Read more

The Enemy Below (1957)

7.6/10
Director: Dick Powell
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Theodore Bikel

Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens match wits in this acclaimed WW II submarine chase film. A tense and compelling study of bravery in unforgiving circum... Read more

An Evening with Robin Williams (1982)

8/10
Director: Don Mischer
Starring: Robin Williams

Off the wall and unglued like you've never seen him before! The inspired lunacy of Robin Williams is captured live in concert on his home turf - The G... Read more

Ikiru (1952)

8.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki

A brilliant study of a man who finds he is dying of cancer and determines to spend his final months giving meaning to his life by constructing a child... Read more

Imagine: John Lennon (1988)

7.9/10
Director: Andrew Solt

Subheaded the definitive film portrait. Lennon himself eerily narrates his life story, taken from the tapes he made previous to his murder. Culled fro... Read more

In Like Flint (1967)

6.2/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Jean Hale

Super-suave super spy James Coburn returns, this time he must fight a group of powerful female tycoons who have developed a way of brainwashing women... Read more

In Love And War (1987)

5.8/10
Director: Paul Aaron
Starring: James Woods, Jane Alexander, Haing S Ngor

Based on the true story of Navy pilot James B Stockdale who endured eight years as a Vietnam POW while his wife Sybil worked for his release back in t... Read more

In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

8/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture. Rod Steiger stars as a red neck sheriff who grudgingly accepts help from Sidney Poitier, a black big cit... Read more

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

7.2/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Julie Carmen, Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Charlton Heston

A masterful tale of terror starring Sam Neill, this is a homage to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. It begins in an asylum where a madman await... Read more

In the Soup (1992)

7.1/10
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton, Carol Kane, Stanley...

A wonderfully bizarre comedy about a naive, ambitious writer (Steve Buscemi) who's penned a 500 page screenplay, and the eccentric flim-flam man (Seym... Read more

Indecent Proposal (1993)

5.8/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson

Demi Moore is the wife on loan for the night to wealthy Robert Redford for the payment of one million dollars. A well-acted soap opera. With Woody Har... Read more

Independence Day (1996)

7/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum

Who will save the Earth after huge alien spacecraft demolish the Empire State Building, the White House, downtown Los Angeles and most of the world's... Read more

The Indian Runner (1991)

7.1/10
Director: Sean Penn
Starring: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Charles Bronson,...

A stunningly realised character study centering on the stormy relationship between a highway patrolman (David Morse) and his 'loose cannon' brother (V... Read more

Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom (1984)

7.6/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Kate Capshaw, Harrison Ford, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Ke Huy Quan

Sequel to 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' with its two-fisted, whip-wielding hero, Dr Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) performing feats of derring-do in Singap... Read more

Indochine (1992)

7.1/10
Director: Regis Wargnier
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham

Set in 1930's French Indo-China this film studies the fascinating relation-ship between two women - a French mother and her adopted Indochinese daught... Read more

Innerspace (1987)

6.8/10
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Martin Short, Fiona Lewis, Vernon Wells,...

A navy test pilot undergoes a miniaturization experiment and is accidentally injected into the body of a man. Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects. St... Read more

The Inspector General (1949)

6.9/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates

Danny Kaye plays an illiterate in the 1800s who pretends to be a visiting bureaucrat in an Eastern European village. This entertaining romp co-stars W... Read more

The Interview (1998)

7.3/10
Director: Craig Monahan
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery

A taut, thought-provoking thriller based around a duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. Its claustroph... Read more

Into Thin Air: Death On Everest (1997)

5.7/10
Director: Robert Markowitz
Starring: Peter Horton, Nat Parker, Richard Jenkins

In May 1996, Writer John Krakauer joined a party of experienced and amateur climbers - led by Everest veterans, American Scott Fisher and New Zealande... Read more

Ironweed (1987)

6.8/10
Director: Hector Babenco
Starring: Carroll Baker, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Michael...

Oscar-nominated turns by Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson spark this somber Depression-era tale, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William K... Read more

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

8.6/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Donna Reed

Classic bittersweet comedy/drama that is the quintessential Frank Capra film. James Stewart is a banker living in the typical American small town of B... Read more

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: E Zharikov, Kolya Burlaev, Valentin Zubkov

AKA 'My Name is Ivan'. Tarkovsky's debut feature was awarded 15 international prizes and is the haunting tale of a young boy caught up in the horrors... Read more

Jackie Brown (1997)

7.5/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robe...

This flavourful adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel 'Rum Punch' is reset in Southern California. Pam Grier plays a flight attendant who's been traffi... Read more

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

7.5/10
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello

An original, highly psychological thriller that explores the thin line between reality and illusion. Jacob is a Vietnam veteran who becomes haunted by... Read more

Jagged Edge (1985)

6.5/10
Director: Richard Marquand
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote

A publishing magnate (Jeff Bridges) is accused of the ritualistic slaying of his wife; an attorney (Glenn Close) is hired to defend him. They fall in... Read more

Jamon Jamon (1992)

6.5/10
Director: Bigas Luna
Starring: Anna Galiena, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz

A delightfully clever erotic black comedy about sex and food, which also serves to mirror Spanish society in transition. The scenario focuses on the v... Read more

Jane Eyre (1944)

7.4/10
Director: Robert Stevens, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien

A very effective, atmospheric adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel. Joan Fontaine plays the spinsterish governess who takes a position on a... Read more

Jane Eyre (1995)

7.4/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin

Franco Zeffirelli delivers with this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel. Jane, tortured while at boarding school, finds happiness as a Governess -... Read more

Janis (1974)

7.8/10
Director: Howard Alk, Seaton Findlay
Starring: Janis Joplin

The short and electrifying career of singer Janis Joplin is chronicled in this biographical documentary. Using family photos, interviews and concert c... Read more

Jazz On A Summer's Day (1959)

8.1/10
Director: Bert Stern
Starring: Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry

This precursor to Woodstock is the granddaddy of all concert films, a chronicle of the Newport, Rhode Island Jazz Fest where music greats like Louis A... Read more

The Jazz Singer (1980)

5.8/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Lucie Arnaz, Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Catlin Adams

Neil Diamond, in his first film role, is a powerhouse of emotion and song in this remake of the successful sound film from the late 1920s. Laurence Ol... Read more

The Jerk (1979)

7.2/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams

Steve Martin made a very funny film debut in this wacky comedy about the misadventures of a terminally stupid young man. Watch out for the cat jugglin... Read more

Joe Kidd (1972)

6.5/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, John Saxon, Don Stroud

Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall are at their best in this story of a gunman hired by a cattle baron to track down some Mexican Americans who are figh... Read more

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

5.6/10
Director: Robert Longo
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Ice-T

Keanu Reeves stars as a sci-fi courier with a difference. In the future they no longer handcuff couriers to the goods, they plant the goods in their h... Read more

Julius Caesar (1953)

7.4/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Edmond O'Brien, Greer G...

A superior adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of political power and honour in ancient Rome. Lavishly produced with Oscar Winning art direction-... Read more

Jungle Book (1942)

6.8/10
Director: Zoltan Korda
Starring: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia

Original classic screen version of Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book, brought to you in wonderful colour. Directed by Zoltan Korda in 1942 this is the... Read more

The Jungle Book (Disney) (1967)

7.4/10
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Sebastian Cabot, Voices Of, Louis Prima

A bright and tuneful Disney animated feature. This update of the Kipling tale pairs some fine comic voices with memorably drawn characters. The advent... Read more

Junior (1994)

4.6/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson

What a concept: 'The Terminator' with child! Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a scientist who impregnates himself with an embryo. With the help of Danny De... Read more

Junior Bonner (1972)

6.8/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ben Johnson, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker

When wandering middle-aged rodeo rider Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen) returns to his Arizona hometown, he reunites with his family, which includes his... Read more

Key Largo (1948)

7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson, Jay Silverheels, Lionel Barry...

Gangster Edward G. Robinson takes the inhabitants of a Florida coast hotel hostage as a storm sweeps in, and engages in a battle of wills with world-w... Read more

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

7/10
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Eric Stoltz, Olivia D'abo

Another we-just-graduated-from-college-what-do-we-do-now film centering on a group of young men and their life and death crises concerning relationshi... Read more

Killing Zoe (1993)

6.5/10
Director: Roger Avary
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Julie Delpy

Writer-director Roger Avary, co-scripter of 'Pulp Fiction' spreads mayhem and body tissue in his own directorial debut revealing a style of his own an... Read more

Kim (1950)

6.6/10
Director: Victor Saville
Starring: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas

Rousing action and a terrific performance by Errol Flynn distinguish this adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's tale of 1880's colonialist India, with Briti... Read more

King Kong (1976)

5.9/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange

Updated misfire of the 1933 classic, produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Jeff Bridges as an anti-establishment paleontologist who stows away o... Read more

King of New York (1990)

7/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Steve...

In New York, crime gets done Frank's way - or it doesn't get done at all. Recently freed from prison, Frank White (Christopher Walken) hooks up with h... Read more

Kiss the Girls (1997)

6.6/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes

Morgan Freeman is Dr. Alex Cross, the master of solving the unsolvable in this race-against-time suspenser involving eight kidnapped women, all beauti... Read more

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

8.3/10
Director: Godfrey Reggio

The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance", an apt summation of this mesmerizing collection of wonders both natural and man-made. S... Read more

Krull (1983)

6.1/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis

A young warrior is entreated by a wizened old man to take hold of his ancient weapon and use it to save the virginal princess held by evil forces on t... Read more

Kull the Conqueror (1997)

4.8/10
Director: John Nicolella
Starring: Harvey Fierstein, Karina Lombard, Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere, Thomas Ian Griffith

Action superstar Kevin Sorbo (TV's "Hercules") slams evil as Kull the Conqueror, a barbarian warrior turned King, who risks all to save the Kingdom an... Read more

The Evil Cult ( aka Kung Fu Cult Master ) (1993)

Director: Wong Jing
Starring: Jet Li, Chingamy Yau, Sammo Hung, Ngai Sik

Jet Li stars in this kung fu fantasy as Zhang, grandson of a great tai chi master, who becomes the target of the Six Great Schools. After narrowly esc... Read more

Love on the Run ( L'amour En Fuite ) (1979)

7.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Dani

Antoine Doninel, separated from his family, is still having girl trouble. The further amorous adventures of the character first glimpsed in 'The 400 B... Read more

L'Innocente ( The Innocent ) (1976)

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

Beauty and the Beast ( La Belle et la Bete ) (1946)

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

La Marseillaise (1938)

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

The Soft Skin (1964)

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

La Ronde (1950)

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

La Strada ( The Road ) (1954)

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

Lady Chatterley (1993)

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

Lady Jane (1985)

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

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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

The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994)

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

The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)

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

Larger Than Life (1996)

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

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1996)

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

The Last Emperor (1987)

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

The Last Goon Show Of All (1972)

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

Last Night (1998)

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

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

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

Last Stand at Saber River (1997)

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

The Last Starfighter (1984)

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

Lawrence After Arabia, A Dangerous Man: (1991)

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

Le Bonheur Est Dans Le Pre ( Happiness is in the Field ) (1995)

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

Le Boucher ( The Butcher ) (1969)

7.6/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passallia

'The Butcher'. An intense psychological thriller about a schoolteacher who begins an affair with the town butcher, but the affair is interrupted when... Read more

Le Jour Se Leve ( Daybreak ) (1939)

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

The League of Gentlemen (1960)

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

Leave Her to Heaven (1946)

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

Les Miserables in Concert: The 10th Anniversary (1995)

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

The 400 Blows (1959)

8.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy

Aka 'Les quatre cents coups'. Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart,... Read more

Lethal Weapon (1987)

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

Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)

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

Life is Beautiful (1998)

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

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

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

Limelight (1952)

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

The Little Colonel (1935)

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

Little Man Tate (1991)

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

Little Odessa (1994)

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

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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

Little Voice (1998)

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

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

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

Logan's Run (1976)

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

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

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

The Long Hot Summer (1958)

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

The Longest Day (1962)

7.8/10
Director: Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Eddie Albert, Gert Frobe, Henry Fonda, Jeffrey Hunter, John Wayne,...

Acclaimed as one of Hollywood's greatest epics, producer Darryl F. Zanuck's brilliant re-creation of the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944 fo... Read more

Lord of the Flies (1963)

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

Lost In Yonkers (1993)

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

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

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

Love and a .45 (1994)

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

Love Nest (1952)

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

Loving You (1957)

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

Lucas (1986)

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

Macbeth (Polanski) (1971)

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

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

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