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Dr Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

7.2/10
Director: Chuck Jones
Starring: Horton, Grinch

The grouchy Grinch tries to stop Christmas from comming in this whimsical, animated fantasy. Both hilarious and heartwarming, this offbeat classic del... Read more

Prince and the New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls (2006)

Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Prince

The always creative and chronically unclassifiable artist then still known as Prince was on a creative roll when this collection was compiled, includi... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 1 (1994)

8/10
Director: Dewi Humphries
Starring: Dawn French

The perfectly peculiar village of Dibley is in need of a new vicar after Reverend Pottle, aged 102, dies quite unexpectedly. Instead of the standard r... Read more

Murder Most Horrid: Series 1 & 2 (1991)

7.6/10
Starring: Dawn French

In this winsome parody of the modern murder mystery, Dawn French, in various guises, embarks on a different mystery in every episode - but they're not... Read more

Murder Most Horrid: Series 1 (1991)

7.4/10
Starring: Dawn French

In this winsome parody of the modern murder mystery, Dawn French, in various guises, embarks on a different mystery in every episode - but they're not... Read more

La Fille Du Regiment (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Natalie Dessay, Dawn French

The dazzling Donizetti opera is staged with Natalie Dessay assuming the role of Marie in this acclaimed revival by the Royal Opera. Juan Diego Florez,... Read more

French and Saunders: At the Movies (2005)

7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Join outrageously funny femmes Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French for this side-splitting collection of movie parodies from their BBC comedy series. Al... Read more

French and Saunders: Still Alive - The Farewell Tour (2008)

7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Britain's first ladies of comedy present their 'Still Alive' stand-up tour. Filmed at Cardiff, this celebratory farewell show features the best of the... Read more

Let Them Eat Cake (2000)

8.2/10
Director: Christine Gernon
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Welcome to the Court of Louis XVI in the fabulous Palace of Versailles, France. Outside the gates, the pesants are on the verge of revolting, whilst i... Read more

French and Saunders: Live (2000)

8.2/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

The class double act of French and Saunders are at their hilarious LIVE best in this offering. Dawn French says of their show "I am an all seeing, all... Read more

French and Saunders: Complete Series 1 - 6 (2008)

7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

A 6-disc collection featuring all the 'French and Saunders' from Series One (1987) to Series Six (2004). Written by and starring Dawn French and Jenn... Read more

Objective, Burma! (1945)

7.4/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Errol Flynn, William Prince, James Brown

A taut, thrilling blockbuster of a war film about a group of tough, tight-lipped paratroopers who are dropped into the Burmese jungle to wipe out a Ja... Read more

Prince - Sign O' The Times (1987)

Director: Prince
Starring: Prince, Sheila E, Sheena Easton

Written and directed by Prince himself, SIGN 'O' THE TIMES is an idiosyncratic, high-energy fusion of live music and vignettes of street life, special... 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

Nosferatu (1922)

8/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder

Aka 'Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror'. The first and the greatest (not to mention scariest) Dracula movie ever made starring Max Schreck as Nosferatu,... Read more

Crown and Country: A History of Royal Britain (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Robin Bextor
Starring: HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

Join HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the Queen of England's son, for a tour of some of the most famous landmarks of British history. As we travel f... Read more

The Best of the Lenny Henry Show (1990)

3.6/10
Director: Geoff Posner
Starring: Lenny Henry, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane

Thrill to revolution, romance, drama and sport with comprehensive comedian Lenny Henry, master of mimicry, devil of disguise. Includes some of the bes... Read more

Wild West: Series 1 (2003)

8.2/10
Starring: Dawn French, Bill Bailey, Catherine Tate

A quirky comedy set in the small, picturesque yet rather odd coastal village of St Gweep, Dawn French stars as Mary Tregwednack who lives above her Po... Read more

Funny Games (1997)

7.6/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Frank Geiring, Arno Frisch

At the start of the summer holiday, Anna, Georg and their young son Georgie travel to their idyllic lakeside house; their neighbours, Fred and Eva are... 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 Battle of the River Plate (1956)

Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch

'The Battle of the River Plate' is a war film from the incomparable team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Ten days before before the outbreak... Read more

Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)

3.4/10
Director: Alex Zamm
Starring: French Stewart, Elaine Hendrix, Tony Martin, Caitlin Wachs

Just when things are quieting down in Riverton, everything goes wrong. Inspector Gadget is put on probation. Claw stages a daring escape from prison a... Read more

Operation Amsterdam (1958)

6.4/10
Director: Michael McCarthy
Starring: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton

Set in WW II, an English Major and two Dutch diamond experts attempt the dangerous task of removing millions of pounds-worth of industrial diamonds fr... Read more

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971)

7.2/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head

Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch play the troubled lovers of the same man (Murray Head) in this tightly-scripted relationship drama. Jackson and Finch a... Read more

Make Me an Offer (1955)

6.9/10
Director: Cyril Frankel
Starring: Adrienne Corri, Peter Finch, Richard O'Sullivan

Story of how young dealer (Peter Finch) gets a fur coat for his wife and a rare Wedgwood vase for himself. From the novel by Wolf Mankowitz. Read more

Crimson Romance (1934)

5.7/10
Starring: Ben Lyon, Erich Von Stroheim

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the Great War, he and his friend Bob Wilso... Read more

Benny's Video (1992)

7.2/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Angela Winkler, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Ingrid Stassner

Benny is a disaffected teen whose life has begun to revolve around the violent films he watches, but his obsession soon crosses the line between voyeu... 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

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

Dog Days (2001)

7.1/10
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Maria Hofstatter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches

It's a stifling hot weekend in the suburbs of Vienna, somewhere between the autobahn and the exit roads, the hypermarkets and the new housing estates.... Read more

Kidnapped (1960)

6.7/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee

Robert Louis Stevenson's exciting saga of a young man's quest for his rightful inheritance bursts upon the screen in this faithful Disney adaptation.... Read more

The Funny Ladies of British Comedy (1996)

7.1/10
Director: Judi Dench
Starring: Dawn French, Mollie Sugden, Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge

Join Patricia Routledge (Keeping Up Appearances), Dawn French (The Vicar of Dibley), Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers), Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Ser... Read more

Revanche (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Gotz Spielmann
Starring: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss

At once a gripping thriller and a tragic drama, this stunning, Oscar-nominated, break-out hit from Austrian filmmaker Gotz Spielmann is set in a ragge... Read more

Foolish Wives (1922)

7.2/10
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Starring: Erich Von Stroheim, Maud George, Mae Busch

Publicised as the first film to cost a million dollars, praised for it's extravagant visual design and condemned for it's portrayal of a rogue count's... Read more

East Side Story (1996)

6.7/10
Director: Dana Ranga
Starring: Chris Doerk, Erich Gusko, Helmet Hanke

This fascinating and fun, though not campy, documentary focuses on Soviet musicals, which were made to distract audiences from the oppressive politica... Read more

Elephant Walk (1953)

6.4/10
Director: William Dieterle
Starring: Peter Finch, Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews

This action-packed romantic drama stars Elizabeth Taylor as the ravishing bride of plantation owner Peter Finch who battles the elements and her love... Read more

Jam and Jerusalem: Series 1 (1996)

Starring: Dawn French, Sue Johnston, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Pauline McLynn

Welcome to Clatterford, a small town big enough to have a good cross-section of people, local shops and a late night convenience store. It's also smal... Read more

The Florida Project (Blu-ray) (2017)

7.6/10
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Christopher Rivera, Aiden Malik, Josie Olivo

On the shabby grounds of an Orlando budget hotel, youngsters Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), Scooty (Christopher Rivera), and Jacey (Valeria Cotto) are lef... Read more

Settlers (2021)

4.7/10
Starring: Sofia Boutella, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Jonny Lee Miller

Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and each other. Read more

Snuff Box (2006)

8.1/10
Starring: Matt Berry, Rich Fulcher

English channel BBC Three continues its trend for pushing new British comedy talent ('Little Britain', 'The Mighty Boosh') in this sketch comedy. Matt... Read more

Purple Rain (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Albert Magnoli
Starring: Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Apollonia Kotero, Prince, Clarence Williams III

Risque rocker Prince stars as "The Kid", a talented, withdrawn singer in this sizzling musical/drama that combines romance, comedy and dazzling on-sta... Read more

The Florida Project (2017)

7.6/10
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Christopher Rivera, Aiden Malik, Josie Olivo

On the shabby grounds of an Orlando budget hotel, youngsters Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), Scooty (Christopher Rivera), and Jacey (Valeria Cotto) are lef... Read more

The Rats of Tobruk (1944)

Director: Charles Chauvel
Starring: Peter Finch, Chips Rafferty, Grant Taylor, Pauline Garrick

A.k.a. "The Fighting Rats of Tobruk". Following on the great tradition of "Forty Thousand Horsemen", Charles Chauvel's 1944 cinematic account of the B... Read more

CinderElmo (1999)

6.3/10
Director: Bruce Leddy
Starring: Elmo, Kathy Najimy, Oliver Platt, French Stewart, Keri Russell

Sesame Street brings this classic fairy tale to life through the eyes of your favourite three year old, Elmo. All your favourite Sesame Street Muppets... Read more

Frenzy (1972)

7.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

A great Hitchcock thriller: the wrong man is suspected when his wife is murdered. Full of Hitchcock's humour, the film stars Alec McCowen, Vivien Merc... Read more

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 1 (1996)

7.8/10
Director: James Burrows, Robert Berlinger
Starring: John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jane Curti...

Season One of the hit series about a bunch of clueless aliens disguised as humans in order to research Earth's customs and people. John Lithgow was c... Read more

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 2 (1996)

7.8/10
Director: James Burrows, Robert Berlinger
Starring: John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jane Curti...

In Season Two of the hit series Dick Solomon (John Lithgow), continues to lead his ignorant and inhibition-free space cadets where no aliens have gone... Read more

Rio Lobo (1970)

6.8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Victor French

The final film of Howard Hawks, and the fifth pairing over a 22-year period with the Duke, is a classic action-filled John Wayne western set into moti... Read more

Girls on Top: Series 1 and 2 (1985)

5.3/10
Director: Ed Bye, Paul Jackson
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Tracey Ullman, Ruby Wax, Joan Greenwood

Featuring the budding comedic talents of Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracey Ullman who play four diverse women sharing a London flat... Read more

Purple Rain ( Blu-ray ) (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Albert Magnoli
Starring: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III

Risque rocker Prince stars as "The Kid", a talented, withdrawn singer in this sizzling musical/drama that combines romance, comedy and dazzling on-sta... Read more

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 3 (1997)

7.8/10
Director: James Burrows, Robert Berlinger
Starring: Jane Curtin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Lithgow, French Stewart, Kristen Johnsto...

Nominated for eight Emmys, the third season features more out-of-this-world lunacy from the Solomons as they venture further into the human condition,... Read more

Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

7.3/10
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Starring: Johannes Krisch, Alexander Fehling, Andre Szymanski, Friederike Becht, Johann vo...

Germany, 1958: when young attorney Johann Radmann comes across sensitive documents that would bring members of the SS who served in Auschwitz to trial... Read more

Clockstoppers (2002)

5.2/10
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Michael Biehn, Paula Garces, French Stewart, Robin Thomas

Family fantasy with Jesse Bradford as a teen who discovers that a special watch invented by his physicist father has the ability to freeze time. Tryin... Read more

The Other (1972)

7/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly, Vic...

An eerie occult horror set on a an idyllic farm in 1930s New England, where twin brothers Holland and Niles live with their family. Niles is outgoing... Read more

Wait Up Harriet (2007)

7/10
Director: Angus Benfield, Hanna Eichler
Starring: Angus Benfield, Melanie Cannon, Lynda Milligan, Nick Prince, Mitch Potts, Ashlei...

When fire-fighter Jack loses his wife Harriet, he feels abandoned and lost, turning to alcohol and isolation for comfort. His wife's 'spiritual mentor... Read more

La Grande Illusion (1937)

8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay

One of the very first prison escape movies, 'Grand Illusion' is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars... Read more

Knock At The Cabin (2023)

6.1/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint

While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse. Read more

The Red Tent (1969)

7.1/10
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Claudia Cardinale

A virtually unknown but first-rate film by Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov. This ripping adventure epic was funded in Italy and based on an actual... Read more

Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

4.9/10
Director: Prince
Starring: Jerome Benton, Prince, Kristin Scott Thomas, Steven Berkoff, Alexandra Stewart,...

Prince stars as Christopher Tracy, an American musician on the French Riviera, living off the bank accounts of rich, bored divorcees. The next object... Read more

Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)

7.2/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker

Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 6 (2000)

7.8/10
Starring: Jane Curtin, John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, French Stewart, Kristen Johnsto...

After six brilliant seasons, over 30 Emmy nominations and more laughs than any superior alien race can possibly tabulate, the Solomon's mission ends h... Read more

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 5 (1999)

7.8/10
Starring: Jane Curtin, John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, French Stewart, Kristen Johnsto...

Attention people of Earth: Behold the hilarious 5th season of The Solomons' mission to investigate human behavior! Share the joy of a possible alien c... Read more

Network (1976)

8.1/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty

A savage satire written by Paddy Chayefsky, looking at the powers behind television programming. Even more compelling and relevant today than when it... Read more

Classic Action: The Planter's Wife / Robbery Under Arms / The Long Duel (1957)

Director: D W Griffith, Donald Crombie, Ken Annakin
Starring: Claudette Colbert, David McCallum, Jack Hawkins, Peter Finch, Yul Brynner

Close the doors, dim the lights, take a seat and leave your troubles behind. The Classic Matinee Triple Bill is your exclusive gold pass to the Matine... Read more

Wild Target (2010)

6.8/10
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Rupert Everett, Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, Martin Freeman, Emily Blunt

A con artist sells a fake painting to a powerful gangster and discovers that crime doesn't pay when her unsatisfied customer hires Europe's top assass... Read more

Maybe Baby (2000)

5.7/10
Director: Ben Elton
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Dawn French, Joann...

Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson are trying to have a baby with not much success and much frustration as their lives become increasingly caught up in... Read more

House of Pleasures ( House of Tolerance / L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) ) (2011)

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Starring: Hafsia Herzi, Noemie Lvovsky, Xavier Beauvois, Adele Haenel, Jasmine Trinca, Cel...

In this lush, atmospheric look at the final days of an elegant, turn-of-the-century brothel, we go inside the cloistered walls of LApollonide to meet... Read more

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 4 (1998)

7.8/10
Starring: Jane Curtin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kristen Johnston, John Lithgow, French Stewar...

In Season Four, Harry is working as a freak in a sideshow and not altogether sure he wants to return to the group, Mary gets a promotion and Dick want... Read more

Peter and Paul (1981)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Jon Finch, Raymond Burr, Robert Foxworth

This religious epic tells of the early days of Christianity and how Peter and Paul struggle to spread the word of the Gospel. Set over three decades,... Read more

Far From the Madding Crowd (Blu-ray) (1967)

7.1/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker

Based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hardy and set against the harsh, foreboding landscape of rural Victorian England, "Far From the Madding Crowd"... Read more

Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1 (2008)

8.1/10
Director: Charles Palmer, John Greening, Marc Jobst
Starring: Dawn French, Julia Sawalha, Liz Smith, Linda Bassett, Olivia Hallinan, Sarah Lan...

'Lark Rise to Candleford', adapted from Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood, presents a love letter to a vanished corner of rural Eng... Read more

Surveillance (2008)

6.4/10
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart, Kent Harp...

A series of brutal slayings along a stretch of empty highway draws a pair of dark-suited federal investigators (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) to a la... Read more

More Great Comedy Moments (2003)

Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Victoria Wood, Harry Enfield, Ben El...

Following on from the success of 'Great Comedy Moments' comes 'More Great Comedy Moments'! A compilation of modern classic comedy sketches from a vari... Read more

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)

6.6/10
Director: Mike Disa
Starring: Mark Hamill, Victoria Tennant, Graham McTavish, Peter Jessop, Vanessa Branch, St...

A companion piece to the videogame adaptation of the famous 14th century poem, 'Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic' follows tortured Christian warrior... Read more

Rio Lobo ( Blu-ray ) (1970)

6.8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Jack Elam, Jennifer O'Neill, John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Victor French, Christophe...

The final film of Howard Hawks, and the fifth pairing over a 22-year period with the Duke, is a classic action-filled John Wayne western set into moti... Read more

The Other (Blu-ray) (1972)

6.9/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly, Vic...

An eerie occult horror set on a an idyllic farm in 1930s New England, where twin brothers Holland and Niles live with their family. Niles is outgoing... Read more

Lust For Gold (1949)

6.8/10
Director: S Sylvan Simon
Starring: Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan, Will Geer, Pa...

Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered. Read more

Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

7.5/10
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Irene Rich

Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director Ernst Lubitsch substitut... Read more

The Mighty Boosh: Live (2006)

8.3/10
Director: Nick Morris
Starring: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Rich Fulcher

The writer/stars of the cult television series return to their roots for this on-stage special. Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding first worked with eac... Read more

Beware! Children At Play (1989)

Director: Mik Cribben
Starring: Michael Robinson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly

Childhood was once about jumping rope and playing hopscotch...but in a small backwoods town it's now about slitting throats and eating flesh! Lured i... Read more

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

7.6/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine

When a cargo plane crashes in the desert, the only hope for the survivors is to try to rebuild the craft before they all perish from heat, deprivation... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley: The Specials (2005)

8/10
Director: Martin Dennis
Starring: Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, John Bluthal, Emma Chambers, James Fleet, Roger Lloy...

Dawn French heads the top 'quirky yokel' ensemble of this long-running series, in the safe comedy hands of writer Richard Curtis ('Four Weddings and a... Read more

Into the White (2012)

7.2/10
Director: Petter Naess
Starring: Rupert Grint, Florian Lukas, David Kross, Lachlan Nieboer, Stig Henrik Hoff

A.k.a. "Cross of Honour". At the beginning of World War II a hostile chance encounter in the skies above the harsh Norwegian wilderness leaves two air... Read more

Revenge of the Musketeers ( aka D'Artagnan's Daughter ) (1994)

5.9/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Sami Frey, Sophie Marceau, Claude Rich

The legendary swordsmen of 17th-century France are called back into action by D'Artagnan's daughter (Sophie Marceau) when her convent home offers sanc... Read more

Magnum Force (1973)

7.2/10
Director: Ted Post
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Felton Perry, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Robert Ur...

Clint Eastwood returns in this second Dirty Harry film, trying to uncover a conspiracy within the San Francisco police department involving a group of... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 2 (2000)

8/10
Director: Richard Curtis
Starring: Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, John Bluthal, Emma Chambers, James Fleet, Roger Lloy...

The divine Dawn French returns as the most irreverent reverend in Richard Curtis's heavenly, Emmy-winning comedy. In Series Two, romance is in the air... Read more

The Mighty Boosh: Live - Future Sailors Tour (2009)

8/10
Starring: Rich Fulcher, Julian Barratt, Michael Fielding, Noel Fielding

In this latest Mighty Boosh tour presentation you will see Howard wrestle with the problems of the universe in tiny shorts, while Vince gets his hair... Read more

Cyrano De Bergerac (1950/1990 Versions) (1990)

7.6/10
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Michael Gordon
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne...

A double helping of "Cyrano De Bergerac". "Cyrano De Bergerac" (1950) - Jose Ferrer won an Academy Award for his stunning portrayal of the fabled 17th... Read more

Home Alone 4 (2002)

2.5/10
Director: Rod Daniel
Starring: French Stewart, Missi Pyle, Joanna Going, Erick Avari, Clare Carey, Jason Beghe,...

Aka "Home Alone: Taking Back the House". Home alone...again? Somebody call a social worker! In this made-for-tv sequel, Kevin (Michael Weinberg) is sp... Read more

Minor Mishaps (2001)

6.6/10
Director: Annette K Olesen
Starring: Jorgen Kiil, Maria Wurgler Rich, Jannie Faurschou

Annette K Olesen's entertaining comedy drama combines filmmaking elements from the Dogme manifesto with Mike Leigh's improvisational method. Following... Read more

Hammer House of Horror: Volume 1 (1980)

7.8/10
Director: Peter Sasdy, Tom Clegg, Alan Gibson, Don Leaver
Starring: Jon Finch, Peter Cushing, Peter McEnery, Anna Calder-Marshall, Kathryn Leigh Sco...

For more than two decades, the name of Hammer was synonymous with horror, winning a legendary place in the history of British films. Hammer Horror mov... Read more

Magnum Force ( Blu-ray ) (1973)

7.2/10
Director: Ted Post
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Ur...

Clint Eastwood returns in this second Dirty Harry film, trying to uncover a conspiracy within the San Francisco police department involving a group of... Read more

The Gunman (2015)

5.8/10
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca, Peter Franzen...

From the director of Taken comes The Gunman, a pulse-pounding action thriller starring two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn. Its been eight yea... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley: Series 3 (2001)

8/10
Director: Gareth Carrivick
Starring: Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, John Bluthal, Emma Chambers, James Fleet, Roger Lloy...

Dawn French dons her cassock once more to play the Reverend Geraldine Granger, faithfully leading her eccentric congregation through a year of ups and... 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

Showboy (2002)

5.5/10
Director: Lindy Heyman, Christian Taylor
Starring: Christian Taylor, Lindy Heyman, Erich Miller, Joe Daly, Adrian Armas, Siegfried...

This clever mockumentary from 'Six Feet Under' writer Christian Taylor and filmmaker Lindy Heyman, follows Taylor's exile from L.A. (having been dumpe... Read more

Lurking Fear (1994)

4.6/10
Director: C Courtney Joyner
Starring: Ashley Laurence, Jeffrey Combs, Jon Finch, Blake Bailey, Allison Mackie, Vincent...

Aka "H.P. Lovecraft's Lurking Fear". The producers of "Re-Animator" and "From Beyond" take you to a town on the edge of madness! For decades, the resi... Read more

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck

Filmed almost concurrently with events in North Africa during WWII, Billy Wilder's take on the propaganda genre is adapted from WWI play, 'Hotel Imper... Read more

Driving Lessons (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Jeremy Brock
Starring: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Jim Norton, Michell...

Rupert Grint took a break from Hogwart's School of Magic to make this sweet coming-of-age comedy alongside his Harry Potter mum, Julie Walters. Ben i... Read more

The Mighty Boosh: Series 2 (2005)

8.2/10
Director: Paul King
Starring: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Michael Fielding, Rich Fulcher

Having broken out of the Zoo-Niverse, vain jazzman Howard and 1960s throwback Vince are free to embark on new adventures. Although, as the pair go in... Read more

Coraline ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dawn French, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, Keith David, Teri Hatcher, Dakota F...

Vividly animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-seller about an adventurous little girl who walks through a secret door and finds a world that is sp... Read more

The Vicar of Dibley: A Holy Wholly Happy Ending (2007)

8/10
Director: Ed Bye
Starring: Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, Emma Chambers, James Fleet, John Bluthal, Trevor Pea...

Dawn French dons her cassock and collar for the last time in these two final episodes of the long-running, popular BBC series. In 'The Handsome Stran... Read more

The Mighty Boosh: Series 1 (2004)

8.4/10
Starring: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Michael Fielding, Rich Fulcher

This surreal sit-com became an instant cult classic following the adventures of Howard and Vince, two workers in a run-down zoo, often called upon to... Read more

The Secret Policeman's: The Big Three-O (1991)

6.6/10
Director: David Hillier
Starring: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, John Cleese, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Jonath...

The Secret Policemen are back for Amnesty's 30th Anniversary Special. Comedians include all the faves of the time - Alexei Sayle, John Cleese, Hale &... Read more

Comic Strip Presents: Volume 1 (1988)

8/10
Director: Peter Richardson, Stephen Frears
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Keith Allen, Nigel P...

The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of 1980s Britain and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping... Read more

Chancer: Series 2 (1990)

7.7/10
Director: Alan Grint
Starring: Clive Owen, Leslie Phillips, Peter Vaughan, Louise Lombard, Simon Shepherd, Susa...

He's rude, arrogant, ingenious, unprincipled - and utterly charming. The second season of this densely plotted British television drama takes on a d... Read more

The Fortune Cookie (1966)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West

Jack Lemmon and Oscar-winning Walter Matthau star in Billy Wilder's hilarious, cynical fable about a TV cameraman who is injured while shooting a foot... Read more

The Ice Pirates (1984)

5.7/10
Director: Stewart Raffill
Starring: Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston, Robert Urich, Michael D Roberts, John Matuszak, Ro...

In the future, Earth is starved for water, so whoever has the ice... rules. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Anjelica Houston star in this nifty outer-sp... Read more

Silver Screen Collection: The Battle of the River Plate / Above Us the Waves / 49th Parallel (1956)

Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Ralph Thomas
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, John Gregson, Peter Finch, John Mills, Anton Wa...

A triple feature set. 'The Battle of the River Plate' (1956) - Ten days before the outbreak of WWII, a powerful German battleship sails around the Sou... Read more

Looking for Hortense (2012)

6.2/10
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Claude Rich, Isabelle Carre

A.k.a. "Cherchez Hortense". "Looking for Hortense" is a bittersweet comedy of manners that is French in spirit but universal in appeal. It tells the s... Read more

Thunderpants (2002)

3.6/10
Director: Peter Hewitt
Starring: Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Paul Giamatti, Ned Beatty, Bruce Cook, R...

Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook) is a boy with an unusual problem. He was born with two stomachs and an incredible capacity to break wind - not only wheneve... Read more

Films of James Stewart: Thunder Bay / The Flight of the Phoenix / Bandolero! (1968)

Director: Andrew V McLaglen, Anthony Mann, Robert Aldrich
Starring: Dean Martin, Gilbert Roland, James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Raquel Welc...

James Stewart Triple Pack. 'Thunder Bay' (1953) - Ambitious oil prospectors Steve Martin (James Stewart) and Johnny Gambi (Dan Duryea) enter the quiet... Read more

The Heart of the Matter (1953)

7.1/10
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Michael Hordern, Peter Finch, Tr...

A faithful adaptation of the Graham Greene novel starring Trevor Howard as Scobie, an assistant police commissioner posted in Sierra Leone in World Wa... Read more

Coraline (2009)

7.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, Rober...

Vividly animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-seller about an adventurous little girl who walks through a secret door and finds a world that is sp... Read more

Chancer: Series 1 (1990)

7.7/10
Starring: Philip Glenister, Susannah Harker, Clive Owen, Leslie Phillips, Ralph Riach, Sim...

One of Clive Owen's earliest TV roles was as the arrogantly charming conman, Stephen Crane, in this series that screened at the tail end of the yuppie... Read more

The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

5/10
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Starring: Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Adam Rich, Julie Budd

After stepping into the path of an oncoming bus, the deceased Max Devlin (Elliott Gould) strikes a bargain with the Devil (Bill Cosby). Max will be re... Read more

The Mighty Boosh on Tour: Journey of the Childmen (2010)

7.5/10
Director: Oliver Ralfe
Starring: Rich Fulcher, Julian Barratt, Dave Brown, Mike Fielding, Noel Fielding

'The Mighty Boosh' is a unique comedy that has transferred from radio and television success to a national phenomenon, catapulting its creators Julian... Read more

And If We All Lived Together (2011)

Director: Stephane Robelin
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Fonda, Pierre Richard, Claude Rich, Guy Bedos

Annie (Geraldine Chaplin), Jean (Guy Bedos), Claude (Claude Rich), Albert (Pierre Richard) and Jeanne (Jane Fonda) have been friends for more than 40... Read more

Comic Strip Presents: Volume 2 (1988)

8/10
Director: Peter Richardson
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,...

The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of 1980s Britain and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping... Read more

Little Britain Abroad (2006)

Starring: Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Anthony Head, Dawn French, Peter Kay, Steve Coogan,...

The motley collection of Little Britainers go abroad for their Christmas holidays. Lou and Andy are headed for Disneyworld; Anne and her doctors are... Read more

Decision at Sundown (1957)

6.9/10
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Andrew Duggan, John Carroll, John Litel, Karen Steele, Randolph Scott, Valerie F...

Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death y... Read more

Cocaine Bear (2023)

6/10
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Starring: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr, Ray Liotta, Brooklynn Prince,...

An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after uninten... Read more

The Bride Wore Black (1968)

7.3/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Daniel Boulanger, Jeanne Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denne...

Jeanne Moreau stars as the inscrutable femme fatale with a murderous mission in Truffaut's haunting, suspense-filled homage to Hitchcock. Widowed on h... Read more

Copying Beethoven (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Matthew Goode, Joe Anderson, Bill Stewart, Phyllida Law...

Ed Harris plays Ludwig van in this bio-pic that begins on his death-bed, then flashes back to a meeting with the fictitious character of Anna Holtz, a... Read more

Good (2008)

6.2/10
Director: Vicente Amorim
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Strong,...

Viggo Mortensen is the bespectacled Professor Halder, living in 1930s Germany with a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from... Read more

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013)

7.3/10
Director: Fredrik Bond
Starring: Melissa Leo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, M...

When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie (Shia LaBeouf) immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. A ch... Read more

Little Britain Live: Comic Relief (2007)

7.6/10
Starring: Dawn French, Dennis Waterman, Kate Moss, Patsy Kensit, Matt Lucas, David Walliam...

Raising money for the admirable 'Comic Relief' charity in England, this is a new live show from Matt Lucas and David Walliams. A gaggle of stars appea... Read more

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richa...

In this enchanting film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's delightful bestseller, Harry Potter learns on his 11th birthday that he is the orphaned son of t... Read more

Edge of Outside: The Story of the Independent Filmmaking Movement (2006)

6.8/10
Starring: Robert Townsend, Edward Burns, Seymour Cassel, Peter Bogdanovich, Erich Von Stro...

Exploring independent filmmakers from the early silent days of Buster Keaton and DW Griffith, to modern outsiders like Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorses... Read more

The Nelson Affair (1973)

6.4/10
Director: James Cellan Jones
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton,...

Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton. With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelson's stature and notes h... Read more

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

5.5/10
Director: Robert Bolt
Starring: Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton, Pame...

She was the darling of English society in 1805 when she married the country's most distinguished peer. Then she rocked the gentry and threatened her h... Read more

Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 2 (2009)

8.1/10
Starring: Dawn French, Julia Sawalha, Karl Johnson, Matilda Ziegler, Linda Bassett, Victor...

The residents of Lark Rise and Candleford return for a second season of heart-warming adventures in this critically acclaimed adaptation of Flora Thom... Read more

Sunset Boulevard ( Blu-ray ) (1950)

8.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Buster Keaton, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Jack Webb, Nancy...

Billy Wilder's classic drama stars Gloria Swanson as reclusive silent movie queen Norma Desmond. Sharing a mansion with her live-in butler/former husb... Read more

Raid on Entebbe (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Eddie Constantine, Horst Buchholz, Jack Warden, John Saxon, Mar...

Mere months after the fact came the release of two rival "Entebbe" movies ("Victory at Entebbe" being the other, released a month earlier) which recou... 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

Lonesome Dove: The Complete Miniseries (1989)

8.7/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Fre...

Hailed as a masterpiece by critics and audiences alike, 'Lonesome Dove' brings to life all the magnificent drama and romance of the West. Winner of se... Read more

Mad Men: Season 6 (2013)

8.6/10
Starring: Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Chri...

Returning for its sixth season, "Mad Men" - four-time Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of three consecutive Golden Globes... Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

8.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Buster Keaton, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Jack Webb, Nancy...

Billy Wilder's classic drama stars Gloria Swanson as reclusive silent movie queen Norma Desmond. Sharing a mansion with her live-in butler/former husb... Read more

Mad Men: Season 1 (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks...

Set in New York City in the early 1960's, "Mad Men" explores the glamorous and ego-driven "Golden Age" of advertising where everyone is selling someth... Read more

The Greatest '70s Cop Shows (2003)

Starring: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, Ang...

From "Police Woman" to Aaron Spelling classics like "Charlie's Angels", "Starsky and Hutch", "S.W.A.T.", and "The Rookies", grab a seat and get ready... Read more

Mad Men: Season 7, Part 1 (2014)

8.6/10
Starring: Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Chri...

"Mad Men: Season 7/The Final Season - Part 1", is the beginning of the end for television's most celebrated show - four-time Primetime Emmy winner for... Read more

Mad Men: Season 7, Part 2 (2015)

8.6/10
Starring: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks...

Final 7 episodes of the acclaimed 60's-New-York-set television drama series. The series revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper (Hamm), the... Read more

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Ri...

Alfonso Cuaron ('A Little Princess') takes over the directing reigns for this terrific third instalment (of a projected seven) in the beloved fantasy... Read more

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Ri...

Alfonso Cuaron ('A Little Princess') takes over the directing reigns for this terrific third instalment (of a projected seven) in the beloved fantasy... Read more

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

8.1/10
Director: David Yates
Starring: Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters, Ma...

The "Harry Potter" film series reaches its thrilling and epic conclusion as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) fulfills his destiny in a defining battle with Lo... Read more

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

7.6/10
Director: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Robb...

The sixth film in the ever-darkening series is visually stunningly and has its fair share of gleeful humour too, as the young wizard's inevitable batt... Read more

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( Blu-ray ) (2002)

7.4/10
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese, Robbi...

The boy wizard is up to his old tricks in this wondrous adaptation of the second J.K. Rowling book. Despite warnings from an impish 'house elf', Harry... Read more

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7.6/10
Director: David Yates
Starring: Alan Rickman, David Thewlis, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters,...

The sixth film in the ever-darkening series is visually stunningly and has its fair share of gleeful humour too, as the young wizard's inevitable batt... Read more

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

7.5/10
Director: David Yates
Starring: Alan Rickman, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, Fiona Shaw, Gary Ol...

The rebellion begins! While the wider wizarding community may doubt Voldemort's return, Harry and his friends know too well what lies ahead. Unfortu... Read more

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.5/10
Director: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Al...

The rebellion begins! While the wider wizarding community may doubt Voldemort's return, Harry and his friends know too well what lies ahead. Unfortuna... Read more