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Thomas and Sarah: The Complete Series (1979)

7/10
Starring: John Alderton, Pauline Collins

John Alderton and Pauline Collins return to star as Thomas and Sarah from the hugely popular 'Upstairs Downstairs' series. In turns humorous, surreal... Read more

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2000)

6.4/10
Director: Ian Sharp
Starring: Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi, John Alderton

Aka "A Wife Less Ordinary". Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins) is a naturally intelligent woman who has endured thirty years of dull, boring marriage t... Read more

The Best of Please Sir! (1969)

Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, David Barry, Erik Chitty, Peter Cleall

British comedy at its best with John Alderton as idealistic teacher Bernard Hedges who has been put in charge of 5C - the worst class ever. Includes... Read more

Zardoz (1974)

5.8/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton

Sean Connery delivers a powerful performance in this fantastic vision of a future world divided into two societies, the Eternals and the Brutals. Conn... Read more

Please Sir! - Series 1 & 2 (1969)

Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: Lindsay Campbell, Erik Chitty, Richard Davies, Noel Howlett, Deryck Guyler, John...

John Alderton is Bernard Hedges, the optimistic young teacher assigned to teach the uncontrollable students in class 5C at Fenn Street Secondary schoo... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.2 (1979)

Director: Alastair Reid, Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Michael Tuchner, Simon Langton
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.4 (1979)

Director: Claude Whatham, Giles Foster, Herbert Wise, John Gorrie
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

Trader Hornee (1970)

4/10
Director: Don Tsanusdi
Starring: Buddy Pantsari, Elizabeth Monica, John Alderman

Twenty-one years after two zoologists disappeared in the jungle, detective Hamilton Hornee leads an expedition into daftest Africa to search for their... Read more

Destination Moon (1950)

6.4/10
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: Dick Wesson, Warner Anderson, John Archer

The first Hollywood science-fiction project to take a serious look at the possibilities of manned spaceflight, George Pal's Oscar-winning colour film... Read more

Namu, My Best Friend (1966)

Director: Laslo Benedek
Starring: Robert Lansing, John Anderson, Richard Erdman, Lee Meriwether

Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orca whale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously wh... Read more

The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972)

4.5/10
Director: Col Robert Freeman
Starring: Douglas Frey, Robyn Whitting, Penny Boran, John Alderman

When evil tyrant Luis Bonosario enslaves the people of 19th century Los Angeles, Don Diego de Vega, "the greatest swordsman in Spain," returns from Ma... Read more

The Contract (2006)

5.7/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Alice Krige, Jamie Anderson

This forest-bound thriller stars John Cusack as a man trying to forget a recent family trauma by getting away from it all with his son. Unfortunately... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 4.2 (1984)

Starring: Cyril Cusack, Charles Dance, Zoe Wanamaker, Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Rich...

Darkly humourous and playfully macabre stories served up with a twist of fate. Each stand-alone episode in this acclaimed series is a brilliantly acte... Read more

Night Court: Season 1 (1984)

7.7/10
Starring: Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, Richard Moll, Paula Kelly, Karen Austin

In the mid-eighties, a different kind of sitcom took audiences by surprise. 'Night Court' offered viewers a kooky, fun, and feel good approach to come... Read more

William S Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)

7.1/10
Director: Yony Leyser
Starring: David Cronenberg, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, John Waters, Patti Smith

His groundbreaking writings have influenced beatniks, punk rockers, and other disaffected folk for decades. Follow the tempestuous personal life of au... Read more

The Unguarded Moment (1956)

6.3/10
Director: Harry Keller
Starring: Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon, Edward Andrews, Les Tremayne, Jack Al...

A beautiful teacher is protective of a high school boy who sexually harassed her, and later he becomes a murder suspect. A woman has recently been... Read more

Young Billy Young (1969)

5.7/10
Director: Burt Kennedy
Starring: Angie Dickinson, David Carradine, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker, John Anderson,...

Ageing deputy Robert Mitchum puts on his six-guns one more time after his son is murdered. He teams up with young ex-gunfighter Robert Walker Jr for a... Read more

Chicago Cab (1998)

6.6/10
Director: Mary Cybulski, John Tintori
Starring: Gillian Anderson, John Cusack, Paul Dillon, Michael Ironside, Laurie Metcalf, Ju...

A.k.a. "Hellcab". In this off-the-wall comedy-drama, a Chicago cab driver's (Paul Dillon) daily routine on a freezing day is enlivened by a steady flo... Read more

Die Hard 2 (1990)

7.1/10
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Franco Nero, John Amos, William Atherton, William Sadler, Reginald...

Bruce Willis is back as wisecracking Det. John McClane in this spectacular sequel. While awaiting the arrival of his wife's plane at Washington's Dull... Read more

Die Hard 2 ( Blu-ray ) (1990)

7.1/10
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Franco Nero, John Amos, William Atherton, William Sadler, Reginald...

Bruce Willis is back as wisecracking Det. John McClane in this spectacular sequel. While awaiting the arrival of his wife's plane at Washington's Dull... Read more

The Night Strangler (1972)

7.7/10
Director: Dan Curtis
Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Richard Anderson, John Carradine, Wally Cox, Marg...

Supernatural phenomena, baffling murders and offbeat humour mark this second "Night Stalker" offering. Surfacing in Seattle, Kolchak (Darren McGavin)... Read more

Overlord (2018)

7.1/10
Director: Julius Avery
Starring: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, John Magaro, Pilou Asbaek, Bokeem Woodbine, Jacob An...

On the eve of D-Day, American paratroopers drop behind enemy lines to penetrate the walls of a fortified church and destroy a radio transmitter. As th... Read more

It ( Stephen King's It ( Blu-ray ) ) (1990)

7.4/10
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Starring: Annette O'Toole, Dennis Christopher, Harry Anderson, John Ritter, Richard Masur,...

Made-for-tv production about a group of childhood friends who reunite as adults to face their own 'big chill' - an evil presence that lurks beneath th... Read more

It ( Stephen King's It ) (1990)

7.4/10
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Starring: Annette O'Toole, Dennis Christopher, Harry Anderson, John Ritter, Richard Masur,...

Made-for-tv production about a group of childhood friends who reunite as adults to face their own 'big chill' - an evil presence that lurks beneath th... Read more

Transformers ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Anthony Anderson, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Shia LaBeouf, Bernie M...

The children's toy that became a popular kid's show is granted blockbuster status as the interstellar battle between Autobots and Decepticons rains de... Read more

The Pelican Brief (1994)

6.6/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, James B...

Well-crafted thriller based on John Grisham's best-selling book about a law student whose theory (or brief) about the conspiracy behind the assassinat... Read more

Transformers (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Anthony Anderson, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Shia LaBeouf, Bernie M...

The children's toy that became a popular kid's show is granted blockbuster status as the interstellar battle between Autobots and Decepticons rains de... Read more

The Eric Sykes Collection: The Plank / Rhubarb Rhubarb! / It's Your Move / Mr H is Late / The Big Freeze (1993)

Director: Eric Sykes
Starring: Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Roy Castle, Jimmy Tarbuck, Hattie Jacques, Jimmy Edwar...

In the tradition of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin comes Eric Sykes and his famous comedy players. These one-off specials are the pinnacle of Sykes... Read more

The Ten Commandments (1956)

7.9/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, D...

For sheer pageantry and spectacle, few motion pictures can claim to equal the splendor of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of his epic "The Ten Commandm... Read more

The Fall: Series 1 (2013)

8.2/10
Director: Jakob Verbruggen
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Ian McElhinney, John Lynch, Archie Panjabi, Stuart Graham, Lau...

Gillian Anderson stars as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case. Though her superiors aren't convinced,... Read more

The Objective (2008)

5.5/10
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Jonas Ball, Matthew R Anderson, Jon Huertas, Michael C Williams, Sam Hunter, Jef...

A CIA operative based in the Middle East is on the look-out for suspicious activity in the wake of September 11th, when his instruments show a tremend... Read more

Carnivale: Season 2 (2004)

8.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael J Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson, Tim De...

Season Two of this gothic Depression tale picks up with Ben Hawkins looking like a murderer, and as the stand-off between Good and Evil looms the fate... Read more

The New Twilight Zone: Season 2 (1986)

Director: Bruce Malmuth, Curtis Hanson, Martha Coolidge, Noel Black, Paul Lynch, Wes Craven, Thomas J Wright, etc
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Fred Savage, Tom Skerritt, Lukas Haas, David Faustino, Jeffrey T...

Wes Craven and Curtis Hanson were just two of the directors who got on board for Season Two. Despite this, the show was cancelled midway through the... Read more

Hostiles (2017)

7.2/10
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons, Adam Beach, Rory Cochra...

In 1892, legendary Army Capt. Joseph Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal land. Embarki... Read more

Charlotte's Web (2006)

6.3/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Beau Bridges, Voices Of, Julia Roberts, Steve Bu...

E.B. White's famous book gets the big screen treatment and an all-star cast with Dakota Fanning as the farmer's daughter who becomes attached to the r... Read more

Carnivale: Season 1 (2003)

8.5/10
Director: Alison Maclean, Jeremy Podeswa, Peter Medak, Tim Hunter, Rodrigo Garcia, John Patterson, Jack Bender, Scott Winant
Starring: Michael J Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Clancy Brown, Debra Chris...

1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbi... Read more