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Ask a Policeman (1939)

7.7/10
Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt

Will Hay is a policeman investigating mysterious sightings of a headless horseman in a coastal town. Perennial sidekicks, grizzled Moore Marriott and... Read more

I Thank You (1941)

6/10
Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: Felix Aylmer, Arthur Askey

The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former f... Read more

Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! Hey! (1938)

Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: Charles Hawtrey, Lilli Palmer, Will Hay

In 1937's Good Morning Boys Will Hay plays the pompous but ill-qualified headmaster of St Michael's, Dr Benjamin Twist, who befuddles his class with m... Read more

Let George Do It! (1940)

Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Br...

One of British comedian George Formby's most successful films, in this war-time musical he plays ukelele-ist George Hepplewhite who gets on a boat thi... Read more

Le Quai Des Brumes ( Port of Shadows ) (1938)

7.7/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan

Deserter Jean arrives in Le Havre and looks for a shelter before leaving the French territory. Housed in a shed on the docks, he meets the mysterious... Read more

Children of Paradise ( Les Enfants du Paradis ) (1945)

8.3/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur

Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with "Children of Paradise" ("Les Enfants du Paradis"), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four diffe... 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

Deadgirl (2008)

5.7/10
Director: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel
Starring: Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola, Andrew DiPalma

Two teenage boys ditch school in favour of getting drunk and up to mischief at an abandoned insane asylum. But when they discover the naked body of a... Read more

The Silent Invasion (1962)

4.5/10
Director: Max Varnel
Starring: Petra Davies, Francis De Wolff, Eric Flynn

A wartime drama starring Eric Flynn, Petra Davies and Francis De Wolff, 'The Silent Invasion' is set in the small French town of Mereux, where the sta... Read more

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

8.3/10
Director: Marcel Ophuls
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Mendes-France

A staggering documentary detailing the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Combining interviews and archival film footage, director Marcel... Read more

Black Orpheus (1959)

7.5/10
Director: Marcel Camus
Starring: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lea Garcia

This extravagant explosion of colour and sounds is a modern re-enactment of Orpheus and Eurydice's tragic tale against the splendid backdrop of Carniv... Read more

Deception (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams

A disconnected accountant finds his mundane life injected with a new sense of urgency after striking up a friendship with a charismatic attorney in di... Read more

Zama (Blu-ray) (2017)

6.7/10
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lola Duenas

Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is sta... Read more

The Headless Woman (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero

Struck by amnesia after a mysterious car accident, middle-aged Veronica (Maria Onetto) grapples to function anew in the world around her. Uncertain as... Read more

The Holy Girl (La nina santa) (2004)

6.8/10
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: Mercedes Moran

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor. Read more

A Royal Affair (2012)

7.6/10
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen

A Danish period drama based on the true story of Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), the English princess who married King Christian VII of Denmark i... Read more

The Dark Tower (2017)

5.7/10
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Matthew McConaughey, Jackie Earle Haley, Idris Elba, Fran Kranz

Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), the last Gunslinger, is locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim (Matthew McConaughey), also known as the Man in Bl... Read more

A Royal Affair ( Blu-ray ) (2012)

7.6/10
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard

A Danish period drama based on the true story of Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), the English princess who married King Christian VII of Denmark i... Read more

The Tomorrow People 2.2 - A Rift in Time (1974)

Director: Darrel Blake
Starring: Voice Of, Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughan-Clarke, Philip Gilbert, Elizabeth Adare

After being shown an antique vase in their dreams, John and Stephen track it down to the British Museum and con their way into getting hold of it. It... Read more

Honey Boy (Blu-ray) (2019)

7.3/10
Director: Alma Har'el
Starring: Lucas Hedges, Shia LaBeouf, Natasha Lyonne, Laura San Giacomo, Martin Starr, Cli...

A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Read more

Truth, Lies and Intelligence (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Carmel Travers

Directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker Carmel Travers, this insightful documentary is a decisive and compelling exploration of the intelligenc... Read more

In the Shadow of Women (2015)

6.4/10
Director: Philippe Garrel
Starring: Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam, Clotilde Courau

Aka 'L'ombre des femmes'. Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabe... Read more

Eating Raoul (1982)

6.8/10
Director: Paul Bartel
Starring: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran

Characterized as a 'dextrous, beautifully timed, macabre comedy of manners which tackles kinky sex, economics, gourmet cooking, modern marriage, and e... Read more

Lust in the Dust (1985)

6.3/10
Director: Paul Bartel
Starring: Divine, Tab Hunter, Lainie Kazan, Henry Silva

Gold fever has struck the wild western town of Chile Verde, where hard-living cowboys and hot-blooded wenches all lust for wealth and each other. But... Read more

Beauty And The Beast (1987)

7.1/10
Director: Eugene Marner
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, John Savage

Rebecca De Mornay ('The Three Musketeers') stars in this live-action version of the classic fairy tale, about finding true love in the unlikeliest of... Read more

Regular Lovers (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Philippe Garrel
Starring: Eric Rulliat, Clotilde Hesme, Nicolas Bridet, Louis Garrel, Julien Lucas

In the aftermath of the era-defining Paris student riots of May 1968, a group of youngsters involved in the revolt abandon themselves to a bohemian ex... Read more

Honey Boy (2019)

7.3/10
Director: Alma Har'el
Starring: Lucas Hedges, Shia LaBeouf, Natasha Lyonne, Laura San Giacomo, Martin Starr, Cli...

A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Read more

The Gambler (Blu-ray) (1974)

7.2/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes, B...

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, an... Read more

Sweet Dreams (1985)

7.1/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth

The true story of Patsy Cline, the gifted, fun-loving queen of Nashville sound, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top countr... Read more

Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966)

Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Robert Stephens

A landmark of English film history, with David Warner as a 'suitable case for treatment' trying to reconcile his failed marriage as his life descends... Read more

The World According to Bush (2004)

7.9/10
Director: William Karel

A.k.a. "Le Monde Selon Bush". On 20 January 2001, amid high controversy and with no clear majority, eight years after his father, George W. Bush moved... Read more

The Iceman (2012)

6.9/10
Director: Ariel Vromen
Starring: Ray Liotta, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, James Franco, Michael Shannon

A gritty biopic tracing the career of New York contract killer Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a.k.a. The Iceman. After convincing his Catholic w... Read more

Partisan (2015)

5.8/10
Director: Ariel Kleiman
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzara

Alexander is like any other kid: playful, curious and naive. He is also a trained assassin. Raised in a hidden paradise on the outskirts of town, Alex... Read more

Coach To Vienna (Blu-ray) (1966)

Director: Karel Kachyna
Starring: Iva Janzurová

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate. Read more

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

7/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Hilton McRae

Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay adapted from John Fowles' novel. A hauntingly beautiful film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, about a woman... Read more

Who'll Stop the Rain ( aka Dog Soldiers ) (1978)

6.8/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe

A.k.a. "Dog Soldiers". An intense, powerful tale of heroin smuggling from Vietnam to America, starring Nick Nolte and Michael Moriarty as war veterans... Read more

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961)

7.7/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts

A key film of the British New Wave, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establish... Read more

Isadora (1968)

7.6/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: James Fox, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Ivan Tchenko

A.k.a. "The Loves of Isadora". Isadora Duncan was the most iconic free-style dancer of the 20th century, and a woman who courted both admiration and s... Read more

Viral (2016)

5.4/10
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Michael Kelly

Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and... Read more

Nerve (2016)

6.6/10
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Juliette Lewis, Emma Roberts, Dave Franco

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico (Emma Roberts) is tired of living life on the sidelines. Pressured by her friends, Vee decides to join Ne... Read more

Catfish (2010)

7.1/10
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Photographer Nev Schulman didn't know exactly what he was getting into when he befriended (and soon fell for) the sister of an 8-year-old Michigan art... Read more

Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017)

7.6/10
Director: Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewen Leslie, Elisabeth Moss, Alice Englert, Gwendoline Christie

When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers China Girl didnt die a... Read more

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

5.8/10
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Katie Featherston, Lauren Bittner, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Chloe Csengery

In 1988, in California, cinematographer Dennis moves to the house of his girlfriend Julie to raise a family with her daughters Katie and Kristi. Littl... Read more

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

4.6/10
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Starring: Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Aiden Lovekamp

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman an... Read more

Death Race 2000 / Deathsport (1975)

Director: Paul Bartel, Allan Arkush, Henry Suso
Starring: Claudia Jennings, David Carradine, Mary Woronov, Sylvester Stallone, Roberta Col...

A killer double feature of 70s exploitation from legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman. 'Death Race 2000' (1975, 80 mins) - Paul Bartel's cult class... Read more

Beckett On Film: Volume 2 (2000)

3.6/10
Director: Atom Egoyan, Karel Reisz, Damien O'Donnell, John Crowley, Walter Asmus
Starring: John Hurt, Sean McGinley, Gary Lewis, Anna Massey, Sian Phillips

Derived from the Gate Theatre Dublin's performances, this acclaimed 'Beckett on Film' project brings together a collection of films from the distingui... Read more

Destricted (2006)

4.5/10
Director: Gaspar Noe, Larry Clark, Marco Brambilla, Matthew Barney, Sam Taylor-Johnson

Shorts by eight directors examine the boundary between Eros and porn. A feral man masturbates with the aid of a whirling crankshaft; a sunbathing woma... Read more

The Onedin Line: Series 1 (1971)

7.7/10
Director: Moira Armstrong, William Slater, Paul Ciapessoni, Viktors Ritelis, Darrel Blake, Peter Creegan
Starring: Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass, Edward Chapman, Brian Rawlinson, Howard Lang, J...

Liverpool 1860, a time when England was the centre of the mightiest trading empire on the globe. Amidst the harsh realities of Victorian life, a few r... Read more