Sydney Poitier directs and stars in this story of a former Union cavalryman turned guide for ex-slaves planning to move West. Accompanying him is a phoney preacher Harry Belafonte who is motivated by something far removed from the the fear of God. Along the way they run into plenty of trouble with whites who want to keep the slaves as a cheap source of labour.

1950s Hammer Horror directed by Terence Fisher. In this sequel to 'The Curse of Frankenstein' 1957, Baron Victor Stein Peter Cushing escapes the guillotine only to take on a new identity in a new town. He works in a local hospital, but his apparent kindness to his charges masks his true motives harvesting their body parts in order to create a new monster.

Martin Ritt directs this 1970s US drama starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Andrea Marcovicci. Set during the early 1950s at the time of Joseph McCarthy's communist witch-hunt, Howard Prince Allen is a restaurant cashier who is asked to 'front' for several blacklisted television writers by submitting their scripts under his name. At first, being politically uninterested, Howard does this in order to pay off his gambling debts. But as he becomes more personally involved with the writers and their work he starts questioning the system that is driving these writers underground.

1970s British horror directed by Norman J. Warren. Horror film-maker James Garrick John Nolan invites his closest friends to his home to watch his new shocker about the gruesome deaths that befell his ancestors. As the party rolls on, strange occurrences take place and over the course of a couple of days the guest list becomes shorter and shorter...

1980s British horror directed by Norman J. Warren. The film follows a group of teenagers as they become stranded on a haunted deserted island. Taking refuge in the island's abandoned hotel, still decorated for New Year's Eve, the friends find themselves under attack from the island's ghostly inhabitants.

Bryan Forbes writes and directs this classic British drama adapted from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron stars as Jane, a young woman abandoned by the father of her unborn child. She contemplates an abortion after taking refuge in a boarding house full of strange misfits, but after meeting and falling for Toby Tom Bell, a struggling writer who lives above her, she finally begins to settle into her new place and begins to make friends with her new neighbours.

Classic French drama directed by Alain Resnais. In a luxury hotel somewhere in Europe, an unnamed man Giorgio Albertazzi attempts to persuade one of his fellow guests, a similarly unnamed married woman Delphine Seyrig, that they have not only previously met, but that they had an affair and made plans to elope together. The woman, however, does not appear to recognise him and does her best to rebuff his advances. The cast also includes Sacha Pitoeff, Francoise Bertin and Luce Garcia-Ville.

Sylvester Stallone co-writes and stars in this 1990s action thriller. Gabe Walker Stallone is a mountain rescue worker haunted by the memories of a friend whom he failed to save from falling to their death. After he quits his job and returns to the scene of his undoing to collect his possessions, Gabe becomes embroiled in the nefarious plot of former military operative Eric Qualen John Lithgow, who has crash-landed in the mountains with a team of mercenaries and 100 million of stolen cash from the US Treasury. He enlists Gabe's help to recover his scattered money, but when the mountaineer manages to escape, he faces a race against time to recover the money before Qualen can reach it.

Kurt Russell stars in this 1980s sci-fi action feature directed by John Carpenter. In 1997, Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison following a massive rise in crime. While on his way to a summit to prevent a global nuclear war, the President of the United States Donald Pleasence crash-lands on the island after his plane is hijacked by terrorists. When it is discovered he has been kidnapped by the Duke Isaac Hayes, the top crime boss in Manhattan, eye-patched anti-hero Snake Plissken Russell is sent in to rescue his country's leader and save his own life in the process.

Barbara Sukowa stars in the title role of this biographical drama, written and directed by Margarethe Von Trotta. The film traces the life of Polish revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, depicting her activism and arrests in Poland and Germany, her founding of the anti-war Spartacus League with Karl Liebkecht Otto Sander during the First World War and her subsequent capture and execution in 1919.

1970s French drama directed by Joseph Losey. Set in 1942 in occupied France, Parisian art dealer Robert Klein Alain Delon discovers that he has a Jewish counterpart with the same name, for whom he is mistaken. As he becomes more involved with his alter ego's identity, Mr Klein puts himself at considerable risk as French authorities begin arresting foreign Jews at the behest of the Nazis.

Michael Winner directs this classic British crime drama starring Alfred Lynch. Set in Notting Hill during the 1960s, the film follows Joe Beckett Lynch, an unemployed and emotionally cold young man living in a bedsit who frequents the area's jazz clubs and coffee bars. When Beckett is approached by a war veteran offering him the chance to earn some money by murdering his wealthy aunt, Beckett sees it as an opportunity to get rich quick. But can Beckett really handle the ensuing guilt that follows such a heinous crime

James Ivory directs this romantic period drama based on the novel by Jean Rhys. In bohemian 1920s Paris, Marya Zelli Isabelle Adjani, a beautiful young novelist, finds herself destitute when her art dealer husband, Stephan Anthony Higgins is sent to prison for theft. A rich patron, H.J. Heidler Alan Bates, and his artist wife, Lois Maggie Smith, offer to take Marya in for the duration of Stephan's incarceration. Heidler, a shameless philanderer with a history of taking advantage of helpless young women, soon seduces Marya - while Lois painfully accepts his infidelity.

Kenji Mizoguchi directs this Japanese drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka. In 17th century Japan, lady-in-waiting Oharu Tanaka loses her honour when she falls in love with a man who is of a lower class than her. When Oharu's father finds out, he exiles her and forces her into a life of degradation and poverty. The cast includes Toshir Mifune, Ichiro Sugai and Sadako Sawamura.

Sidney Lumet directs this dramatic tale of potential nuclear war. When a computer system that is designed to prevent nuclear attacks experiences a malfunction that results in a warhead being accidentally set to destroy Moscow, the Russian capital fails to see how this could be a mistake and declares war on New York in retaliation. The cast includes Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau and Larry Hagman.

Edward Yang directs this Taiwanese crime drama about innocent youth Xiao Si'r Chen Chang who sets out on a voyage of discovery after falling in with a gang that takes away his innocence and replaces it with juvenile delinquency. When his parents can no longer afford to send him to day school, Si'r is moved to the evening school where he quickly finds himself in the middle of two rival gangs the Little Park Boys and the 217s. When he develops feelings for Ming Lisa Yang, the girlfriend of the Little Park Boys' leader Honey Hung-Ming Lin, Si'r must put aside any thoughts of his own happiness if he wishes to stay on Honey's good side and progress in the gang.

Albert Brooks co-writes, directs and stars in this 1980s US comedy. Disillusioned with their current lifestyle, successful husband and wife David Brooks and Linda Howard Julie Hagerty decide to leave their home in Los Angeles, sell all of their belonging and travel around the country in a motor home. However, their nomadic lifestyle is immediately beset by problems that cause the couple to reassess their decision to give up everything they had.

Charles Vidor directs this classic film-noir starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. Casino owner Ballin Mundson George Macready orders his right-hand man, Johnny Farrell Ford, to keep an eye on his beautiful new wife, Gilda Hayworth. Ballin is unaware, however, that Johnny and Gilda are former lovers who are now full of contempt for one another. When Ballin seemingly dies in a plane crash, Johnny marries Gilda to keep her under his guard, but his scheme doesn't quite go according to plan...

Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey star in this 1940s gothic ghost story directed by Lewis Allen. Brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald Milland and Hussey are nearing the end of their seaside holiday in Cornwall when they happen across a beautiful, seemingly deserted Georgian clifftop mansion while running after their dog. The Fitzgeralds meet the unforthcoming owner Donald Crisp and soon agree to purchase the house for a surprisingly small sum of money - but it is only later that the building's unsavoury past emerges to terrify them.

This adaptation of John Fowles' novel casts Jeremy Irons and an Oscar-nominated Meryl Streep as Anna and Mike, two actors filming a Victorian drama in a quiet English fishing village. As the production runs its course, the performers' relationship off-set begins to mirror their on-camera romance. Scripted by renowned playwright Harold Pinter.

Marcel Camus co-writes and directs this Portuguese retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The film transposes the tale to the city of Rio de Janeiro at the height of the Brazilian Carnival with a streetcar conductor as Orpheus Breno Mello and a local country girl as Eurydice Marpessa Dawn. With the streets of the city awash with samba music, frenetic movement and colourful costumes, the pair fall in love despite Orpheus already being engaged to Mira Lourdes de Oliveira. Orpheus and Eurydice attempt to run off together but find themselves constantly pursued by Mira and Death Adhemar da Silva, who seem intent on killing Eurydice and putting an end to the pair's romance. But it seems Orpheus is prepared to go to great lengths to remain with his love...

Classic thriller from director Henri-Georges Clouzot, following the events of a murder plot in a small French provincial school. Tired of being mistreated by abusive headmaster Michel Delasalle Paul Meurisse, his frail wife, Christina Vera Clouzot, and his mistress, Nicole Simone Signoret, plot to kill their tormentor. When Michel's body goes missing, however, the women soon realise their plan is not as straightforward as they first thought.

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Classic drama based on the novel 'Washington Square' by Henry James and starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland. Catherine Sloper de Havilland is a naive young woman and heiress to a considerable fortune, who is swept off her feet by the charming Morris Townsend Clift in 19th century New York. Against the wishes of her domineering father Ralph Richardson, Catherine continues her romance. But is Morris the love of Catherine's life, or are his purposes more sinister, and is he merely after her fortune Torn between her desire for Morris and her need to placate her father, Catherine is forced to make an agonising decision.

Maureen O'Hara stars in this classic musical drama directed by Dorothy Arzner. Aspiring ballerina Judy O'Brien O'Hara dreams of being a star but as she repeatedly clashes with fellow dancer Bubbles Lucille Ball, she wonders if she will ever truly make it.

Irving Rapper directs this classic drama starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid. Charlotte Vale Davis endures a repressive regime in her Boston mansion, ruled over by her matronly mother Gladys Cooper. Her sister Ilka Chase insists that Charlotte is sent to a sanitarium for the sake of her mental health and the opportunity to escape from the strictures of home allows Charlotte to blossom. During a cruise, taken as part of her cure, she meets the unhappily married Jerry Durrance Henreid, and a passionate, if ultimately doomed, romance ensues.

Edouard Molinaro directs this Franco-Italian comedy farce starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault. Homosexual couple Renato and Albin Tognazzi and Serrault are, respectively, manager and star drag attraction of the Saint-Tropez nightclub. For years they have kept up an illusion that they are husband and wife to protect their son Laurent Remi Laurent from potential persecution. However, when Laurent brings home his fiance Andrea Luisi Maneri to meet his parents, the charade that they are husband and wife takes a more complicated turn, especially when Andrea brings along her conservative parents Louise and Simon Carmen Scarpitta and Michel Galabru and Laurent's birth mother shows up at the club.

Cult black comedy written and directed by John Waters. Divine portrays Lady Divine, a drag queen who travels around the country with her sideshow 'Cavalcade of Perversions' which showcases all kinds of bizarre fetishes and perverse behaviours. When she tires of her usual routine, she decides to murder all of her paying customers instead of just robbing them. The film follows Divine over the course of a day after she learns of her husband Mr. David David Lochary's affair. She experiences a number of contrasting sexual encounters before finding a lover, named Mink Mink Stole, who joins Divine on her quest to confront and kill her husband.

Classic comedy from director Howard Hawks. Newspaper editor Walter Burns Cary Grant is devastated when his star reporter Hildy Johnson Rosalind Russell reveals she is leaving journalism behind to marry her new beau Bruce Ralph Bellamy. As Hildy, who also happens to be Walter's ex-wife, prepares herself for her new life as a kept woman, Walter does everything he can to get her to change her mind, including offering her the chance to write the story of a lifetime. The cast also includes Gene Lockhart, Ernest Truex and Clarence Kolb.

Feature-length documentary about the American writer William S. Burroughs. A collaborative piece between Burroughs and film-maker Howard Brookner, the documentary looks at the writer's controversial lifestyle and his most famous work 'Naked Lunch' featuring Burroughs' alter ego William Lee.