Albert Lewin's adaptation of the 'Flying Dutchman' legend transposes the story into an upper-class English-speaking community in a small port in 1930s Spain. James Mason stars as Hendrick van der Zee, a man cursed to travel the seven seas until he can find a woman willing to die for his love. He certainly does not think he has discovered her when he meets beautiful, spoiled, nightclub singer and femme fatale Pandora Reynolds Ava Gardner, who is engaged to be married to racing driver Stephen Cameron Nigel Patrick but is also being courted by hotheaded bullfighter Juan Montalvo Mario Cabre. However, the pair soon discover that love can blossom in the unlikeliest of places.

1930s British comedy from director Bernard Vorhaus and producer Joe Rock. Rival factory owners Sam Stanley Holloway and Bill Will Fyffe try to work together in order to obtain a big contract. The situation is further complicated when Sam's son Jack Jimmy Hanley and Bill's niece Joan Mary Lawson become romantically involved.

1970s music film featuring glam rock acts Mud, The Glitter Band and The Rubettes. When pop music is banned, a man Peter Denyer and his driver Freddie Jones take an old ice cream van and travel around Britain in search of bands to play at a concert. They find the three groups in different locations and enlist their talents for the show.

Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins Joseph Cotten, a pulp Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take up a job with his old acquaintance, Harry Lime Welles. When he is informed that Lime died a week previously in a car accident, Martins is intrigued by inconsistencies in the accounts of the death and decides that he can't leave the city without investigating matters further. As a consequence, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and searching for the elusive 'third man' who was at the scene of Lime's death. When the head of the local military police, Major Calloway Trevor Howard, informs him that Lime was involved in black market drug distribution, the plot thickens even further...

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.

German drama co-written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Set in the 1950s, in a period of German economic expansion, it follows the double life of Lola Barbara Sukowa, a steamy cabaret singer and single mother from the town of Coburg. When building inspector Von Bohm Armin Mueller-Stahl begins an investigation into corrupt local property developer and brothel owner Schukert Mario Adorf, he soon finds himself in a difficult position after falling in love with the alluring Lola, who just happens to be Schukert's ex-lover.

Classic wartime drama directed by Michael Anderson. The film tells the story of Dr Barnes Wallis Michael Redgrave, whose invention of the 'Bouncing Bomb' is greeted with scepticism in World War II. However, RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson Richard Todd proves the bomb's worth in a daring mission to destroy the German Ruhr dams. The cast also includes Basil Sydney and Ursula Jeans.

Jacques Rivette writes and directs this French drama based on the novel by Denis Diderot. Set in 18th century France, the film follows young Suzanne Simonin Anna Karina as she is forced to become a nun against her will. Mistreated by a number of her elders, Suzanne falls into a depression and attempts to get the church to absolve her vows. When this is denied, a desperate Suzanne is forced to go to extreme lengths to try and escape her bleak existence.

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.

Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone star in this 1990s thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven. When detective Nick Curran Douglas is assigned to investigate the case of a rock star murdered with an ice pick, he can't help but notice the similarity between the death and a scene in the latest book by the singer's novelist girlfriend, Catherine Tramell Stone. She insists that she is being framed, but as Nick slips into a torrid affair with her, she begins to look increasingly guilty.

Herbert Wilcox directs this British war drama starring Anna Neagle in the title role. Set in 1942 at the height of the Second World War, the film follows Odette Sansom, who, after a radio appeal, sends her holiday photos of the French coast to the Special Operations Executive. Due to her unique qualifications, she is sent to Nazi-occupied France as a secret agent and joins the Resistance.

1970s British thriller. Susan George stars as Amanda, a young babysitter who arrives at the isolated home of Helen and Jim Lloyd Honor Blackman and George Cole to look after their young daughter, Tara Tara Collinson, for the evening. Shortly after the couple leaves, a series of frightening events set Amanda's nerves on edge, but the real terror begins when Helen's ex-husband Ian Bannen turns up at the house after escaping from a nearby psychiatric institute.

Classic Ealing comedy in which a group of bank robbers struggle to silence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime. Mrs Wilberforce Katie Johnson lives alone in King's Cross with her parrots. She has been led to believe that the group of men renting rooms from her, Professor Marcus Alec Guinness, the Major Cecil Parker, Louis Herbert Lom, Harry Peter Sellers and One-Round Danny Green, are classical musicians. However, when one of the group's cases gets caught in the door and opens to reveal, not a musical instrument, but a plethora of banknotes, the virtuous Mrs Wilberforce vows to go to the police with the identities of the men. The criminals agree that the old lady has to be killed to silence her, but will this be as straightforward as it sounds

Vincent Price stars in this 1960s horror directed by Roger Corman. While the plague rages throughout Europe, sadistic Italian prince Prospero Price dallies with devil worship. To entertain his fellow Satanists, Prospero hosts a lavish masked ball in the confines of his castle, but the wanton revelries sour when an uninvited guest arrives - Death himself!

1960s Senegalese drama written and directed by Ousmane Sembene. When Ibrahim Dieng Makhouredia Gueye, who lives in Dakar with his two wives and seven children, receives a substantial money order from his nephew in Paris, his life is thrown into disarray as he tackles bureaucracy, desperate neighbours and family members, mounting debt and corruption.

1940s French drama directed by Jacques Becker. The film follows Micheline Micheline Presle as she arrives in Paris to prepare for her wedding to Lyon businessman Daniel Rousseau Jean Chevrier. However, when she falls in love with his best friend, philandering fashion designer Philippe Clarence Raymond Rouleau, Micheline faces a difficult decision about the direction of her future.

Musical drama starring Sammy Davis Jr. as professional jazz trumpeter Adam Johnson, whose self-destructive habits spiral out of control following the death of his family in a car accident. Meanwhile, he is also experiencing the racial prejudices latent in the music industry, and these issues are brought to the fore when he meets respected older jazz musician Willie Ferguson Louis Armstrong and his beautiful civil rights activist granddaughter Claudia Cicely Tyson.

Christopher Plummer and James Mason star in this 1970s crime thriller. In Victorian London, renowned sleuth Sherlock Holmes Plummer and his trusty sidekick Doctor Watson Mason set out to investigate the case of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, and in so doing stumble across a Masonic mystery at the highest levels of society. The cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Genevive Bujold and John Gielgud.

Classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes all manner of chaos. Henry Holland Guinness has been trusted with delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair of hands by his employers. However, Henry harbours dreams of becoming rich and hatches a plan to steal the gold when he makes the acquaintance of the artist, Alfred Pendlebury Stanley Holloway. The pair realise that if Alfred melts the stolen gold into miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower, it could be smuggled safely to France and sold on. However, things go awry when the gold statues become mixed in with a group of ordinary statues, leading to a frantic chase as Henry and Alfred try to recover the gold without their crime being detected. The film features a brief cameo from a young Audrey Hepburn.

Merian C. Cooper directs this classic monster movie about a magnificent beast who falls in love with a woman. Film-maker Carl Denham Robert Armstrong and actress Ann Darrow Fay Wray arrive on the prehistoric Skull Island to shoot a film. While there, they encounter a giant ape known as King Kong, who is worshipped as a god by the island's native inhabitants. The mighty Kong shows his sensitive side by falling for Ann, and, after being transported to New York to be displayed on Broadway, rampages across the city in search of his new love with the military hot on his heels.

In this Noel Coward comedy, cynical writer Rex Harrison asks a medium Margaret Rutherford to hold a seance in his house so he can collect material for his latest book. No one is more surprised than the medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of Harrison's first wife Kay Hammond. The ghost refuses to go away, preferring to taunt her less sophisticated replacement Constance Cummings.

Classic drama starring Celia Johnson as a married woman whose life is thrown into turmoil when she unexpectedly falls in love with a stranger. Laura Jesson Johnson appears to be the very embodiment of a respectable, happily-married British housewife and mother. Equally, the man who comes to her assistance when a passing train blows grit into her eye, Dr Alec Harvey Trevor Howard, enjoys a settled and comfortable life. Neither of the pair are prepared for the emotions the encounter will evoke in them. Unable to forget each other, they begin meeting covertly in the railway cafe. Given that both are married with children, pursuing a romantic relationship seems impossible, but will the power of their love overwhelm all other concerns

James Ivory directs this romantic drama based on Henry James' novel. In 19th-century Boston, Verena Tarrant Madeleine Potter is torn between her feelings for Southern lawyer Basil Ransom Christopher Reeve, who wants to marry her, and her passionate attachment to suffragette Olive Chancellor Vanessa Redgrave and the fledgling Women's Movement.

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.

James Ivory directs this romantic period drama based on the novel by Henry James. In the 1850s, Baroness Eugenia Munster Lee Remick travels from Europe with her brother Felix Tim Woodward to live with her puritanical relatives in New England, the Wentworths, who regard Eugenia and Felix as a pair of dangerous European bohemians. Felix falls in love with Gertrude Wentworth Lisa Eichhorn and Eugenia embarks on a romance with Robert Acton Robin Ellis, the district's most eligible bachelor.