13 Rue Madeleine

Good semi documentary WWII spy film with Cagney as OSS agent Bob Sharkey, double bluffing a German agent while trying to prevent a V2 rocket attack on Britain from a Nazi site in France.

1984 Anderson

Will ecstasy be a crime in the terrifying world of the future’ asked the posters for this first cinema version of Orwell’s dystopian novel. Edmond O’Brien takes the role of Winston Smith in the stark adaptation with Donald Pleasence as Winston’s

2000 Maniacs

Second in the Blood Trilogy of mould shattering horror movies.

20000 Leagues Under The Sea

Adventure based on Jules Verne's novel.

2001 A Space Odyssey

Not just a film, but rather an event, and a piece of philosophy wrapped in some of the most astonishing imagery ever filmed. The plot is disposable, the sensation is everything. If we accept Kubrick was a genius, then this is Kubrick x 100. Much imit

3 Classic Charles Dickens Films

Features Great Expectations, A Tale Of Two Cities, Oliver Twist.

3 Classic Powell And Pressburger Films

Features A Matter of Life And Death, The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp and I Know Where I'm Going.

3 Classic Sherlock Holmes Films Of The Silver Screen Vol 3

Arthur Wontner stars as the great detective in these three golden oldies from the 1930s. Includes Silver Blaze, The Sign Of Four and The Triumph Of Sherlock Holmes.

3 Classic Wartime Dramas

Features A Town Like Alice, Carve Her Name With Pride and This Happy Breed

3 Classic World War 2 Naval Battles

Features The Battle Of The River Plate, In Which We Serve, and We Dive At Dawn.

3 Godfathers

Three bank robbers on the run stumble across a baby in the desert. They attempt to preserve its life at all costs and get it to New Jerusalem. A parable heavy with religious symbolism.

300 Spartans

The story of Spartan King Leonidis, his small army and their resistance to a Persian army that far outnumbered them.

310 To Yuma

A classic, unjustly neglected Western based on a story by Elmore Leonard. The scenario is reminiscent of both Shane and High Noon as poverty stricken farmer Heflin escorts notorious outlaw Ford to the state pen and holes up in a hotel to wait for the

42nd Street

Splashy Hollywood does splashy Broadway in this behind the scenes of a show musical. The leading lady is suddenly unavailable and the understudy chorus line girl is thrust into the limelight. Last minute preparations for opening night with the new st

49th Parallel

A highly important and effective propaganda film in which a damaged Nazi U boat is sunk in Canadian waters early in WWII. The Nazi captain and his remaining crew must reach the neutral United States before they are captured. An Oscar winner in 1943 f

5 Fingers

During World War 2 the valet for the British ambassador in Turkey tires of his job and plans to photograph secret documents belonging to his employer, sell them to the Nazis and then retire to South America but will it work Based on a true story.

633 Squadron

A popular British WW2 classic, technically and cinematically spectacular. The depiction of an RAF unit's successful but costly mission to attack and destroy an all but impregnable Nazi rocket fuel installation in Norway features great aerial action.

A Breath Of Scandal

A Bridge Too Far Battle Of Britain The Great Escape The Essential War Epics Collection D

Three features. 'A Bridge Too Far' is a starkly realistic account of the ill fated airborne assault on Arnhem during World War 2. 'Battle Of Britain' depicts the Royal Air Force's finest hour. 'The Great Escape' describes the events leading up to a g

A Canterbury Tale

Four people uprooted by the war are drawn towards Canterbury and discover what they couldn't find in peacetime. A suggestive and profound study of Englishness that draws from a number of sources, not least Chaucer. There are strange depths to this pa