She (1965)
Robert Day

1918. Immediately after WWI, three ex-servicemen - Leo, Holly and Job - are enjoying a brief holiday in the Middle East before resuming their lives in England...   [More...]

The Small Back Room (1949)
Michael Powell

In the spring of 1943, Great Britain is losing the war against Nazi Germany. Sammy Rice, a leading bomb disposal expert, is called in to investigate a new kind of bomb that the Germans have begun dropping over England...   [More...]

Summertime (1955)
David Lean

Jane Hudson, a middle-aged spinster from Ohio, finally gets to realise her lifelong dream, a holiday in Venice, where she hopes to find love and romance amidst the golden waterways and ancient monuments...   [More...]

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
John Schlesinger

Daniel Hirsh is a cultured Jewish doctor in his fifties who would appear to have nothing in common with Alex Greville, a sharp-tongued thirty-something divorcee who has grown tired of her routine office job...   [More...]

Superman II (1980)
Richard Lester

In the nick of time, Superman manages to thwart a plot by terrorists to blow up Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower with a hydrogen bomb, but when the bomb detonates in deep space it releases three criminals from the planet Krypton from their two-dimensional prison...   [More...]

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Michael Powell

In Nuremberg, the poet Hoffmann becomes enchanted by the beautiful prima donna, Stella. Whilst awaiting her reply to a letter he sent her, he recounts three tales of his former lost loves...   [More...]

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Peter Sasdy

Three seemingly upright Victorian gentlemen - William Hargood, Samuel Paxton and Anthony Higgins - have formed a secret society, ostensibly for the good of their fellow man...   [More...]

Tess (1979)
Roman Polanski

The Durbeyfields are a family of peasant farmworkers living in the county of Wessex in the late 1880s. They are surprised to learn that they are related to a neighbouring wealthy family and Tess, the eldest daughter, pays a visit on her supposed cousin, Alec d'Urberville...   [More...]

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Ludwig Berger

Anxious to find out how his subjects live, Ahmad, the rightful King of Bagdad, explores the city disguised as a poor man, allowing his Grand Vizier, Jaffar, to usurp his position...   [More...]

Under Capricorn (1949)
Alfred Hitchcock

In 1831, aristocratic Irishman Charles Adare travels to Sydney, Australia where he hopes to make his fortune, with a little help from his uncle, the present governor of the colony...   [More...]

The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Roy Ward Baker

In the mid-1800s, General von Spielsdorf is hosting a ball at his mansion in the small European country of Styria. When one of his guests, an unnamed countess, is called away, the General gladly agrees to take care of her daughter Marcilla...   [More...]

Waterloo Road (1945)
Sidney Gilliat

In 1940, towards the start of the Second World War, Jim Colter is away doing his bit in the fight against Hitler whilst his wife Tillie stays at home in London with his mother and sisters, Ruby and Vera...   [More...]

Women in Love (1969)
Ken Russell

England in the early 1920s. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters who live in a Midlands mining town, the former a schoolteacher, the latter an aspiring sculptor...   [More...]

Young and Innocent (1937)
Alfred Hitchcock

When movie star Christine Clay is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a young man named Robert Tisdall with whom she had a brief acquaintance...   [More...]