12 Angry Men (1957) DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet STARRING: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall
8 ½ (1963) DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini
The African Queen (1952) DIRECTED BY: John Huston STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
All About Eve (1950) DIRECTED BY: Joseph L. Mankiewicz STARRING: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Bicycle Thieves (1948) DIRECTED BY: Vittorio De Sica
Casablanca (1942)
Duck Soup (1933) DIRECTED BY: Leo McCarey STARRING: Groucho Marx, Harpo Mar
Modern Times (1936) DIRECTED BY: Charlie Chaplin
On the Waterfront (1954) DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan STARRING: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Paths of Glory (1958) DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick
Raise the Red Lantern (1992) DIRECTED BY: Zhang Yimou STARRING: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng
Seven Samurai (1954) DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa STARRING: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
Sunset Blvd. (1950) DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder STARRING: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
The Third Man (1949) DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed STARRING: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
Vertigo (1958) DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock STARRING: James Stewart, Kim Novak
Wings of Desire (1988) DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders STARRING: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodovar
LoveFilm classic watch now:
Casablanca(1942)
This classic love story tells the story of Rick, a nightclub owner in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, who's has two valuable letters of transit. When his former lover, Ilsa, comes into the bar, he hopes ... Read more
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey, Claude Rains
Director: Michael Curtiz
The Third Man(1949)
In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins, a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime. Upon his arrival, Martins ... Read more
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Wilfrid Hyde White
Director: Carol Reed
Bicycle Thieves(1948)
Shot in the streets of Rome and using non-actors, this moving Italian film became a landmark. It tells the story of a desperate father whose new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a ... Read more
Starring: Lianella Carell, Gino Salamerenda, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Director: Vittorio De Sica
The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland).
Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia De Havilland, Claude Rains
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
The Elephant Man(1980)
The heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick, a hideously deformed individual dubbed the 'Elephant Man' during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering ... Read more
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Director: David Lynch
Dr. Strangelove(1963)
The film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper is just the man to ... Read more
Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Zulu(1964)
Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; ... Read more
Starring: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
Director: Cyril Endfield
Apocalypse Now Redux(1979)
Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells the story of Captain Willard, a special agent sent into Cambodia to assassinate an errant American ... Read more
Starring: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
My Left Foot(1989)
Daniel Day-Lewis plays the life of Christy Brown with passion and sensitivity in this biog. Brown overcame the limitations of cerebral palsy to become an accomplished painter and writer. We're given ... Read more
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack
Director: Jim Sheridan
The Deer Hunter(1978)
When Michael, Steven and Nick are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors, who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them ... Read more
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep
Director: Michael Cimino
Roman Holiday(1953)
A modern-day princess 'escapes' from her royal entourage while on a trip to Rome, and while incognito, falls in love with an American newspaperman.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Harcourt Williams
Director: William Wyler
Battle Royale(2000)
It's the dawn of the 21st century and Japan is in a state of near collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high and violence among youngsters is out of control. When school kids boycott class and ... Read more
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Midnight Express(1978)
A riveting true story of a young American's nightmarish experiences in a Turkish prison and his unforgettable journey to freedom. Busted for attempting to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul, American ... Read more
Starring: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt
Director: Alan Parker
The Battle of Algiers(1965)
Using black and white photography, this brilliantly directed film is shot like a documentary and depicts the Algerian fight for independence from France from 1954 to 1962. We see terrorist tactics ... Read more
Starring: Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Seven Samurai(1954)
Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenceless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. In search for resolve, the ... Read more
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Taxi Driver(1976)
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as night-time taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in ... Read more
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel
Director: Martin Scorsese
The General(1926)
In this classic silent comedy, Buster Keaton is a train engineer who's turned down for the Confederate army because his job is too important. But when his train is stolen by Union soldiers, he soon ... Read more
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavander, Jim Farley
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Wild Strawberries(1957)
Bergman's award-winning film is a classic. An elderly academic, who's introverted and emotionally arid, makes a journey to collect a university award. En route he relives his past through nightmares, ... Read more
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Victor Sjostrom, Max von Sydow
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
His Girl Friday(1940)
In this screw ball masterpiece, newspaper editor (Cary Grant) is about to lose his star reporter and ex-wife (Rosalind Russell) to a dull insurance agent. To prevent her from leaving, he gets her to ... Read more
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Director: Howard Hawks
Phantom of the Opera(1925)
In one of the greatest of silent films, this horror classic is based on Gaston Leroux's timeless novel of a disfigured, catacomb-dwelling musician. He terrorises the Paris Opera while attempting to ... Read more
Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Director: Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney
Sabrina(1954)
Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a Long Island chauffeur, almost a member of the extended family of her father's employer. Linus and David Larrabee are the sons in the wealthy family, and ... Read more
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, John Williams
Director: Billy Wilder
Delicatessen(1991)
'Delicatessen' the story follows a sweet-natured clown, Louison, who moves into a run down apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor and falls in love with the butcher's daughter, ... Read more
Starring: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Howard Vernon
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
My Man Godfrey(1936)
Set in the Depression, a socialite meets a down-and-out during a party game and hires him as a family servant. Soon she falls in love with him, but the relationship is hindered by his belief that ... Read more
Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick
Director: Gregory La Cava
Shadow of a Doubt(1943)
The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, 'young Charlie', decides that things need brightening up and resolves to contact her ... Read more
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The Seventh Seal(1957)
Director Ingmar Bergman's allegory of suffering and kindness tells the tale of a knight and his squire on their way home from the Crusades. They meet Death who says it's the knight's time so he ... Read more
Starring: Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
The Man in the White Suit(1951)
Capitalist greed, professional jealousy, unemployment and fear of progress are the themes running through this satirical comedy. When a humble inventor develops a fabric that never gets dirty or ... Read more
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood, Kay Walsh
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Oliver Twist(1948)
The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two ... Read more
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh
Director: David Lean
Nosferatu(1922)
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula."
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder
Director: F.W. Murnau
Brighton Rock(1947)
Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. This doesn'... Read more
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Director: John Boulting
Billy Liar(1963)
Billy Fisher is an underachieving undertaker's assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname 'Billy Liar.' Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose ... Read more
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Director: John Schlesinger
Metropolis(1927)
The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio'... Read more
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich
Director: Fritz Lang
Breathless(1960)
Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible socio-path and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his ... Read more
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, Laszlo Szabo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Wings of Desire(1987)
This is a remarkable modern fairytale about being alive. Two angels watch over Berlin but can only be seen by children and other angels. They spend their days observing but unable to join in. Then ... Read more
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois
Director: Wim Wenders
The Entertainer(1960)
Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical ... Read more
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright, Albert Finney
Director: Tony Richardson
Intolerance(1916)
This silent film is recognised as a work of art and is the director's most ambitious. He uses stories from various times to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences, such as the ... Read more
Starring: Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
Director: D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation(1915)
The first blockbuster, this silent movie is groundbreaking despite its racist version of American history. The first part is about the Civil War, seen through the eyes of two families - one from the ... Read more
Starring: Lillian Gish, Walter Long, Erich Von Stroheim, Henry B. Walthall
Director: D.W. Griffith
The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen(1973)
With a remastered soundtrack including new sound effects and new music along with never-before-seen restored footage, THE EXORCIST: THE VERSION YOU'VE NEVER SEEN pays tribute to this terrifying film, ... Read more
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Mercedes McCambridge
Director: William Friedkin