Drama

Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing...

Hiroshima (1953) is a powerful evocation of the devastation wrought by the world's first deployment of the atomic bomb and it's aftermath, based on the written eye-witness accounts of it's child survivors compiled by Dr. Arata Osada for the 1951 book...

Returning to the city of his birth for inspiration, legendary maverick director Robert Altman helms an evocative, bullet-riddled tribute to the music and movies of his youth in Kansas City, a Depression-era gangster flick as only he could make one...

It was a student orientation like no other when American ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) landed on the doorstep of a prestigious dance academy in a small German town and promptly witnessed another student fleeing in terror. As Suzy observes...

War, madness, sex, and body horror are explored in this brutal drama from Japan, set in the late 1930s during the Sino-Japanese War. While enduring horrifying physical and emotional trauma as she works on the front lines of combat, a Japanese army nurse...

The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote Army outpost along the Mexican border faced with two crises: marauding...

IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TONIGHT... Described by critic Mark Kermode as an "extraordinary filmmaker" and "one of the UK's most imaginative talents", visionary British director Philip Ridley followed his sensational debut The Reflecting Skin with...

Orson Welles' twisting cinematic gem of style and suspense is set in a seedy Mexican border town, where the investigation into the murder of an American businessman puts a newly married Mexican narcotics cop (Charlton Heston) at odds with his corrupt U.S...

Loosely based on the director's own family and upbringing, Distant Voices, Still Lives presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and 50s. Births, marriages and deaths - and an expressive use of music -...

The Big Clock is a superior suspense film which classily combines screwball comedy with heady thrills, adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from a novel by the equally renowned crime author Kenneth Fearing. Directed with panache by John...

Director Max Ophuls' classic tearjerker stars Joan Fontaine as Lisa Berndle, a woman in fin de si?cle Vienna who has a one-night encounter with callous concert pianist Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan), whom she's been infatuated with since she was a teen...

The swansong of the great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (La dolce vita, 8?), The Voice of the Moon emerged without fanfare: it played the Cannes Film Festival out of competition after it's Italian premiere and failed to secure distribution in North...