POWERHOUSE FILMS

When the Zorba family inherit a house from their late uncle, the occultist Plato Zorba, they didn't expect it come with a host of ghostly houseguests, including a headless lion tamer (and lion!), an...

Unusual musical fantasy, co-scripted by Dr. Seuss, follows a young boy's (Tommy Rettig) nightmares about his tyrannical piano teacher. Hans Conried is the fiendish Dr. Terwilliker, who keeps 500 boys...

An accountant (Paul Scofield) in need of extra office help was pleased-initially-with his hire of the productive and capable Bartleby (John McEnery). That would change to his confusion and...

A rarely seen gem from Peter Sellers' later film career, this harrowing drama is based on Jean-Paul Cl?bert's novel "Le Blockhaus" (itself loosely inspired by a true story) and follows a group of...

Following the mysterious death of his beloved father, classical musician Paul Bergson (Peter Firth, Equus, Tess, TV's Spooks) is haunted by visions and nightmares. With his lover (Suzan Crowley, The...

The title tough guy in question is Pedro (Pedro Armend?riz)-aka "the Brute"-a slaughterhouse worker hired by a Mexico City slumlord to keep the victimized tenants in line. Though effective in his...

One of Hammer's most controversial features, Val Guest's The Camp on Blood Island was a huge box-office hit, despite drawing the wrath of critics who accused the film of sensationalising and...

The first collaboration between director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty - a relationship which now extends to fifteen feature films and shorts, including My Name Is Joe and I, Daniel Blake -...

This tense and hugely entertaining heist thriller is a Hammer take on A Christmas Carol, which pits miserly and fastidious bank manager (Peter Cushing in sparkling form) against debonair robber Andr?...

In this Italian-Spanish "giallo" film, a pair of crooks takes a young lawyer and his girlfriend hostage in order to get back at the lawyer's father, who happens to be a judge. Giovanna Ralli, Leon...

Samuel Fuller re-worked and reinvented popular film genres as lenses through which to examine American history, ideals, and topical events. His detective thriller The Crimson Kimono, with it's frank...

An English couple-Bri (Alan Bates) and Sheila (Janet Suzman)-contemplate the Christmastime mercy killing of their daughter Jo who, suffers from cerebral palsy. Using dark humor to deal with their...