Ben Hur
on DVD
(1959) Starring:Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd Director:William Wyler Certificate:
Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years later, Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd), who was brought up in ..read more »
Sad but a great film. For those who like funny but serious films. A classic!
Forrest Gump
on DVD
(1994) Starring:Tom Hanks, Sam Anderson, Sally Field Director:Robert Zemeckis Certificate: Watch now: £2.49
The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate and more are presented from the perspective of Hanks' lovably slow-witted character as he finds himself ..read more »
Citizen Kane
on DVD
(1941) Starring:Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead Director:Orson Welles Certificate:
CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »
Spellbound
on DVD
(1945) Starring:Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Rhonda Fleming Director:Alfred Hitchcock Certificate:
Drawing on psychoanalysis to frame a transcendent love story, Alfred Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND is a mind-bending study of just how far people might go to escape trauma or to pursue passion. Gregory Peck is introduced as Dr. Edwardes, the newly arrived director of a mental asylum. However, when ..read more »
A spine shivering film about a man with a broken leg that see's a murder. Grace Kelly and James Stewart.
Rear Window
on DVD
(1954) Starring:Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter Director:Alfred Hitchcock Certificate:
The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
Next time you go to your local park watch out for The BIRDS!
The Birds
on DVD
(1963) Starring:Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy Director:Alfred Hitchcock Certificate:
In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief ..read more »
Quest For Fire
on DVD
(1981) Starring:Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi Director:Jean-Jacques Annaud Certificate:
80,000 years ago a primitive tribe desperately guards its most valued possession, fire. they know how to tend it, how to use it, but its creation remains a mystery, During an attack by a neighbouring tribe their flame is lost and so begins an epic, obstacle-filled quest to find another source of ..read more »
Enemy At The Gates
on DVD
(2001) Starring:Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz Director:Jean-Jacques Annaud Certificate:
September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the second man only gets the weapon when the first is cut down. Trapped in no man's land between the opposing ..read more »
Two Brothers
on DVD
(2004) Starring:Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore Director:Jean-Jacques Annaud Certificate:
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud is known for tackling profound subject matter in films such as QUEST FOR FIRE, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, and ENEMY AT THE GATES. Occasionally he takes refuge in lighter films. After his first successful animal tale, THE BEAR (1989), Annaud's second wildlife film is ..read more »