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A Blade In The Dark 1983
Cross-dressing murder mayhem unfolds in this low-budget Italian thriller about a young film composer discovering a shocking truth in the heavily guarded last reel of a new horror film
A Bridge Too Far 1977
Innumerable stars from Britain, the US and beyond gather for this ponderous Second World War epic from Richard Attenborough
A Brief History Of Errol Morris 2000
Errol Morris, one of the most intriguing documentary-makers at work today, is the subject of Kevin Macdonald's profile. The director of Gates Of Heaven and Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, he discusses two decades spent filming strange Americans
A Bullet For The General 1966
Violent, stylish and with a refreshingly leftish point of view, this political spagetti western follows a gang of Mexican bandits and the American insider sent to assassinate them
A Challenge For Robin Hood 1967
A Chinese Ghost Story 1987
Frantic, frenetic and very funny, this Hong Kong supernatural martial arts horror movie is a fantastic treat
A Chinese Ghost Story III 1991
A Chorus Line 1985
A Clockwork Orange 1971
Famous for the controversy surrounding copycat violence and Kubrick's decision to withdraw it in 1973, A Clockwork Orange can now be judged for what it is: an intelligent, visually stunning, disturbing and yet queasily entertaining adaptation of what was already a great work of literature
A Fish Called Wanda 1988
Superb British caper comedy. Written by ex-Python John Cleese, who stars as a stiff British barrister confronted by double-crossing jewel thieves Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin and Tom Georgeson
A Fistful Of Dollars 1964
Leone's first spaghetti western founded a legendary sub-genre. Clint Eastwood (who else?) is the super-cool, amoral gunslinger who seeks to profit from the bloody struggle between two frontier families
A Fistful of Dynamite 1971
The second film in Leone's trilogy about the birth pangs of modern America (the first was the masterful Once Upon A Time In The West, the third the sublime Once Upon A Time In America). A tough, sweaty and beautifully made western
A Good Marriage 1981
A young woman decides to get married and thinks she's found her man. Eric Rohmer's humorous take on marital pursuits
A Guy Thing 2003
Romantic comedy starring Jason Lee and Julia Stiles. A one-night stand results in a manic struggle as the groom-to-be tries to rescue his wedding plans
A King In New York 1957
Chaplin's bitter riposte to America's anti-Communist witch hunts makes for a misguided political comedy
A Knight's Tale 2001
Novel attempt to combine medieval jousting with WWF wrestling culture starring Heath Ledger. Silly, predictable and naive but good fun
A Letter To Brezhnev 1985
Rich humour makes up for a low budget in this Liverpudlian romance from the mid-1980s. Stars Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth and Alfred Molina
A Little Night Music 1977
A Little Princess 1995
A Man Called Hero 1999
Lau's epic follow-up to martial arts sensation The Stormriders, takes renegade Chinese warrior Hero Hua to 1920s New York. Violence follows him everywhere as he battles his way towards a stunning climax on the Statue of Liberty
A Man For All Seasons 1966
A multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Robert Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, the man who stood up to Henry VIII. Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, John Hurt and Orson Welles are among the high profile cast
A Mighty Wind 2003
A mockumentary from the team that brought you This Is Spinal Tap and Best In Show concerning a reunion of three fading folk music groups
A Moment Of Innocence 1996
Ingenious Iranian drama blending fact, fiction, documentary, and reminiscence. It recreates the incident that put director Makhmalbaf in jail for five years, and co-stars the real-life policeman involved
A Month By The Lake 1995
Uma Thurman, Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox star in a genteel romantic comedy, adapted from a story by HE Bates. Set on the picturesque shores of Italy's Lake Como in 1937, Redgrave and Fox are the middle-aged strangers struggling to resist romance
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
Wes Craven kicks off the long-running horror franchise with this imaginatively scary horror yarn about a dead killer who starts murdering teens in their dreams
A One And A Two 2000
Long but resolutely humane family saga set in Taipei, Taiwan. Young love, long-lost love and mid-life crisis handled with adept subtlety by writer/director Edward Yang
A Paper Wedding 1990
A Private Affair 2002
Stylishly downbeat French neo-noir. A world-weary private eye becomes obsessed with the case of a missing young woman
A Room With A View 1986
The Edwardian English at play. Helena Bonham Carter leads a host of familiar faces in James Ivory's Oscar-winning adaptation of E M Forster's classic novel
A Self Made Hero 1996
Award-winning French drama with black comedy leanings. In the wake of World War Two a feckless coward reinvents himself as a hero of the Resistance, but the past threatens to catch up with him
A Short Film About Killing 1988
A violently-depicted cautionary tale of murder and execution, from the director of the Three Colours Trilogy. Definitely not for the squeamish
A Short Film About Love 1988
Teenager Tomek (Lubaszenko) discovers the pleasures of the flesh come at a price in this powerful exploration of sexual obsession by the director of the Three Colours trilogy, Kieslowski
A Shot In The Dark 1964
Peter Sellers' Clouseau sets out to prove chambermaid Elke Sommer's innocence in the second irresistible outing for the daft Inspector
A Simple Plan 1998
Bill Paxton and an Oscar-nominated Billy Bob Thornton lead this darkly complex thriller from Sam Raimi. Three Midwest buddies stumble across a crashed plane with four million dollars on board, then wish they hadn't
A Simple Twist Of Fate 1994
Steve Martin and Gabriel Byrne lead this adaptation of George Eliot's Silas Marner. An embittered loner adopts an apparently orphaned young girl. Then the child's father decides to re-assert his parental rights, but his motives prove less than honourable
A Snake Of June 2002
An envelope of photographs disrupts the lives of a repressed married couple in this edgy, disturbing and provocative Japanese drama from the writer-director of the cult Tetsuo sci-fi horror movies
A Star is Born 1954
A Star is Born 1976
A Summer Dress 1996
Comedy short from François Ozon, director of Sitcom and Under The Sand
A Taste Of Honey 1961
Shelagh Delaney's kitchen sink drama, directed by Tony Richardson and featuring an award-winning performance by Rita Tushingham. A taboo-breaking 60s tale set in working class Manchester
A Time To Kill 1996
A Woman Of Paris 1923
Chaplin's story of doomed love is a self-proclaimed drama of fate, and a groundbreaking example of cinematic storytelling
A Zed And Two Noughts 1985
Peter Greenaway's second film. A complex, image-laden investigation of evolution, amputation and mortality sparked off by the death of the wives of two twins
A-Haunting We Will Go 1942
Spooky slapstick with Laurel and Hardy. After losing a coffin containing a wanted criminal the boys find themselves pursued by gangsters, then get caught up in the stage show of a travelling magician
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Spielberg channels Kubrick to produce an ambitious, troubling sci-fi quest movie about a robot boy obsessed with the love of his flesh and blood mother
ABC Africa 2001
Digital video documentary about the plight of Ugandan orphans from Iranian Abbas Kiarostami. A vivid and often joyous work, celebrating humanity's resilience in the face of adversity
ABC Manhattan 1997
AK: The Making of Ran 1985
Documentary filmmaker Chris Marker visits the set of Akira Kurosawa's Ran and captures a master at work
AKA 2002
One screen, three simultaneous shots. Filmmaker Duncan Roy plays at screen splitting in this elegant and original story of class envy and stolen identity
Aan 1952
Abba the Movie 1977
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1953
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 1951
Abdication, The 1974
Abductees 1995
Abduction Club, The 2001
A funked-up historical chase movie, featuring wenches, dashing swashbucklers and venomous baddies in dodgy wigs. Almost fun if you are in the mood
Abduction, The 1975
Abel 1986
Abendland 1999
Exceptionally observed German nihilism. A loveless couple struggle to stay afloat within the bleakness of an urban wasteland
Abhijaan 1962
A proud taxi driver tries to make his own way in 30s Bengal, but discovers only the corrupt can get to the top. Challenging film by one of India's finest directors
Abhimaan 1973
Enduring Bollywood romantic drama starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri. A celebrated pop singer falls in love with a simple village girl, but when her musical career eclipses his own, he is overcome with bitterness and resentment
Abigail's Party 1977
Alison Steadman stars in Mike Leigh's iconic comedy. Set in 70s suburbia, two couples and a divorced neighbour gather for drinks, nibbles and some cringe-inducing one-upmanship
Abismos de Pasion 1954
Abominable Dr Phibes, The 1971
Abouna 2002
Two young boys go off in search of their missing father in this visually sumptuous tale of family woes from Chad
About A Boy 2002
A 12-year-old boy helps Hugh Grant get over his inner child in this gently subversive comedy of 21st century relationships based on the novel by Nick Hornby and directed by the brothers responsible for American Pie
About Adam 2000
Casanova is on the loose in Dublin. Stuart Townsend stars as the hunk desired by five members of one family
About Last Night 1986
About Schmidt 2002
Tender, funny and poignant, Alexander Payne's About Schmidt is also a venomous tale of one man's reckoning with his own mediocrity, boasting a nuanced and restrained turn from Jack Nicholson as the eponymous sixtysomething
Above Suspicion 1943
Above Us the Waves 1955
Above the Dust Level 1999
Above the Law 1988
Abraham Lincoln 1930
The life and times of the sixteenth American president, as told by the first master of American cinema. Director Griffith's first talkie, it's an enjoyable blend of comedy, melodrama, patriotism and politics
Abschied von Gestern 1966
Absence of Malice 1981
Absolute Beginners 1986
Julien Temple's 80s British musical, based on Colin MacInnes' novel of teenage life in 1958 London
Absolute Power 1996
Clint Eastwood directs, produces and stars in this solid thriller about a burglar who is caught up in a presidential cover-up after he witnesses a murder
Absolution 1981
Accattone 1961
Gritty walk on the wild side of Italian café society from Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film details a ruthless, starving pimp's inability to escape a life of violent crime
Acceptable Levels 1983
Accident 1967
Accidental Hero 1992
Accidental Tourist, The 1988
Accion Mutante 1993
Accompagnatrice, L' 1992
Accounts 1982
Accused, The 1948
Accused, The 1988
Ace High 1969
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994
Ace in the Hole 1951
Kirk Douglas is magnificent as the self-serving reporter who, in order to milk it to fame and boost newspaper sales, prolongs the rescue of a man trapped in a mine
Aces High 1976
Acid House, The 1998
Combining a vicious sense of humour with hard-talking drama, this film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's short stories reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche
Acide Anime 1999
Across 110th Street 1972
Bloody, angry cop Mob crime flick set in a grubby early 70s New York. Wickedly fast moving, wise-cracking and violent. No one escapes the frenzied cops
Act One 1963
Act of Love 1953
Act of Violence 1949
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