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The Good Old Naughty Days 2002
A collection of blue movies from the silent era proves startlingly explicit in this fascinating documentary
The Good Thief 2002
A deliciously witty remake of Jean Pierre Melville's French crime classic Bob Le Flambeur from Neil Jordan. Nick Nolte stars as a junkie gambler planning one last job
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 1966
One of the best westerns ever made. Boasts an unforgettable Morricone score, a typically charismatic performance from Clint Eastwood and stately direction from the master of the genre, Sergio Leone
The Gore-Gore Girls 1972
"The Screwiest, Wildest, Sexiest One Yet!"... Go-go dancers fall prey to a deranged psychopath in this, Herschell Gordon Lewis' last film and also his most outrageously shocking..."Laugh? I thought they'd die!"
The Great Dictator 1940
Chaplin satirises the Nazi regime with his not-so-subtle imitation of Hitler's megalomaniacal tendencies. Controversial political comedy
The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
The Green Ray 1986
A spellbinding picaresque about a young Parisienne whose indecision about life and love leads to an incredible encounter. From French arthouse master Eric Rohmer
The Grifters 1990
Top quality crime drama from director Stephen Frears and writer Donald E Westlake. John Cusack stars as the youthful con man torn between girlfriend Annette Bening and mother Anjelica Huston
The Gruesome Twosome 1967
"Seeps With Carnage In The Most Barbaric Humor Since The Guillotine Went Out Of Style!"... Demented son scalps female lodgers for his mother's wig shop in this classic Herschell Gordon Lewis schlocker
The Guru 2002
A young Indian dance teacher journeys to the US in search of stardom - only to find himself dubbed the Guru of Sex by neurotic New Yorkers desperate for something to believe in. A classy comedy/satire and a 'Bollywood' movie to boot
The Happiness of the Katakuris 2001
Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike subverts genre cinema with this hilariously entertaining Frankenstein's monster mash of horror movie and musical
The Hard Way 1991
The Hard Word 2002
A trio of bank robber brothers are forced into a bloody final job by a corrupt prison governor. Black and brutal Australian crime drama starring Rachel Griffiths and Guy Pearce
The Hatmaker 1982
The Haunted Mansion 2003
Disney family film based on a theme park attraction. Eddie Murphy stars as a motor-mouth estate agent whose family is imperiled by the sinister goings-on at an isolated mansion
The Haunting 1963
Classic haunted house movie from Robert Wise. A group gather at a New England mansion to conduct an experiment in the supernatural. Before long, things are reliably going bump in the night
The Heart Of Me 2002
Thirties and Forties-set British drama about social and sexual repression - what else? Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams star
The Hi-Lo Country 1998
High Fidelity director Stephen Frears presents an ambitious, noir-tinged Western. In the wake of WWII Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup return to their cattle-wrangling ways but their friendship is tested to its limit by the sultry Patricia Arquette
The Hidden Fortress 1958
Akira Kurosawa's highly enjoyable, accessible epic set in 16th century Japan. Toshiro Mifune is a samurai escorting a princess through enemy territory, accompanied by two clownish peasants
The Hills Have Eyes 1978
A middle-class American family find themselves besieged by cannibals in this brutal 1970s shocker from Wes Craven
The Hills Have Eyes Part II 1985
Wes Craven's follow-up to his 1977 classic. A low-budget slash-and-maim horror, it revisits the surviving members of the first film's family of cannibals
The Hitchcock Collection 2001
One of the most desirable DVD releases to date. Seven Hitchcock classics - Saboteur, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Trouble With Harry, Shadow Of A Doubt and Psycho - gathered together in one sumptuous box set
The Hitcher 1986
Rutger Hauer is the hitchhiker from hell in this inventive low-budget horror cum road movie... "Never pick up a stranger"
The Hole 2001
Thrills as shrink Embeth Davidtz pries into the mind of disturbed teen Thora Birch after four schoolkids become trapped in an abandoned World War Two bomb shelter
The Honeymoon Killers 1969
The chilly, camp and kitsch story of 1940s killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, who came together via a lonely hearts club and then went on a spree of thieving and murdering
The Honeymooners 2003
A jilted bridegroom ends up spending what should have been his honeymoon with a complete stranger, in this quirky Irish romantic comedy shot on digital video
The Horse's Mouth 1958
The Horseman On The Roof 1995
Galloping gallic adventure from the director of Cyrano De Bergerac. Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez find love in a time of cholera
The Hot Chick 2002
A body-swap comedy which sees a thirtysomething male trading places with a snotty teen cheerleader. Will there be hilarious consequences? Rob Schneider stars
The Hour Of The Wolf 1968
The Hours 2002
The lives of three women with connections to the novel 'Mrs Dalloway' form the focus of this finely crafted literary adaptation from director Stephen Daldry and writer David Hare. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore star
The House On Telegraph Hill 1951
Oscar-nominated thriller with noirish leanings directed by the legendary Robert Wise. In the wake of WWII, a Polish survivor of a concentration camp assumes the name of her dead friend and relocates to San Francisco, only to be embroiled in greed, deceit and murder
The House That Dripped Blood 1970
The third compendium horror film from Hammer rivals Amicus offers a script by Robert 'Psycho' Bloch and an impressive cast of genre stalwarts and jobbing thesps with rather impressive results
The Human Stain 2003
Oscar-hungry adaptation of Philip Roth's novel from veteran director Robert Benton. Anthony Hopkins stars as an esteemed college professor who embarks on a passionate but ill-advised affair with a local janitor, played by Nicole Kidman
The Hunt For Red October 1990
High-tech adventure under the high seas as the captain of the USSR's newest nuclear submarine tries to defect to America with his ship and crew. Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin star in John 'Die Hard' McTiernan's glossy thriller
The Hunted 2003
Retired ace FBI tracker Tommy Lee Jones returns to duty to bring in renegade trainee Benicio Del Toro in this action-thriller directed by William Friedkin
The Huntress, Her Name is Cat 1998
Almen Wong is the athletic assassin in Clarence Ford's Hong Kong kick flick. While on the run she falls for a kindly cop but no amount of stylised sex and violence can disguise the fact that this Cat is rather lame
The Hurricane 1999
The Importance Of Being Earnest 2002
Oliver Parker's second cinematic stab at Wilde is a delightfully irreverent version of the classic play, and all the better for it
The In-Laws 1979
Curiously beloved knockabout comedy starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin as mismatched future in-laws thrown together for an adventure
The In-Laws 2003
A mild-mannered chiropodist stumbles into the world of international espionage when his daughter marries the son of a rogue CIA agent. Comedy action with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks
The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness 1958
The Iron Curtain 1948
Entertaining account of the incident that froze American-Soviet relations for the best part of 50 years
The Italian Job 1969
Michael Caine blows the bloody doors off in this iconic, quintessentially British comedy crime caper. Noel Coward, Benny Hill and John Le Mesurier also appear but the car's the star
The Italian Job 2003
A group of crooks plan to steal a gold shipment from the middle of an LA traffic jam. Action movie remake of the much-loved British film, with Mark Wahlberg in the Mini's driving seat
The Jazz Singer 1927
The Jewel Of The Nile 1985
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner keep the chemistry fizzing in this only slightly lack lustre follow up to 80s blockbuster Romancing The Stone
The Joy Luck Club 1993
The Jungle Book 2 2003
Mowgli's adventures continue in this follow-up to Disney's family favourite. The action picks up where the first film left off, only to replicate almost every scene from the original
The Keep 1983
Director Michael Mann's brooding style is perfectly suited to conjure a tightening atmosphere of floating terror in this unhinged allegory of Hitler's rise involving Yankee ghost-busters, Nazi officers and an evil force in a Romanian castle
The Kid 1921
Chaplin's Tramp takes care of an abandoned child in this 1921 box office smash hit comedy
The Kid Stays In The Picture 2002
Documentary charting the rise and fall of the legendary Hollywood studio head and producer Robert Evans - narrated by the man himself, adapted from his astounding warts-and-all autobiography
The Killer Elite 1975
The latter day purple patch for Peckinpah that began with The Wild Bunch in 1969 and continued until Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia in 1974, ended here, in a predictable martial arts thriller
The King Is Dancing 2001
Lavish portrayal of the court of Louis XIV and the career of Lully, his director of music. An impressive, if cold, production
The King Of Comedy 1983
Scorsese took a break from the gangster films to make this brilliantly executed piece about a stand-up, who will stop at nothing to get his big break on TV
The King and I 1956
The Kingdom 1997
Lars Von Trier's hallucinatory mini series about life, and life after death, in a Danish hospital
The Kremlin Letter 1970
The Last Days Of Chez Nous 1990
An Australian family slowly implodes in this carefully observed drama featuring Kerry Fox and directed by Gillian Armstrong
The Last Days Of Disco 1998
The Last Emperor 1987
The Last Emperor Director's Cut 2004
The definitive version of Bernardo Bertolucci's multiple Oscar-winner about the rise and fall of China's last emperor during the first half of the 20th Century. Includes an additional 59 minutes of extra footage to the original release cut
The Last Great Wilderness 2002
An off-kilter mixture of Dogme 95 production values, twisted storytelling and horror. A jilted lover journeys to the Highlands of Scotland - to avenge himself on Pulp's Jarvis Cocker?
The Last Kiss 2001
Four friends struggle to come to terms with hitting age 30 in this lively Italian comedy of social and sexual mores by writer-director Gabriele Muccino
The Last Metro 1980
Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star in Francois Truffaut's award-winning depiction of a theatre company's struggle to keep the show on the road in Nazi-occupied France. Moving, multi-layered drama that considers art, racism and illicit love
The Last Movie 1971
Distastrous but ideas-filled ego project from Dennis Hopper about a stuntman and a film crew getting involved with locals in a small Andean village
The Last Of The Mohicans 1936
The Last Of The Mohicans 1992
Daniel Day-Lewis strides heroically through 18th century war and politics as the adopted white son of a Mohican Indian
The Last Samurai 2003
Tom Cruise gets to swing his samurai sword in this historical epic set in 1870s Japan. But can he cut it as a kendo warrior and look good in a kimono?
The Last Samurai 2003
An American Civil War veteran is caught up in a battle for the soul of Japan. Historical adventure starring Tom Cruise, from the director of Glory and Legends Of The Fall
The Last Waltz 1978
The Band's final gig - at the San Francisco venue where they made their big-time debut, captured by Scorsese and featuring Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and others
The Late Twentieth 2003
Low-budget, violent British thriller. After witnessing the murder of his girlfriend, a nameless psychiatric patient becomes obsessed with exacting revenge on a vicious drug dealer
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003
Victorian literary heroes and monsters are banded together into a world-saving team of superheroes. Sean Connery stars
The Legend of 1900 1998
Tim Roth stars in the first English language film by Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore. A fantastical, historical fable about a gifted pianist born and raised on a cruise ship
The Leopard 1963
Burt Lancaster gives a great turn as an Italian aristocrat faced by the diminishing of his status under Garibaldi's unification of Italy in Visconti's personal film
The Life Of David Gale 2002
Anti-capital punishment thriller starring Kate Winslet as a journalist investigating the death row incarceration of - ironically - anti-death penalty campaigner Kevin Spacey
The Life Of OHaru 1952
A 17th-century prostitute looks back on her life in this acclaimed masterpiece from director Kenji Mizoguchi
The Limey 1999
A styish exercise in arty, fractured neo-noir. A tough-as-nails, murderous ex-con (Stamp) journeys to LA in search of the people he believes killed his daughter
The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue 1974
Two travelling companions come across a strange agricultural experiment in the English countryside and discover its revitalising effect on the local corpses. One of the best from the 1970s Euro zombie onslaught
The Lizzie McGuire Movie 2003
American teen Lizzie gets into a series of scrapes and adventures on a school trip to Italy in this comedy for pre-pubescent girls
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 1987
Maggie Smith plays a lonely Irish spinster whose only solace is God and the bottle. Bob Hoskins offers her a different type of salvation, but his motives are questionable
The Long Day Closes 1992
Peerlessly evocative, family album cinema. Terence Davies remembers growing up in the magic and mire of post-war Liverpool
The Long Goodbye 1973
Elliot Gould portrays the first spaced-out detective as a hip version of Raymond Chandler's durable Philip Marlowe. Essential viewing for Chandler devotees
The Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship Of The Ring 2001
Peter Jackson's skilful adaptation of JRR Tolkien's epic treats the reviled fantasy genre with reverence. If you have no problem with invented languages, elves and orcs, you will adore it
The Lord Of The Rings The Return of the King 2003
The final part of Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy climaxes with a colossal bodycount and acts of courage in the face of insurmountable odds
The Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers 2002
The Ring is getting heavier in the middle portion of Peter Jackson's awesome fantasy trilogy
The Lost Lover 1999
An Italian-English co-production set in the Holy Land, The Lost Lover doubles up as family melodrama and a cautiously optimistic allegory about the need for harmony between Arabs and Israelis
The Lost Son 1998
A who's who of European cinema - Daniel Auteuil, Natassja Kinski and Katrin Cartlidge - decorate this smart, melancholy film noir
The Lover 1992
The Lovers 1958
Jeanne Moreau stars as a shallow bourgeois housewife who risks everything for passion in this sensual effort from Louis Malle
The Low Down 2000
A fresh, distinctive and award winning British film about twentysomething Londoners growing up and apart
The Magdalene Sisters 2002
Set in Ireland in 1964, Peter Mullan's brutal sophomore effort follows three young girls after they are sent to one of the Catholic Church's Magdalene Asylums. Ostensibly atoning for their 'sins', they are humiliated and abused by the nuns in charge
The Magician 1958
A troupe of strange misfits present their Magnetic Theatre to a cynical audience out to prove them as fakes and charlatans in Bergman's intense metaphorical comedy
The Magnificent Seven Collection 2001
One box containing all four 'Seven films: The Magnificent Seven, Return Of The Seven, Guns Of The Magnificent Seven and The Magnificent Seven Ride!
The Magnificent Seven Ride! 1972
Lee Van Cleef steps into the Chris Adams role for this efficiently action-packed final Magnificent Seven sequel, and is a definite improvement on George Kennedy, even if this doesn't come close to John Sturges' classic original
The Man From Elysian Fields 2001
Struggling novelist Andy Garcia becomes a male escort, which brings him into contact with ailing, aged Pulitzer-winner James Coburn. A classy morality story that also stars Mick Jagger, Olivia Williams and Julianna Margulies
The Man In The White Suit 1951
Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood star in this darkly comic fable about a scientist who invents a dirt-repelling indestructible fibre, to the consternation of self-serving capitalists, unionists - and washerwomen everywhere
The Man Who Sued God 2001
Amiable Aussie comedy-drama that pits Billy Connolly's principled everyman against the combined forces of Religion and Big Business
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001
Vintage hard-boiled noir from the Coen brothers. Billy Bob Thornton is a barber from northern California who undergoes an existential crisis when he discovers his wife having an affair
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