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The Man Who Would Be King 1975
Connery and Caine combine in this cautionary tale about two soldier-adventurers who head for Kafiristan to make their fortunes - and are raised to kingship by the fierce tribes that live there
The Man Without A Past 2002
Trademark absurdist tragi-comedy that resounds with upbeat sentiment and good humour. From the acclaimed Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki
The Martins 2001
A jobless loser whisks his deadbeat family off to the Isle of Man, in this deadbeat comedy from the makers of Billy Elliot and Kevin And Perry Go Large
The Mask Of Zorro 1998
The Masque Of The Red Death 1964
Vincent Price stars as the evil Prince Prospero in this loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's celebrated short story
The Matrix Reloaded 2003
The continuing adventures of virtual reality Superman Neo, his John the Baptist cohort Morpheus and PVC-clad lover Trinity. Special effects extravaganza and geek-boy wish fulfillment fantasy from the Wachowski brothers
The Matrix Revolutions 2003
The Wachowski brothers' cyberpunk fantasy reaches its conclusion. Neo looks blank, Trinity squeezes into the PVC, Morpheus intones solemnly and Agent Smith goes "Muahahahahahaha!"
The Medallion 2003
Slapstick kung-fu superstar Jackie Chan takes on the forces of darkness in this comedy-adventure, battling evil Julian Sands for control of a magical medallion
The Mephisto Waltz 1971
The Mexican 2001
Stylish but sparkle-free desert road movie-crime drama-offbeat romantic comedy. Brad Pitt is a hapless mob retainer, Julia Roberts his despairing girlfriend and head-Soprano James Gandolfini plays her sensitive kidnapper
The Mighty 1998
Harry Dean Stanton, Gena Rowlands and Kieran Culkin lead a high-profile cast in this family-friendly fable. A wise-cracking, terminally-ill kid forms an unlikely alliance with the neighbourhood's dim-witted, over-sized outcast, and together they create their own superhero
The Milagro Beanfiled War 1988
The Missing 2003
From A Beautiful Mind's Oscar-winning director-producer team comes this powerful late 19th century tale of an estranged father and daughter, reunited under the most extreme circumstances
The Mission 1986
Roland Joffé's visually lush retelling of the historical destruction of an 18th century Jesuit mission in the South American jungle. Stars Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons and boasts a score from Ennio Morricone
The Missouri Breaks 1976
Marlon Brando is the bounty hunter, Jack Nicholson the hunted man in this distinctly offbeat western from the director of Bonnie And Clyde
The Monk 1972
The Most Fertile Man In Ireland 2002
Peculiar Irish sex romp about male infertility, set in sectarian Belfast. Eamon Manley is the man who discovers he has super-sperm
The Mother 2003
Anne Reid's recently widowed sixty-something mother-of-two begins an affair with her neurotic daughter's on-off boyfriend, Daniel Craig. A very different, west London-set tale from the director of Notting Hill, scripted by Hanif Kureishi
The Mummy 1932
Vintage version of the tale of ancient bandaged horror, starring Boris Karloff as the titular aggrieved Egyptian
The Muse 1999
Hollywood satire in which Sharon Stone provides divine inspiration to struggling screenwriter Albert Brooks. Suitably riddled with high profile cameos
The Naked Kiss 1964
Sam Fuller's passionate denouncement of American small-town life. The story of a prostitute who makes good only to realise that she's done so in a bad, bad world
The Naked Man 1998
Mild mannered chiropractor by day, avenging professional wrestler by night! Weird enough for ya?
The Name of the Rose 1986
The Nanny 1965
Bette Davis and Wendy Craig star in this Hammer psychodrama from 1965. An elderly nanny is in charge of a disturbed 10-year-old boy, although it transpires he's not half as disturbed as she is
The Net 1995
Sandra Bullock gets lost in cyberspace in this efficient internet-age thriller. She falls for dangerous Englishman Jeremy Northam, but he just wants to download her hidden files
The Never Ending Story 1984
An unimpressive children's film with a famously bad theme tune
The Night Of The Hunter 1955
Robert Mitchum stars in this deeply creepy and maddeningly tense 50s thriller as a maniacal preacher who stalks a couple of children as he searches for hidden loot. Strangely fantastical fare directed by actor Charles Laughton
The Night Porter 1974
A young former concentration camp inmate happens across her SS officer torturer/lover and they resume their sadomasochistic relationship - bad move. Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde star
The Nightcomers 1972
Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham and Thora Hird feature in Michael Winner's pointless prequel to Henry James' 'The Turn Of The Screw'. Occasionally lurid but generally lame attempt at psychodrama in which two horrible kids commit a double murder
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
The Ninth Gate 1999
Johnny Depp stars in this amusing and energetic horror farce from disgraced old master Roman Polanski
The Officers' Ward 2001
A beautiful and moving account of one man's struggle to come to terms with harsh mental and physical injuries sustained during the first hours of World War I. From French writer-director Francois Dupeyron
The Omega Man 1971
Charlton Heston is the last man on Earth in this apocalyptic tale of viruses, vampires and alienation
The One And Only 2002
Love is blossoming in Newcastle, with the added complication that the couple in question are married to other people. British comedy from the writer and director of 'Our Friends In The North'
The Only Game in Town 1970
The Osterman Weekend 1983
An investigative TV reporter discovers that his three best friends are KGB agents in this paranoia thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Rutger Hauer
The Other Side Of The Bed 2002
A bright and breezy comedy musical from Spain. Two easily distracted couples cheat on each other in ever more tortuous combinations
The Others 2001
Spaniard Alejandro Amenábar directs Nicole Kidman in this fabulously atmospheric supernatural movie with all the ingredients of vintage haunted house stories - an isolated mansion, borderline insanity and sensitive children.
The Outlaw 1943
Spirited take on Billy The Kid that courted controversy when it unleashed Jane Russell's curves onto the cinema screen
The Paradine Case 1947
Ann Todd and Gregory Peck star in this Hitchcock directed, Selznick produced courtroom drama. One of their less inspired creations
The Parent Trap 1961
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc 1928
Danish director Carl Theodore Dreyer's magnificent 1920s silent drama. A strikingly pared-down and intense retelling of the trial and execution of the French saint
The Passion Of The Christ 2004
Mel Gibson charts the agony of Christ's final hours in this controversial and bloody telling of the Gospels
The Pawnbroker 1965
Sidney Lumet and Rod Steiger team up to devastating effect in a stark study of a Holocaust survivor
The Perfect Score 2004
Six high school kids, an important exam, and an audacious heist. Teen movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Erika Christensen
The Phantom 1996
Billy Zane dons a purple body-stocking and for this misguided adaptation of the comic strip about a white Africa superhero
The Phantom Of The Opera 1925
Lon Chaney is the facially disfigured Phantom who falls in love with a beautiful opera singer in this highly stylised and tragic Gothic fantasy
The Pianist 2002
Roman Polanski returns to form with this true story-based account of Wladyslaw Szpilman, "the greatest pianist in Poland - maybe even the whole world", as he aims to evade capture by the Nazis in war-torn Warsaw
The Piano 1993
Award-winning, heavily-symbolic tale of a mute woman and her daughter taken to New Zealand during the 19th century to provide a colonist with a family
The Pink Panther 1964
The first outing for one of madcap genius Peter Sellers' most celebrated
roles, Inspector Clouseau. Here, cinema's most ineffective detective bumbles along the trail of a mysterious jewel thief, looking everywhere but the right place
The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976
The fifth in the long running Pink Panther series is a gloriously implausible romp, once again starring Sellers and Lom
The Plague Of The Zombies 1966
The aristocrats are making undead slaves out of the peasants in this seminal Hammer horror starring André Morell
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981
James M Cain's novel of sexual obsession and murder gets its fourth big screen outing, this time starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange and directed by Bob Rafelson
The Princess And The Warrior 2001
Gloomy but beautiful urban fairy tale of love and coincidence. Run Lola Run star Franka Potente reunites with German writer-director Tom Tykwer to play a quiet psychiatric nurse who falls for a tormented ex-soldier
The Principles Of Lust 2003
A struggling writer meets an attractive single mother and a charismatic stranger with a fascination for low life, all on the same day. British drama starring Alec Newman and Sienna Guillory
The Prisoner Of Zenda 1937
The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover 1977
Broderick Crawford impressively impersonates J Edgar Hoover in a melodramatic whizz through the celebrated lawman's most famous cases
The Professionals 1966
A posse of men is assembled to return a kidnapped wife to her husband in this remarkable, hugely underrated Western
The Purple Heart 1944
Dana Andrews stars a US pilot on trial as the issues at the heart of World War II are played out in a Japanese courtroom
The Purple Rose Of Cairo 1985
Screwball farce for lonely hearts, Woody Allen's finest 80s set piece. Mia Farrow falls for a celluloid man who spirits her away from misery
The Quiet American 2002
Second, and arguably superior, screen adaptation of Graham Greene's fascinating, still pertinent novel about Western meddling in 50s Vietnam. Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser star
The Quiller Memorandum 1966
The Quince Tree Sun 1992
Complex, slow paced but for many deeply satisfying, this documentary tour de force from Víctor Erice tells the story of Spanish painter Antonio López García
The Rachel Papers 1989
Adaptation of Martin Amis' pimpled, caustic first novel about teenage lust. Starring Dexter Fletcher
The Railway Children 1970
Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins star in this enduring adaptation of E Nesbit's classic children's story. After their father disappears, three Edwardian children move to the country where the local railway becomes a source of hope and adventure
The Real Linda Lovelace 2002
Linda Lovelace, who died in April this year as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash, became the iconic symbol of the porn industry in the early 70s and a new documentary, The Real Linda Lovelace, explores the extraordinary and contradictory life of this notorious pin-up.
The Red Circle 1970
A group of gangsters carry out a daring jewel heist in Jean-Pierre Melville's moody Gallic noir. Stars Alain Delon as a thief with a plan
The Red Squirrel 1993
Intense psychological thriller by Spanish director Julio Medem. A failed musician fools a beautiful amnesiac into thinking that he's actually her boyfriend, then falls in love with her
The Remains Of The Day 1993
Antony Hopkins stars in this definite Merchant-Ivory film, adpated from the novel about class, love and repression by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Right Stuff 1983
Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid star in Philip Kaufman's slyly comic film about the US Mercury 7 space programme. Oscar-winning epic adapted from Tom Wolfe's novel
The Ring 2002
Competent US remake of the hit Japanese horror film. Mulholland Falls' Naomi Watts stars as the journalist investigating the killer videotape
The Road Home 1999
Simple, tender but very affecting tale of a young man's return home to rural China for his father's funeral. There his mother looks back on her life and remembers the early days of her marriage
The Road To Memphis 2003
Director Richard Pearce travels to Memphis with BB King and profiles some of the city's musicians in this revealing contribution to Martin Scorsese's series The Blues
The Rookie 2002
A high-school baseball coach finds he's playing better than any of his students and gets signed up for the major league in this true story starring Dennis Quaid
The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
Brilliant ensemble piece about an eccentric family of geniuses, with three child prodigies turned neurotic adults, an overly ambitious mother and Gene Hackman as a charming rogue of a father
The Rules of Attraction 2002
Updating Bret Easton Ellis' 1987 fictional New England campus-set novel to the present day, The Rules Of Attraction follows a series of debauched co-eds - led by James Van Der Beek - as they drink, screw and snort their way into oblivion
The Ruling Class 1972
Starring Peter O'Toole in an Oscar-nominated performance as the 14th Earl of Gurney. He's mad, bad but amusing to know in this flawed satire on the aristocracy
The Saddest Music In The World 2003
From the idiosyncratic minds of Winnipeg fabulist Guy Maddin and Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro comes this unique story about a bizarre contest held in 1933
The Safety Of Objects 2001
Go Fish writer-director Rose Troche crafts a series of short stories into a look at the secrets and tragedies of a group of neighbours in American suburbia
The Score 2001
Brando! De Niro! Two Godfathers plus Ed Norton embark on an audacious heist in this slick crime thriller
The Scorpion King 2002
Spin-off from the modern Mummy films set "before the time of the pyramids". Wrestler The Rock stars as a formidable assassin taking on the might of an all-conquering empire
The Screw 0
The Sellers Collection 2001
A box set containing four films spanning the career of Peter Sellers, one of Britain's funniest (and most tragic) comedians. The features are: The Smallest Show On Earth, Two Way Stretch, Carlton Browne of The F.O. and Hoffman
The Sender 1982
Director Roger Christian won an Oscar in 1980 for his short The Dollar Bottom, then he made this excellent horror, then he made Battlefield Earth. What happened?
The Seven Samurai 1954
A simple story of seven mercenaries hired to protect a village from marauding bandits becomes a unique and mesmerising action-packed epic of sustained tension and stoic humanity in Kurosawa's hands: an enduring classic
The Seventh Seal 1957
Affectionately referenced in many movies - most famously Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey - the great Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal features, as its central motif, a knight taking on Death at a game of chess. The prize? His life
The Seventh Sign 1988
The Shape Of Things 2003
Rachel Weisz plays a femme fatale in this compellingly heartless dissection of the battle of the sexes. Directed by Neil LaBute, from his own play
The Silence Of The Lambs 1990
FBI agent Clarice Starling's battle of wits with Dr Hannibal Lecter makes for compulsive viewing in this strange, seductive story of heroics, anti-heroics and serial killers
The Silent Touch 1992
The Sin Eater 2003
Heath Ledger is a renegade priest hunting a mythological entity in this lamentable religious thriller from writer-director Brian Helgeland
The Singing Detective 2003
Robert Downey Jr stars as a writer with a hideous skin condition that confines him to his bed, where his life and fiction collapse into one another. Made from Dennis Potter's adaptation of his notorious BBC drama of the 80s
The Sixth Sense 1999
Writer-director M Night Shyamalan's massive sleeper hit. A sombre tale of the supernatural with real humanity and a superb twist, starring Bruce Willis and newcomer Haley Joel Osment
The Sleeping Car Murders 1965
The Sleepy Time Gal 2000
A middle-aged woman dying of cancer tries to come to terms with the main regret of her life: giving up her daughter for adoption. Can mother and daughter find solace in each other, or find each other at all?
The Son 2002
This follow-up to the Palme D'Or winning Rosetta from Belgium's sibling filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. A strikingly powerful yet startlingly simple effort that underplays most of the emotional chords struck within the story
The Sorcerers 1967
An elderly couple possess the mind of Ian Ogilvy and go on a wild spree of sex, violence and burglary. Peculiar horror from Sixties schlock wünderkind Michael Reeves
The Soul Of A Man 2003
Wim Wenders presents his own take on the blues as part of Martin Scorsese's seven-part series. Focusing on Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and JB Lenoir, it also features specially recorded performances by Nick Cave, Beck, Lou Reed and a host of others
The Spanish Prisoner 1997
Playwright turned director David Mamet continues to explore his fascination with professional confidence tricksters with this paranoid thriller full of serpentine twists and turns
The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
Roger Moore's third outing as Bond sees the ex-Saint stepping out of Connery's shadow and into a rollicking thriller centred around a bizarre plan to create an underwater empire
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