Dir: Costa-Gavras | France thriller 1965 Few films make such exhilarating use of a train as The Sleeping Car Murders (Compartiment tueurs). A brilliantly constructed murder mystery, it combines the claustrophobic...

Dir: Robert Aldrich | US Psychological Drama 107’ Robert Aldrich takes what initially appears to be a conventional melodrama and steers it into considerably darker psychological territory, with Joan Crawford playing...

Czechoslovak New Wave: Cinema on the Edge of Change Throughout September and October, in collaboration with The Garden Cinema, the 30th Made in Prague Festival celebrates one of the great explosions...

Dir: Andrzej Żuławski | Polish thriller 1971 The Polish director’s astonishing debut, The Third Part of the Night, arrives like a film already in a state of fever. Drawing on the wartime...

Dir: Bryan Forbes | UK 1964 116’ | Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Nanette Newman, Patrick MageeA BFI National Archive print Bryan Forbes’ Seance on a Wet Afternoon is one of...

Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama 1986 By the time Andrei Tarkovsky made The Sacrifice, he knew he was living on borrowed time. Exiled from the Soviet Union and gravely ill with...

There was something wonderfully reassuring about Sam Neill, who has died aged 78. He could command the screen without dominating it, finding drama not through grandstanding but through intelligence, wit...

Dir: William Wyler | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Olivia De Havilland, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, Selena Royle, Betty Linley, Ray Collins, Mona Freema | US Drama | 110’ Dame Olivia...

Dir: John Schlesinger | Wri: Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall | Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Leonard Rossiter, Rodney Bewes, Helen Fraser, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Gwendolyn Watts, Wilfred Pickles...