The Seventies spawned a series of thrillers exposing the political tensions that were reverberating across Europe. It was a decade when the social turmoil that marked the late 1960s gave...

Dir: Giuseppe De Santis | Cast Lucia Bosé, Carla del Poggio, Elena Varzi, Lea Padovani, Delia Scala, Raf Vallone, Massimo Girotti, Paolo Stoppa | Italy Drama 107’ Unusually among neo-realist dramas...

Dir: Sydney Gilliatt | Cast: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, David Attenborough, John Le Mesurier | UK drama Kingsley Amis only agreed to allow Launder & Gilliatt to film his novel on...

Dir: William A Wellman | Cast: Carole Lombard, Frederic Marc | US Comedy 77’ With the benefit of hindsight there's a bitter irony in Carole Lombard playing a girl defined by...

Dir: Sheldon Reynolds | US Drama The credits proudly declare this film 'Sheldon Reynolds' Foreign Intrigue', this being the film version of his TV series which he brought to the big...

Dir: Frank Capra | Cast: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Don Dillaway | US drama 89’ Don't be fooled by the title, Jean Harlow may have the title role, and...

UK 1948. Dir Basil Dearden. With Joan Greenwood, Stewart Granger, Peter Bull,Flora Robson. 96min. U The attention paid to Ealing's comedies has long been at the expense of their dramas, an...

Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark, Drama 116’ A film that continues to cause controversy - Philip French once opined that if you could turn 'Gertrud' into a sleeping pill it...

Dir: Elia Kazan | Cas: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet | US Drama 110' Probably Elia Kazan's greatest film, though seldom acknowledged as such. The film's failure both critical...