Dir.: Tony Palmer; Cast: Simon Callow, Michael Ball, Rebecca Front, Lucy Speed, Nina Young, Robert Stephens, Corin Redgrave, Guy Henry; UK 1995, 158 min. Director Tony Palmer excels in biopic dramas...

Dir: Richard Fleischer | Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland, Zachary Scott | US Action Drama 92’ In his memoirs director Richard Fleischer gave a harrowing account of the horrors...

Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready | USA 1958, 87 min. Paths of Glory was Kubrick's first foray into the battlefield, based on the...

Dir.: G.W. Pabst; Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Carl Götz, Alice Roberts, Daisy d’Ora, Alice Roberts; Germany 1928, 135'. Based on two plays by the German playwright Frank Wedekind...

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Cast: Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Véra Clouzot | Thriller | French | 117min Hitchcock considered Henri-Georges Clouzot his arch enemy in the world of suspense, and Psycho...

Dir: Rowland V Lee | Cast: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Béla Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson | US Horror 99' In Gods and Monsters Ian McKellen (playing the director James Whale)...

Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud. Louis Calhern, Edmond O’Brian, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr | US drama 121’ Joe Mankiewicz had contributed enough black ink to the ledgers of Hollywood to...

Dir: Terence Davies | UK Drama | 83' Davies’s epic, musical celebration of the working class evokes a late 40s to late 50s cultural space. This was  soon to be replaced...

In 1963 Joseph Losey’s huge success with The Servant gave him carte blanche with his next project. Since the following year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the First...