Dir: Claude Chabrol | France, Drama 95’ Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978) is a French psychological drama based on the true story of a young woman convicted of poisoning her parents...

Dir: F W Murnau | 1922. Silent fantasy drama 93’ One of the earliest films by Murnau to show real promise - and with yet another version due out in...

Dir: Mitchell Leison | Cast: Joan Fontaine Basil Rathbone Arturo de Cordova | US Drama At over $3m Paramount's most expensive production to date, this extravagant folly was a triumph...

Dir: Claude Chabrol | Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonaire | France, Thriller 90’ You'd have to have led a charmed life to have seen a significant amount of the films of...

Dir.: Jacques Demy; Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Anne Vernon, Ellen Farmer, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Mireille Perrey; France/West Germany 1964, 91 min. Jacques Demy (1931-1990) was a unique and multi-talented filmmaker who...

Director: Luchino Visconti | Cast: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Katina Paxinou, Claudia Cardinale, Spiras Focas, Max Cartier | Italy 1960, 180’ After La Terra Trema (1948), Visconti returned to...

Wri/Dir: Guy Maddin | Comedy drama 100’ 1992 The tales produced by Canadian director Guy Maddin often resemble silent films and his first in colour looked as if it had been...

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

Dir: Paul McGuigan | UK Thriller 103' A sweary bit of brutal British gangster violence offers a stylish depiction of the Kray Brothers’ era, elevated to a cult classic by a...