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...

Dir:: Pawel Pawlikowski | Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz | Cast: Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik | Poland 80’ Seven minutes into Ida, a startlingly beautiful return to Poland for...

  Dir: Max Ophüls | Arthur Schnitzler | Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gelin, Danielle Darieux, Fernand Gravey | France, Drama 93' Max Ophüls (1902-1957) creates an avant-garde...

To blame women for this seems odd, but the tendency of the female as a crime perpetrator is already clear in this pre-war film by Pierre Chenal LE DERNIER TOURNANT...

Dir Basil Dearden | Cast:Jack Warner, Dirk Bogarde, James Hanley, Peggy Evans | UK |82 min Still going today as Ealing Metro, Britain’s best-loved, independent cinema organisation, Ealing Studios, produced a...

Dir: John Boulting | Cast: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams You know you're in Greeneland when Harcourt Williams appears as a down-at-heel lawyer who quotes 'Macbeth'. Directing duo The...