Pacino is superb as the oddball cop Frank Serpico, an idealist cop who stood out not just because of his odd dress sense, but because of his refusal to take bribes, something which made him very dangerous to his thieving corrupt workmates. A series of narrative twists make this excellent truth-based drama gripping viewing. A forerunner for the even better 'Prince of the City'. find out more...

Thomas is a disgraced FBI agent banished to a hick town after he took the law into his own hands. A series of gruesome murders later and the haunted G-man is following a trail of clues left by the ultimate serial killer, a damaged mind on a lethal crusade. Suspect Zero is a tight atmospheric thriller with an original twist and is a cut above many movies of the same genre. find out more...

Laughton's only stab at directing, with Mitchum giving a stunning performance as the psychopathic preacher who, whilst in jail for a minor offence, hatches a devious plan to get his hands on the loot stashed by his condemned cell-mate. Set in '30s rural America, the film polarises into a struggle between good and evil for the souls of innocent children. Laughton's deliberately old-fashioned direction throws up a startling array of images: an amalgam of Mark Twain-like exteriors (idyllic riversid find out more...

The Amish are a puritanical sect whose life in Pennsylvania has remained unchanged since the 18th Century, but when an Amish boy witnesses a murder, cynical big city cop John Book (Ford) investigates the case and, finding his own life endangered, is forced to hot-foot it to their ranch with the bad guys in pursuit. Ford falls in love with the boy's mother (McGillis), and observes the distance between the messy world he leaves behind and the cloistered one in which he takes refuge. Powerful, assu find out more...