It's 2009 and a time capsule buried 50 years earlier is opened up and inside are a series of numbers that seem to have predicted major disasters in the intervening period AND a coming apocalypse... so we're all for the chop. find out more...

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Guillermo Del Toro's blockbusting tale of a young girl struggling to make sense of the violent world around her was a big 2006 arthouse hit. Continuing his exploration of the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his generation (it was also the backdrop for his excellent ghost story, The Devil's Backbone) Del Toro's fantasy mixes strong horror with fairytale-style aesthetics to great effect, making Ofelia's escape into an imaginary realm a poignant response to the cruel realities of her existence. find out more...

Hendrik van der Zee has been cursed to sail the seas for the murder of his wife. The only way to break the curse is to find a woman willing to die for him. After 300 years in purgatory, Fredrik sails into a Spanish port and encounters the beautiful Pandora, a woman whose elegant wasted life consists of enthralling men and treating them with a diffidence that is easily mistaken for cruelty. As both protagonists fall for each other we are left wondering if Pandora could be the one to secure the find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A classic European fairytale comes to vivid Technicolor life in this story of a prince a spoilt princess, a singing ringing tree, an evil dwarf and a bear; oh, and true love. A gloriously gaudy tale... and the bear... did I mention the bear? find out more...

A classic Hans Christian Anderson tale about a young soldier, a witch and a magical tinderbox from which he summons three mighty hounds. A dream like adaptation of a children's fairytale from late 50s German cinema. find out more...

Another spectacular recreation of ancient myth from the visual genius of Ray Harryhausen finds Sinbad battling griffins, centaurs, multi limbed statues and even the prow of his own ship! A hugely entertaining and timeless adventure. find out more...

When a prehistoric horse is captured, a group of adventurers decide to travel to Mexico's Forbidden Valley in search of other specimens for their circus. Winged, fanged monsters and some mighty pissed off dinosaurs cannot dissuade the motley crew of cowboys, but as we all well know from cinematic experience, if you mess with prehistoric carnivores, they're going to come back and bite you. 'The Valley Of The Gwangi' is a classic slice of Harryhausen stop motion animation and while the story is no find out more...

Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in and, when her mother sends her to live with her father in the rainy little town Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change, that is, until she meets the moody, broody Edward. There is only one, sizable, problem to the teenagers' burgeoning romance: Edward is a vampire and as their relationship grows he finds it increasingly difficult to fight the urge to bite his human love. Adapted from the hu find out more...