At the peak of his creative powers the 29 year old Bernardo Bertolucci, eschewed the influence of mentor, Jean-Luc Godard and partnered up with Vittorio Storaro and developed his own style for one of the most visually dazzling, politically and psychologically intriguing and possibly greatest of all Italian films.
Told in a non linear structure that would go on to influence The Godfather Part II (not the only influence on Coppola s film), the story begins in Rome, 1938. Marcello (Jean-Lou find out more...

One of the all-time classic film noirs. Sultry Lana Turner is hypnotic as the bored, beautiful wife whose dreary life takes a dramatic turn when enigmatic drifter Frank walks into the diner she runs. Only her good-natured husband stands in the way of the pair's deadly passion. Superb stuff. find out more...

Altman's re-make of Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night, and the second adaptation of Edward Anderson's novel. A trio of half-baked criminals attempt to emulate the organised big-time villains glamorized by the media of 1930s America, but come a cropper after an all-too-short taste of freedom from their rightful place in the county jail. Keith Carradine is the youngest crim, whose love for the farmer's daughter who helps them escape provides the romance in this Depression-based melodrama. find out more...

White Russian General Fyodor Voronin is living as an exile in Paris with his devoted wife Arsinoe, but even to her he is an enigma. In the turmoil of a pre-WWII Europe where do the man's loyalties lie? To old Russia, to the Communists, or perhaps even the Nazi's? Based on a real unsolved mystery the film concentrates not on the mechanics of espionage, but on the consequences, emotional and other, of a world where deceit, concealment and conspiracy are the norm. Who and what do you believe? Tripl find out more...