Based on the novel by Truman Capote. A brilliant romantic comedy about a young girl, Holly Golightly, who is determined to marry into money, but discovers that her next door neighbour has more important qualities! find out more...

A newly deceased playboy presents himself at the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts Henry's sins will qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime spent wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage not withstanding. Disarmingly light in tone, but astute in its social and sexual satire, Heaven Can Wait is a timeless classic and a particularly fine example of director Ernst Lubit find out more...

A suave business man unable to obtain a divorce enters into an affair with an actress in search of the "real thing". The vivacity of the performances, see Grant's improvised dance at a London club or the "phone sex' scene, lift this above the pack. A diamond. find out more...

Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life find out more...

Under Sturges's microscope, the collision between the gold-digging Harrington and the rich, hapless brewery-heir-turned-herpetologist Charles Pike gives plenty of oppurtunity for the auteur to skewer issues of class and sex. As always, Sturges is bold in pushing the censors' envelope, capturing a palpable erotic heat between the canny Jean and the literally feverish Charlie, who, after a year up the Amazon, is instantly smitten by the mere sight of her shapely ankles. To give away the plot machi find out more...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece. find out more...

A treat of a romance as a small town music teacher's four beautiful daughters try to sort out their romantic life. Into this suburban happy family breach steps, as if out of the wrong film, musically talented, but insecure, low-lifer Sinatra. An intelligent love story. find out more...