'All My Loving' was created when John Lennon and Paul McCartney challenged Palmer, then a classical music documentarian, to make a film that encompassed the 1968 music world in one hour of screen time. This was the time of student demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and the music describes this struggle while also providing an escape from the troubles of the day. Great footage and interviews with the likes of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd - who had just lost Syd Barrett - find out more...

(Showing at the Cube Cinema, Thursday June 26th 2014): The definitive nostalgia movie. A multitude of budding stars made their debuts in this fond look at the innocence of teenage life in '62. Difficult decisions, sex, booze, amazing cars and a brilliant soundtrack make this a film which is touching, perceptive, very funny and hugely entertaining.

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Outrageously camp gangster yarn about an assassin who can only achieve sexual excitement by sniffing boiled rice! Ranked No 3 in the Top 10 of underworld hitmen, he polishes off No 2 during a string of spectacular killings, but soon has No 1 hot on his tail. Occasionally mystifying, but always witty, inventive and dazzling. find out more...

Many people consider this to be superior to Scorsese's recent remake; Mitchum is superb as the sadist, newly released from jail and determined to exact a hideous revenge on the prosecutor (Peck) that sent him down. This aroused enormous controversy when first released in Britain in 1963. find out more...

The wonderful people over at Second Run DVD have released another hidden gem: 'Daisies' (Sedmikrasky), originally made in 1966 by Vera Chytilova, who has since been called 'the first lady of Czech cinema' and whose efforts also earnt her a screening at the First International Festival of Women's Films in New York in 1972. find out more...

This semi-autobiographical film, the fourth instalment in the saga of Antoine Doinel, concentrates on his early married life during which time he becomes a writer, a father and a philanderer. A humourous and ironic account of a failing middle-class marriage, a subject that Truffaut obviously knew rather well. find out more...

Comissioned by the GPO, 'Night Mail' (1936) is a much-studied piece of British cinema, which, in true modernist fashion, fuses film, poetry and music together in order to convey the success of the British postal service. West Highland (1960) is a beautiful tribute to the heady days of the steam railway that had, by the time this film was made, gone into decline. find out more...

Foreign affairs farce, with Cagney as an ambitious Coca-cola salesman who finds himself way out of his depth in his quest for promotion. Despatched to Germany to extract his boss's daughter from her marriage to a Commie, he just can't resist attempting to flog his sticky beverage to the Russians! find out more...

Myra is a psychic, or believes herself to be, and becomes obsessed with the desire to reach the very pinnacle of her chosen profession. Enlisting her weak husband as an accomplice Myra kidnaps a young girl and then offers the police her assistance in helping to find her. Séance is a dark brooding tale, more psychological horror than it is thriller, and from the same pen as the 70's cult classic ‘The Stepford Wives'. find out more...

A highly acclaimed and influential account of Algeria's turbulent past made in psuedo-documentary style. The tense plot surrounds the rise of nationalist organisations in '54 and the French government's attempts to quell them. This film was the prototype for most political thrillers of the 1970s. find out more...