A dazzling blend of fantasy and music in this beautiful animated version of the Lewis Carroll tale. Alice is bored and follows a white rabbit down into a warren, hereby entering the famous fantasy world. find out more...

Bambi is a beautiful baby deer, (doe, to grown-ups), born in the forest and brought up amongst friends like Thumper the rabbit and Flower, the funky skunk. The animation stands up to anything contemporary and the animals are just so darn cute! A real winner. find out more...

One of Walt Disney's most endearing creatures - Dumbo the elephant with his oversize ears, snubbed and rejected by the other circus animals, befriends a small mouse who hatches the daring plan to launch him into the air as the world's first flying elephant. find out more...

Disney's mawkish tale of two dogs from different class backgrounds getting it on. The film is saved by an excellent manic beaver, a pair of villianous Siamese cat and some classic songs. Ideal for kids. find out more...

A proto-structuralist text which reveals and deconstructs the deep fissures in the facade of Victorian middle-class society and culturally constructed sexual roles. Dick Van Dyke's terrible British accent and the clever use of non-naturalistic background shows its Brechtian credentials. find out more...

A cuter-than-cute puppet who dreams of being a real little boy, a kindly old toymaker, a magical soundtrack, and that nose! A timeless fairytale and just as much fun for grown-up children too! find out more...

Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent, who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a poisoned spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three goodnatured not too bright fairies, but this is a curse that only a prince can break. Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. The last film which Walt personally supervised, not one of the best, but not that bad find out more...

An old Bull Terrier, a Siamese Cat and a Labrador set off on a hazardous journey across 200 rugged miles in order to rejoin their human family. A typically mawkish Disney adventure story, but absolutely ideal for the family get together. find out more...

Walt Disney takes a few liberties with Arthurian legend and ye olde worlde England. Great fun especially for children. 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...