Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), a club-footed medical student, falls for a pretty waitress Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis). To Philip's dismay Mildred does not return his affection, instead she suffers his attentions, while treating him with contempt. As desire leads to infatuation, Philip, ever the gentleman, finds himself on the receiving end of her lies and mockery, but finds it impossible to kick her out of his life. As Mildred's cruel and uncompassionate personality drags her inevitably into find out more...

Desiree, an actress, and her ageing mother are giving a party. Two of the invited guests, Count Malcolm and Fredrik Egerman, a middle-aged lawyer, are romantically involved with Desiree, a cause for murderous jealousy between them. Meanwhile, Egerman's youthful wife, Anne, who has thus far repulsed all sexual advances on her husband's part, is showing a considerable interest in her stepson. During the course of the evening, various alliances are formed and dissolved, partners are switched, libid find out more...

Set against the background of a grimy village near Nottingham, this story of a coal-miner's son with promising artistic talent unfolds with sensitivity and intelligence in Jack Cardiff's adaptation of DH Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel. Caught up between his mother's possessiveness and his father's violent bouts, Paul Morel sacrifices both the chance to study art in London and the local girl he loves, eventually becoming involved in a damaged relationship with a woman separated from her h find out more...

The John Huston classic about the prim missionary lady forced to team up with a drunken ne'er-do-well for a dangerous journey when the war comes to their remote bit of Africa. Their trying odyssey downriver, of course, gradually sees the two incompatibles falling in love, with the as always detached Bogart finally discovering commitment and attacking a German gunboat. find out more...

Based on David Low's cartoon character, Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, VC, we back-track over his life, drawing us into sympathy with the prime virtues of honour and chivalry which have transformed him from dashing young spark of the 1890s into crusty old buffer of World War II. Roger Livesey gives us not just a great performance, but a man's whole life, losing his only love (Deborah Kerr) to the German officer (Walbrook) with whom he fought a duel in pre-WWI Berlin, then becoming the latter's find out more...

Wayne was perfectly cast as the dying gunfighter disturbed in his dotage by young tyros out to test their mettle against him. Beautifully shot in cold blues and greys, this classic evolves slowly into one of Wayne's finest and, as it turned out, his last role. find out more...