An ex-con is hired to drive lorries at death defying speeds, to make as many deliveries as possible in a day, and ends up in a duel with a sadistic rival - they fight to the death, and the weapons are TEN-TON TRUCKS!!! find out more...

Returning to France to compete a year after he's been injured, an American racer finds himself drawn to the widow of a fellow speed freak who was killed in the same accident. find out more...

Number Seventeen is essentially a detective story, a copper tracking down a gang of jewel thieves; the picture runs about an hour and is rather confusing. It starts in a spooky old house and ends with an exciting cross-country car chase, for which miniatures were used. It looks like a picture that Hitchcock had to make to fill a quota and it was the last he directed for BIP. find out more...

A totally seductive knockabout movie with Robert Mitchum 'Duke' and Jane Greer 'Chiquita Graham' in fine form. Duke has to catch the culprit for a payroll heist to prove his own innocence and shake off a pursuing army officer, a chase that takes him to Mexico, where he meets Chiquita, who is independently after the same con-man, and here they find action, adventure and romance. A fast paced narrative with an outstanding supporting cast, especially Ramon Novarro as Inspector General Ortega. find out more...

Two brothers struggle as wildcat truck drivers, battling the dangers of the open road, and with one of them accused of his friend's murder. A gripping drama with great wisecracking performances. find out more...

War veteran Luke Doolin returns home to the family business of transporting illegal moonshine through the mountains whilst dodging the local police. But soon the bootleggers are having a new threat in the shape of Kogan, a businessman who is buying up the stills. If they refuse to hand over their profits to Kogan, he will take them by force, and starts by shooting one of the drivers. With the police, taxmen and the gangsters on his trail, will Luke survive? find out more...

In this controversial and acclaimed story of drag-racing drifters, the drivers of a Pontiac GTO and a '55 Chevy fight an obsessive battle across the back roads of America for possession of each other's 'pinks' and the affections of a mysterious young hitchhiker. Dominating this hypnotic existential journey is Warren Oates as the obsessive ‘GTO', with James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (in their first and only acting roles) his rivals for both car and woman. "Two-Lane Blacktop" is an existentialist 6 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...