1560, Peru. In a beautiful poetic opening scene the conquistadors cross an Andes pass, situated between the peaks and the valleys, between conquered land and unexplored forests, between 'heaven' and 'earth', shrouded in mists, they make their way down a narrow path. Aguirre's meglomania grows as around him his comrades mutiny and die in his search for the lost city of El Dorado. Herzog's best film, an unforgetable tour de force. Made before the director himself gave in to meglomania on a later t find out more...

Leone's superb all-encompassing epic portraying the death of the mythical 'Wild West'. A superb cast, the collaborations of Bertolucci and Argento, and Morricone's brilliantly atmospheric score all add to the incredible style and weight of Leone's creation. A true cinematic masterpiece! A candidate for greatest movie ever made, if you haven't... then you must. find out more...

'Ride In The Whirlwind' was a cheapie shot back-to-back with 'The Shooting' and scripted by Jack Nicholson telling the story of three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and hunted by a band of vigilantes until two are dead and the third becomes a killer in self-defence. A gritty, stylised cult western. find out more...

The film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr's famous anti-war sci-fi novel. Slipping back and forth along his own life line a suburban optometrist experiences the fire bombing of Dresden and captivity on the planet Trafalmardore. A powerful and seemingly unfilmable book that turned out to be a great movie. find out more...

A classic European fairytale comes to vivid Technicolor life in this story of a prince a spoilt princess, a singing ringing tree, an evil dwarf and a bear; oh, and true love. A gloriously gaudy tale... and the bear... did I mention the bear? find out more...

A classic Hans Christian Anderson tale about a young soldier, a witch and a magical tinderbox from which he summons three mighty hounds. A dream like adaptation of a children's fairytale from late 50s German cinema. find out more...

The story follows Willett Gashade, an ex-bounty hunter who returns home searching for his brother, only to discover that he has disappeared. He is met by Coley, a frazzled cowboy and along with a beautiful but tempestuous woman the eclectic trio set out across the Utah desert. Along the way Gashade is reluctantly joined by the menacing presence of bounty hunter Billy Spear and as the tension escalates so violence becomes inevitable. Monte Hellman reinvented the Western genre with 'The Shooting', find out more...

B-movie legend, Roger Corman moved into the mainstream to produce this depiction of the infamous 1929 shooting of seven Chicago mobsters. find out more...