One of the most stylish and successful epics to emerge from the Hollywood-on-the-Tiber phase of film history. Quinn plays Barabbas a man literally marked with the blood of Jesus, whose spiritual/physical journey begins at the Crucifixion and, after a period in the sulphur mines, ends in the Roman gladiator arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons. find out more...

One of the most spectacular epics of all time, even by the standards of Hollywood, the famous twenty minute chariot race alone took three months to shoot, and, along the way, Ben is given a helping hand and converted by Jesus. An unmissable slice of movie history. Won Best Picture at 1959 Academy Awards. 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...