Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation. find out more...

DCI Red Metcalfe is a cerebral man troubled by his own dark past and obsessed with solving a string of murders across London. A serial killer has set out to kill twelve men with the same names as the Apostles, in the same way that the Apostles were killed, eg St Bartholomew being flayed alive and St Peter crucified head down. The killer does this because he believes himself a second Messiah. find out more...

When another set of horrific murders begin, linked by a killer's quest for redemption (each crime scene is linked by the words 'Save Me' found written in the victims' blood) Red and his team realise that they are out of their depth and will need help from someone outside the department who can understand the link between the murders. More of a descent into hell than a redemptive mission, the killer's crusade is poignantly selfish and damning. find out more...

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the "DC Mini" it is able to act as a "dream detective" to enter into people's minds and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen. In the wrong hands the DC Mini can be used to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they still sleep, so scientis find out more...

Two men find themselves trapped in a now deserted public baths; they are chained to the pipes, their only means of escape, a saw and a gun with one bullet. Dr Lawrence and his fellow prisoner are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer, a serial murderer who likes to test his prey's humanity as well as their will to survive. Throw in a borderline psychotic cop, unconvincingly played by Glover, a hostage family and some ingeniously gruesome flashbacks and Saw makes for a slightly uninspiring tilt find out more...

2017 and humans have become so fearful that they've replaced themselves in the 'interactive world' with better looking robots so as they needn't leave the supposed safety of their own homes ever again. But when federal agent Greer is assigned to an unusual murder case, whereby the assassination of a surrogate simultaneously resulted in the operator's death, he uncovers an organised conspiracy that is alarmingly and ultimately endangering to humans.
A nifty and entertaining piece of sci-fi find out more...

Classic film noir from the pen and director's chair of Orson Welles. Set in a seedy Mexican border town the local police chief is corrupt and bigoted, his only enemy a crusading Mexican narcotics investigator, determined to bring the policeman to book and expose his murderous scams. Touch of Evil has all the stunning trade mark cinematography of an Orson Welles picture and is a superbly dark and brooding movie with some fine subsidiary characters. Kafkaesque. find out more...

Another Hitchcock masterpiece, featuring some of the most inventive and unsettling camera work in cinema. Stewart plays a retired detective who is hired by a friend to follow his unstable wife. However the plot is considerably more entangled than it appears from the outset as Stewart becomes a witness to the wife's death. A moody and considered psycho-drama... find out more...