Sinatra yet again shows that he was no mere crooner as he plays the psychopathic gunman who, with colleagues, seizes a suburban house, taking the inmates hostage, as he prepares to assassinate the president of the USA. find out more...

A chillingly awesome film, one of Clint's best. A dark sexual brooding drama set during the American Civil War. A wounded soldier is taken in by a crumbling girls' school and proceeds, through their sexual confusion and frustration, to manipulate the women. Their retribution is blood curdling. find out more...

A grotesque bunch of gangsters kidnap a petulant heiress, but when their leader falls in love with the spoilt brat she uses the power that gives her in a power game to attempt to elicit her freedom. find out more...

The film that made Michael Caine a star, and the first in the series of Harry Palmer films. In this he is blackmailed into working for the secret service on the trail of a kidnapped scientist, and has to fight with brainwashers, murderers and traitors. A thriller of the very highest quality. find out more...

A child is kidnapped from his parents while on holiday in Morocco. His parents, caught in a web of intrigue which they must crack to trace their son, are forced to travel to London and the film ends with a memorable shooting sequence in the Royal Albert Hall. One of Hitchcock's best movies. find out more...

A lush Technicolor musical extravaganza about the embittered and disfigured ex-violinist who promotes the career of the beautiful diva that he loves, but ends up kidnapping her and dragging her down to his pad in the sewers. find out more...

Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texan oil baron to rescue his kidnapped wife (Cardinale), who's been spirited across the Mexican border by a band of mercenaries led by Jesus Raza (Palance). The four rugged professionals, each regarded as a specialist in his selected field - an expert marksman and tracker (Strode), the explosives master (Lancaster), horse handler (Ryan) and one skilled in tactics and weaponry (Marvin) - make their way across the treacherous landscape to retrieve t find out more...

Ford turns Monument Valley into an interior landscape as Wayne, and a half breed, pursue his five-year odyssey, a grim quest to kill both the Indian who abducted his niece and the tainted girl herself. Essential viewing and generally hailed as one of the greatest westerns. find out more...

Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, he is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A touchstone of the gangster-film genre, 'Touchez Pas Au Grisbi' is understated, elegant and evocative. 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...