Wilma Kotcher tells her husband, Gerald, that his father is no longer welcome in their home, but the feisty dad, Joseph P Kotcher, won't allow himself to be locked up with a bunch of other senior citizens. Instead he decides to move in with a troubled teenage babysitter who has become pregnant. Joseph finds new meaning in his life by lending the girl, Erica, a hand. At the same time, the teenager learns a lot about life from her new roommate. Kotch is a touching tale directed by Jack Lemmon. find out more...

In letters to her Spanish raised daughter, Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler, has been pretending that she's a high-society matron. When the now grown up daughter and her aristocratic fiancée plan to visit, Annie panics and turns to her best customer, Dave the Dude, a racketeering gangster who sets about transforming her into the grandest of dames. Based on ‘Guys and Dolls' this 1930s fairytale was Capra's first major success, a charming comedy drama with a razor sharp scri find out more...

Rip Smith (Stewart) discovers a town statistically identical to the entire country so he and his assistants go there to steal a march on his rivals and run polls easily and cheaply. When he meets local civic crusader Mary Peterman (Wyman) romantic involvement follows and things start to change rapidly. find out more...

A mild-mannered shopkeeper is made the unwitting guinea-pig in a divine experiment. As the benefactor of immortal powers his ambition seems to go no further than trying to impress the girl of his dreams, but when greedier mortals try to exploit his talents he decides to assert his authority, throwing his heavenly benefactors into celestial chaos. An impressive version of HG Wells' classic tale about the avarice and power-lust of the meek. find out more...

Marty is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara. They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they manage, in time, to grope their way to love. Feel good cinema at its best and most believable. find out more...

Early screwball comedy from the director of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Longfellow Deeds (the charismatic Gary Cooper) inherits his uncle's vast fortune and sets off to New York to move into his enormous mansion. But Deeds is a simple kind of fellow who doesn't really want $20 million, much to the delight of the public. But one man, news editor George Bancroft, is determined to prove that Deeds's innocent sincerity is false, and sends aggressive reporter Jean Arthur to try to discredit him. Excelle find out more...

Stewart is superb as the young Wisconsin senator put up to the job, who then exposes the corruption in the Senate and upholds true American values. Popular wish fulfilment served up with such fast talking comic panache that you don't have time to question its cornball idealism. A great film! find out more...

In 1880s New York City, newspapers were engaged in a free-for-all competition, with the respectable practitioners such as Joseph Pulitzer leading a horde of sheets that included every kind of yellow rag imaginable. Newspaperman Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) is so appalled by the brand of journalism practiced by The Star, the newspaper where he works, and its publisher, Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), that he gets himself fired. But instead of looking for another job, he decides to start up his find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Based on Howard Lindsay's Pulitzer winning play, State Of The Union revolves around an idealistic industrial magnate's decision to enter politics and run for the presidency. Little does he realise the pressure he is about to put himself under, or the effect it will have on his estranged wife. A classic tale, beautifully performed by the two leads mixing satire and drama with perfectly judged light comedy. find out more...