Jeremy Irons in his Oscar winning role as Claus von Bulow, who was accused of trying to murder his enormously rich wife Sunny after she fell into a diabetic coma in 1979. Was the apparently emotionless aristocrat a cold blooded killer or just the hen-pecked husband of a suicidal woman? Riveting drama. find out more...

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The famous drugs thriller as Gene Hackman plays the cop determined to fix the Marseille based heroin runners once and for all. An action-packed movie full of murders, car chases and everything else a good thriller should have - making it one of the classics and a yardstick for others since. Won Best Picture at 1971 Academy Awards. find out more...

A gangster movie that spawned a million with Coppola on top directorial form and Brando and Pacino at their very best. Brilliantly believable and detailed stories unfold complete in every scene as the movie waltzes to its violent moral climax of living and dying by the sword. find out more...

A film dominated by one performance, Forest Whitaker's turn as the infamous dictator Idi Amin. When young Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician few of us doubt that it will inevitably end in tears, but Amin, as is so often the way with monsters, has considerable charm to go with his paranoid genocidal tendencies and the naïve Garrigan is seduced. However Garrigan's role is ambiguous; is he just dumb or is he willingly looking the other way? The film also reverses the typical find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...

Jake Hoyt is a rookie LA cop, Alonzo Harris is the streetwise detective who's going to show him how it's done; but Jake's initiation is a trial by fire and as the day progresses from one hair raising scenario to the next he becomes increasingly concerned that his mentor is a badge abusing psychopath. Training Day is a taught urban thriller, but while it's unquestionably entertaining it is no cop classic, too slick, too shallow and lacking any real emotional power....I wouldn't normally moan, but find out more...

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing. An excellent gripping drama.....'greed is good' and morality is dead. find out more...