Three civil rights activists are murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and the local community remains tight-lipped when the two FBI agents arrive. One is determined to go by the book but the other is determined to blow open the case any which way. Another powerful masterpiece from Alan Parker. Watch it! find out more...

Earl Brooks is a successful businessman, husband and father, and he's pretty adept at serial killing too. Goaded on by his conscienceless alter-ego Marshall, wonderfully played by William Hurt, he stalks his victims and meticulously plans their murders, posturing the corpses and photographing them for posterity. However, when Earl finds himself entangled in the twisted agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious Detective Atwood, he finds his carefully find out more...

Undoubtedly one of Hitch's best. An innocent businessman is mistaken for a spy by enemy agents and learns the true meaning of persecution, while a deceptively beautiful blonde in the pay of his tormentors steals his heart. A tense and compulsively gripping nice-guy's nightmare. Obligatory viewing. find out more...

Hitchcock's masterpiece. A news photographer is confined to his apartment by an injury and spends his days watching the neighbours. He comes to believe that he is witnessing the preparations for a murder. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. Suspense, ambiguity and voyuerism; total brilliance! find out more...

Pacino is superb as the oddball cop Frank Serpico, an idealist cop who stood out not just because of his odd dress sense, but because of his refusal to take bribes, something which made him very dangerous to his thieving corrupt workmates. A series of narrative twists make this excellent truth-based drama gripping viewing. A forerunner for the even better 'Prince of the City'. find out more...

Our favourite national detective has now been reestablished in modern day Britain. With its roots firmly based in the latter day Doctor Who this is the beginning of what will surely be a long running series.
Episode 1; A Study In Pink; a wounded Watson returns from the Afghan War and meets Holmes, who has been asked by Lestrade to investigate the fourth of a series of identical suicides.
Episode 2; The Blind Banker; two men are murdered in locked rooms, did both work for the Black find out more...

A young tennis star meets a looney on a train who proposes that they swap murders. The looney, to the star's dismay, starts to carry out his side of the bargain. A film that shows Hitchcock's technique at its suspenseful best. find out more...

A very dated but still entertaining slice of 60s kitsch. McQueen is the incredibly debonaire playboy millionaire, led to commit robbery through boredom, countered by Dunaway, the implausibly glamorous fraud investigator. Much period posing and split-screen shenanigans, with fun results. find out more...

A German general attempts to leave France with a load of Impressionistic paintings just days before the liberation. Based on a true story, Scofield gives a magnificent performance as the general battling vs Lancaster's delaying railway inspector who attempts to let the allies catch up.

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Why can't every film be like this? Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and Monte Carlo. What more could you possibly want? Oh the little matter of plot? Well, Grant is an ex-cat-burglar who has to prove his innocence when a series of jewels go missing, but really who cares about the plot? Brilliant. find out more...