The beautiful Venice waterfront scenery and frustated emotions abound in this cinema classic from Thomas Mann's novel. Dirk Bogarde is an ageing gay man who fantasises whistfully about a young boy who is in the same hotel on the Lido. A revealing tale as much about old age grieving for lost youth as it is about obsession and homosexuality. find out more...

David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.

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Young Dorian Gray arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of morally corrupt Lord Henry Wotton who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. Dorian swiftly loses his naïve charm and boyish innocence, descending into a world of debauchery, lust and crime. A portait painted by his friend captures Dorian's youthful beauty, but also begins to take on the physical abuse he has indulged while the man himself remains blemishless. Oscar Wilde's Gothic horror mora find out more...

An atmospheric and emoptionally charged adaptation of Steinbeck's most powerful novel. Adam, the father of Cal and Aaron lives with the painful memory of having been deserted by the boys' mother, the only woman he ever loved. Having been told that their mother was dead, Cal's discovery that she is alive and running a brothel in Monterey sends him half mad. Obsessed with the fact that he inherited his badness from his mother, Cal grapples with notions of free will and the essential nature of good find out more...

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As Season 4 begins, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact in the wake of the Red Wedding slaughter that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats? Meanwhile, an unbowed Stannis Baratheon continues to rebuild his army; the Lannister-loathing ‘Red Viper of Dorne,’ Oberyn Martell, arrives at King's Landing for Joffrey's wedding to Margaery Tyrell; Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons and unsullied forc find out more...

Hugely acclaimed and moving tale of the childhood of Huw Morgan, told in retrospect. Morgan grew up in a small Welsh mining town, and events leave his normally close-knit family facing terrible strains. Screen legends Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon star in this superbly moving, touching drama. Won Best Picture at 1941 Academy Awards. find out more...

Encounter of three social classes in England at the beginning of the century; the capitalists, the Wilcoxes, whose only god is money, consider themselves as aristocrats, the enlightened bourgeois Schlegels and the proletarian Basts. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts. Essentially the same story as Room With A View, nobody marries beneath their station and class is everything, but with a distinct el find out more...

Tearjerking drama based on the young Ernest Hemingway's real life romance, the inspiration for his classic "A Farewell To Arms". As an 18-year-old soldier in WW1, love is the last thing on his mind, until a near-fatal injury puts his life in the hands of a beautiful, older nurse. Superb performances. find out more...

Based on RC Sherriff's play and novel of the same name JOURNEY'S END is set in March 1918 as C-Company, led by a war-weary Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin) arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front-line trenches. Told that a German offensive is imminent Stanhope drowns his fears in whisky whilst the officers (Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge) and their cook (Toby Jones) attempt to distract themselves in their dugout with talk of food and life before war. They are joine find out more...