Superior sci-fi with a brain and some ingenious plotting as aliens try a hostile takeover starting in the Third World and funded by Wall Street investments!

Classic French cinema didnt begin with Truffaut: the great Jean Gabin and the gorgeous Simone Simon in Jean Renoirs superb 30s adaptation of Zolas tragedy.

Capras best and most unusual film, surprisingly hard-hitting and ultimately moving. Walter Connelly turns in a remarkable supporting performance.

Intriguing French mystery about a child with two mothers. Is it a ghost story or something more sinister? See it and find out.

Despite a bad start and a very silly premise, this turns into a memorably feverish and atmospheric paranoid tale of horror. Imagine a very damp Wicker Man and youre still only halfway there&

Restored version of Leones rarest major film. Broad comedy gives way to darker shades in the centrepiece of his Once Upon a Time trilogy.

Doug Limans first film after 'Swingers' deserved to be a bigger hit an exhilarating, funny, time-bending tale of three groups of teens on a collision course one Christmas.

Bogart goes out on a high in hard-hitting expose of the fight game. One of his very best.

Hollywoods best shot at Joseph Conrad, with OToole perfect as the flawed hero finding and losing his chance for redemption.

Pay attention: the mystery happens when you're not looking! Another great script from Alan Sharp in one of the best thrillers of the 70s. Way up there with Chinatown.

Another forgotten, rarely revived silent gem, Our Hospitality may be Keatons funniest the train ride is sheer genius. And the DVD includes Sherlock Junior too!

One of Costa-Gavras best political thrillers, a kidnap drama about the futility and inevitable repetition of terrorism. Charlton Heston tried to ban it, so you know it must be good!

Robert Mitchums attempts to repay a debt of honour in 70s Japan lead to violence and tragedy in Sydney Pollacks hypnotic and intelligent thriller co-starring the great Takakura Ken. Pan-n-scan only