Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.

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Winner of four Oscars, this film is shot with the most beautifully scenic backgrounds and with great attention to costume detail. An Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon, crosses Europe from woman to job, but in the end returns to Britain seeking a wealthy marriage. find out more...

Errol Flynn, in his starring debut, plays a doctor wrongly condemed to prison who escapes and leads his fellow prisoners to a life of piracey. He then goes onto form the 'Brotherhood of Buccaneers' to fight the villainous James II. find out more...

Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica and herself too, naturally.

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Born in 18th Century France Jean Baptiste Grenouille is blessed with the gift of an extraordinary sense of smell and is the absolute master of his craft, perfumery, but his obsessive search for perfection, discovering the ultimate scent, reveals him to be a psychopath unfettered by moral shackles. Dark, lush and rich in visual atmosphere, this beautifully rendered, if shortened, adaptation of Patrick Suskind's novel is an eerie psychological thriller. find out more...

Jack's back after an unholy union of ‘friends' and rogues save him from Davey Jones' locker. In this final instalment the pirates must form an unlikely brotherhood to defend their carefree existence from the dastardly and ruthless British. Unfortunately for us this means a whole wad of Keira Knightley, she even gives a rousing speech to the rabble before battle, a delivery that brings to mind one of those handbag dogs being garrotted by its own collar. An enormous running time, a god awful score find out more...

The film is entirely extracted from the diary of Grace Elliot, a doughty royalist residing in France during the turbulent and uncertain period of the Revolution. What makes it of historical interest is that her ex-lover and close friend, le Duc de Orleans, a cousin of the king, was of a different political hue, a revolutionary idealist who believed in parliamentary democracy, but who was swept aside in the violent class upheaval that marked the end of the feudalistic Bourbon court. A sumptuous c find out more...

According to Chinese legend Fong Sai-Yuk was trained in the martial arts by his mother Miu Tsui-Fa, daughter of Miu Hin, one of the Five Elders who escaped the destruction of the Shaolin Monastery by the Qing Dynasty. While still in his early teens, he accepted an open challenge from Tiger Lu and killed him. find out more...

Trouble is a brewing in the land of the Musketeers as the cardinal and his right hand man plot to bring about the collapse of the French King by manipulating a war between Britain and France. Only D'artagnan and his fellow swordsman stand in the way of this dastardly act, can they save the day, or will the French Revolution be pre-empted? The Musketeer has some quite amazing fight choreography courtesy of the Hong Kong masters and the film is lushly shot, but it lacks the humour and warmth of pr find out more...

Tom Jones is the 18th Century rustic Casanova whose lusty adventures almost led him to the gallows, but did bring the movie 4 Oscars. Loosely adapted from the novel by Henry Fielding this popular, atmospheric and bawdy movie combines the licentious feel of the early 60s with the classic tale. find out more...