Based on the legend of the Bell witch, An American Haunting tells the story of the Bell family who claimed to be tormented by an unseen presence through noises, disembodied voices and physical attacks that focused primarily on their youngest daughter. Are the Bells being haunted by a malignant, supernatural force or is the culprit closer to home? Unfortunately, a great cast and atmospheric locations do little to lift this film above the hum-drum. find out more...

Atmospheric gothic thriller which delves beneath the genteel surface of the Victorian aristocracy to reveal the depraved decadence lurking below. A penniless young man marries a young heiress, but discovers that the uneasy life "upstairs" conceals a shocking web of subterfuge and sexual perversion. find out more...

Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation. find out more...

Shelley, Byron, Doctor Polidori, plus assorted girlfriends wives and mistresses are all hanging around in a mansion near Lake Geneva getting smashed on opium, holding seances and trying to scare each other by telling ghost stories. A nightmarish delirium in Ken Russell's usual tasteful style.

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This is the fabulous BBC version of the great and tragic last novel by Thomas Hardy. Robert Powell is the stone mason who dreams of a decent education, but seems to be getting no nearer his goal despite escaping his marriage. find out more...

This is a fabulous BBC version of the great and tragic last novel by Thomas Hardy' Robert Powell is the stone mason who dreams of a decent education, but seems to be getting no nearer his goal despite escaping his marriage. find out more...

A visually striking and powerful exploration of the "Oedipus" myth so loved by Freud, which draws on the director's own experience and the timeless themes of mythology. In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destine find out more...

Based on a Tennessee Williams play and touching on all manner of depraved horrors. Taylor plays the girl driven to madness by what she's witnessed and Clift is the shrink being pressured to lobotomise her, but Hepburn steals the show as the unnervingly genteel aunt trying to sweep everything under the carpet. find out more...

China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century and the Imperial palace is no place for the faint hearted, there is no member of the family who does not harbour at least one dark secret, most in constant fear that their deceit and betrayal will become apparent to the Emperor, a man as Machiavellian as any around him, who has recently returned, apparently to celebrate the Chong Yang Festival. Curse of the Golden Flower is another in the line of historical epics following in the footsteps of ‘Crouching Ti find out more...

Superb adaptation of Graham Swift's novel about growing up in the poverty stricken, primitive, rural Fenland. Irons is peerless as the ageing and troubled history teacher, disillusioned as his students with dry facts and figures, taking them on a field trip though his personal history re-exploring his marriage to his childhood love and the often tragic experiences that befell them. Brilliant and moving. find out more...