The tale of two men banged up for years in the notorious French penal colony Devil's Island. Two escape bids by one of them results in years of solitary confinement but make him simply more determined to flee, even as old age approachs. The ultimate prison escape movie loosely based on a true story. find out more...

Michael Sullivan is a gangster in 1930's America and the fiercely loyal right hand man of the local kingpin. Due to the foolish and jealously motivated action of his bosses son, Michael suddenly finds himself on the run from his old employer with his own 12 year old son in tow and consumed by a burning desire for revenge. Road to Perdition is a powerful gangster drama; dark, tense immaculately performed and an intriguing follow up to Sam Mendes 'American Beauty'. find out more...

Seabiscuit is a race horse with little promise, fortunately for Seabiscuit however he's also the horse that a disparate group of men have decided to pin all there hopes to and so begins an unlikely journey to achieve the seemingly impossible, to create a winner from a no hoper. Seabiscuit is a classic tale of triumph over adversity and particularly against the odds; beautifully atmospheric and performed by a class cast this is at heart old fashioned dramatic cinema in the finest sense of the tr find out more...

The world as we know it (well the world as Biggles knew it perhaps) is under threat from an unstoppable robot army. There's only one man who can save us, Sky Captain, or Joe to those who know him. Together with feisty (read pesky) reporter Polly Perkins and super cool, super hard arse, Captain Franky Cook, Joe must find the source of this new menace and destroy it before it destroys the world. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a visual joy, a bit like Fritz Lang's Metropolis if he'd had a find out more...

Laughton's only stab at directing, with Mitchum giving a stunning performance as the psychopathic preacher who, whilst in jail for a minor offence, hatches a devious plan to get his hands on the loot stashed by his condemned cell-mate. Set in '30s rural America, the film polarises into a struggle between good and evil for the souls of innocent children. Laughton's deliberately old-fashioned direction throws up a startling array of images: an amalgam of Mark Twain-like exteriors (idyllic riversid find out more...

Set during the Great Depression, Jacob Janowski finds his promising career as a vetinary student shattered by family tragedy. Bereft and confused Jacob joins the Benzini Brothers circus as the vet for their animals and in particular the company’s elephant, Rosie. But it is the ringmaster’s wife that really holds the young Jacob’s attention, and it is this mutual attraction that forms the heart of the story. Based on Sara Gruen’s best selling novel, ‘Water for Elephants’ is a sumptuous but relati find out more...