Adapted from Zola's novel, this powerful tale concerns a triangle of love and murder in which a train driver becomes passionately involved with a femme fatale. With its images of trains and railways as symbols of human destiny this is a visually arresting film; Gallic and tragic. find out more...

Humbert Humbert has moved from Europe to America and has fallen deeply and obsessively in love. The object of the man's misguided affection is Lolita, the too young daughter of Charlotte. Determined to not be parted from the girl Humbert decides to marry her mother, a warped course of action certainly, but the only choice a desperate Humbert can see. Kubrik's adaption of Vladimir Nabokov's novel is a dark and hypnotic work, which manages to insight both sympathy and repulsion; A quite awesome pe find out more...

A truly remarkable adaptation of Woolf's novel. Tilda Swanton is enthralling as the androgenous and ageless Orlando seeking love in a 400 year odyssey; from the finery of Elizabeth the First's court, through the Civil War, the early colonial period, the literary salons of 1750, by which time Orlando is a woman, the Victorian era of property, and finally to the present day. Potter's direction adds a marvellous period feel. Superb, this is a magical story . find out more...

A daring and beautiful adaptation of Shakespeare's classic love story. Clare Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio give dazzling performances as the star-crossed lovers who try in vain to bring their warring families together. Combining Elizabethan text with an urban, futuristic setting. Highly recommended! find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Set against the background of a grimy village near Nottingham, this story of a coal-miner's son with promising artistic talent unfolds with sensitivity and intelligence in Jack Cardiff's adaptation of DH Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel. Caught up between his mother's possessiveness and his father's violent bouts, Paul Morel sacrifices both the chance to study art in London and the local girl he loves, eventually becoming involved in a damaged relationship with a woman separated from her h find out more...

The original and best version of the detective thriller classic. Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate the gambling debts of a rich man's daughter, but is plunged into a twilight world of intrigue, blackmail and violence. Stylish and gripping. find out more...

An ageing bachelor reminisces of the long hot 1900 summer of his youth. Leo is 13 and a guest at a grand home in rural Norfolk, where he becomes a go-between in the love affair between the daughter of the affluent country family and a local farmer. An absolute cinema classic successfully adapted from Hartley's novel of the same name, a powerful and beautiful tale. find out more...

Lily Bart is a beautiful and charming young socialite who is beginning to realise the tenuous nature of her world. She has reached a point within it where she must take the first steps on a path that will define the rest of her life, but despite Lily's intelligence and opportunities she seems incapable of making the right decision and her world begins to slide irredeemably towards tragedy. The House Of Mirth is a sumptuous adaption of Edith Wharton's novel, faithful to the novel, intelligent and find out more...

Erika Kohan teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and though in her late thirties still lives with her monstrous and repressive mother, with whom she shares a tempestuous relationship. Erika has constructed an aloof and unapproachable aura which enables her to remain emotionally disconnected from those around her, but one of her students is about to introduce her to a world of passion and unleash an explosion of need and desire. 'The Piano Teacher' is an intense story of emotional and sexuall find out more...