Superbly stylish and atmospheric thriller set in the steamy New Orleans of 1955. Down and out private eye Harry Angel is hired by the sinister Louis Cyphre to find a missing crooner who's been dabbling in the occult. But Harry's leads keep winding up ritually murdered. Chilling, erotic, brilliant. find out more...

Many people consider this to be superior to Scorsese's recent remake; Mitchum is superb as the sadist, newly released from jail and determined to exact a hideous revenge on the prosecutor (Peck) that sent him down. This aroused enormous controversy when first released in Britain in 1963. find out more...

Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...

This stunning debut by writer/director, Kasi Lemmon explores the fortunes of an affluent Louisiana family through the eyes of 10 year old. Set in the summer of 1962, Eve discovers dark secrets beneath the veneer. The performances are wonderful and this is an excellent drama. Highly Recommended! find out more...

Charlotte Hollis has been closeted in her mansion, a deteriorating Southern plantation, since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster's relatives and friends appear to rally behind her but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumours of the last forty years appear to be coming true. On hand are cousin Miriam, Dr Drew Bayliss, Jewel Mayhew and the scariest inhabitant of all, loyal serva find out more...

Cray is a young lawyer with ambitions to follow in his dead father's political footsteps. After being sensuously seduced he finds himself a blackmail victim and his cover-up attempt ends up with the girl on a murder-rap. Great courtroom drama and lots of intrigue from Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost. find out more...

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Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her hellion of a daughter. What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

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A John Grisham story directed by Robert Altman may sound like the answer to an insomniac's prayer, but it's really the script which lets down this otherwise agreeable legal thriller, the first that Grisham has penned just for Hollywood. Kenneth Branagh is a curious choice as the obligatary dishevelled, divorced but dedicated Southern lawyer who falls for worried waitress Embeth Davidtz, while the enigmatic Robert Duvall puts in an appearance as her bonkers barefoot father, who's stalking her. Bu 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...