A respectable, sincere film of Robert Bolt's literate play, with Scofield as Sir Thomas More, endorsing the divine right of the Pope over and above his King, Henry VIII, who wishes to divorce Katherine Of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Watch out for Orson Welles in a marvellous cameo as Cardinal Wolsey. The film won 6 Oscars. find out more...

Guinness restores the morale of British PoWs by building a bridge which is of military value to the Japanese, and then attempts to thwart the RAF's destruction of it! A classic film which swept 7 Oscars including "Best Picture". find out more...

Lots of stiff upper lip and Brit grit in this heroic true story of how Lancaster bombers, carrying Dr Barnes Wallis's Bouncing Bomb, destroyed the dams on the Rhur, damaging German industrial production and the Nazi war effort. find out more...

The world's most professional hitman is out on his biggest assignment - the assassination of General DeGaulle. A classic thriller, meticulously observed and brilliantly sustained. find out more...

An expressionistic look at the ballet world focusing on the rigid relationship between artist and teacher until a young composer brings the ballerina back to reality. Ground-breaking at the time in its use of colour and movement and made more intriguing by its real-life model of Nijinsky/Diaghilev.

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