Nick Porter sells salesmanship for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone, thanks in no part to his ever losing battle with alcohol. Finally fired and discovering his wife has also decided it’s all over on the same day, Nick finds himself on his front lawn with all that is left of is worldly belongings. An adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, don’t expect an archetypal Will Ferrell movie, this a bitter sweet drama...with some humour. A low key, thoughtful and tou find out more...

Foreign affairs farce, with Cagney as an ambitious Coca-cola salesman who finds himself way out of his depth in his quest for promotion. Despatched to Germany to extract his boss's daughter from her marriage to a Commie, he just can't resist attempting to flog his sticky beverage to the Russians! find out more...

Jim Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is short of money, his 17-year-old daughter has reached an expensive age and so he accepts Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and becomes Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories, but these stories start to becoming disturbingly true. Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this was the final collaboration between him and director Carol Reed, whom had previously worked together on T find out more...

School For Scoundrels, adapted from the well known series of books by Stephen Potter; a bunch of failures enrol in the School Of One-Upmanship, ie learning the art of getting the better of people and coming out with smarter one-liners, and emerge as successful utter bounders. "The Green Man" has Alastair Sim as an innocuous clockmaker with an unusual sideline - as a professional hitman!

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