Sir Robert Chiltern is a happily married Government minister, but all of this looks set to change when the scheming Mrs Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Whilst Chiltern wrestles with his conscience, his wife Gertrude and closest friend, the urbane Lord Goring, the pivotal figure in the play and never short of a witty retort, conspire to thwart Mrs Chieveley's plans. One reason why the material has stood the test of time so well is because the issues of moralit find out more...

A stunning visual account of man's struggle for survival in the 21st Century, a time when replicant life forms are beginning to surpass humans not just in intelligence but emotions, raising questions about our concepts of self. A post-modern sci-fi classic, THE great Hollywood movie of the '80s, the last great pre-computer film done with smoke-and-mirrors SFX and the definitive cult arthouse Sci-Fi film. This is the second version re-edited by Ridley Scott; all the good bits remain, with the onl find out more...

A stunning visual account of man's struggle for survival in the 21st Century, a time when replicant life forms are beginning to surpass humans not just in intelligence but emotions, raising questions about our concepts of self. A post-modern sci-fi classic, THE great Hollywood movie of the '80s, the last great pre-computer film done with smoke-and-mirrors SFX and the definitive cult arthouse Sci-Fi film. This is the originally released version with no unicorns in a dream, a voiceover to keep y find out more...

A classy screen adaptation of Noel Coward's play about the problems caused to Rex Harrison's second marriage by the spirit of his dead wife who appears at a seance and proceeds to bug his new wife. Decent, dated special effects and the screenplay a fine example of Coward's finest wit. find out more...

Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome. find out more...

Based on Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", with an ace performance by Eccleston (Shallow Grave) as the young stonemason whose scholarly ambitions are scuppered by an unhappy marriage to the local floozy. When he begins an illicit love affair with his beautiful cousin, tragedy is all too inevitable. Bleak but superb. find out more...

Another adaptation of the classic novel sees our hero robbed of everything he holds dear by a jealous friend. Imprisoned, but finding in the dark hell a friend and teacher, Edmond Dantes sets about meticulously plotting his revenge. The Count Of Monte Cristo is a enjoyably old-fashioned swash buckling adventure that makes no attempt to do the book justice. find out more...

Thomas Fowler is a British journalist reporting from 1950's Vietnam (just as the troubles there escalate from France's colonial desperation to America's genocidal idealism), and a man who has lost his passion for the world. Into this cynical and complacent western community arrives young Pyle, a naive and optimistic American medical worker, whose motives are more convoluted than they at first appear. These two men are drawn together by a shared passion for Thomas's mistress, Phoung, a beautiful find out more...