The first Bond film. The evil Dr No is out for world control and only JB can save the world! One of the earliest and one of the best. The one where Ursula Andress oozes out of the surf in a low cut bikini, with conch shell!, and into Jim's arms. find out more...

My name is Bond, James Bond. 007 here doing his bit for East/West relations in the only Bond film where he manages to have a serious and meaningful relationship with a woman. SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of Dr No and sets a trap to lure 007 to his death. The bait is a Soviet encryption machine which the Brits are desperate to get hold of. The second ever in the long running series. find out more...

The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated a plot to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin, must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries, first there's Oddjob, the mute servant, who kills at the toss of a lethal hat, then the beautiful Jill Masterson, who gives new meaning to the phrase "golden girl", and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her inv find out more...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece. find out more...