The Hour of the Wolf is the hour between night and dawn, the hour when most people die and the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fears. Haunted by demons past and present, artist Johan Borg fights a losing battle to retain his sanity and maintain his artistic prowess. His wife Alma, desperate to help him, finds herself starting to share his hallucinations, but as Johan's mind continues to unravel, Alma is forced to choose between her love and her life. A brilliant gothic fanta find out more...

An American returns to his ancestral home in Wales to make amends with his father. He buys a walking-stick in an antique shop off a lass named Gwen, gets involved with some local gypsies and is bitten by a wolf, something which turns out to have rather unfortunate consequences. 'The Wolf Man' is the template werewolf flick and with its stellar horror flick cast rates as an iconic film of its era. 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...