Three working-class friends rob the local trade union safe but all they get away with is a set of books. The brightest works out their meaning........ A superb thriller full of references to the atomisation of the working class by institutional means. find out more...

Keeping it modern, but taking the man with more lives than an over-subscribed cattery back to his beginnings, we follow the suave thug-in-a-suit as he earns his ‘00' licence to kill status. This Bond is one mean hard-arsed mother and it's nice to see him played by an actor who looks like he can genuinely run without a group of nervous paramedics circling just out of camera shot. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, it's brooding, brutal, dark and replete with some great action sequences, but, as my find out more...

Ex FBI agent Brian O'Conner and conman petrol head Dom escape across the border and find themselves residing in the slums of Rio De Janeiro with an old colleague. In order to finally gain their freedom, and a dumper truck of cash, they plan one last daring heist. Quite possibly the best of this unlikely franchise, slightly more plot, slightly more characterisation and still shed loads of car on car action. find out more...

Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution find out more...

Daniel, a taxi driver who loves to push his foot to the metal, gets caught speeding by the cops. In an attempt to keep his driving licence, Daniel offers to help a loser police inspector catch a gang of German bank robbers. Despite being scripted by Luc Besson (Nikita, Leon, The Big Blue) 'Taxi' seems content to be an average action flick. Despite all this, the film went down a storm at the French box office, the car chase scenes may have helped, and, at the time of writing, a sequel is well un find out more...

Peckinpah's superb shoot-out thriller. McQueen is brilliant as the ice cool ex-con who wants to do one last heist with his girlfriend, and then head for the almost mythical freedom of Mexico. Tension mounts all the way and the direction never lets up. find out more...

Classic Ealing caper with Guinness in fine form as a timid and retiring bank clerk who has the perfect plan to rob the Bank of England of a fortune in gold bullion. Delightful nostalgic comedy, including a cameo from the (then) unknown Audrey Hepburn. find out more...

Chilling and fast-moving thriller as a secret service agent goes out to avenge the death of his partner at the hands of a ruthless money forger. A very violent and stylish movie which has prompted many inferior immitations. Real edge-of-seat action from the director of "The French Connection". find out more...