An enduring and endearing romance with Grant and Kerr as two people who inadvertently fall in love aboard ship, despite both being already involved elsewhere. They vow to meet again, but things don't work out as planned. Romantic. find out more...

Five assorted rogues gather for a boat trip to East Africa hoping to enrich themselves on an undeveloped uranium lode; also booked on the boat is a pompous English fool and his gorgeous wife. Comic mayhem develops in this film noir (specifically 'The Maltese Falcon') spoof, everyone's after the dosh and romance develops
This film has achieved minor cult status and has more than its share of knowing jokes and references. find out more...

Grant is in uncharacteristic mode as a skiving, drunken bum seeing out WW2 on a South Sea island. Bribed into coast watching for the Aussie Navy, he takes to his task quite happily until the arrival of a shapely French schoolteacher and her seven small charges. A light-hearted saccharine romance. find out more...

Singing and dancing from Fred and Ginger, songs from Irving Berlin. We Saw The Sea, Let Yourself Go, Get Thee Behind Me Satan, I'd Rather Lead A Band, Let Yourself Go, I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket and Let's Face The Music And Dance are the classic song and dance routines - a total treat. find out more...

Shot in five sections "How The West Was Won" is a sprawling multi-star epic following the fortunes of one family from 1839 and New York to 1889 and Arizona. 'The Rivers' (dir Henry Hathaway); the Prescotts head west down the Ohio river. 'The Plains' (dir Henry Hathaway); Lily moves to St Louis and on to Caifornia. 'The Civil War' (dir John Ford); Linus and Zeb enlist on the Union side. 'The Railroad' (dir George Marshall); the settlers multiply and cavalry officer Zeb finds himself in a war with find out more...

Hiller is the headstrong young girl who travels to Scotland to marry a rich old man but falls for a seemingly poor young naval rating. Lyrically shot in monochrome it beautifully combines romance, comedy, suspense and a sense of the supernatural. Powell and Pressburger's most eloquent paean to the Brit landscape. find out more...

An epic retelling of the attack on Pearl Harbor and its immediate aftermath which focuses on the effects the attack has on the lives of individuals caught up in the ensuing chaos and brings the emotional issues of its characters into sharp relief. John Wayne delivers an excellent performance as a Captain nearing the end of his career who, faced with redundancy in action, looks to improving other areas of his life, particularly his relationship with his son. Kirk Douglas sees the event as a chanc find out more...

Polanski's first, and arguably his finest, feature film is an economically brilliant exercise in tension. Sparse of cast and props, the atmosphere grows painfully taut as a young couple on a yachting trip and the hitcher they've picked up engage in ever more dangerous emotional games. find out more...

This is a real ten Kleenex weepie; the story of a repressed woman's rebellion and the ill-fated love affair which completes her painful metamorphosis. It all ends on that most memorable of Hollywood lines, "Let's not ask for the moon - we have the stars ".

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Hendrik van der Zee has been cursed to sail the seas for the murder of his wife. The only way to break the curse is to find a woman willing to die for him. After 300 years in purgatory, Fredrik sails into a Spanish port and encounters the beautiful Pandora, a woman whose elegant wasted life consists of enthralling men and treating them with a diffidence that is easily mistaken for cruelty. As both protagonists fall for each other we are left wondering if Pandora could be the one to secure the find out more...