The original and best adaptation of Hemingway's sweeping WW1 novel. Cooper positively smoulders as the US ambulanceman who falls in love with an English nurse and finally goes AWOL to join her only to find, tragically, that he may be too late. Oscars for Best Cinematography and Sound. find out more...

The well known Edwardian romance set in Tuscany. A young English girl is torn between a romantic free-thinker and the stuffy suitor that social convention has in store for her. Deservedly, a much acclaimed movie.

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Set during the Belle Epoque, a turn of the century period before the social excesses of the ruling classes were eclipsed by WW1, this period drama, adapted from Colette's infamous novel, portrays the, possibly autobiographical, story of an elderly courtesan's seduction and tutelage of the handsome 19-year-old lad of the title. find out more...

The beautiful Venice waterfront scenery and frustated emotions abound in this cinema classic from Thomas Mann's novel. Dirk Bogarde is an ageing gay man who fantasises whistfully about a young boy who is in the same hotel on the Lido. A revealing tale as much about old age grieving for lost youth as it is about obsession and homosexuality. find out more...

David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.

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Young Dorian Gray arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of morally corrupt Lord Henry Wotton who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. Dorian swiftly loses his naïve charm and boyish innocence, descending into a world of debauchery, lust and crime. A portait painted by his friend captures Dorian's youthful beauty, but also begins to take on the physical abuse he has indulged while the man himself remains blemishless. Oscar Wilde's Gothic horror mora find out more...

Encounter of three social classes in England at the beginning of the century; the capitalists, the Wilcoxes, whose only god is money, consider themselves as aristocrats, the enlightened bourgeois Schlegels and the proletarian Basts. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts. Essentially the same story as Room With A View, nobody marries beneath their station and class is everything, but with a distinct el find out more...

Tearjerking drama based on the young Ernest Hemingway's real life romance, the inspiration for his classic "A Farewell To Arms". As an 18-year-old soldier in WW1, love is the last thing on his mind, until a near-fatal injury puts his life in the hands of a beautiful, older nurse. Superb performances. find out more...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's dark, brooding, atmospheric, humid, immense novel finally, and inevitably, gets a big screen adaptation and, as with that other great South American period epic ‘House of Ghosts', the overwhelming feeling is…why? Don't get me wrong, this is still a gloriously visualised tale of love and obsession through the ages, but it would take a true genius to direct the novel of a true genius. If you've not read the book then there's much to enjoy, if you have…hold tight to your me find out more...

Tasteful tale of illicit longings in Edwardian England, sumptuously adapted from EM Forster's novel. Wilby gives a sensitive portrayal of the high-class homosexual searching for fulfillment in the face of prejudice, while Grant succumbs to the pressures of society. Beautiful period romance set in the early 20th Century.. find out more...