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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Edwardian England and a precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations of being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances become hugely successful. Her life changes yet further when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her. A beautiful looking period drama loosely based on the life of Marie Corelli, Queen Victoria's favorite writer. find out more...

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...

Howard Hughes' first movie, and what an epic money sucker it was too. Three friends, two English and one German, are conscripted into WWI as fighter pilots and must make the choice between their patriotic duty and their loyalty to one another. Some amazing aerial scenes and Jean Harlow's first starring role are amongst the highlights. find out more...

The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to find out more...

This is a bog standard period drama with some very nice and historically accurate but all too clean costuming. Set during the first world war and based on the biography of Vera Brittain, the story is one of tears, drama and determination. Hits all the right but all too regular notes, looks a lot like it was shot for TV...

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The John Huston classic about the prim missionary lady forced to team up with a drunken ne'er-do-well for a dangerous journey when the war comes to their remote bit of Africa. Their trying odyssey downriver, of course, gradually sees the two incompatibles falling in love, with the as always detached Bogart finally discovering commitment and attacking a German gunboat. find out more...

Lily Bart is a beautiful and charming young socialite who is beginning to realise the tenuous nature of her world. She has reached a point within it where she must take the first steps on a path that will define the rest of her life, but despite Lily's intelligence and opportunities she seems incapable of making the right decision and her world begins to slide irredeemably towards tragedy. The House Of Mirth is a sumptuous adaption of Edith Wharton's novel, faithful to the novel, intelligent and find out more...

(Fictitious) ambitious Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Leopold is politically advantageously engaged to beautiful Hungarian aristocrat Sophie, but her heart is set on an old teenage flame, the illusionist Eisenheim. The story is seen through the eyes of Leopold's protegee police inspector Uhl, whose surveillance duties include 'protecting' Sophie. Telling you too much of the intriguing plot would spoil the story but trust me - it's very good. Clues are discreetly there, the characters developed, t find out more...

Based on David Low's cartoon character, Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, VC, we back-track over his life, drawing us into sympathy with the prime virtues of honour and chivalry which have transformed him from dashing young spark of the 1890s into crusty old buffer of World War II. Roger Livesey gives us not just a great performance, but a man's whole life, losing his only love (Deborah Kerr) to the German officer (Walbrook) with whom he fought a duel in pre-WWI Berlin, then becoming the latter's find out more...