Hitchcock's masterpiece. A news photographer is confined to his apartment by an injury and spends his days watching the neighbours. He comes to believe that he is witnessing the preparations for a murder. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. Suspense, ambiguity and voyuerism; total brilliance! find out more...

An ambitious journalist wants to get to the top of his profession. In order to get the inside scoop on a murder, he feigns mental illness and goes undercover in the county hospital's psychiatric unit, where the murder was witnessed by three of the inmates. Immersed into the world of the mentally unsound and subject to intense shock treatment, he soon tips the balance of sanity and pays the ultimate price for his "rehearsed nightmare". More harrowing than "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Shock find out more...

Olivier is an aristocrat and a player of games who has lost his wife to nouveau-riche hairdresser Caine, and who relentlessly draws Caine into an intense battle of wits to exact his revenge. An intricate plot with delightful scam and counter-scam - not to be missed! find out more...

Returning home at the end of the war Johnny Morrison expects a warm welcome from his wife, but discovers that she's been unfaithful to him with dapper Eddie Harwood, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. After a heated and violent argument he storms out of their house and when, later the same night, she's murdered Johnny becomes the number one suspect. To clear himself, and unexpectedly aided and comforted by the estranged wife of the club's proprietor, he must find the real culprit. Will John find out more...

Burt Lancaster makes his debut, in this adaptation of a short story by Ernest Hemingway, as Swede, a washed-up boxer who finds himself manipulated and double crossed thanks to the charms of femme fatale Ava Gardner. A definitively noir gangster film about an unusual contract killing that stands out thanks to Lancaster's performance as the lovesick palooka taken for a ride.

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This is, along with Hawks' The Big Sleep, easily the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of Chandler's work. Altman in fact stays pretty close to the novel's basic narrative (though there are a couple of crucial changes), but where he comes up with something totally original is in his ironic updating of the story and characters: Gould's Marlowe is a laid-back, shambling slob who, despite his incessant claim that everything is 'OK with me,' actually harbours the same honourable ideals as C find out more...

An investigative journalist finds himself in a bizarre nightmare as he tries to find out if there is any pattern behind the series of deaths of witnesses to the assassination of a US Senator. The clues he follows lead to the Parallax Corporation, a business that our man (Beatty) believes is secretly recruiting sociopathic types and training them as assassins. He enrols in their therapy programme......... A very smart conspiracy thriller with numerous 'parallels' to the JFK assassination. Top no find out more...