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Movie Classics

Dirty Harry

With his ill temper and steely gaze, Dirty Harry broke the rules of how cops are supposed to play the game and went on to become one of cinemas most recognised icons.

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Dirty Harry
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

When a struggling adman agrees to pose as famous actress Rita Marlowe’s new lover in return for her starring in his campaign, surely it’s a match made in heaven…right?

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I never finished watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a child. With a character like the Child Catcher, wouldn’t you be scared too? I decided to give it another try.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Midnight Cowboy

You ever heard about a film so damn often you feel like you’ve seen it countless times already? This was exactly the case with John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy.

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Midnight Cowboy
Boudu Saved From Drowning

Boudu Saved From Drowning is a comedy about a tramp who is saved after trying to kill himself, but then brings anarchy to the middle class family that rescued him.

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Boudu Saved From Drowning
The Grim Reaper

Bernardo Bertolucci’s first feature as director is this 1962 murder mystery told from several different accounts by suspects being interrogated at the police station.

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The Grim Reaper
Rififi

Heist film, mobster flick and film noir in one: Rififi (1955) is a moody and exhilarating textbook in crime cinema by blacklisted Hollywood director Jules Dassin.

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Rififi
Il Posto

Directed by Ermanno Olmi, Il Posto, from 1961, is an exact and exacting depiction of corporate capitalism from the perspective of a disenchanted teenage recruit.

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Il Posto
The Black Pirate

Douglas Fairbanks takes to the high seas in this swashbuckling adventure, The Black Pirate, to avenge the death of his father but meets a princess he has to protect.

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The Black Pirate
Limelight

Limelight, with Charlie Chaplin as the once famous stage clown Calvero, who saves a suicidal ballerina, is a celebration of the arts, love and above all, life.

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Limelight
Move Over Darling

Although it started off as Something’s Got To Give with Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin, it eventually became Move Over Darling with Doris Day and James Garner.

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Move Over Darling
El Bruto

Legendary filmmaker Luis Bunuel’s 1953 melodrama El Bruto is reviewed by Dominic Walker. “A witches’ brew of myth and symbolism with political muscle”.

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El Bruto
The Flying Scotsman

You don’t have to be a trainspotter to enjoy this early talkie! A disgruntled former employee plots to cause a disaster on a train, but not on old Bob’s watch!

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The Flying Scotsman
Brighton Rock

Starring Richard Attenborough as gangster Pinkie Brown, this 1947 classic, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, has been digitally restored for a re-release.

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Brighton Rock
The Long Hot Summer

Paul Newman sizzles in this classic melodrama, The Long Hot Summer, playing Ben Quick, a rough and ready Rancher romancing Joanne Woodward both on & off-screen.

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The Long Hot Summer
Decision Before Dawn

Shot on location in post-war Germany, this true story is about German prisoners of war recruited by the US to spy on their former comrades. Can they be trusted?

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Decision Before Dawn
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