7.9/10

Director: David Lean

Starring: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita...

One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Erich Von Stroheim

Starring: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt

One of the wonders of film, this miracle of filmmaking made against the most impossible of odds, stars Gibson Gowland as a dentist who marries the dau... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Sidney Gilliat

Starring: Alastair Sim, Rosamund John, Trevor Howard

Alastair Sim stars as the eccentric and irreverent Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police alongside Trevor Howard and Rosamund John in this susp... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Stanley Kramer

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghto... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Stanley Kramer

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy

When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to... Read more

7.5/10

Director: George Stevens

Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr

The Rudyard Kipling story of the Indian boy who helps the British put down a colonial revolt. Stars Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Read more

7.6/10

Director: Nitin Bose

Starring: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala , Nasir Khan, Azra

This classic tale of two brothers seething with star-crossed love, tragic misunderstanding and revenge owes a debt to Hollywood's '30s gangster flicks... Read more

7.1/10

Director: John Guillermin

Starring: Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins, Mia Farrow, Richard Attenborough, John Leyton

Richard Attenborough won a BAFTA for his portrayal of Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale, a martinet of the worst type, stuck out in a remote coloni... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Sheree Folkson

Starring: Neve McIntosh, Jack Davenport

Leon (Jack Davenport) and Natalie (Neve McIntosh) are from different worlds. She is a wandering gypsy woman with legal problems, he is a snobbish Eng... Read more

8.6/10

Starring: Tony Hancock, Sid James, Patricia Hayes

The late, great Tony Hancock is at his best in these ten episodes from 1959, with Sid James as the perfect foil. Collected from Series 5, Tony and Si... Read more