Classic Cinema
Lorna Doone (2000)
7.1/10
Director: Mike Barker, Anthony Calf
Starring: Anthony Calf, Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Barbara Flynn, Joanne Froggatt, Mart...
Witness to his father's murder by the Doones when he was just a child, John Ridd is hell-bent on revenge. But a chance meeting with a beautiful girl c... Read more
Los Olvidados ( The Young and the Damned ) (1950)
8.8/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Miguel Inclan, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Alfonso Mejia
The best known film of Luis Bunuel's Mexican period, "Los Olvidados" looks unflinchingly at life in a festering Mexico City slum. A group of juvenile... Read more
Lost Horizon (1937)
7.8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard
Frank Capra's hypnotic and perversely appealing adaptation of James Hilton's novel is a work of lost innocence and spiritual redemption. A plane fleei... Read more
Louis De Funes ( Mr Leguignon Lampiste / Peek-a-Boo / The Bouncing Beauty / The Big Vacation ) (1951)
7.9/10
Director: Maurice Labro, Jean Loubignac, Robert Dhery, Jean Girault
Starring: Louis De Funes
Louis de Funes was one of France's original funnymen, with the rubber-faced prankster hitting his stride in French slapstick comedies of the 50s, 60s... Read more
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
6.6/10
Director: Henry King
Starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Murray Matheson
Nicely mounted film set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean War. Jennifer Jones is a Eurasian doctor who falls in love with war correspondent Willi... Read more
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
7.2/10
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully
An engrossing musical bio of Jazz Age singing sensation Ruth Etting (Doris Day), whose life and career were dominated by a gangster called 'The Gimp'... Read more
Love Me Tonight (1932)
7.7/10
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles, Myrna Loy
An inventive musical romance with Maurice Chevalier as a charming Parisian tailor whose efforts to help shady nobleman Charlie Ruggles out of a jam ma... Read more
Love Nest (1952)
6.4/10
Director: Joseph M Newman
Starring: Frank Fay, William Lundigan, Marilyn Monroe, June Haver
Marilyn Monroe co-stars as the 'other woman' in this post-war romantic comedy about an apartment building full of crazy characters. With June Haver, W... Read more
Love Story ( A Lady Surrenders ) (1944)
6.9/10
Director: Leslie Arliss
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger
When concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem, she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday... Read more