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Classic Cinema

The Apartment (1960)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

This Oscar-winning Best Picture stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine as they wheel and deal over a New York apartment in a comedy of morality. This... Read more

The Army Game (1959)

5.4/10
Starring: Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser

A colossal success in its day, 'The Army Game' features the humorous shenanigans of a mismatched bunch of National Service conscripts assigned to the... Read more

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe

One of director Huston's most memorable efforts, this taut drama is a brilliantly stylized crime story about a group of hoods plotting a major heist.... Read more

The Awful Truth (1937)

7.9/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Mary Forbes, Ralph Bellamy

This screwball classic stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a newly-divorced couple who realise (independently of one another) that they're still in lo... Read more

The Bank Dick (1940)

7.3/10
Director: Edward Cline
Starring: W C Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon

W.C. Fields stars as Egbert Souse, an unemployed, henpecked drunk who spends most of his time at the Black Pussy Cat cafe. Things take a turn for the... Read more

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

5.6/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, Soh Yamamura, Norman Thomson

In 1856 Townsend Harris (Wayne) was the first American consul to Japan. He works hard to earn the respect of the local big-wigs amongst anti-American... Read more

The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

7.1/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien

The life and times of a glamour girl, her beginnings, her rise to stardom, her loveliness, her tragedy. A splendid production and cast including Humph... Read more

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

6.7/10
Director: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway

Atomic testing in the Arctic revives a gigantic "rhedosaurus" frozen in the ice for millions of years, and soon the creature is cutting a path of dest... Read more

The Beauty Jungle (1964)

Director: Val Guest
Starring: Edmund Purdom, Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser

AKA 'Contest Girl'. Shirley (Janette Scott) - young, pretty and impressionable - finds herself the focal point of a human-interest story manufactured... Read more

The Beggar's Opera (1953)

6.2/10
Director: Peter Brook
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, Hugh Griffith, Athene Seyler, Dorothy Tutin

Based on the first-ever English musical, written by John Gay, this authentic, cynical satire on 18th century London life boasts glorious sets and outr... Read more