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Howards End (1992)
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, James Wilby, Prunella Scal...
The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, 'Howards End' is a luminous vision of E. M.... Read more
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1982)
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto
David Bowie delivers a strong performance in Nagisa Oshima's ('In the Realm of the Senses') apocalyptic tale of a Japanese prison camp during World Wa... Read more
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Blu-ray) (1989)
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth
A feast (in more ways than one) for followers of writer/director Peter Greenaway's work. Set around a high-class English restaurant, it involves the g... Read more
Repulsion (1965)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Renee Houston, Patrick Wymark, Yvonn...
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough "Knife in the Water" with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve... Read more
A Room with a View (1985)
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, Julian Sand...
"A Room with a View" is the film that defined Merchant-Ivory as the masters of the romantic period piece and this exceptional adaptation of E.M. Forst... Read more
Life is Sweet (Blu-ray) (1990)
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, Jim Broadbent
Another slice of working-class life focusing on an endearing couple and their iconoclastic twin daughters - one of whom is waist-deep in self-loathing... Read more
Bedazzled (1967)
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's update of the Faust legend, in which timid short order cook Stanley Moon sells his soul to the devil (aka George Spiggot... Read more
The Chronicles of Narnia 1 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1989)
Director: Marilyn Fox
Starring: Richard Dempsey, Sophie Cook, Jonathan R Scott, Sophie Wilcox, Barbara Kellerman
Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund are magically transported to the enchanted world of Narnia through an old wardrobe in a countryside estate. In Narnia th... Read more
King of Hearts (1967)
Director: Philippe De Broca
Starring: Alan Bates, Francoise Christophe, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur
A Scottish World War I explosive expert (Alan Bates) is sent to a French town abandoned by everyone except the escaped inmates from an asylum. This ra... Read more
Mona Lisa (1986)
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Even before The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan received a first round of critical acclaim for this superb 1986 film, a character study of a m... Read more