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  • Drama
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    Le Mépris

    £2.50

    Jean-Luc Godard conducts an autopsy of love and the creative process, as a boorish film producer dismantles a seemingly strong marriage.

    • Drama
    • 1963
    • 103 mins
    • Jean-Luc Godard

    Blancanieves

    £3.50

    Pablo Berger’s imaginative black-and-white ‘silent’ movie relocates the story of Snow White to 1920s Spain – complete with bullfighting dwarfs

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • 2011
    • 105 mins
    • Pablo Berger

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    Germany, Pale Mother

    Set during the Third Reich and its aftermath, this lyrical, harrowing tale of love and war is a neglected classic of New German cinema.

    • Drama
    • 1980
    • 151 mins
    • Helma Sanders-Brahms

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    Katzelmacher

    A Greek immigrant unleashes jealousy and xenophobia among a group of Munich neighbours in Fassbinder’s shocking adaptation of his own play.

    • Drama
    • 1969
    • 89 mins
    • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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    Fox and His Friends

    Fassbinder's brilliantly caustic and cynical drama follows an ex-fairground worker who wins the lottery but is still mocked and exploited by his boyfriend’s family and friends.

    • Drama
    • 1975
    • 124 mins
    • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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    Chinese Roulette

    Psychodrama with a vengeance: Anna Karina stars in Fassbinder’s first international co-production; another deadly assault on the institution of marriage.

    • Drama
    • 1976
    • 86 mins
    • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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    Comedy
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    Sawako Decides

    Sawako tries to save her father's ailing clam-packing business, but it's an uphill struggle, in Yuya Ishii's joyous, nuanced, comic drama.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • 2010
    • 112 mins
    • Yuya Ishii

    Whisky Galore!

    £3.50

    Ealing's thirstiest comedy: "the longest unsponsored advertisement ever to reach cinema screens"?

    • Comedy
    • 1949
    • 83 mins
    • Alexander Mackendrick

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    Who Loves the Sun

    Lukas Haas and Adam Scott play two old friends with a tempestuous history in this delightfully witty character comedy.

    • Comedy
    • 2006
    • 94 mins
    • Matt Bissonnette

    The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

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    A young Peter Sellers voices this compilation film of silent slapstick footage, featuring Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy.

    • Comedy
    • 1953
    • 73 mins

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    Mammuth

    Legendary actor Gérard Depardieu is at his most uninhibited as an abattoir worker who hits the road with wild abandon.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • 2010
    • 91 mins
    • Benoît Delépine and Gustave K/vern

    Smiles of a Summer Night

    Ingmar Bergman’s Cannes prize-winning comedy assembles various couples in a country house in 1900.

    • Comedy
    • Period drama
    • 1955
    • 109 mins
    • Ingmar Bergman
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    Horror
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    City of the Living Dead

    Lucio Fulci’s sensationally gory zombie horror finds undead hordes overtaking a sleepy New England town, with only a reporter and a local psychic to stop them.

    • Horror
    • 1980
    • 93 mins
    • Lucio Fulci

    Nosferatu

    This influential Dracula adaptation contains some of the most famous images of expressionist film, and remains shocking and stylish after 100 years.

    • Horror
    • 1922
    • 89 mins
    • F.W. Murnau

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    The Mask of Satan

    Italian horror classic from acclaimed Italian horror auteur Mario Bava, about a beautiful witch Asa (Barbara Steele) who rises from her grave to take revenge upon her enemies.

    • Horror
    • 1960
    • 86 mins
    • Mario Bava

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    The Grapes of Death

    A woman visiting Roublès deep in France’s winemaking country discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.

    • Horror
    • 1978
    • 91 mins
    • Jean Rollin

    Currently unavailable

    The Devil's Backbone

    Guillermo Del Toro’s elegant and chilling ghost story, set in an orphanage for victims of the Spanish Civil War, which is haunted by the spectre of young boy.

    • Horror
    • War
    • 2001
    • 108 mins
    • Guillermo del Toro
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    Science Fiction
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    Quatermass and the Pit

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    One of Britain’s finest sci-fi films, based on Nigel Kneale’s masterful script, about the discovery of ancient alien craft beneath central London.

    • Horror
    • Science Fiction
    • 1967
    • 94 mins
    • Roy Ward Baker

    Currently unavailable

    The Host

    Bong Joon-ho's barnstorming yet highly original monster movie follows an eccentric family's attempts to rescue the daughter snatched by a huge amphibious creature.

    • Science Fiction
    • Action and Adventure
    • 2006
    • 115 mins
    • Bong Joon-ho

    Things to Come

    £3.50

    H.G. Wells' chilling vision of the future, which imagines the 20th Century as a near-endless war and struggle against tyranny, remains a key milestone in British science fiction.

    • Science Fiction
    • 1936
    • 97 mins
    • William Cameron Menzies

    Millennium

    £2.50

    Flight crash investigator Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson) discovers that time travellers from the future are visiting the present day and stealing passengers from doomed aircraft to repopulate a future, infertile human race.

    • Science Fiction
    • 1989
    • 101 mins
    • Michael Anderson

    Currently unavailable

    Plan 9 from Outer Space

    Notoriously dubbed one of the worst films ever made, this deranged 50s sci-fi remains a hilarious and extraordinary example of outsider cinema.

    • Horror
    • Science Fiction
    • 1958
    • 78 mins
    • Edward D. Wood Jr

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    The Mysterians

    The team behind Godzilla (1954) reunites for Toho’s first colour widescreen sci-fi, an arresting spectacle about the arrival of an alien race and their giant, destructive robot.

    • Science Fiction
    • 1957
    • 85 mins
    • Ishiro Honda
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    Romance
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    The Passionate Friends

    David Lean’s other, lesser known film about a love triangle spent too long in Brief Encounter’s shadow, but is now regarded as a fine, gripping drama.

    • Romance
    • 1949
    • 91 mins
    • David Lean

    Currently unavailable

    That Hamilton Woman

    Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier bring Hollywood glitz to the love affair between Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton in the midst of political turmoil.

    • Biopic
    • Historical drama
    • 1941
    • 120 mins
    • Alexander Korda

    One Love

    £2.50

    Rick Elgood and the legendary Don Letts direct this reggae romance about a rasta musician whose affair with a gospel-singing preacher’s daughter causes a stir in Kingston.

    • Romance
    • 2005
    • 96 mins
    • Rick Elgood and Don Letts

    Currently unavailable

    A Farewell to Arms

    Based on the best-selling 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper stars in Frank Borzage's Oscar-winning adaptation of the tragic Great War romance.

    • Romance
    • War
    • 1932
    • 89 mins
    • Frank Borzage

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    Brief Encounter

    Noël Coward’s tale of a love affair, thrillingly played out with tight British reserve.

    • Romance
    • 1946
    • 86 mins
    • David Lean

    Amour Fou

    £3.50

    Jessica Hausner’s long-awaited follow-up to Lourdes is a devilish anti-Rom-Com in which a German poet seeks mates for a suicide pact.

    • Period drama
    • Comedy
    • 2014
    • 92 mins
    • Jessica Hausner
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    Documentary
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    Further Beyond

    Desperate Optimists' deliriously deconstructed biopic of the extraordinary Ambrosio O'Higgins, who left Ireland to become the captain general of Chile in the Spanish Empire.

    • Biopic
    • Documentary
    • 2016
    • 88 mins
    • Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor

    Edith Walks

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    Andrew Kötting undertakes a pilgrimage in honour of Edith Swan Neck, first wife of King Harold, in this eccentric odyssey in search of English identity.

    • Documentary
    • Animation & Artists Moving Image
    • 2017
    • 61 mins
    • Andrew Kötting

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    My Voyage to Italy (part one)

    Martin Scorsese’s two-part love letter to Italian cinema is epic and sprawling in scope but also a deeply personal and moving testament to his passion for film.

    • Documentary
    • 2001
    • 120 mins
    • Martin Scorsese

    Welcome to Britain

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    Ben Lewin’s 1976 film captures a moment in Britain's evergreen immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.

    • Documentary
    • 1976
    • 73 mins
    • Ben Lewin

    Finisterre

    £2.50

    A journey from London’s suburbs to its heart, charting the influence of the city on indie pop band Saint Etienne.

    • Documentary
    • 2003
    • 59 mins
    • Kieran Evans and Paul Kelly

    Currently unavailable

    I Am Belfast

    Mark Cousins’ dreamlike evocation of his home city discovers a capital of rich history and startling beauty.

    • Documentary
    • Fantasy
    • 2016
    • 84 mins
    • Mark Cousins
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    Thriller
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    Mother

    Acclaimed Korean actor Kim Hye-ja is outstanding as a mother who will do anything to protect her son, in Bong Joon Ho’s fourth feature.

    • Thriller
    • 2009
    • 129 mins
    • Bong Joon-ho

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    The Ipcress File

    The coolest spy of all – Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer – makes his brilliant big screen debut in this landmark British spy thriller.

    • Crime
    • Thriller
    • 1965
    • 108 mins
    • Sidney J. Furie

    Currently unavailable

    The Lady Vanishes

    An old woman disappears mysteriously on a busy train in Hitchcock’s delightful classic.

    • Thriller
    • 1938
    • 96 mins
    • Alfred Hitchcock

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    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    An English couple are drawn into espionage when their daughter is kidnapped.

    • Thriller
    • 1934
    • 72 mins
    • Alfred Hitchcock

    Currently unavailable

    Secret Agent

    Long before James Bond, Alfred Hitchcock tried the story of a suave spy.

    • Thriller
    • War
    • 1936
    • 83 mins
    • Alfred Hitchcock

    Currently unavailable

    Tiger Bay

    A young girl witnesses a murder, befriending the killer and shielding him from the police.

    • Police drama
    • Thriller
    • 1959
    • 113 mins
    • J. Lee Thompson
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    Crime
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    Night Ferry

    £3.50

    A schoolboy aims to avert a dastardly plan to smuggle antiques out of the country in this rousing kids’ crime yarn.

    • Children's
    • Crime
    • 1976
    • 60 mins
    • David Eady

    Terry on the Fence

    £3.50

    11-year-old Terry runs away from home and is drawn into a gang of bullies, in a gritty Children's Film Foundation drama.

    • Children's
    • Crime
    • 1985
    • 70 mins
    • Frank Godwin

    Currently unavailable

    Gomorrah

    Matteo Garrone's unnervingly authentic Naples crime drama won the Grand Prix at Cannes before inspiring a hit TV series.

    • Crime
    • 2008
    • 132 mins
    • Matteo Garrone

    Emil and the Detectives

    £2.50

    The British adaptation of Eric Kastner’s much-loved children’s book is an evocative adventure on the streets of pre-war London.

    • Crime
    • 1935
    • 62 mins
    • Milton Rosmer

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    The Ipcress File

    The coolest spy of all – Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer – makes his brilliant big screen debut in this landmark British spy thriller.

    • Crime
    • Thriller
    • 1965
    • 108 mins
    • Sidney J. Furie

    Currently unavailable

    Odd Man Out

    Wounded during a robbery, a gunman attempts to escape police in Carol Reed's moody Irish thriller, starring James Mason.

    • Crime
    • 1947
    • 116 mins
    • Carol Reed
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    Biopic
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    Further Beyond

    Desperate Optimists' deliriously deconstructed biopic of the extraordinary Ambrosio O'Higgins, who left Ireland to become the captain general of Chile in the Spanish Empire.

    • Biopic
    • Documentary
    • 2016
    • 88 mins
    • Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory.

    • Biopic
    • Historical drama
    • 1988
    • 84 mins
    • Terence Davies

    By Our Selves

    £3.50

    The latest psycho-geographical excursion from Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair

    • Animation & Artists Moving Image
    • Documentary
    • 2015
    • 80 mins
    • Andrew Kötting

    Currently unavailable

    Henry V

    Laurence Olivier rouses an all-star cast and an imperiled nation with his magnificent adaptation of Shakespeare's warrior monarch.

    • Historical drama
    • Biopic
    • 1944
    • 131 mins
    • Laurence Olivier

    The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

    Herzog’s account of the historical character who captivated 19th-century Nuremberg after emerging from isolation after 16 years in a cellar.

    • Biopic
    • 1974
    • 109 mins
    • Werner Herzog

    Silent Scream

    £2.50

    Brutal, mind-bending journey into the damaged mind of a violent killer, with exceptional performances from Iain Glen and Robert Carlyle.

    • Biopic
    • 1990
    • 85 mins
    • David Hayman
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