Richard Burton’s disgruntled, dishevelled and under-employed ex-spy is the best thing about The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a gritty thriller based on a novel by John le Carre.
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An intense, natural performance by 16-year-old Jenny Agutter makes this coming-of-age thriller something special. It has been restored in 2K and look as spick and span as Hemel Hempstead in the 60s.
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Boris Karloff ditches most of the make-up and gets his teeth into a series of roles – variations on the ‘mad doctor’ theme – in this collection of six, hour-long films.
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Sergio Martino’s intriguing political thriller sheds light on the dark machinations that traumatised Italy in the 1970s. Inspector Giorgio Solmi (Merenda) has just signed off the deaths of three army colonels as suicide when a suspiciously wealthy electrician is murdered in his villa.
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The winner of the Silver Bear Best Director award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival makes one Berliner’s cultured middle-class life seem calm, focused and yet utterly lacking in control.
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This enjoyable if un-PC trio of 1980s Hong Kong martial arts action comedies showcases some great fights from Jackie and Sammo. The pervy male comedy is desperately funny too – in the slapstick manner – as well as giving revealing insight into popular HK-style comedy.
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This enjoyable double feature of Indigenous American themed horror films shows how the genre made room in the 70s to address racial and ecological issues.
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This pioneering work of queer cinema tells the emotionally powerful story of a young teenager traumatised by life in a boarding school.
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A very gory, cheap-looking shocker that manages to breathe new life into the Hellraiser world.
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Daft, scenery-chewing fun with some great camera hi-jinks thrown in – The Last Warning shows how good silent cinema could be at smart laughs and clever, fast-paced action.
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