The Masters of Cinema Series

On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted ou

The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Ma

One of the most visually striking of all the later silent films, The Man Who Laughs reunites German Expressionism director Paul Leni and cinematograph

Perhaps the greatest rock documentary ever made, Martin Scorsese s The Last Waltz captures what was advertised as legendary rock group The Band s fina

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn s classic Japanese ghost stories about

After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang s two-part "Indian Epic" in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct o

A virtuoso World War II espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang as his follow-up to the noir classic Scarlet Street (and not long after the war itse

A harrowing drama set during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvador is a one of director Oliver Stone'lauras most underrated films, a thrilling and violen

Based on the hit play by Agatha Christie, Billy Wilders Witness for the Prosecution was nominated for six Academy Awards and was reportedly praised by

Often acknowledged as one of the best prison films ever made, Birdman of Alcatraz was director John Frankenheimer s first huge success and received ra

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's intense drama about racial tensions starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier... A pivotal early film in the wave of raci

An unforgettable mixture of bubblegum teen melodrama and grisly phantasmagoria, Nobuhiko Obayashis deranged fairy tale House is one of Japanese c

Based on Herman Bang s 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a decadent elderly artist (Benjamin Christe

An underrated masterpiece and one of the finest Sherlock Holmes films ever made... Considered by many Holmesians to be the best Sherlock Holmes mov

Ranked as one of the finest British films of all time, director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Day of the Jackal) A Man for All

Widely regarded as the greatest martial arts epic of all time, A Touch of Zen won awards worldwide (including at Cannes), smashed box-office records

The best film ever made - Jarvis Cocker One of the most beloved and iconic British films of all time (voted in the top 10 of all time by the Briti

One of the most influential and revered figures in all of cinema, Friedrich Wilheim Murnau came to prominence in the first half of the 1920s with a

In this second of Francis Ford Coppola's back-to-back screen adaptations of novels by S. E. Hinton, the grand romanticism of The Outsiders was flipp

Peter Watkins' critically acclaimed biopic about the expressionist painter of ''The Scream'' Described by Ingmar Bergman as ''a work of genius'', 

Bernardo Bertolucci's epic masterpiece of friendship and betrayal starring Robert De Niro and Gérard Depardieu After the international firestorm o

From Luchino Visconti — the master director of such classics as La terra trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard — comes this epic study of family, sex

Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaw

Sidney Lumet's 1973 crime drama Serpico remains one of the most influential cop movies - alongside Al Pacino's nuanced performance in a disturbing por

Sidney Lumet's 1973 crime drama Serpico remains one of the most influential cop movies - alongside Al Pacino's nuanced performance in a disturbing por

A glorious mixture of the riotously morbid and joyously life-affirming, Hal Ashby s Harold and Maude was an instant counter-culture favourite on its

A milestone in American cinema and of the key films of the 1970s, Robert Altman s Nashville is one of the most influential and dazzling films ever ma

How far will a 32 year-old virgin go to possess a 19 year-old boy? Just prior to his career breakthrough M*A*S*H, Robert Altman made this memorabl