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 Effi Briest Fassbinder's exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontaneβs great novel, starring the great Hanna Schygulla as the titular 17-year-old who is forced into a socially advantageous marriage with a much older man. Drama 1974 140 mins Rainer Werner Fassbinder Dead Ringers David Cronenberg's multi award-winning psychological thriller exploring the bizarre lives of identical twins Elliot and Beverly, both played by Jeremy Irons. Horror Thriller 1988 116 mins David Cronenberg Prick Up Your Ears A celebration of outrageous British playwright Joe Ortonβs irreverent and charismatic talent, starring Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina. Biopic Historical drama 1987 110 mins Stephen Frears 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 Les Enfants Terribles Jean-Pierre Melvilleβs film of Jean Cocteau's controversial novel about a teenage brother and sister and their intense, closeted relationship. Drama 1949 106 mins Jean-Pierre Melville Oliver Twist Arguably the essential Dickens adaptation, David Leanβs evocative portrayal of Victorian London in sooty black and white features Alec Guinness as a memorably sinister Fagin. Period drama 1948 116 mins David Lean Great Expectations The first of David Leanβs two Dickens adaptations is one of the finest British literary interpretations and one of the most acclaimed of all British films. Drama Period drama 1947 118 mins David Lean The Fall of the House of Usher The first of Ε vankmajer's 'tactile experiments', chosen partly because the title was on an official list of 'approved' texts. In this version there are no humans, just a glimpse of a live raven as the camera roams around an eerie derelict house. Animation & Artists Moving Image Horror 1982 16 mins Jan Svankmajer Fantastic Planet RenΓ© Laloux and Roland Toporβs surreal, psychedelic sci-fi animation imagines a world in which humanoid creatures are kept as pets by a race of giants. Animation & Artists Moving Image Science Fiction 1973 72 mins RenΓ© Laloux Things to Come 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 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 The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 'Man of a thousand faces' Lon Chaney stars in the first version of Gaston Leroux's oft-filmed novel. Horror Period drama 1925 91 mins Rupert Julian 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 Nosferatu the Vampyre English language version of Herzogβs stimulating take on the Dracula story starring Klaus Kinski, with echoes of Murnauβs 1922 Nosferatu. Horror 1979 107 mins Werner Herzog Brick Lane Sarah Gavronβs subtle and intelligent adaptation of Monica Aliβs acclaimed novel charts the experiences of a Bangladeshi woman in London. Drama 2007 97 mins Sarah Gavron 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 Mogul Mowgli Bassam Tariqβs visceral directorial debut, co-written with Riz Ahmed, finds a British-Pakistani rapperβs life spiralling out of control when, on the cusp of success, he succumbs to a debilitating illness. Drama 2020 89 mins Bassam Tariq The American Friend Acclaimed director Wim Wenders, with the help of Dennis Hopper, transforms Patricia Highsmith's novel 'Ripley's Game' into a gripping European noir. Film noir 1978 121 mins Wim Wenders The Scarlet Letter Wim Wenders adapts the acclaimed novel in which a Puritan village chastises a young mother for giving birth out of wedlock. Period drama 1972 90 mins Wim Wenders Wrong Move A young man journeys across Germany to find his voice as a writer in Wim Wenders' celebrated road movie. Road movie 1975 99 mins Wim Wenders The Ipcress File The coolest spy of all β Michael Caineβs Harry Palmer β makes his brilliant big screen debut in this landmark British spy thriller. Crime Thriller 1965 108 mins Sidney J. Furie The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Ivor Novello plays a strange lodger who may be behind a number of Jack the Ripper-style killings in Alfred Hitchcockβs silent thriller. Crime 1926 91 mins Alfred Hitchcock The 39 Steps Sublime and suspenseful version of the popular John Buchan spy thriller from the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Thriller 1935 83 mins Alfred Hitchcock Sabotage A cinema owner works with a ring of terrorists, with drastic effects on his wife and her brother, in Hitchcockβs London-set thriller. Thriller 1936 77 mins Alfred Hitchcock Young and Innocent In Hitchcock's early thriller, the witness to a murder is accused of the crime, evading arrest to track the real killer. Thriller 1937 83 mins Alfred Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes An old woman disappears mysteriously on a busy train in Hitchcockβs delightful classic. Thriller 1938 96 mins Alfred Hitchcock Innocence of Memories A multi-layered melding of fiction and fact, about Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk and his Istanbul Museum of Innocence.β¨ Documentary 2016 97 mins Grant Gee Cobra Verde Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzogβs final collaboration is a typically wild and adventurous story of a bandit who trains an army of women to topple a slave-trading king Drama 1987 110 mins Werner Herzog The Castle of Otranto Czech animator Jan Ε vankmajer's adaptation of Horace Walpole's Gothic novel. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1977 18 mins Jan Svankmajer Uncle Silas Gothic chiller based on the novel by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Jean Simmons stars as an heiress pursued by her unbalanced uncle and his perverted son. Drama 1947 98 mins Charles Frank The Spy in Black A masterful thriller with true flair, The Spy In Black has a much larger importance: it threw Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger together for the first time. War 1939 79 mins Michael Powell A Night to Remember Widely regarded as the finest film account of the sinking of the Titanic, this moving seafaring disaster tale will grip you from start to finish. Disaster Historical drama 1958 123 mins Roy Ward Baker The Lower Depths Akira Kurosawaβs adaptation of Maxim Gorkyβs novel, in which inhabitants of a slum revel in illusions to avoid bitter reality. Drama 1957 125 mins Akira Kurosawa In the Fog A suspected Nazi collaborator and his Partisan abductors join forces to escape pursuing German forces, in this vibrantly shot war drama. War 2012 123 mins Sergei Loznitsa High and Low Akira Kurosawaβs procedural crime masterpiece, from Ed McBainβs gritty novel, follows an industrialist who faces an agonising choice as a result of a botched kidnapping by ruthless criminals. Crime Police drama 1963 143 mins Akira Kurosawa The Devil Rides Out Dennis Wheatley's occult tale is given the Hammer treatment. Horror 1968 95 mins Terence Fisher Death and The Compass Alex Coxβs visually stunning, deliciously dark adaptation of the short story by acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. 1996 86 mins Alex Cox Mademoiselle Chambon When a happily married man decides to volunteer at his sonβs school, he begins to form a romantic bond with a teacher in this intimate French drama. Drama Romance 2009 100 mins StΓ©phane BrizΓ© It Always Rains on Sunday Austerity noir: Ealing's downbeat but compelling East End thriller. Drama 1947 88 mins Robert Hamer Hell Is a City Punchy crime thriller with a realist streak as Stanley Baker pursues a fugitive through the streets of Manchester. Police drama 1960 96 mins Val Guest Whisky Galore! Ealing's thirstiest comedy: "the longest unsponsored advertisement ever to reach cinema screens"? Comedy 1949 83 mins Alexander Mackendrick More Based on the Book films in our Rentals collection. Explore Rentals Left More Based on the Book films in our Free collection. Explore Free Left
