Fritz Lang directs this classic German thriller starring Peter Lorre and Otto Wernicke. The city of Berlin is being terrorised by a notorious child molester Lorre and, frustrated by the failure of the police to catch the culprit, the underworld criminals organise themselves to hunt him down.

Silent German horror directed by Robert Wiene. When a young man is mysteriously murdered after being told by a somnambulist at Dr Caligari Werner Krauss's side show that he won't live out the night, his friend Francis Friedrich Feher is determined to find out the truth behind what happened. With help from his fiance Jane Lil Dagover, Francis soon discovers that Dr Caligari is actually the director of a local insane asylum and is using a deranged patient to pose as his somnambulist in order to commit a series of grisly murders. Springing into action, Francis must put a stop to Dr Caligari's evil scheme before he can claim anymore victims.

King Hu writes and directs this martial arts feature. During the Ming dynasty, the emperor's first eunuch Tsao Pai Ying has killed General Yu and exiled his surviving children. But while they make their way out of China, Tsao orders the offspring to be killed by his secret Black Arrow Troop at the border's Dragon Gate Inn. But unbeknownst to Tsao, martials arts expert Xiao Shih Jun has been summoned by the innkeeper Cho Kin, who was one of the general's lieutenants, to protect Yu's children, forcing him to take down Tsao and his forces.

Classic horror starring Peter Cushing. A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In doing so she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing Cushing is already on his way.

The Royal Ballet perform the stories of Beatrix Potter, bringing characters including Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Jeremy Fisher, and Squirrel Nutkin to life against an English countryside background. Choreography is by Sir Frederick Ashton and the music is composed by John Lanchbery.

1960s British thriller directed by Bryan Forbes in which Michael Caine stars as a cat burglar. When jewel thieves Richard and Fe Moreau Eric Portman and Giovanna Ralli invite former alcoholic cat burglar Henry Clarke Caine to join their ranks for a daring robbery, things quickly become complicated. Finding himself increasingly attracted to Fe, Henry soon realises that the couple's relationship is far from what it seems, a fact that has a bearing on events when the trio decide to relieve Spanish playboy Salinas David Buck of his jewels.

American classic starring Joanne Woodward as Eve, a woman taken to a doctor after experiencing frequent blackouts. Under hypnosis, Eve is found to have three completely separate identities so her doctor, Dr Luther Lee J. Cobb, attempts to keep her newly-discovered multiple personality disorder under control as she goes about her life as a wife and mother.

Action adventure film in which a masked vigilante by the name of Diego de la Vega Alain Delon sets out to seek vengeance after his old acquaintance Miguel de la Serna Marino Mas is murdered before he can take up the position of governor of Nueva Aragn. Vega learns that Nueva Aragn is rife with corruption and is soon to be ruled by the greedy Colonel Huerta Stanley Baker, who ordered the assassination of Serna. Vega creates an alter ago by the name of Zorro based on a legendary tale told in the streets of Nueva Aragn, and uses this character as a means of privately executing his revenge.

Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes star in this US thriller directed by Tony Scott. Gil Renard De Niro, a failed salesman and devoted fan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, receives a restraining order from his ex-wife after he abandons his son at a game. Gil becomes obsessed with the Giants' star player Bobby Rayburn Snipes and when Rayburn has a streak of bad luck, Gil goes over the edge and will stop at nothing to restore his idol's reputation.

This Japanese comedy drama by Yasujiro Ozu, based on a novel by Ton Satomi, is a reworking of his earlier film 'Late Spring'. At the memorial service of their friend, Miwa Chishu Ryu, three of his old friends devise a plot to find a husband for his unmarried daughter, Ayako Yoko Tsukasa. To their consternation, Ayako refuses to fall in with their plan, expressing a preference to remain with her mother, Akiko Setsuko Hara. The three men all harbour a lifetime crush on Akiko but agree that one of them should marry Ayako, which causes conflict among both family and friends. Eventually, with the help of Ayako's friend, Yukiko Mariko Okada, Akiko and Ayako are reconciled, and Ayako concedes to marry according to the wishes of her elders.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's screen adaptation of the Greek tragedy stars opera diva Maria Callas in her only film role. Medea Callas, daughter of a king, falls in love with Jason Giuseppe Gentile and helps him steal the Golden Fleece. She becomes Jason's wife and queen, but when he decides to leave her she wreaks a horrible revenge, murdering her own children.

These four short observational documentaries by filmmaker John Krish offer an affecting portrait of life in post-war England in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 'The Elephant Will Never Forget' 1953 is an elegy to London's once-thriving tram system. 'They Took Us to the Sea' 1961 looks at the experiences of children in a post-war nation slowly emerging from years of austerity. 'Our School' 1962 explores the opportunities available to school-leavers in the post-war years. 'I Think They Call Him John' 1964 is a touching portrait of the lonely life of an elderly widower.

Norman Cohen and Arnold L. Miller co-direct this cult documentary exploring London nightlife. Depicting the somewhat unsavoury underside of London in the 1960s, the feature examines the after dark goings on in the city's seedy clubs and bars. Venturing beyond the glamorous images of the capital, the film offers a stark and revealing insight into life in the city during the swinging '60s.

Sequel to director Arnold L. Miller's cult documentary 'London in the Raw' 1964. Again exploring the more explicit side of London life after dark, this time the film centres around events at the Ace Cafe and features interviews with mods, rockers, strippers and beatniks, giving another eye-opening account of life in the capital during the swinging '60s.

Bill Douglas's highly acclaimed, largely autobiographical trio of films that follow the fortunes of Jamie Stephen Archibald as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. The films were made over a six-year period and track Jamie's growth from childhood to adolescence. Many critics regard the trilogy as one of British cinema's greatest achievements.

Collection of 15 documentary shorts from British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings. The films in this volume were made between 1934 and 1940 and include 'The First Days' 1939, 'Spare Time' 1939 and 'London Can Take It!' 1940.

1970s British comedy drama starring John Hurt as an art student-turned-activist. After being expelled from art school, Malcolm Scrawdyke Hurt leads his friends, Wick John McEnery, Irwin Raymond Platt and Nipple David Warner, as they form an anti-establishment group called the Party of Dynamic Erection. Before long they decide their best plan of action as a revolutionary organisation will be to abduct their nemesis. Ex-Beatle George Harrison produced this adaptation of David Halliwell's 1965 stage play.

Director Norman J. Warren makes his feature debut in this exploitation drama from 1968. Attractive European model Marisa Lucia Modugno comes to Britain for a fashion job but soon becomes trapped in a seedy world where she is deceived into posing nude for girly magazines.

Classic drama directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Gena Rowlands and Lynn Carlin. After 14 years of marriage, upper-middle-class couple Richard and Maria Forst Marley and Carlin are finally on the cusp of separation. Their marriage has long been an empty union between two people with various problems and no interest in discussing them with each other. Richard declares his intention to formally divorce Maria and retreats into the arms of Jeannie Rapp Rowlands, an escort he has already fallen for. Maria joins her married friends for a night out and brings a handsome young man named Chet Seymour Cassel back to her home. With their separation having been completed at long last, both Richard and Maria have nothing left to distract them from facing up to their own personal lives.

Christopher Monger directs this 1980s drama starring Ian McNeice as a radio presenter. 'Fats' Bannerman McNeice is a successful radio star who writes and presents romantic serial 'Thus Engaged' which follows the life and relationships of a female protagonist in the 1800s. When a harsh reality disrupts his lonely life, Fats becomes unable to distinguish between fact and fiction.

The first full commercial release of the 1972 film based on the play of the same name adapted and directed by Jane Arden. The film is an exploration into the mind of a young woman marked as a schizophrenic after suffering a mental breakdown only to find that the cause is not due to her insanity but rather a distorted sexual guilt constructed by the prohibitive community in which she lives.

Futuristic drama from directors Jane Arden and Jack Bond. The plot is centred around Joseph Sapha Sebastian Saville, a young man who shares his thoughts and feelings with the viewer after deciding to reject the idea of time constraints and distance himself from a society dominated by the threat of nuclear war.

Silent documentary following the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition during which mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory met their untimely deaths. The expedition marked the third attempt to make the first ascent of the mountain. It remains under debate whether Irvine and Mallory made it to the summit but they were last seen 800 feet from the top before they disappeared. Mallory's body was discovered in 1999 but Irvine's has never been found. The film was recorded by Captain J.B.L. Noel and captures the progress of the expedition.

Crime drama directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey and Seymour Cassel. Cosmo Vitelli Gazzara owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California he loves his girls and he loves his job. Trouble is, however, he also loves to gamble and this has resulted in a huge and ever-increasing debt to the mob. So when he is offered the chance to clear his debt in one fell swoop he jumps at it - until he discovers that the job he must carry out is the murder of a man known only as 'The Chinese Bookie'.

Henri-Georges Clouzot co-writes and directs this French thriller set in the South American jungle where supplies of nitroglycerine are urgently needed at a remote oil field. After a Mexican oil well catches fire, the unscrupulous American oil company pays four out-of-work men Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and Peter Van Eyck to deliver the delicate and deadly supplies in two hulking trucks. A tense rivalry quickly develops between the two sets of drivers, a tension magnified by the unforgiving heat, the lure of filthy lucre and the rough and rocky roads where the slightest jolt could result in agonising death.

Film drama set during the final days of Franco's Spain. Reminiscing in adult life Ana Geraldine Chaplin reflects on her childhood growing up in a wealthy part of Madrid. Her childish world is haunted by visions of her beloved dead mother also played by Chaplin and the conviction that her philandering, neglectful father Hctor Alterio was responsible for the onset of her mother's fatal illness. Following her father's sudden suspicious death in an act of adultery, Ana played as a child by Ana Torrent and her sisters Conchota Prez and Maite Snchez are raised by a stern Aunt Mnica Randall. As tensions grow within the family and previously hidden passions rise in the confined household, Ana is poised to take drastic action...

British drama starring Richard Attenborough. Working class teenager Jack Read Attenborough gains a scholarship to an exclusive public school. However, his new surroundings are a stark contrast to his life growing up in London and Read is viewed as uncouth by his fellow classmates and teachers.

British sci-fi drama starring Tilda Swinton and Bill Paterson. British journalist Sullivan Paterson is based in the Middle East where he is covering the conflict between Jordan and Palestine when he discovers a woman, Friendship Swinton, stranded without a passport or official documentation. As the fighting intensifies Sullivan offers her a safe haven in his hotel room. The pair begin a conversation and Friendship claims to be an android from another planet sent to bring peace to Earth.

A young man Gerard Depardieu falls for the mysterious dominatrix Bulle Ogier. As it develops their relationship begins to mirror the power games of the bordello and they become unable to separate it from the perversions of the chamber below.

Collection of films by Polish director Walerian Borowczyk. In the animated feature 'Mr and Mrs Kabal's Theatre' 1967, the story follows the lives of Mr Kabal voice of Pierre Collet and his mechanical monster wife Louisette Rousseau who get on each other's nerves but can't imagine being apart. When Mrs Kabal suffers from indigestion after eating a butterfly, her husband has to travel inside her to find the source of the problem. Also included are 12 short films which comprise 'Astronauts' 1959, 'The Concert' 1962, 'Grandmother's Encyclopaedia' 1963, 'Renaissance' 1963, 'Angels' Games' 1964, 'Joachim's Dictionary' 1965, 'Rosalie' 1966, 'Gavotte' 1967, 'Diptych' 1967, 'The Phonograph' 1969, 'The Greatest Love of All Time' 1978 and 'Scherzo Infernal' 1984.