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Award Winners

Repulsion

Repulsion

Psychological film about a female played by Catherine Deneuve who is repulsed by male advances and her own sexual urges. Fine balance between suggestion and ambiguity, it really is the blueprint for all psycho-thrillers that followed, the blurring of lines between reality and fantasy. Award winner.

Duration : 1h 44m
Maturity Level : all

One-Eyed Jacks

One-Eyed Jacks

Not your everyday western, it’s well crafted and flawless for first and only time director Marlon Brando. Part based on the legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Brando interweaves betrayal, revenge and hypocrisy into something compellingly hypnotic and real. Award winner.

Duration : 2h 21m
Maturity Level : all

Virus

Virus

Brilliant story, great acting moving score and very powerful lessons on humanity including what entails to form a new way of life and holding onto what it means to want to survive in a new post-apocalyptic world. By far one the best. Highly impressive cast.

Duration : 1h 48m
Maturity Level : all

Birthday

Birthday

M is the most esteemed professional of the many girls at Scarlet’s but, even on her birthday, it’s business as usual. M’s trade is sex, but sex doesn’t sell the way it used to; what clients are searching for, paying for, is love. Full of human drama, considerable wit, beauty and eroticism.

Duration : 1h 40m
Maturity Level : all

Zero Town

Zero Town

A Kafkaesque, cheerful satire about the legacy of Stalin, the absurd logic of a decaying and malfunctioning political system, the inert and unmovable bureaucracy, personal identity and the political importance of rock-and-roll. Also works perfectly well as a funny tale of mistaken identity.

Duration : 1h 41m
Maturity Level : all

The 10th Victim

The 10th Victim

Highly original vision and dark comedy satire of future society and entertainment. From sexual roadside rest stops to having to hide your parents because it’s a law to turn them in after a certain age. But above all the concept of the TV hunt itself. With Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress.

Duration : 1h 32m
Maturity Level : all

Stairway To Heaven

Stairway To Heaven

The vision created throughout is extraordinary with remarkable moments. Enchanting, clever, romantic, dramatic and full of twists and turns in an already creative and incredible storyline. Quite simply one of the finest films ever made. Starring Kim Hunter & David Niven.rn

Duration : 1h 44m
Maturity Level : all

The War Of The Worlds

The War Of The Worlds

Award winning masterpiece with exceptional design work. Great acting by Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne and all involved make the suspense very real. The script is first-rate and true to the novel of H. G. Wells. An absolute classic masterpiece.

Duration : 1h 25m
Maturity Level : all

A Touch Of Evil

A Touch Of Evil

An Orson Welles award winner just as masterful as Citizen Kane but with an overwhelming sense of moral decay. Everything’s been said in praise of the opening shot sequence for decades but even now it’s stunning. Every shot and frame is beautiful. Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich.

Duration : 1h 49m
Maturity Level : all

Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

Very intelligent gripping thriller. Obsessed journalist goes inside a mental institution to investigate unsolved murder. The patients include man-hungry nymphos, a stripper and a chilling performance of a black ’white supremacist’. Ironic ending packs a devastating punch. A film noir cult classic.

Duration : 1h 41m
Maturity Level : all

Orson Welles - The Trial

Orson Welles - The Trial

Unique, visually stunning with an amazing performance by Anthony Perkins trapped in a corrupt judicial system. Surreal, heightened drama, bizarre, scary, unique, creative, funny and sad. Orson Welles proclaimed “this is my best film”. One of the most powerful films you’ll ever see.

Duration : 1h 57m
Maturity Level : all

Shock

Shock

A housewife returns to the home she shared with her dead husband with her new husband and young son from the former marriage. Things become increasingly unsettling when she is plagued by visions, apparitions and strange behavior from her child. Genuinely creepy, excellent acting and cinematography.

Duration : 1h 36m
Maturity Level : all

Viridiana

Viridiana

Beautiful naive virginal Viridiana inherits the opulent estate of her late uncle, Fernando Rey. Her Christian idealism leads her to invite the dregs of society, cripples, whores, drunks to live there leading to her disillusionment driven by their outright sin and debauchery. Banned in Spain 20 years

Duration : 1h 30m
Maturity Level : all

Killers Kiss

Killers Kiss

A first-class suspense early Stanley Kubrick noir. Stunning cinematography in a stylish story about a boxer falls in love with a mafia boss’s girlfriend and puts his life on the line as he tries to run away with her. A tale of murder, kidnappings and romance ensues. Award winner.

Duration : 1h 4m
Maturity Level : all

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

Courtroom drama with a unique twist. Highly acclaimed for its deep exploration of justice, prejudice and reasonable doubt, themes include human nature, justice system and moral dilemmas. Henry Fonda leads an exceptional cast in the multi award winning timeless and always relevant masterpiece.

Duration : 1h 35m
Maturity Level : all

The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor are perfection in these roles as a couple who had it all when they had little and lost so much when they gained a lot. They were flawed and made dumb mistakes but you can’t help liking them and wishing "love conquers all”. Based on Scott Fitzgerald book. Award winner

Duration : 1h 55m
Maturity Level : all

Pepping Tom

Pepping Tom

This incredible, iconic and horrifying film is indeed deserving of all the praise it has received throughout the years. Its main character is a troubled but brilliant young man with desires and urge to gaze at the intimate, the forbidden, the unattainable. Controversial and banned at the time.

Duration : 1h 41m
Maturity Level : all

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

Superb anthology. The first about a telephone call that torments a young woman, the second about a family terrorized by their patriarch vampire hunter(Boris Karloff) and the third about a greedy nurse, a corpse with a frozen creepy grin forewarning anyone against taking what isn’t theirs.

Duration : 1h 35m
Maturity Level : all

Blood and Black Lace

Blood and Black Lace

Iconic, ultra stylised chilling 60s thriller. A twisted plot involves models in a seemingly reputable fashion house as terror spreads throughout. A colourful, highly atmospheric thats grisly-glamorous. The stunning photography, framing, lighting and use of colour is unequalled. Classic award winner.

Duration : 1h 28m
Maturity Level : all

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Genuine classic of paranoia. The premise is everyone you know is disappearing and being replaced by a soulless lookalike is very disturbing. creeping paranoia and gradual subversion of a quaint little American town. Limited use of special effects and clever photography deliver suspense and shock.

Duration : 1h 20m
Maturity Level : all