Past releases

Andrew Kötting's latest film is a lovely portrait of the artist's daughter as a young woman.

Ernst Lubitsch's wondrous comedy, set in a lovingly evoked pre-war Budapest in the run-up to Christmas.

Terrence Malick's foray into American pastoral has now been digitally restored, the subtle pictorial alterations supervised by the writer-director himself.

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, this groundbreaking film portrays the uprising on the Russian battleship Potemkin against the officers of the Tsarist regime.

Bertolucci's brilliantly assured second film is very loosely inspired by Stendhal' The Charterhouse of Parma, a novel the director adored.

One of cinema's most hauntingly vivid depictions of a child’s fantasy-imbued reality.

François Truffaut plays a director shooting a melodrama in Nice, who has to keep the chaos of real life off-camera.

Hawks' classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novella, a compellingly stylish and complex thriller.

This account of an extra-marital affair is one of François Truffaut's subtlest and most richly rewarding films.

Sadistic cruelty, bitter hatred, murderous betrayal... Clouzot's razor-sharp thriller remains a dark classic of misanthropic invention.

Nicolas Roeg's stunning debut as sole director makes breathtaking use of its Australian outback locations.

Four Portraits of Post-War Britain by John Krish.

England's landscape revisited by the director of London and Robinson in Space.

There are films so richly realised you can live in them: The Leopard is one such.

Eric Rohmer's enduring masterpiece, arguably the greatest of all his films.

Kurosawa's story of rape and murder in 12th century Kyoto, a brilliant meditation on the relative nature of truth.

Alberto Cavalcanti's visionary wartime film, based on a story by Graham Greene.

A leading cult film of the 1960s and one of the finest records of Mod culture in British cinema.

Agnès Varda's stylish masterpiece of the French New Wave.

One of cinema's most achingly poignant romances, starring Joan Fontaine.

One of Ozu's most bittersweet movies; a half-comic drama about parenthood, 'difficult' children and marriage prospects.

The film that made Ozu's reputation in the west.

A Valentine's film studded with sparkling moments.

A breathtaking digital restoration of one of the best-loved fantasy films of all time.

Orson Welles's monumental debut investigating the life of media tycoon Charles Foster Kane.

Oshima's masterpiece: probably the most famous erotic film ever made.

Jacques Demy's stylish and joyously exuberant musical starring Catherine Deneuve.

Sergio Leone's elegiac, ironic and supremely cinematic milestone movie.

Abbas Kiarostami's extraordinary latest feature.

Hitchock's virtuoso romantic thriller starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.

Joseph Losey's brilliant study of simmering class conflict, sexual tension and the British character.

Jean-Luc Godard's spectacular farewell to the style and spirit of the Nouvelle Vague.

François Truffaut's superb feature debut, an influential landmark in the history of the cinema.