Johnny Guitar

It's got Elizabeth Taylor at her luminous best! It's got Katherine Hepburn being all hysterical!  Montgomery Clift referees, while providing cutting-edge mental health treatment (aka lobotomy) from the worst mental hospital in the world. Add in the  New Orleans lush sweatiness, and the secret of ...

Three women, strangers to each other, wordlessly agree to murder a man. Are they insane, or is a silent refusal to explain  a rational response when no-one is listening anyway? Marleen Gorris's 1982 Dutch feminist classic is a truly wonderful film. Pass it on. 

Director Brian de Palma is known for his understated pastoral films, evoking emotion through silence and the quiet passing of time  ....ha ha, just kidding, his films are crazy and this one's even more bonkers than the rest.  Margot Kidder brings her usual greatness playing twins Dominique and ...

"The bleakest film ever made" according to one critic. And he wasn't wrong. Wrongly accused of robbery, Jim Allen (Paul Muni) endures degradation and violence on a depression-era Southern chain gang. Escape offers brief hope but it can't last... Made in 1932 and still packing an enormous and bru ...