Carlton Cinema

Hammer horror set in Victorian Cornwall about a man who travels to the West Country to investigate the mysterious death of his brother. On his arrival, he comes up against a wall of hostility and silence. But his investigations reveal that his brother perished from a snakelike bite inflicted by the human victim of an ancient Malayan curse

Fact-based drama about a 15-year-old with a penchant for marrying older women. The film, set in 1944, features a brace of musical classics from the period

Comedy in which a young woman who cannot resist a hard luck story jilts her wealthy fiance for his broke friend. When the two men’s situations are reversed, her marriage is threatened

Romantic drama, set in the early 19th century, about an ageing spinster who masquerades as her own niece in order to win back her former sweetheart, who has returned from the war. After ten years apart, he fails to recognise her, so she sets about planning to recapture their lost youth

Swashbuckler set in 14th-century France just after the Hundred Years War. Prince Edward, English protector of the province of Aquitaine, tries to rescue an English noblewoman who has been kidnapped by the French, led by the evil Comte de Ville. Errol Flynn’s final role as a swordsman adventurer

Three storylines intertwine in this comedy-drama following the various adventures of eight people who spend the day at the Derby

A calculating femme fatale is at the centre of this melodrama about adult relationships. Arriving in San Francisco, she embarks on two affairs - one with a wealthy businessman, the other with a brooding novelist. Affection is not her strong suit, though ambition and vanity are. The film was ahead of its time in avoiding a simplistic happy ending involving her being reformed

Lavish drama about an ambitious cattleman’s daughter who battles against oil barons as she tries to defend her oil-rich property. However, her lust for power soon alienates her friends

Comedy about a bookmaker who finds himself head of a boy’s school where the pupils show an affinity for gambling. During a school trip to Paris, they get entangled in a plot to steal the Mona Lisa

A look at the career of the Oscar-winning actor whose films included ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘The King and I’ and ‘Westworld’

A US Treasury agent arrives in London and teams up with a Scotland Yard detective to smash a counterfeiting ring. Together they infiltrate the gang responsible and are on the point of securing the organisation’s defeat when one of the men suspects the other of collaborating with the gang

Post-Cold War thriller in which two ageing spies from opposing sides find themselves unlikely allies. A CIA agent is reactivated by the Agency and entrusted with escorting a former State Department mole and a briefcase containing $2million to Berlin in exchange for a downed US pilot. It soon becomes apparent that this is far more than a simple swap, and that the pair are in deadly danger from both the CIA and KGB

Atmospheric comedy drama evoking the early days of burlesque theatre in New York, where an Amish girl who gets involved with the players mortifies her father with a striptease. An early film from William Friedkin, who went on to win Oscars and critical acclaim with 'The French Connection' and 'The Exorcist'