Carlton Cinema

Amusing satire about the American urban high-schools system. A lawyer is suing the staff of her former school for letting an illiterate pupil graduate. She is reunited with one of her old teachers, a burnt-out education veteran, and finds that she has a crush on him. Their romance serves to complicate the case, and the antics of the present-day disaffected pupils make life difficult all round

A woman takes a new job as a caretaker on a large estate and finds more than she bargained for when a mysterious murderer crosses her path

A disillusioned war reporter becomes a recluse living in a Lake Michigan lighthouse, but one squally evening, several strangers invade his home dressed in 19th-century garb; through his camaraderie with the visitors, he gains a new lease on life.

Disaster film in which the passengers of a luxury ocean liner must fight for survival when the boat begins to sink. Survivors left to drift in a lifeboat must battle the elements and each other if they are to get back to dry land

A profile of one of Hollywood’s greatest leading ladies

A deeply unhappy woman strives to escape her loveless marriage. Melodrama, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas.

Brooding drama about a peasant woman in pre-revolutionary Russia who uses her smouldering beauty to indulge in an affair with a judge, but ultimately brings tragedy to all those involved. Based on Chekhov's 'The Shooting Party'

Lavish disaster epic, set in 1871, which uses the fictional story of the pioneering O’Leary family to chart the events leading up to the Great Fire of Chicago. Alice Brady won an Oscar for her role as Molly O’Leary, whose cow - according to legend - kicked over a lamp in its stable triggering off the giant blaze

Swashbuckling spy thriller set during the Napoleonic Wars. A smuggler becomes involved with a beautiful spy who is posing as a French countess. He helps her sail to France where, he believes, she is going to rescue her royal brother. But when the French authorities catch up with them, it is up to the smuggler to save her. Based on a Victor Hugo novel ‘The Toilers of the Sea’

Made by his grandson, this is a portrait of a man whose Warner Bros studio created many of Hollywood’s greatest movies, including such classics as ‘Casablanca’, ‘The Big Sleep’ and ‘My Fair Lady’

Comedy about a well-bred young lady who runs away to a London nightclub, where she falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but has to compete for his affections with two chorus girls

Colourful drama, set in turn-of-the-century northern California, about an unscrupulous lumber man who tries to buy a colony of redwood trees against the wishes of the poor Quaker community settled there. His greed is eventually overcome by his love for a girl in the community. A remake of the 1938 film ‘Valley of the Giants’

Drama in which a recently released prisoner meets up with his teenage son in Seattle. Following the death of his mother, a disaffected teenager hopes to live with his dad, who has just come out of prison. But the father plans to make a fresh start by moving to a new area, and despite their best attempts to forge a relationship, they both find themselves on the street

Sharp comedy in which a couple’s idyllic new home is besieged by unwanted houseguests after a visit from an unemployed cousin. Soon the quiet Los Angeles suburb is a war zone