Carlton Cinema

Black comedy about a man who decides to deal with his terminal illness by committing suicide. He fails in his attempt and ends up in a mental asylum, befriending a schizophrenic fellow inmate who agrees to help him kill himself

Powerfully acted story of a woman who escapes a rapist’s clutches but fears he will follow her home and strike again. Confronted by police indifference, she can only wait for the inevitable, but when her attacker does strike again, she gains the upper hand and faces a stark dilemma: to trust to the process of law, or to take justice into her own hands

Series of documentaries taking an overview of early British cinema. This programme looks at films with a historical flavour

A group of children go on the run from social workers after their mother commits suicide. Drama, starring Max Bygraves and Barbara Murray.

Melodrama in which a shrewd lawyer sets a trap for a killer. A nightclub singer is sentenced to the electric chair after being found guilty of murdering her employer during her act. But a lawyer who was present on the night in question believes that she is innocent and sets about trying to save her

Western in which a retired gunslinger tries to build a new life but is continually forced to face his past. When he is goaded into killing a brash youngster, he flees town, retreating to a nearby village to wait for his estranged wife and son. However, his hopes of reconciliation prove incompatible with his past lifestyle, as another young buck turns up determined to make a name for himself

A profile of the Hollywood matinee idol who fought for recognition as a serious actor

Comedy about a young married couple who enter a contest in which they have to prove that their relationship has been blissful for a whole year. All goes well until a Hungarian beauty is hired as a servant

Gangster melodrama about a the son of a crooked stockbroker who turns to crime in a bid to raise enough money to help his jailed father. Changing his name to Johnny Apollo, he joins a leading underworld gang but gets dangerously involved with his crime boss’s girlfriend and, thanks to an informer, winds up in jail alongside his father

Romantic drama in which a woman in an unfulfilled marriage meets a former lover after a gap of nine years, while on holiday in Switzerland with her husband. When the friendship is re-established, this time on a platonic level, the husband threatens divorce. The film is based on a novel by H G Wells

Profile focusing on locations used for some of British cinema’s finest comedies, presented by Robert Powell

Comedy about a talking baby who passes on stock tips to his father. However, the father’s new found wealth begins to affect his behaviour, and his son must attempt to find a way to bring him back down to earth

Frontier action adventure in which a feisty pioneer woman, Sierra Nevada Jones, struggles to hold on to the livestock and grazing land that belonged to her murdered father. With a little help from a trusted hand, Sierra Nevada resists the onslaughts of a land-grabbing neighbour and a group of renegade Indians

A brief look at the film career of Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, whose films include ‘The Fugitive’ and ‘Men in Black’

The mysterious past of a Dallas lumberyard owner comes to the surface when his wife is kidnapped by the KGB while on holiday in Paris. As he and his son set off across Europe in a bid to track her down - dodging bullets and exploding cars along the way - the latter begins to realise that there is more to his father than the middle-aged, conservative businessman he had always despised

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