Carlton Cinema

British horror tale about an expert in the supernatural who collects torture devices. He helps a man exact revenge on the descendants of those responsible for burning his ancestor at the stake. A robust B-movie boasting hijinks aplenty with generous helpings of camp, tongue-in-cheek humour

Crime drama about a cop investigating the murder of the wife of a lawyer who has links with organised crime. As the detective starts to unravel the killer’s trail, he finds his investigation hampered by influential forces on both sides of the law

In-depth documentary revealing the life, loves and mystique of the silent screen idol

A travelling salesman, a stripper and an alcoholic wife meet on, what will become, a life changing bus ride.

A musical remake by director Howard Hawks of his 1942 comedy ‘Ball of Fire’, about a scholarly musicologist who becomes romantically involved with a nightclub singer and helps her escape from her gangster boyfriend

Legendary Viking Ragnar Lothbrok leads raiding parties all over the British coast and returns with treasure, slaves and spoils. When he brings home Egbert, a Saxon spy, Egbert recognises one of Ragnar’s slaves from the necklace he wears. This begins a confrontation with Ragnar’s bold and uncompromising son Einar that will end in war.

A wartime spy thriller by writer/director team Powell and Pressburger. Set during 1939, during the Phoney War before the shooting proper had started, it follows a hapless Danish freighter captain into the London underworld as he stumbles upon a Nazi spy ring

Documentary series on British cinema. This programme looks at British spy films including ‘The Lady Vanishes’, ‘The 39 Steps’ and ‘Defence of the Realm’

Drama of political intrigue in which an eminent American doctor is lured to a European country under false pretences to carry out a complex operation on the despotic head of state. He becomes involved in political upheaval, and attempts to flee, on discovering that the country’s leader has been assassinated and replaced with a double.

A profile of the popular Oscar-winning actress, who began her career as a child actor before attaining leading lady status in the 1930s

Lighthearted story about a young widow and her daughter who both enrol at the same college. Things become difficult when both mother and daughter fall for the same dashing teacher, but the problem is resolved when the daughter eventually falls for someone closer to her own age. Filmed at the University of Utah

Melodrama about an RAF officer and a nun who find themselves marooned together on a desert island after surviving the torpedoing of a passenger ship during the evacuation of Singapore in 1942

A divorced man tries to make up for being an absent father by treating his three children to a luxury Mediterranean cruise. Initially the children are suspicious of this irresponsible adult, but eventually he wins their acceptance. But their happiness is short-lived as the children’s stepfather arrives from America with some tragic news. A touching film shot on location in Rome, Athens and Cairo

Poignant drama about a man in his thirties who makes a video about his life after he is told he has terminal cancer. He and his wife are expecting their first baby, so he decides to pass on all he has learned to the child he will never know, and in the process learns more about himself

Psychological thriller about a Vietnam POW who is given a hero’s welcome when he returns home to Texas after years of captivity and is honoured with two thousand silver dollars. But when his estranged wife and son are murdered by a gang of vicious killers who attempt to torture and rob him, he silently plans to mete out his own justice with the determination of a man who has suffered too much and refuses to be stopped