Carlton Cinema

Lavish, romantic comedy in which a Las Vegas couple fall out on their anniversary and go off with other partners, he with a glamorous high-wire artiste and she with a smooth-talking waiter. Can true love find a way? Now something of a cult item, this dazzling and innovative film bankrupted Coppola and sank his Zoetrope studios. Tom Waits' score, performed by himself and Crystal Gayle, was nominated for an Oscar

Ecological sci-fi horror in which real estate developers are attacked and eaten by giant ants which have fed on radioactive waste. Adapted from a provocative story by H G Wells

The series of documentaries taking an overview of early British cinema looks at its contribution to the musical genre

Lavish musical retelling the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. When a Bagdad slave trader organises a banquet for a Chinese client, he is overheard by a gang of thieves who come up with an ingenious plan

Musical biography following a film producer researching the life of a vaudeville entertainer so he can make a biopic about her. George Jessel (playing himself) interviews people who knew Eva Tanguay and gets an insight into her life as well as her talent

The story of the Macedonian king who became one of history’s great conquerors in the 4th century BC, subduing the known world in the belief that the Greek way of thinking would bring enlightenment to people. Son of King Philip, who had brought all Greece under Macedonian influence, he carried out his father’s ambition of conquering Persia, founded the Egyptian city of Alexandria and achieved glory in his short but remarkable life

Wartime love story about a soldier and a hostess at New York’s famous canteen. The film is filled with an incredible number of cameos by a host of stars, including Katherine Hepburn, Harpo Marx, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Tallulah Bankhead, Gracie Fields and Merle Oberon

Sequel to the musical comedy ’Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’. Two shop girls travel to Paris in the hope of finding true love, and discover that their aunts embarked upon the same quest back in the 1920s

Series of documentaries taking an overview of British cinema. This programme profiles the celebrated British actress Margaret Lockwood, star of films including ‘The Lady Vanishes’ and ‘The Wicked Lady’

A villainous, greedy woman poisons three husbands for their money and is about to do away with number four when an investigator is assigned to the case

An escaped Republican prisoner learns of an IRA plan to blow up a British power station and uses all his resources to stop the destruction

A look at the film career of actor Leonardo DiCaprio, whose films include ‘Titanic’ and ‘The Beach’

A colourful romance set in 16th-century Spain. Powerful noblewoman Ana de Mendoza has been living in retirement since the death of her husband, but upon returning to Madrid falls in love with the first minister of King Philip II. When the King discovers their affair, he arrests his minister, announcing his own love for the woman

The sole survivor of a World War II American commando unit parachuted into Italy is rescued by a partisan brigade of orphaned youths. His saviours agree to help him complete his original mission - the destruction of an important military target - but only at a bloody price

Drama set in the 50s about a divorcee’s struggle to bring up her teenage son and her attempts to introduce her new beau as a father figure. When Caroline meets Dwight, who seems to be a kind man, she agrees to marry him, thinking he will be able to curb her son’s bad behaviour. But Dwight turns out to have a cruel and tyrannical streak and only succeeds in making the boy hate him with a passion