The Stranger
Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) is an apparently normal history teacher-cum-clock enthusiast who is newly wedded to the lovely Mary (Loretta Young). Little does she know that her new hubby […]
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The Red Violin
In Paris a rare violin is up for auction – the last work of legendary violin maker Nicolò Bussotti (Carlo Cecci). This is the story of how it got there. […]
No Country for Old Men
Did you know there’s an episode of Tom & Jerry where they both commit suicide at the end? I mention this partly because it’s the darkest thing I’ve ever seen […]
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In Berlin a murderer (Peter Lorre) is on the loose, preying on young girls. As the police repeatedly fail to catch him, angry mob bosses and an angry mob take […]
Red Eye
A Canadian, an Irishman and a statesman walk onto a plane in Wes Craven’s 2005 thriller. The story that sees a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) caught up in a terrorist […]
The Invisible Man (1933)
An invisible man (Claude Rains) arrives at a remote inn shrouded in goggles, overcoat and secrecy. After he’s aggravated by an over-helpful landlady he goes on a naked rampage against […]
Rebecca
In Monte Carlo, a nameless woman (Joan Fontaine) is companion to Mrs van Hopper (Florence Bates) who’s so awful she has to pay people to spend time with her. When […]
I Saw the Devil
I sometimes wonder what Secret Cinema would be like in South Korea. Do they put you in a box for 15 years then feed you a live octopus and chase […]
Parasite
The Kim family (Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Chang Hyae-jin, Song Kang-ho) scratch a living in their tiny basement apartment and enjoy getting drunk on cheap lager. But when son Ki-woo […]
Inferno
The Da Vinci Code‘s Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) takes on thrift-shop Thanos (Ben Foster) with an infernal plan to release a virus destroying half the world’s population in order to […]
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