Dirty Harry

Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film sees a young woman blackmailed for a murder she was forced to commit.

Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward star in the folk horror classic about a policemen investigating an island given over to paganism.

Dirk Bogarde stars as a loose-cannon crook with Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) on his tail, in the classic Ealing policier.

Silvio Narizzano adapts Joe Orton’s extraordinarily funny satire on police corruption and the conventions of detective fiction.

Punchy crime thriller with a realist streak as Stanley Baker pursues a fugitive through the streets of Manchester.

Continuing the gritty and ground-breaking drama featuring Britain’s first black TV detective.

Josey Wales and his band of outsiders find themselves in danger in Clint Eastwood’s stunning western.

Kazan’s adaptation of Steinbeck’s novel is notable for an array of fine performances, including James Dean in his first major role.

Clint Eastwood's outstanding homage to Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.

A renowned film director (loosely based on John Huston) becomes obsessed with hunting elephants during a film shoot, in Clint Eastwood's dark moral tale.

A curmudgeonly, recently widowed war veteran (Clint Eastwood) finds himself involved with a violent Detroit gang after befriending a neighbouring family.

Raoul Peck’s sorrowful portrait of Ernest Cole, the first photographer to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world.

Jens Meurer’s bittersweet portrait of Cromer during the Brexit crossroads is also an affectionate homage to British theatrical escapism.

A seductive and smart gay comedy set on a cruisy Greek island.

Jon drives his mums corpse across Iceland in Hilmar Oddsson’s darkly comic odyssey of self-discovery and acceptance, beautifully filmed in crisp black and white.

A peaceful huntsman is thrust into the heart of the resistance following an Austrian Empire invasion, in this gripping retelling of a timeless legend.

François Ozon’s witty 1930s farce about a penniless actress who finds fame while on trial for murder, featuring a riotous performance from Isabelle Huppert.