Lawrence of Arabia

Drama

Black Narcissus, Drama

Powell & Pressburger1947 · 1h 41m

Himalayan convent fever dream

Romance

The Red Shoes, Romance

Powell & Pressburger1948 · 2h 15m

Art demands the dancer’s life

Horror

Peeping Tom, Horror

Michael Powell1960 · 1h 41m

The camera as murder weapon

Epic

Lawrence of Arabia, Epic

David Lean1962 · 3h 47m

The widest screen cinema offers

Comedy

Billy Liar, Comedy

John Schlesinger1963 · 1h 38m

A daydreamer who can’t board the train

Drama

If...., Drama

Lindsay Anderson1968 · 1h 51m

Boarding-school cruelty turns to insurrection

Horror

Don't Look Now, Horror

Nicolas Roeg1973 · 1h 50m

Grief in Venice, a red coat

Horror

The Wicker Man, Horror

Robin Hardy1973 · 1h 28m

Pagan dread in broad daylight

Comedy

Withnail and I, Comedy

Bruce Robinson1987 · 1h 47m

The most quotable disaster holiday

Drama

Naked, Drama

Mike Leigh1993 · 2h 12m

Thewlis prowls a sleepless London

Crime

Sexy Beast, Crime

Jonathan Glazer2000 · 1h 29m

Kingsley as the houseguest from hell

Drama

Billy Elliot, Drama

Stephen Daldry2000 · 1h 50m

Ballet shoes against the picket line

Sci-Fi

Under the Skin, Sci-Fi

Jonathan Glazer2013 · 1h 48m

An alien gaze adrift in Glasgow

Drama

45 Years, Drama

Andrew Haigh2015 · 1h 35m

A letter quietly buries a marriage

Drama

The Souvenir, Drama

Joanna Hogg2019 · 2h

First love as a slow undoing

Horror

Saint Maud, Horror

Rose Glass2019 · 1h 24m

Faith curdling into holy obsession

Drama

Aftersun, Drama

Charlotte Wells2022 · 1h 42m

A camcorder holiday turned elegy

DOC

Touching the Void, Documentary

Kevin Macdonald2003 · 1h 46m

One rope, one impossible decision

DOC

Senna, Documentary

Asif Kapadia2010 · 1h 46m

Genius and faith, all in archive

Film-Noir

The Third Man, Film-Noir

Carol Reed1949 · 1h 44m

Vienna’s shadows, a zither, betrayal

Romance

Brief Encounter, Romance

David Lean1945 · 1h 26m

Heartbreak held in trembling restraint