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Imitation of Life

Douglas Sirk’s iconic masterpiece about race, class and gender in the 1950s.

This Australian underdog drama about a young boy thought to bring bad luck to his family is set in the little-filmed country of Laos (one of the world’s few remaining communist states and one of the poorest countries in East Asia), and spoken in the Lao language.

Sherlock Jr

A film projectionist dreams of becoming a private detective.

Ninotchka

Garbo stars in a comedy romance, yes, this is the film where she laughs for the first time on screen.

Love Affair

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and then… Often cited, most famously in Sleepless in Seattle, this instant hit was twice remade: in 1957 with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbitt; and in 1994 with Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katherine Hepburn.

Tomboy

Summer holidays are when young people can find the freedom to push boundaries and explore their identity; relocating to a new home and school can let them change how they are perceived.

A Foreign Affair

Billy Wilder has a filmography like none other.

The Lady Eve

Barbara Stanwyck shines in this hilarious revenge rom-com: a con woman sets her sights set on a likeable rich boob (Henry Fonda). One of the finest achievements of Golden Age Hollywood’s first writer-director, Preston Sturges.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows turns the ‘May-December’ romance on its head as attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) falls in love with younger, handsome gardener Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson). Douglas Sirk’s influential 1955 classic is regarded as his finest work.

La Grande Illusion

Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French and humanist cinema, Jean Renoir’s 1937 tale of French POWs during the Great War deals with themes of class and social value as well as chivalry and resistance, reflecting the tensions in French society as another war approached.

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