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Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: James Stewart, Charles Lane, Charles Williams, Bob Scott, H.B. Warner
Directed By: Frank Capra

Snatch, the follow-up to the Guy Ritchie's breakthrough film--the high-energy, expletive-strewn cockney-gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels--hardly breaks new ground being, well, another high-energy, expletive-strewn cockney-gangster movie. Okay, so there are some differences. This time around our low-rent hoodlums are battling over dodgy fights and stolen ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Ade, William Beck, Andy Beckwith
Directed By: Guy Ritchie

Robin Williams stars as an English teacher who doesn't fit into the conservative prep school where he teaches but his charisma and love of poetry inspires several boys to revive a secret society with a bohemian bent. The script is well-meaning but a little trite, though director Peter Weir (The Truman Show) adds layers of emotional depth in scenes of conflict between the kids and adults. (A ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen
Directed By: Peter Weir

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Sid James, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw

More than half a century after its release in 1950, Sunset Boulevard is still the most pungently unflattering portrait of Hollywood ever committed to celluloid. Billy Wilder, unequalled at combining a literate, sulphurous script with taut direction, hits his target relentlessly. The humour--and the film is rich in this, Wilder's most abundant commodity--is black indeed. Sunset ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
Directed By: Billy Wilder

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Harry H. Corbett, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Fenella Fielding
Directed By: Gerald Thomas

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb
Directed By: Henry King

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Directed By: Gerald Thomas

The chemistry between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was still going strong in their seventh spin around the dance floor, Shall We Dance? And this time--amid the usual improbable plot confusions and on-again, off-again flirting between the two, they were backed up by a song score provided by the matchless George and Ira Gershwin. Among the highlights are "They All Laughed", "Let's Call the ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan
Directed By: Mark Sandrich

Sidney Poitier directed (sadly without much distinction) this 1980 comedy teaming Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as New York knuckleheads who try their luck in California and are accused of robbing a bank. Most of the laughs concern their survival strategies in prison (at one point, Wilder decides to "reach out and talk" to some hulking murderer) and their plans to escape. Both performers are so ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez
Directed By: Sidney Poitier