By Adam Scovell
Her turn as a woman living under the thumb of an abusive husband is a masterclass in empathy and heartbreak.
By Adam Scovell
Sixty years after its release, the acting great’s unnerving performance as vengeful convict Max Cady still packs a punch.
By Adam Scovell
In the 1960s and ’70s, a spate of low-rent exploitation films tapped sorcery and the occult for cheap, sleazy thrills.
By Adam Scovell
Inspired by real-life killings, 1968’s Corruption is one of the first – and most effective – British horror films of its kind.
By Adam Scovell
Compared to other films of the counter-culture era, Eastwood’s directorial debut looks at the darker side of Free Love.
By Adam Scovell
The Italian horror maestro’s handful of entries in the genre showcase his penchant for bloody retribution.
By Adam Scovell
Throughout the 1970s an exciting subgenre dominated Italian cinema, combined action and crime to dizzying effect.
By Adam Scovell
Jacob’s pair of musical characters is one of the great feats of screen acting of the past 30 years.
By Adam Scovell
Jacques Tourneur’s classic take on MR James’ Gothic chiller makes use of a partly-fictional English estate.
By Adam Scovell
The British acting icon spent his formative years the South London district, in a house built by his father.
By Adam Scovell
The 1931 film put the Count firmly on the cultural map and moved the genre on from its silent origins.
By Adam Scovell
The British director’s controversial football hooligan drama makes great use of various domestic locales.
By Adam Scovell
Tracing the humble origins of one of horror cinema’s most celebrated and important performers.
By Adam Scovell
Visiting the leafy London street where the pioneering Hollywood actor and filmmaker came of age.
By Adam Scovell
A walking tour of the French port town evokes a sense of wonder befitting Jacques Demy’s romantic musical.
By Adam Scovell
Visiting the site near Southwark Bridge in London where the late artist’s filmmaking career began.
By Adam Scovell
As with many of his “American” features, the director utilised various settings around London.
By Adam Scovell
Retracing the comic master’s formative years across the English capital’s southern boroughs.
By Adam Scovell
Retracing the Beatle’s solo stroll through West London in Richard Lester’s 1964 music film.
By Adam Scovell
Visiting the West London residence featured in Jean-Luc Godard’s legendary Rolling Stones essay film.
By Adam Scovell
A visit to two London locations featured in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Technicolor masterpiece.
By Adam Scovell
John Huston’s heist classic, starring Sterling Hayden and Marilyn Monroe, emphasised the grittiness of the postwar era.
By Adam Scovell
Visiting the scene of the director’s penultimate thriller, set in a bygone Covent Garden.
By Adam Scovell
Michael Elliott’s 1968 teleplay The Year of the Sex Olympics imagines a society addicted to screens.
By Adam Scovell
His portrayal of wild-eyed samurai warrior in Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of ‘Macbeth’ is simply iconic.
By Adam Scovell
Following in the existential footsteps of François Truffaut’s young protagonist, half a century on.
By Adam Scovell
The elegance of the Vienna Conservatoire perfectly contrasts the raw brutality of Isabelle Huppert’s actions.
By Adam Scovell
Howard Hawks’ 1940 film remains one of Hollywood’s finest and most radical comedies.
By Adam Scovell
For all of its seething male energy, it’s the film’s young female lead who emerges as its star performer.
By Adam Scovell
The fictional Mother Black Cap makes a brief but memorable appearance in Bruce Robinson’s cult comedy.
By Adam Scovell
With The Young Girls of Rochefort, the French director created something wondrously original.
By Adam Scovell
Adam Scovell visits the scene of one of the most disturbing moments in the history of British horror cinema.
By Adam Scovell
Robert Fuest’s And Soon the Darkness foreshadows both The Wicker Man and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
By Adam Scovell
Retracing the steps of one of film noir’s most iconic characters through the Austrian capital.
By Adam Scovell
Maryon Park in Charlton lies at the beguiling centre of the Italian director’s psychological mystery.
By Adam Scovell
The Parisian town of Joinville provides the backdrop to the French director’s 1958 masterpiece.
By Adam Scovell
In the 1960s and ’70s, this British film studio produced grisly tales to rival Hammer Horror.
By Adam Scovell
Otto Preminger’s 1959 courtroom drama was the first Hollywood movie to use an African-American composer.
By Adam Scovell
Paris’ Boulevard de l’Hôpital provides the setting for one of the most cherished endings in French cinema.
By Adam Scovell
The decade following the Nouvelle Vague saw the emergence of progressive filmmakers like Chantal Akerman and Maurice Pialat.
By Adam Scovell
This unassuming overpass plays a pivotal role in Céline and Jesse’s Viennese waltz.
By Adam Scovell
A pilgrimage to one of the grandest and most iconic settings in all of horror cinema.
By Adam Scovell
The Swedish-born actor is at his transfixing best in Ingmar Bergman’s 1968 drama.
By Adam Scovell
This grey structure in the centre of Paris provided the Nouvelle Vague with one of its most iconic images.
By Adam Scovell
The director’s final picture for RKO suffered from severe cuts, but still retains his golden touch.
By Adam Scovell
This historic fortress is the scene of some unsavoury goings on in Robert Hamer’s classic Ealing comedy.
By Adam Scovell
The silver screen icon subverted her heroine image to deliver one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains.
By Adam Scovell
The Austrian director’s 2005 thriller is built around the mystery of place, as a visit to this Parisian setting revealed.
By Adam Scovell
The private residence featured in Nicolas Roeg’s iconic ’70s horror remains an idyllic, evocative setting.
By Adam Scovell
The American star led something of a tragic life, but she will forever be remembered for her role in Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature.
By Adam Scovell
Visiting Guilford Cathedral, the grand, eerie centrepiece of Richard Donner’s horror classic.
By Adam Scovell
Themes of memory and death lie at the heart of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian time travel saga.
By Adam Scovell
Despite the widespread gentrification of east London, this quiet street appears much as it did in 1993.
By Adam Scovell
Carol Reed’s 1948 classic captures the transition to adulthood in all its contradictions and hypocrisies.
By Adam Scovell
The director’s tale of twin gynecologists is a gory study of the relationship between the physical and mental self.
By Adam Scovell
Visiting the southeast London estate featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film makes for a dystopian experience.
By Adam Scovell
The British filmmaking pair’s 1948 masterpiece is an elegant ballet of myth and fairy tale.
By Adam Scovell
Revisiting the iconic director’s work every 10 years, from Too Much Johnson to Touch of Evil.
By Adam Scovell
Howard Hawks’ screwball is one of the first truly great sound comedies.
By Adam Scovell
A curiosity in the everyday powers Agnès Varda’s masterful second feature.
By Adam Scovell
Released 50 years ago, the director’s lo-fi debut is filled with potent imagery and political resonance.
By Adam Scovell
The director’s 1957 occult classic continues to cast a long, sinister shadow over horror cinema.
By Adam Scovell
Nicholas Ray’s 1950 tale of male power, anger and violence is receiving a timely theatrical re-run.
By Adam Scovell
How the director’s mastery of space and location created the famous crop-duster sequence.
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