Monday (6.45 pm) sees Henri-Georges Clouzot’s edge-of-the-seat masterpiece Wages of Fear. The 1953 thriller sees four tough drifters pitted together in a primal struggle against  the jungle armed with modern machinery and their own nerves and endurance. Enlisted on high-paying suicide mission of transporting explosives, they set upon a nerve-wracking death-defying mission. Based on novel by Georges Arnaud, the perspicacious on the road film provides a powerful study of failure charting the slow, grueling trek over bumpy, pothole-dotted dirt roads and worse. Regarded as Japanese cinema’s most powerful moralist, Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (Tue 6.45 pm) is most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy film. The unusual classic black and white chiller comprises four Japanese ghost stories wherein terror thrives and demons lurk... Based on the life of T E Lawrence, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, (Wed 6.45 pm) is the celluloid retelling of the heroic, autobiographical account of Lawrence’s Arabian adventure. The epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service, the film, through its stunning cinematography, fabulous background score and scintillating script, and stupendous cast, provides an edge-of-the-seat top-notch character study of a compelling larger than life cult hero. Screenings at Suchitra Film Society, Banashankari II Stage. For particulars call: 26711785.