A thick, incoherent plot trips up this steamy melodrama about fading football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) sent to track down Jessie Wyler (Rachel Ward), the runaway…
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Disillusioned artist Brad Morahan (James Mason, who also co-produced the film) escapes New York for his Australian homeland seeking solitude on an island on the…
Based on a true incident, Agnes of God tells of the tragic events surrounding the birth of a baby in a Catholic convent of cloistered nuns. The…
Notionally the biographical story of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II. But the historical inaccuracies in the movie…
Werner Herzog’s magnificent, hypnotic look at the 16th-century conquistadors was shot on location in the Amazon jungle. It was the international hit that made him…
US President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), is returning home from Russia with his wife and daughter on the presidential jumbo when it is hijacked by…
Ken Finkleman – writer of Grease 2 (1982) – wrote and directed this sequel to the hilarious 1980 film, Airplane!, retaining most of the characters from the original movie. After…
The tail of a plane slices through dark clouds like a shark fin breaking through the moonlit surf in Jaws . . . and so begins the…
This is the second sequel to Airport (1970) and stars Jack Lemmon as the ageing but very heroic pilot Don Gallagher. This time, the co-pilot, Chambers…
The fourth helping of Airport adventure was subtitled The Concorde, and inevitably the film suffered from the law of diminishing returns. This time the plot dealt with international…
For a generation that grew up on Airplane! (1980), the definitive disaster spoof, it may be impossible to take the overblown melodramatics of this adaptation of…
An all-star cast highlighted this mind-boggling 1970’s disaster film – The first of three sequels to Airport (1970). A 747 bound for Salt Lake City is hit…
Akira begins as it means to go on – with a nuclear explosion that devastates Tokyo. It ends with pretty much the same, augmented by the…
1919, Chicago. A young scar-faced hoodlum joins one of the underworld gangs terrorising the city. Surrounded by corruption and murder, only the most ruthless will survive…
When street urchin Aladdin (voiced by Scott Weinger) releases a genie (voiced by Robin Williams) from a magic oil lamp, he uses its powers to…
Young Vietnamese refugee Dinh (Ho Nguyen) arrives in the small Texan shrimp-fishing community of Port Alamo to find work. But resentment from the locals is…
John Wayne as Colonel Davy Crockett leads the futile defence in 1836 of the famous fort in the town of San Antonio, Texas, against the onslaught of the Mexican…
The events presented in Albert R.N. are based on fact and took place in the prison camp, Marlag O for Naval Officers in North-West Germany…
This low budget comedy (it was made in less than two-and-a-half weeks for £70,000) stars Albert Toddey (David Jason), a bumbling civil servant who dreams he…
Recently retired Rhodesian police officer Terrick Handel (James Faulkner) turns vigilante to hunt down an albino terrorist called Whispering Death (Horst Frank) who rapes, scalps…
