This made-for-TV thriller – airing on Sunday 4 January 1981 – starred Bernard Cribbins as the titular policeman investigating the cold case file of the…
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In Dangerous Liaisons, the visual splendour and moral decadence of 18th century France come vividly alive. It’s sophisticated, witty, and as close to a movie masterpiece…
In 1962, David Lean had a limitless budget, eighteen months and locations such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Spain, Morocco and London to recreate the exotic…
Former LA cop Vince Kane (George Raft) and not too scrupulous self-made man Joe Farley (Pat O’Brien) are partners in a bail-bond business. Claude Brackett…
Dr Amanda Grace (Kate Vernon from Pretty in Pink) is a psychologist who enjoys considerable success dispensing sexual advice on a radio show to frustrated…
In the early 1970s, naive Danny Jones (Len Jones) lives alone with his widowed father in the quiet calm of the Welsh foothills, where they…
This ten-part black-and-white weekly serial from the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) aired in British cinemas on Saturday mornings and was written by Michael Barnes and…
Veteran director William Wellman brings a little bit of romance, a touch of comedy, and then an awful lot of war to the story of…
”For more than 40,000 years, Australian Aborigines have lived in harmony with their land. Many of their animals are sacred. The most dangerous and awesome…
The solid virtues of a well-made play transferred to film by a sympathetic director and a strong cast are here for all to see. William…
In a dark 1940s-style future, John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes up in a bathtub in a hotel room in a surreal and gloomy city, suffering…
The Dark Crystal was produced by the same puppetry wizards responsible for The Muppets, but this 1982 fantasy was much more J.R.R. Tolkien than it was Kermit…
Batman – the secret crime-fighting vigilante alter ego of tortured billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) who was introduced in Batman Begins (2005) – has formed…
In a small American country town, the mentally impaired Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake) has the mentality of a child and is best friends with young…
In a bid for independence, red-haired country girl Meg (Heather Bolton) moves from the New Zealand countryside to the city of Wellington, where she is…
A tough colonial adventure, based on a Wilbur Smith novel and released in Britain as The Mercenaries, that follows Rod Taylor and former pro football…
This implausible but rather enjoyable yarn has a man (Carleton Hobbs) dying at the St. Columba Mental Institute and willing his haunted house – “Marr’s…
This made-for-television sci-fi movie is set in the year 2638, and Earth is at war (again). This time, the battle isn’t between countries but between…
Eighteen parsecs from Earth in Sector EB-90, the spaceship Dark Star continues its apparently unending mission: to destroy unstable planets in order to pave the…
Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) calls himself a “salvage consultant”. He’ll try to recover anything lost or stolen that the owner doesn’t want to report to…