Movies - D

Sean Penn gives a chilling and mesmerising portrayal of sociopathy, as Matthew Poncelet, a trailer trash multiple killer on death row with no sense...

A good-natured spoof, in glorious black and white, on the detective genre, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid attempted (with varying degrees of success) to recreate film...

The year is 1959. John Keating (Robin Williams) is the new English professor at Welton Academy - a stuffy prep school tucked away in the...

David Cronenberg is not a director for the squeamish. In Dead Ringers, he returns to his obsession with - and seeming disgust at - the human...

Stephen King movies are a tricky lot - There have been over 40 movie and TV adaptations of his work, and for every Misery (1990) there is...

Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic cat burglar Henry Clarke, who finds himself enticed into the home of Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli), where he discovers...

HC 'Sapper' McNeile’s debonair adventurer hero "Bulldog" Drummond was updated here to capitalise on the James Bond phenomenon. Richard Johnson may be a bit stuffy...

Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh) is a pop singer who is suffering from exhaustion and collapses while performing a song on television. She is packed...

This 1975 British psychological thriller begins with a violent escape from a lunatic asylum - but we don't see who it was that escaped. Steven (Simon...

"I don't want to become one of the living dead in Beverly Hills," says plastic surgeon Bruce Willis in Robert Zemeckis' black comedy Death Becomes...

Death In Brunswick opens with an image that could be culled from any urban backstreet in Greece or Turkey. A hot wind whips along an...

Dirk Bogarde was at his finest as the dying composer rediscovering forbidden fruit in this dramatisation by director Luchino Visconti of the novella by Thomas Mann. Bogarde's...

Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred...

In this highly recommended horror movie, reactionary cop Donald Pleasence investigates mysterious disappearances in the London Underground and makes the startling discovery that a...

Peter Ustinov takes over from Albert Finney as pernickety Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in this solid, star-studded dramatisation of Agatha Christie's paddle-steamer mystery, as...

Set in the America of the future, the defending champion of a nationally televised Transcontinental death road race - where contestants gain points by...

This sleazy and highly controversial crime thriller finally made Charles Bronson a star in America and set a regrettable trend for trashy and ultra-violent...

A coffin washed ashore on a Californian beach contains the corpse of Khorda, a vampiric guru. Resurrected, the undead fiend takes over the head of...

Sidney Bruhl's reputation as a playwright is on the line when another of his plays is panned by the critics. Admitting that he would...

Debbie Benton (Bambi Woods) is the captain of her high school cheerleading squad and has been accepted to try out for the Texas Cowgirls. Her...