Famous now as one of the inspirations for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Ursula Andress wore the first bullet-firing bra as sported by the…
Browsing: Europe Movies
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This stunning but demanding Marxist epic ran to almost five and a half hours in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s original cut and spans 45 years of Italian…
Made in Germany in 1974, this is the film Kubrick might have made had he been sex-obsessed and talentless. Disguised as the French Olympic ski…
The 25th Hour relates the misadventures of Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn), a simple and innocent Romanian peasant, who is literally dragged out of his house…
Originally titled Les Quatre Cents Coups, this French film – the directorial debut by François Truffaut – tells the story of 14-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre…
Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning account of Guido Anselmi, an overworked movie director (Marcello Mastroianni) crossing the line between reality and fantasy. Guido (pictured above) is spiritually paralysed…
Unashamed and supremely slick commercial for the group, maintaining a gentle air of self-parody while at the same time being a celebration of all the…
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…
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…
Director Wim Wenders – one of the wunderkinder of the new German cinema – adapted this psychological thriller from the novel Ripley’s Game by Patricia…
This alien invasion scenario has a stray planet on a collision course with the Earth. At the last minute, it takes orbit around our world…
A 1973 Dutch-Belgian drama about the famous police inspector, Piet Van der Valk (Bryan Marshall), who investigates the activities of a group of young people…
When her father dies during a climbing accident, Elizabeth Roffe (Audrey Hepburn) becomes the head of the family pharmaceutical empire, Roffe Industries. Pressure mounts from…
The first US-Soviet co-production made during the Cold War was based on a 1909 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. Peasant children Mytyl (future pop…
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso isn’t just a dedicated tribute to the wonder of cinema, but it’s also a positive testament of imagination, first love, and…
Respected criminal psychologist Dr Herbert Lyutak (Mickey Hargitay) has a dark and terrible secret: He’s actually a perverted sexual predator who rapes and kills unsuspecting…
This Italian production (originally released as La Battaglia d’Inghilterra) combines a fourth-rate detective story with a fifth-rate war film to produce a sixth-rate waste of…
Inspired by the 1964 Elvis Presley movie Roustabout, two young Irish men – Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and his brother-in-law Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) – build a …
As a propaganda stunt, the Nazis arrange a football match during WWII between the national German team and a squad made up of Allied prisoners…
The Fifth Element begins in Egypt in the 1930s, where archaeologists are deciphering hieroglyphics on a tomb that describe linking the four elements – earth,…