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This wholesome, disarmingly ingenuous Franco-Italian comedy-drama with English dialogue is superbly photographed in Technirama and Technicolor and tells of a checkered romance between an attractive…
This full-length cartoon feature – a French/Belgian collaboration – affectionately sends up the Old West and revolves around the titular character – Lucky Luke, the Sheriff…
This $11 million musical version of Don Quixote starred Peter O’Toole as the mad, ageing nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family with his adventures. Backed by his…
When production of the movie Caligula wound up costing Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione $16 million instead of an anticipated $3.5 million, he looked for ways to amortise the…
This Spanish/French co-production was originally released as Una Gota de Sangre Para Morir Amando and clearly owes a great debt to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork…
Originally titled Misterio en la Isla de Los Monstruos and loosely adapted from the 1882 Jules Verne novel Godfrey Morgan, this adventure-comedy-horror film directed by Spanish cult…
Sent to the Carpathian mountains to secure a real estate deal, Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) persuades the rat-faced Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) to buy a…
Originally released as Hændeligt Uheld (“Unavoidable Accident”), this Anglo/Danish production stars Roy Dotrice as Henrik Vinther, a successful 40-something executive at a major Danish car…
Ken (Peter Fonda), Greg (John Phillip Law) and Art (Richard Lynch) have been friends since school days. They were at college together, on active service…
Made in France but given English subtitles and sprayed with Technicolor, Parisienne is about captivating hussy Brigitte Laurier (Brigitte Bardot) – the daughter of a…
This surrealist masterpiece from Swedish director Ingmar Bergman is a claustrophobic mindfuck bordering on psychological horror. Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann) is a famous stage actress…
This Italian-made, Dutch-financed unofficial cash-in on the original 1978 film – the official feature directorial debut of James Cameron (although his actual control over the film…
Peg-legged, one-eyed Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red (Walter Matthau) – a greedy and crafty cockney pirate – is adrift on a raft with his faithful mate,…
Italian shockmeister Mario Bava directed this predecessor to Alien in which twin starships Galliott and Argos are in uncharted space when they receive a distress signal…
This epic biographical drama is based on author Romain Gary’s memoir Promise at Dawn and Samuel Taylor’s play First Love. It is Gary’s third novel to be…
Quackser Fortune (Gene Wilder) – humble, fiercely independent, but none-too-bright – doesn’t want to spend his life working in a factory like his dad (Seamus…
This $12 million Canadian/French co-production was the first film attempt to accurately portray the primaeval world at the very beginning of man’s existence. Quest For…
In Paris, a highly intelligent, idealistic young rat named Remy dreams of becoming a world-class chef like his late idol, the legendary French chef Auguste…
Young, flame-haired Lola (Franka Potente) receives a telephone call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). Manni explains that he was supposed to deliver 100,000 Deutsche…