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…
Browsing: Movies 1965
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In the Swinging Sixties, posh girl Sally Feathers (Francesca Annis) arrives in London to pursue a modelling career, fresh from the country “like a new-laid…
There was no plot or story here, just a collection of lip-synched videos in colour from some of the bands that were part of the…
Opening with the birth of a baby, the exploitation ‘documentary’ film Primitive London attempts to cover just about every social group making News of the…
Roman Polanski’s Repulsion – his first film in English – was concerned with a repressed young Belgian woman, Carol Ledoux (Catherine Deneuve), who works as a…
This bright, breezy British crime comedy from the Boulting brothers begins with incompetent villains Jelly (Dudley Sutton), Scapa Flood (James Beckett) and Lenny the Dip…
Typical of the wild, sexy comedy spoofs of the mid-60s, Run For Your Wife starred Juliet Prowse and Rhonda Fleming. Riccardo (Ugo Tognazzi), an unhappily married middle-aged…
This Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) picture has a group of young railway enthusiasts attempting to stop the closure of the local railway branch line and the…
A slapstick comedy without words, this film concerns the adventures of a group of tourists on a holiday to France. There are Mum (Joan Sims)…
Young Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free spirit who questions social conventions, laws, and regulations. A struggling artist, she lives in a secluded beachside…
Based on the 1813 novel by Jan Potocki, this is a complex and exhilarating film that ranks among the most remarkable achievements of 1960s European…
Adapted from an Alistair MacLean novel of the same name, The Satan Bug concerns Station 3, a top-secret research facility in the California desert where…
“Blood Island” is the grim nickname given to a compound in the Malayan jungle where British prisoners of war are made to work in the…
The elastic-faced James Booth plays Arthur Tate, a naive young policeman who becomes increasingly successful after beginning his career as a bobby in a quiet…
At a US Air Force base (Aero Space Division), young, clumsy Sergeant O.K. Deadhead (Frankie Avalon) is sent to the guardhouse after causing some mischief…
This Hammer fantasy adventure was based on H. Rider Haggard’s classic novel. The story, which begins in Jerusalem in 1918, concerns three men – Major Holly…
At the beginning of this film, Michael Dunn – the dwarf who serves as commentator – confides to the viewing audience: “this is a ship…
American airmen Captain Hank Wilson (Robert Redford) and Sgt. Lucky Finder (Mike Connors) are shot down over Germany during WW2 and captured by a fumbling,…
This amiable, if vastly inferior take on Some Like it Hot (1959) from American International is set in a ski resort where college chums Frankie Avalon…
An antique collector named Christopher Maitland (Peter Cushing) has a particular interest in rare and unusual objects of the occult. He is offered the chance to…