Filmed in London during the heatwave summer of 1976, this gritty, sleazy British gangster thriller – described at the time by the Daily Mail as…
Browsing: Movies 1977
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Writer Leslie Thomas revisits his Malayan war memoirs but this time the result is more akin to “Confessions of a National Serviceman”. 1950: a group…
When 33-year-old director George Lucas gave the world Star Wars he could not have envisioned how many nerdy and geeky boys he would inspire for generations to…
Set in Australia in the 1960s, Summer City follows four Sydney youths who go on a stag weekend to commemorate the coming marriage of one of…
Teacher Simon Robinson (Nick Tate) arrives at the isolated Australian fishing community of Bannings Beach to take over the small local school. He discovers that…
Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) of the Flying Squad don’t mind breaking a few rules – and…
Adapted from Walter Wager’s bestseller, this is far from director Don Siegel’s best work, but it’s a more than acceptable thriller with a nifty plot…
This South African production stars Anthony Quinn as “Sailor” Slade, a male nurse who is assigned to tend to ailing President Bobo Lunda (Simon Sabela),…
Peter Collinson (The Italian Job) directs this tense, violent hostage drama starring Oliver Reed as negotiator Jim Wilson who is trying to barter the release…
Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) was once a US Air Force Brigadier General, a long-time prisoner of the North Vietnamese, and the designer of the Titan…
This British/Canadian horror anthology film directed by Denis Héroux offers three tales of horror all revolving around cats. The film opens in Montreal where nervous…
Bobby (Stuart Getz) is a Los Angeles teenager who blows all his college savings on buying a custom Dodge van – complete with waterbed, TV,…
Real-life human crash test dummy Evel Knievel plays himself in a ridiculous PG-rated fictional adventure movie. Some drug dealers in Mexico try to kill Knievel…
When bumbling young, newly qualified Dr Robert “Sweeney” Todd (Nicholas Field) arrives for his first day of work at a new hospital, things quickly heat…
This ambitious animated sci-fi tale from the director of Fritz the Cat (1972) was released the same year as Star Wars, and both films dealt with a…
Based on the popular TV series, this charming family movie follows the Wombles as they face two struggles. While they wage their ongoing war against…
A group of Soviet soldiers in Romania uncover the underground tomb of the Dracula family. A soldier unwittingly removes a stake from a pile of…