Plain young French girl Jane Fosset (Leslie Caron), who is expecting an illegitimate baby, comes to live in a seedy boarding house in the shabby…
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This sparkling adaptation of crime master James Ellroy’s novel touches on countless pieces of old Tinseltown lore: the Robert Mitchum marijuana bust, a supposed brothel…
Very traditional Hollywood biopic covering the rise to fame of Ritchie Valens, the Mexican-born rock star whose eight months of success were cut short when…
La Dolce Vita (“The Sweet Life”) is a study of crippling boredom, leading to artistic paralysis and loose sexual morals, played out against the decadence of…
La Strada is Frederico Fellini’s fourth film and the one that made his international reputation. Starring Anthony Quinn as Zampanò the Strongman and the director’s wife,…
When a teenage girl (Jennifer Connelly) discovers her little baby brother has been kidnapped by David Bowie (er . . . by the Goblin King…
Filmed in 1981, released in 1982, but almost impossible to see ever since, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains caught the tail-end of the punk boom with…
Mrs Wellonmellon (Helen Traubel) hires Herbert H. Heebert (Jerry Lewis) to work as a handyman and general dogsbody around her boarding house for young women.…
Charwoman Mrs Cragg (Peggy Mount) retrieves a discarded cigar from the wastepaper basket of city tycoon James Ryder (Harry H Corbett) and presents it wrapped…
Walt Disney’s first full-length cartoon in Cinemascope is a triumph for all ages. The story of a romance between a dainty, well-bred pedigree cocker spaniel…
Written in 1928, D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover had only been available, unexpurgated, in Britain since Penguin Books’ famous 1960 obscenity trial at the Old Bailey.…
Shot in four weeks and directed by Matt Climber (Jayne Mansfield’s husband at the time of her tragic death), Lady Cocoa starred Lola Falana in…
By the early 1970s, Hammer were ramping up the sex and violence in their gothic horrors, but they could never go this far! Lady Frankenstein sidelines…
Pretty Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) – whose parents run the local corner shop – wins a beauty competition in her Midlands town and finds herself…
Cornelia Hilyard (Olivia de Havilland) is a wealthy widow left in her mansion alone when her effeminate adult son, Malcolm (William Swan) goes away for…
Herbert Wilcox directs his wife Anna Neagle and their favourite singing star Frankie Vaughan in this lightweight but charming musical comedy. Socialite widow Frances Baring…
Berry Gordy Jr and Motown sank $4 million into making the film debut of their star Diana Ross a success. The film – a lavish…
Seeing this movie in the 1980s as a young man was to fall in love with Michelle Pfeiffer. And just as she is still one…
A wonderful Ealing comedy with a great performance by British actress Katie Johnson, then well into her seventies, who plays Louisa Wilberforce – an old…
Nude nuns, lesbian catfights and snake-cult rituals; what else could this be but a Ken Russell fantasy sextravaganza? In the Peak District, a reptile skull…