“What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” Set in Texas in 1980, the extraordinary first hour of No Country for Old Men…
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David and Catherine Robinson (Leslie Phillips and Geraldine McEwan) inherit a large old country house and decide to run a holiday home for the children…
In this fictitious story of what goes on in Westminster’s Corridors of Power, the hero is an MP called Johnnie Byrne (Peter Finch). He is…
Originally a Box Office hit on the stage in 1971, No Sex Please, We’re British concerns the impact of a sex shop, The Aphrodisia Bookshop, on a…
Made in colour in the wake of the success of ITV’s Emergency – Ward 10, No Time For Tears is virtually plotless with an all-star…
Taken prisoner in the Libyan desert, Sergeant David Thatcher (Victor Mature) – an American serving with the British Royal Tank Corps in North Africa during…
Surrounded by new high-rise flats in London’s East End, plain-clothes detective Frank Collins (Ronald Howard) recalls how things were so different in the area in…
Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon where he reports directly to the Secretary of Defense…
Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger) is a hammy theatre manager who is also a psychotic killer who uses various disguises – including a priest, a plumber,…
Tansy Carr (18-year-old Juliet Mills) is the vivacious schoolgirl daughter of wealthy international industrialist Sir Matthew Carr (Michael Redgrave). Tansy refuses to go to Paris…
Secret Agent Charles Bind (Nicky Henson) – aka “Number 1” – goes up against eccentric millionaire Arthur Loveday (Richard Todd), who is in league with…
This comedy-tragedy tells of the double-crossing and heartless dealings in the British film industry. Hammer horror icon Ingrid Pitt plays a bolshy actress making a…
Scobie Malone (Rod Taylor) is a police detective from the Australian outback who is sent by the Premier of NSW (Leo McKern) on a sensitive…
A very unusual anti-war war film co-scripted by an American and a Japanese. It’s a sad story about the slender thread of human tolerance and…
A rollicking slice of comic book history in which the Viking invaders of 1006 look more like the sweaty motorcycle gang from Every Which Way…
Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is a blithely implausible chase thriller in which glibly feckless ad-man Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) becomes the object of a cross-country…
When terrorists threaten to blow up two North Sea oil rigs if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert – who is also…
Sam McCord (John Wayne) and George Pratt (Stewart Granger in his final Hollywood film) strike gold in Alaska circa 1890 and George sends Sam to…
The North West Frontier of India at the turn of the 20th century was a turbulent, sun-scorched province – a blazing trouble spot populated by…
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…