Movies - S

You don't expect this sort of ill-conceived vitriol from Blake Edwards, creator of the amiable, if idiotic, Inspector Clouseau, especially when Edwards's wife Julie...

This spaghetti Western is Italian moviemakers at their nonsensical niftiest and Lee Van Cleef at his bulletproof best. A mysterious black-clad stranger called Sabata (Van...

Three teachers - Ed (Richard Alden), Doris (Helen Hovey) and Carl (Don Russell) - are driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game when...

Tuesday Weld plays a vulnerable woman who escapes the pressures of New York life into a dream world, courtesy of a magician (Orson Welles). There's...

Battle-axe Emma Hornett (Peggy Mount) dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry (Cyril Smith), their daughter Shirley (Shirley Eaton) and Henry's meek spinster sister Edie (Esma...

Ben Mears (David Soul of Starsky & Hutch fame) is a writer who has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot in New England (abbreviated...

Relocating the Marquis de Sade's notorious novel, 120 Days of Sodom, to wartime Italy - specifically the short-lived Republic of Salò where Mussolini made a...

Kitty Kellermann (Ingrid Thulin) runs a brothel in Nazi Germany - the Salon Kitty - where the soldiers of the Third Reich come to...

After discovering the body of murdered female Chinese agent Mai Ling (Jeanne Roland) in their trendy Soho (London) nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt (Sammy...

A brutally violent sport (combining rugby, basketball and gratuitous violence) becomes popular in a post-apocalyptic America, both in the luxurious underground cities and the...

Fact-based drama about cynical, drug-taking, burnt-out foreign correspondent Richard Boyle (James Woods) who visits El Salvador in the early 1980s to escape his personal problems...

In 1951, at the Sea Shadows Inn on the Mendocino County coast, Doris (Ellen Burstyn), a 24-year-old housewife from Oakland, meets George (Alan Alda), a...

This biting social/sexual satire was from the same team responsible for My Beautiful Laundrette (1986). Sammy (Ayub Khan-Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) are a hip...

Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) arrives aboard the river patrol gunboat USS San Pablo (nicknamed the 'Sand Pebble' with its sailors...

Mild-mannered widower Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a 'Sandwich Man' who carries a sandwich-board on behalf of Finklebaum and O'Casey - dealers in 'misfit...

The people of Mars kidnap Santa Claus and two children in an effort to capture the Christmas spirit for their listless children who have...

A pregnant woman is found stabbed to death on Hampstead Heath and the subsequent police investigation initially follows her fiancé David Harris (Paul Massie)...

Based on the 1813 novel by Jan Potocki, this is a complex and exhilarating film that ranks among the most remarkable achievements of 1960s...

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...

Billy (Jack Kruschen), the stuttering janitor at a local high school, is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for...