During the latter part of 1949, China was terrorised by armed forces of the Communist Party, who were rapidly overrunning the country from the north.…
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Billy (Jack Kruschen), the stuttering janitor at a local high school, is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a…
The Satans are a very cruel biker gang led by Anchor (Russ Tamblyn). The gang stop at a diner in the middle the California desert…
Following Dracula AD 1972 came Hammer’s modern dress entry in the Dracula series. The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a science fiction/horror/thriller hybrid lacking in Hammer’s usual Gothic…
Albert Finney rose to stardom in this stark kitchen sink drama written by Alan Sillitoe showing working-class lifestyles in an English industrial community. Finney plays…
The movie which single-handedly made disco the dominant force on the planet for a brief period of the 70s and launched John Travolta to stardom.…
Saturday Night Out follows the misadventures of a group of merchant seamen (and a passenger) from the freighter Riebeek Castle on a night’s leave in…
Research workers Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) live an idyllic Adam and Eve existence in a synthetic food-making factory on Titan, Saturn’s largest…
This made-for-television film is another of the nature-gone-wild thrillers that seemed so much in vogue in the 1970s. A swarm of African killer bees descend…
Visually stunning – colour and Cinemascope allow director Nicholas Ray to dwell to his heart’s content on endless expanses of snow, looming white icebergs and…
Handsome gang leader Kisum (Adam Roarke) and his “MC California” biker gang descend on a tiny Native American shanty town where he falls for waitress…
American soldiers land on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 as part of the D-Day landings in Normandy during World War II, with multiple deaths…
Not deemed worthy of a UK cinema release, this intelligent little gem stems from the pen of the author of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)…
An affluent, middle-aged housewife in a failing marriage (Jean Simmons) is romantically pursued by a young man (Leonard Whiting) while running errands in London. He…
A wife is raped. The reporting of the crime will endanger her husband’s career and their future together. Not reporting the crime will endanger their…
Back in 1963, the British public was stunned to learn that War Minister John Profumo had been sharing the sexual favours of model-showgirl Christine Keeler with Soviet…
This modern horror classic from Canadian writer/director David Cronenberg – in which he seamlessly blends the genres of science fiction and conspiracy thriller into an…
Gruff ex-con Max (Gene Hackman) and a drifter called Lion (Al Pacino) hook up on a deserted, wind-swept California highway, become friends and travel east together,…
“He loved the American Dream. With a vengeance”. Brian DePalma’s gut-busting remake of Howard Hawks’ 1932 gangster melodrama, Scarface sets out to disgust, sicken and horrify the…
During the English Civil War in 1648, King Charles I is captured by Roundhead forces led by the tyrant Colonel Judd (Lionel Jeffries) and his…
