The elastic-faced James Booth plays Arthur Tate, a naive young policeman who becomes increasingly successful after beginning his career as a bobby in a quiet…
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The Secret Policeman’s Ball was a 100-minute film featuring the highlights of the third Amnesty International charity concert staged over four consecutive nights (27 -…
Following the success of a film featuring the comedy and musical highlights of the third Amnesty International charity concert in London in 1979 – released…
Private Harry Frigg (Paul Newman) has a war record second to none in his own special field – getting out of prison. There isn’t a…
Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a socially awkward and emotionally fragile young woman who has just been released from a mental health facility following an…
This made-for-TV movie was broadcast as part of a series of dramas called First Love on Channel 4. It’s 1963, and the Sixties are about…
Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is an accomplished young black middle-class Optometrist who was adopted as a baby. When her adoptive parents die, she decides to track…
This 1970s British sex comedy – co-written by Denis Norden of It’ll be Alright on the Night fame – features a young West Country lobster…
A young woman named Pat Lord (Shirley Valentine’s Pauline Collins in her first film role) is killed in a car crash and the film tells…
A British Amicus-style anthology with each short story presenting different takes on the battle of the sexes via a combination of horror, sex and comedy.…
The sleepy little Californian town of Comet Valley is invaded by seed pods from outer space in this inferior amalgam of Invasion of the Body…
Rock Hudson is quite funny as George Kimball, a hypochondriac, who – mistaking an overheard conversation during his almost daily visit to the doctor -…
A Sense of Freedom was based on the autobiography of Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle, a brutal gangster who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent…
Top model Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) moves out of the New York penthouse in which she has been living with Michael Lerman (Chris Sarandon) to…
The Beauregard Hotel in the English seaside town of Bournemouth during the off-season is the setting for stories revolving around two couples. Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah…
At a US Air Force base (Aero Space Division), young, clumsy Sergeant O.K. Deadhead (Frankie Avalon) is sent to the guardhouse after causing some mischief…
The Rat Pack team up for another celluloid goof-off in a Wild West retread of Gunga Din with Sammy Davis Jr. in the role of the…
An unmarried vicar, the Reverend Howard Phillips (Anthony Quayle), newly arrived in the parish of Bellington, attempts to force local 19-year-old thug and petty criminal…
Based on the true story of New York cop Frank Serpico, who sacrificed his career to expose widespread corruption in the NYPD to the New…
Self-consciously ‘modern’ when it was released, this study of class power and sexual desire starred James Fox as upper-class twit, Tony, and Dirk Bogarde as…