Browsing: Movies – U

The problem of coming to terms with reality is the simplest explanation for this blatant, slice of coffee table eroticism-cum-fake European art film directed by…

This British/Canadian horror anthology film directed by Denis Héroux offers three tales of horror all revolving around cats. The film opens in Montreal where nervous…

This is the movie in which director John Hughes made a decision to leave the world of adolescence behind after films such as The Breakfast…

Like most movies about Vietnam, Uncommon Valor is more about guns and explosions than it is about people, but it’s never dull and the massive battle sequences…

Russell Price (Nick Nolte) is a war photographer travelling the world in 1979 seeking out the most dangerous locations and taking photographs to record what…

A British sex comedy about a doctor, a bevy of beautiful women and their sexual problems. Can the overworked and over-titillated doctor help his patients…

Hogan (Jack Lemmon), a lecherous landlord who lives in a flat that might have been designed by Edgar Allan Poe, runs the Centaur apartment house…

Howard Huges and RKO Radio Pictures poured £3 million into this adventure story – made mainly as a vehicle for Jane Russell – and it…

Exploring the harsh realities of frontier life, Clint Eastwood depicts the West as an unforgiving place where tragedy strikes every time somebody draws a gun.…

Universal Soldier opens with maniacal Sergeant Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) – draped in a necklace made of ears he has sliced from the Vietnamese villagers…

David Hemmings is excellent in this gripping thriller from John Mackenzie (The Long Good Friday) as John Ebony, the newly arrived idealistic young teacher at the exclusive…

A fictionalised account of the life of Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name. The story begins with Molly (Debbie…

Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson star as hitchhiking chanteuse sisters, Penny and Janey Lowe, who are arrested for vagrancy and brought before naive old…

One of the hits of 1987, The Untouchables took the true story of Eliot Ness, examined the facts in his autobiography, and illuminated the Prohibition Era in…

Sweet young Betty Miller (Norma Moore) moves from a small town farming community to work in a big department store in Los Angeles, where she…

Two boys, Pedro (Richard “Cheech” Marin) and Man (Tommy Chong) search for some marijuana to aid them in the formation of a pop group, and…

This marvellously entertaining, tongue-in-cheek musical romp stars Frank Ifield as Dave Kelly, a talented young Australian singer who moves to London in search of his…

Frankie Howerd dons a toga here for a film version of his TV series based on the life of Roman slave Lurcio. There are gorgeous…

In the second of the new Up . . .  series, Frankie Howerd plays Lurkalot, a humble 12th-century serf who sells chastity belts in the…

British Naval officer Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) has an uncontrollable passion for building guided missiles that are constantly going off at the wrong time and…