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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 American Philip Kaufman. Lengthily elaborated from Milan Kundera's bestseller, it concerns...

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 author Wilbur Gray (Peter Cushing) visits his publisher Frank Richards (Ray...

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 Club (1985) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and regress into childhood. Buck...

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 are among the best the screen has ever offered. There are...

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 often are atrocities, all with the compulsion to bring the...

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 while resisting the urge to help himself? The film consists of...

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 whose tenants are all female, and whose doors are unlocked...

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. It's clear from the fevered manner in which Saul Rubinek's...

Universal Soldier opens with maniacal Sergeant Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) - draped in a necklace made of ears he has sliced from the Vietnamese villagers he has just slaughtered - encountering the brave, idealistic Luc...

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 Chantry boarding school for boys on the remote British coast. Ebony...

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 Reynolds) at six months of age surviving a flood of the...

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 woman Judge Cecilia Steele (Lurene Tuttle). They are unfairly tried and...

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 a style that was original and visually breathtaking. This is a...

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 the trail leads them to LA. In pursuit is narcotics...

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 big break, tries to woo a top model – while...

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 maidens soaking in the traditional bath of asses milk; Roman groupies;...

In the second of the new Up . . .  series, Frankie Howerd plays Lurkalot, a humble 12th-century serf who sells chastity belts in the local market. Our poor hero is really the twin brother of...

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 causing considerable damage to the naval bases he keeps getting...

This 1972 British comedy film is the third film spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! (the previous film being Up the Chastity Belt (1971) set in the Middle Ages which followed on from the...

Based on a successful novel by Nell Dunn (daughter of wealthy industrialist Sir Philip Dunn), Up the Junction was first turned into a BBC television play in 1965. The x-certificate film starred Suzy Kendall as Polly, a...