Movies - V

This thought-provoking classic stars Dirk Bogarde as Melville Farr, a homosexual (but married) lawyer who risks his career to hunt down a blackmailer who...

Based on a 1933 German film by Rheinhold Schuenzel called Viktor und Viktoria, this bloated farce cashes in on the transvestite popularity of La Cage aux...

A groundbreaking film, David Cronenberg's story about the horrible transformations wrought by exposure to televised violence wittily thematises the very problems that the director's...

Einar (Kirk Douglas) and Erik (Tony Curtis) are two Viking half-brothers. One is a great warrior, the other an ex-slave who makes a bitter...

This low-budget, well-made and chilling film - based on John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos - proves beyond a doubt that good movies need not be...

Instinctively, you know there's something special happening when a film opens with a half-dozen teens engaging in a muddy, rain-soaked frottage to a throbbing...

A bloated Richard Burton is in rare high spirits as vicious homosexual mob boss and protection racketeer Vic Dakin, whose sadism is offset by...

Featuring one of several police characters Stanley Baker played in the late 50s/early 60s, Violent Playground fuses a crime story with a social-realist tale...

Leslie Thomas's first novel went straight to the top of the bestseller charts in 1966 and this movie version quickly tried to capitalise on...

Pretty young Christine (Ann Michelle) and her younger sister Betty (future 'Allo 'Allo star Vicki Michelle in her acting debut) get mixed up in...

Kreton (Jerry Lewis) is an innocent and childlike alien from the planet X-47 who has always been fascinated by Earth. Eventually getting the opportunity to...

Bernard Wicki's film of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play (also known as Time and Again) is a fascinating work. The tragi-comedy (as Dürrenmatt describes it) is related...

Elvis Presley plays Lucky Jackson, a racing car driver who needs money to keep his Grand Prix car humming. He works as a waiter on the...

France's two top female stars, Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau play the two Marias - a singer and the orphaned daughter of an Irish...

Vixen (Erica Gavin) lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with...

Frank Sinatra is splendidly cast as American Air Force Colonel Joseph L. Ryan, who is shot down and placed in an Italian POW camp,...

With the Earth threatened by a blazing radiation belt, the inventor of a new nuclear submarine must make a difficult decision if the world...