Wackiest Ship In The Army, The (1960)
Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) is a naval officer during WWII who is given command of the USS Echo (an old sailing scow) to...
Wag The Dog (1997)
Just before an election, the US President is accused of molesting a teenage girl in the Oval Office.
Keen to divert interest away from the...
Wait Until Dark (1967)
A cleverly crafted thriller with the gorgeous Audrey Hepburn as a blind New York City housewife who finds herself terrorised by three dangerous criminals after...
Wake In Fright (1971)
John Grant (Gary Bond) is the bored teacher at a one-room school in Tiboonda, a tiny railway junction on the far western plains of...
Walkabout (1970)
"In Australia when an Aborigine man-child reaches sixteen, he is sent out into the land. For months he must live from it. Sleep on...
Wall Street (1987)
Oliver Stone's souped-up, morality melodrama hammers away with ferocity at corporate raiders, insider trading, stock manipulation and other questionable practices involving big business in...
Wall, The (1982)
Directed by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldof from The Boomtown Rats, this movie version of the 1979 Pink Floyd album was described by one critic as...
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
An English general finds himself with a hypochondriac for a wife, a French mistress and a penchant for buxom chambermaids.
In one of his most...
Wanderers, The (1979)
In a newly integrated Bronx neighbourhood in 1960s New York, Ritchie (Ken Wahl) leads the Italian American gang 'The Wanderers'.
He’s a stud and has...
War and Peace (1956)
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and shot on location in Italy at a cost of $6 million, War and Peace weighs in at 208 minutes.
The money...
War of the Planets (1965)
An informal prequel to The Wild, Wild Planet, and shot back-to-back with it using virtually the same cast, director Antonio Margheriti's alien invasion saga...
War Of The Roses, The (1988)
The War of the Roses is a ferocious black comedy about divorce, both funny and cynical.
Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver (Michael Douglas) Rose are the...
War Of The Worlds (1953)
Loosely adapted from H.G. Wells' classic novel of the same name, this 1953 doomsday sci-fi was billed as a "mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury...
WarGames (1983)
"Shall we play a game?"
With the advent of computing systems like Apple and Commodore, home computers became a major fad in the early 1980's.
Home...
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
It may be small change compared with today's CGI monster movies, but this is still a decent romp from director Kevin Connor, and it's...
Warriors, The (1979)
"Let's get down to it Boppers . . ."
Hundreds of gangs from all of New York's five boroughs show up for a summit at...
Water (1985)
British comedy-writing legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais wrote this funny satire about West Indies-style politics and the decline of British colonialism in...
Waterboy, The (1998)
Adam Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, an unschooled, unscrewed Louisiana mama's boy who ladles out "quality H2O" to a college football team that kicks his...
Waterloo (1970)
In one bloody day of death and slaughter - 18 June 1815 - a total of 52,000 men were killed in a battle that...
Watership Down (1978)
This animated version of Richard Adams's bestselling novel about a group of rabbits searching for a new home was a box-office success, despite the...
