Retired detective and ex-serviceman, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called on to help old army pal George Tanner (Brian Keith) whose daughter is being held hostage by Yakuza gangsters as…
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While stationed in a small Lancashire town as they await D-Day, three American soldiers become involved in romances with local women. There are two plotlines presented concurrently here, one where…
An intelligent, downbeat coming-of-age film set in Australia in 1962. The 15-year-old protagonist Danny (Noah Taylor) suffers heartbreak when the girl he loves – the beautiful and free-spirited Freya (Loene…
This thriller/romance is set in Indonesia (though filmed in the Philippines) in 1965, just before the fall of the Sukarno regime. Civil war is breaking out everywhere, and there is…
A young boy dies while playing in the ruins of a London neighbourhood destroyed during the blitz. His friend Frankie (Andrew Ray) – who was with him at the time…
The Beatles come to the rescue when the evil Blue Meanies try to drive all the music and fun from Pepperland in the third feature film featuring the acclaimed and…
The title of the film refers to the small yellow teddy bears worn by some of the girls at the all-girls Peterbridge Grammar School on their uniform to symbolise their…
Yellowbeard was the realisation of Graham Chapman’s long-standing desire to film a comic pirate romp in the style of Robert Newton’s celebrated Long John Silver. The movie tells the story of…
Barbra Streisand spent fifteen years of her life trying to get Yentl on the screen. Every cynic in the film industry told her it could not be done. In the end, she…
Young college student Howie Ellison (Jay Ramsey) is trying to fix his broken-down car in the middle of nowhere while the radio blares rock ‘n’ roll and his girl, Margie…
Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a washed-up drunken footballer trying to get his life back on track. Turner is signed by Third Division team, the Saints – owned by rockstar…
A poignant and sadly forgotten 1956 black and white British film directed by J Lee Thompson inspired by the story of Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged…
The story of a man who has a chip on his shoulder and is against the world at large. Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is young, stylish and tough, an illegal…
If you’ve ever wondered how Monty Python’s “Upper-Class Twit of the Year” sketch would fare at feature-length, this scattershot comedy from Michael Winner will give you a pretty good idea.…
The fifth in the Bond series sees James Bond and the Japanese secret service ninja force taking on arch-nemesis Blofeld, who has been capturing US and Soviet spacecraft in an…
For his first major studio feature as director (after several years working for Roger Corman), Francis Ford Coppola made a fun offbeat coming-of-age nightmare comedy. Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner) is…
For half-witted barbers apprentice, Wilbur Hoolick (Jerry Lewis) life is a continual series of mishaps. But the biggest mishap of all is when Noonan (Raymond Burr) – a wanted killer…
You’ve Got Mail stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as rivals – she owns a small bookshop, he runs a greedy chain – who fall in love on the Internet. It’s…
Carter Fields (Zalman King) stars as a young New Yorker failing in marriage, in his Wall Street job, and in his search for sex (he is given to nosebleeds during…
Three youngsters steal a car for a joyride and encounter a couple out on a date. They drive the couple into a ditch, pull the boy out of the car…
