Yakuza, The (1975)
Retired detective and ex-serviceman Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called on to help an old army friend whose daughter is being held hostage by...
Yanks (1979)
While stationed in a small Lancashire town as they await D-Day, three American soldiers become involved in romances with local women.
Some interesting performances from...
Year My Voice Broke, The (1987)
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...
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1982)
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...
Yellow Balloon, The (1953)
A young boy dies while playing in the ruins of a London neighbourhood destroyed during the blitz.
His friend, who was with him at the...
Yellow Submarine (1968)
The Beatles come to the rescue when the evil Blue Meanies try to drive all the music and fun from Pepperland in the third...
Yellowbeard (1983)
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...
Yentl (1984)
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...
Yield To The Night (1956)
A poignant and sadly forgotten 1956 black and white British film directed by J Lee Thompson inspired by the story of Ruth Ellis -...
You Can’t See ’round Corners (1969)
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,...
You Must Be Joking! (1965)
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...
You Only Live Twice (1967)
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...
You’ve Got Mail (1998)
You've Got Mail stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as rivals - she owns a small bookshop, he runs a greedy chain - who fall...
Young Einstein (1988)
A chap called Yahoo Serious wrote, produced, directed and starred in this Australian spoof biography of Albert Einstein - a Naive Tasmanian scientist who invents rock 'n'...
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Dr Frankenstein's grandson, Frederick von Frankenstein, reluctantly decides to follow in his ancestor's footprints in Mel Brooks' affectionate parody of horror films.
Freddy would like to...
Young Guns (1988)
In this version of the legend of Billy the Kid, the young William H Bonney joins a wealthy rancher's gang of young guns.
When the...
Young Lions, The (1958)
Three soldiers have their outlook on life drastically altered during the Second World War.
An idealistic German lieutenant begins to question his faith in Nazi...
Young Ones, The (1961)
In 1961, Cliff Richard had most of the world at his feet. Easily Britain's most successful performer, he had just picked up his fifth gold...
Young Savages, The (1960)
Shot on the streets of East Harlem, Frankenheimer's juvenile delinquency movie has Burt Lancaster's assistant DA Hank Bell caught between two street gangs -...
