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…
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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…
An intelligent, downbeat coming-of-age film set in a small country town in Australia in 1962. The 15-year-old protagonist Danny (Noah Taylor) suffers heartbreak when the…
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…
A young boy dies while playing in the ruins of a London neighbourhood destroyed during the blitz. His friend Frankie (Andrew Ray) – who was…
Top photographer Terence Donovan tried his hand as a film director with this kung-fu thriller which featured unconventional young Japanese agent Kimura (Jirô Tamiya), who…
This anthology movie is the story of a luxuriously upholstered vehicle – at once witty, romantic, plush, glamorous and dreamy – as a Rolls-Royce (a…
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…
The title of the film refers to the small yellow teddy bears worn by some of the girls at the all-girls Peterbridge New Town Grammar…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
A poignant and sadly forgotten 1956 black and white British film directed by J Lee Thompson inspired by the story of Ruth Ellis – the…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
