Based on a true-life incident, The Wind and The Lion tells how rebel chieftain Raisuli (Sean Connery) – the last of the Barbary pirates – kidnaps…
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The story in The Wind of Change revolves around a teen gang who hang around the coffee bars of Notting Hill. Some of the gang…
Meek little Arthur Lee (Lionel Jeffries) has worked as the senior assistant in a drapery emporium for 35 years. One morning, on his way to…
Set in Western Australia, Windrider was promoted as a “romantic action film about windsurfing”. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough windsurfing scenes to justify that claim, and…
U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead (John Wayne) is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. His dedication to…
Jeff Forrester (William Wellman Jr) inherits a ski lodge at Lake Tahoe. With the help of his friend and promotions director Danny Frazer (James Stacy) and…
Loosely based on the early life of notorious Streatham brothel madam Cynthia Payne, David Leland’s bittersweet directorial debut is an introspective character study of an…
This Italian horror movie has Baywatch and Knight Rider TV star David Hasselhoff as Gary, a photographer staying in an abandoned hotel on a deserted (seemingly)…
Nothing ever happens in the sleepy little New England town of Eastwick. But that’s about to change when three bored, independent women make a wish…
Produced by Hammer and written by Nigel Kneale, who created Quatermass, The Witches tells of Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine), a teacher working in Africa who has a breakdown when…
Produced by Jim Henson (The Muppets), whose famed Creature Shop provided the fantastic special effects, The Witches is a fanciful and exciting story about orphaned…
In 1645, with England torn apart by civil war, the infamous witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) – an Ipswich lawyer who turned his back on the…
Since the death of her husband, Abby McClure (Doris Day) has had to be mother, father and breadwinner to her three sons, including taking over…
This full-frontal sexploitation film from director Don Chaffey (who once helmed the mighty Jason and the Argonauts) revolved around a scheming raven-haired vixen named Julie…
Destined from the very start to be the student film of choice, Withnail and I spawned a generation who would hold this film as the benchmark for…
Kate Nelligan plays Susan Selky, the mother of a six-year-old boy who disappears without a trace on a short journey to school one summer morning.…
An innocent young Amish widow (Kelly McGillis) takes her small son Samuel (Lucas Haas) on his first train trip to visit a relative in Baltimore.…
Sidney Lumet’s schmaltzy all-black disco-flavoured musical version of The Wizard of Oz starred 34-year old Diana Ross as shy and fragile 24-year-old schoolteacher Dorothy Gale (pictured…
This ambitious animated sci-fi tale from the director of Fritz the Cat (1972) was released the same year as Star Wars, and both films dealt with a…
Jack Nicholson was better as a wolfman than De Niro was as the Frankenstein monster, but this glossy major release is more like David Cronenberg’s…