Released Date:
1965-06-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (6612 Reviews)
Director:
William WylerJohn Fowles (novel)
John Kohn (screenplay)
Stanley Mann (screenplay)
Freddie, a socially withdrawn bank clerk and butterfly collector, decides to expand to collecting human specimens. That's where art student Miranda Grey comes in. Miranda matches wits with Freddie the icy psychopath.
Released Date:
1966-07-04
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Arabic, German, Dutch
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
119 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (1732 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph LoseyEvan Jones (screenplay)
Peter O'Donnell (comic strip)
Jim Holdaway (comic strip)
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Released Date:
1967-10-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
168 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3518 Reviews)
Director:
John SchlesingerThomas Hardy (from the novel by)
Frederic Raphael (screenplay)
Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. And she captures the lives and loves of three very different men: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage; William Boldwood, a prosperous man in his early forties and a confirmed bachelor; and Sergeant Frank Troy, a handsome, reckless swordsman given to sudden fits of violence.
Released Date:
1968-09-07
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (7440 Reviews)
Director:
Pier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)
A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ?
Released Date:
1969-07-23
Languages:
French, Italian, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (3649 Reviews)
Edgar Allan Poe (story)
Roger Vadim (adaptation)
Pascal Cousin (adaptation)
Edgar Allan Poe (story)
Louis Malle (adaptation)
Clement Biddle Wood (adaptation)
Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)
Edgar Allan Poe (story)
Federico Fellini (adaptation)
Bernardino Zapponi (adaptation)
Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who, it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.
Released Date:
1985-03-08
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (4823 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen FrearsEx-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. But it is a long way to Paris...
Released Date:
1986-09-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (1831 Reviews)
Director:
Richard FranklinGenres:
HorrorLee David Zlotoff (story)
Tom Ackermann (story)
Everett De Roche
Student Jane jobs as an assistant for the animal researcher Phillip in a lonesome old house. They live alone except for the chimpanzees and butler Link: a 45 years old very intelligent orangutan. Phillip wants to put Link to death. However before he can do this he's vanished tracelessly one morning. Link starts behaving more and more aggressive and prohibits Jane from using the phone or reaching the next village. When she punishes him by locking him out, he becomes violent.
Released Date:
1988-10-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (10537 Reviews)
Director:
Graham BakerA few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine but are victims of a new type of discrimination. When the first Newcomer police officer, Sam Francisco is assigned his new partner, he is given Matthew Sykes , a mildly racist veteran, the animosity between them soon gives way to respect as they investigate the Newcomer underworld, and especially Newcomer leader William Harcourt.
Released Date:
1994-08-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
Australia, UK
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (34043 Reviews)
Director:
Stephan ElliottTwo drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual (Bernadette) contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them.
Released Date:
1999-08-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (23202 Reviews)
Director:
Steven SoderberghAn ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having an affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece.
Released Date:
2001-11-14
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (3164 Reviews)
Director:
Yvan AttalParis can boast a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses. Yvan, a young sports writer, is married to one who is very well known - Charlotte. They try to live a normal life, but her fame makes it difficult - autograph hunters interrupt their dinners, cops about to serve traffic summonses let them off with a warning and a smile when they recognize her, and impossible-to-get restaurant reservations magically appear when Charlotte makes the calls instead of Yvan. All this threatens and challenges his male ego, but Yvan is able to take her stardom in stride. Until, that is, a man at a bar asks him if he gets jealous watching his wife make love in the nude to another man on screen. It has never seriously bothered him before, but the stranger sows the first seed of doubt in his head...
Released Date:
2003-11-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
4.9 (29428 Reviews)
Director:
Rob MinkoffMarried realtors Jim and Sara with their children go to Gracey Manor and Mr. Gracey is enamored with Sara and they discover that Sara looks like Mr. Gracey's old girlfriend, Elizabeth, who died young and they think it was a suicide but discover something more sinister.
Released Date:
2007-08-24
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (2583 Reviews)
Director:
Christopher CainChristopher Cain
Carole Whang Schutter
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken. Amidst this, two young lovers-to-be, one a Mormon and the other one of the doomed settlers from Arkansas, develop a relationship in an atmosphere of suspicion and rancor.
Released Date:
2008-06-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (280682 Reviews)
Director:
Timur BekmambetovMichael Brandt (screenplay)
Derek Haas (screenplay)
Chris Morgan (screenplay)
Michael Brandt (story)
Derek Haas (story)
Mark Millar (comic book series)
J.G. Jones (comic book series)
A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.
Released Date:
2006-09-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (417 Reviews)
Director:
Richard DaleAndrew Bampfield
Ed Fields (contributing writer)
On 9/11 2001 two planes American 11 united 175 hit the World Trade Center and many people died and jumped to their deaths some survived until the tower fell.
Released Date:
2013-02-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Germany
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(4996 Reviews)
Director:
Paul Andrew Williams"Song for Marion", a London-set comedic drama, is about shy, grumpy pensioner Arthur who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local choir. At odds with his son James, it is left to charismatic choir director Elizabeth to try and persuade Arthur that he can learn to embrace life. Arthur must confront the undercurrents of his own grumbling persona as he embarks on a hilarious, life-affirming journey of musical self discovery.
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