A lonely ‘Stay-at-Home’ Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a ‘Peeping Tom’, who is being put up to it by his friend. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Manderlay (2005) Lars von Trier, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Drama
After gangster Mulligan’s cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled Read More »
Perfect Friday (1970) Peter Hall, Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, Comedy, Crime
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. Read More »
Meantime (1984) Mike Leigh, Marion Bailey, Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Comedy, Drama
An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly intellectually disabled man living with his parents and brother in a housing project. Read More »
Whoever slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Curtis Harrington, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Horror, Thriller
This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. Read More »
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Desmond Davis, Alan Birkinshaw, Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Mystery, Thriller
Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that belongs to Jack Argyle. Read More »
Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980) Yvonne Rainer, Annette Michelson, Vito Acconci, Cynthia Beatt, Drama, Experimental
Journeys From Berlin/1971 (1980), her epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia. Read More »
Girl in the Headlines (1963) Michael Truman, Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Mystery, Crime, Drama
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of immoral life. Read More »
Le Confessionnal (1995) Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Read More »
Before I Wake / Shadow of Fear (1955) Albert S. Rogell, Mona Freeman, Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed, Mystery, Film-Noir
A woman travels to England to attend her parents’ funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn’t buy it. Read More »
Sons of the Sea (1939) Maurice Elvey, Leslie Banks, Mackenzie Ward, Kay Walsh, Drama, War
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. Read More »
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) Terence Fisher, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Horror
In Spain, Leon is born on Christmas day to a mute servant girl who was raped by a beggar. His mother dies giving birth and he is looked after by Don Alfredo. Read More »
The Greatest (1977) Tom Gries, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Biography, Drama, Sport
Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. Read More »
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995) Nick Broomfield, Nina Xining Zuo, Madam Alex, Documentary, Biography
A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Read More »
The Day of the Triffids (2009) Richard Mewis, Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Action, Horror, Sci-fi
It’s an up-to-date setting of the 1962 Sci-fi thriller. With the world blinded and the Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered Read More »