The British film which should have won an Oscar. Bob Hoskins is an ex-con who is given the task of minding Cathy Tyson a high class whore. Against his better judgement he agrees to help her find her best friend, a junkie turning tricks in Kings Cross. A brilliant look at London low life. Watch it!
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SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Myra is a psychic, or believes herself to be, and becomes obsessed with the desire to reach the very pinnacle of her chosen profession. Enlisting her weak husband as an accomplice Myra kidnaps a young girl and then offers the police her assistance in helping to find her. Séance is a dark brooding tale, more psychological horror than it is thriller, and from the same pen as the 70's cult classic ‘The Stepford Wives'.
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STRANGER BY THE LAKE (2013)
Certification18 Our Rating
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TALE OF TALES (2015)
Certification15 Our Rating
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THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Three of Hollywood's most famous liberals team up to explore the horrific possibity of a nuclear meltdown. Fonda and Douglas play TV news reporters latching onto a scare about falsification and negligence of safety regulations. Well scripted and genuinely tense. Tinseltown gets a conscience!
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THE DEFIANT ONES (1958)
CertificationU Our Rating
Curtis and Poitier both bagged Oscars for their portrayal of two chain-gang prisoners, one black, one white. Forced to make their escape still manacled together, their fight for freedom through the swamps makes a powerful metaphor for the rampant racial hatred of the times. Great support cast too.
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
Certification18 Our Rating
The famous drugs thriller as Gene Hackman plays the cop determined to fix the Marseille based heroin runners once and for all. An action-packed movie full of murders, car chases and everything else a good thriller should have - making it one of the classics and a yardstick for others since. Won Best Picture at 1971 Academy Awards.
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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
A film dominated by one performance, Forest Whitaker's turn as the infamous dictator Idi Amin. When young Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician few of us doubt that it will inevitably end in tears, but Amin, as is so often the way with monsters, has considerable charm to go with his paranoid genocidal tendencies and the naïve Garrigan is seduced. However Garrigan's role is ambiguous; is he just dumb or is he willingly looking the other way? The film also reverses the typical
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THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986)
Certification18 Our Rating
From the best selling book by Umberto Eco comes this brilliant film adaptation. Father William of Baskerville arrives at a monastary to participate in a theological dispute. However murder and intrigue are afoot. William finds himself once again at odds with the Inquisition. Mediaeval whodunit!
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