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Director Percy Adlon’s 1987 English-language West German comedy drama Bagdad Café [Out of Rosenheim] stars the unlikely, larger-than-life German sex bomb Marianne Sägebrecht as Jasmin Münchgstettner, a hefty tourist from from Rosenheim, Bavaria, who leaves her […]
Warner Bros’ 1940 mystery comedy crime thriller Calling Philo Vance stars British stage actor James Stephenson, who takes over as S S Van Dine’s dilettante detective hero Philo Vance for one film only. ‘Rich Inventor […]
Writer-director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 German World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot [The Boat] is based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. […]
Director Philippe Vallois’s splendid, heart-rending 1979 French gay movie We Were One Man [Nous Etions Un Seule Homme] is really subtle and special. In the autumn of 1943, in World War Two, Guy Rouveron (Serge […]
Director Ian Sharp’s 1982 gung-ho British action thriller Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] (1982) is a British SAS (Special Air Service) adventure yarn about tough guys storming in to the American Embassy in London […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 Albert RN [Break to Freedom] is a deservedly famous British Fifties World War Two prisoner-of-war camp movie, with notable stiff-upper-lipped acting, in which the true Brits, fed up with escapes that […]
Sylvester Stallone is in low gear for director Renny Harlin’s pounding 2001 motor-race movie Driven, in which a thumping rock score battles the roar of Indy car engines as drivers try to ram each other […]