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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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Winter Boy [Le Lycéen] *** (2022, Paul Kircher, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lacoste) – Classic Movie Review 12,811
Paul Kircher as stars gay teenager Lucas, struggling to cope with the death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide, in the richly textured 2022 French teen drama film […]
Silver Dream Racer * (1980, David Essex, Beau Bridges, Cristina Raines) – Classic Movie Review 10,216
Director David Wickes’s 1980 British sport action drama Silver Dream Racer stars David Essex and re-tells the oft-told and unconvincing tale of a garage mechanic called Nick Freeman (Essex) aiming to realise his dream by […]
A Zed & Two Noughts **** (1985, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber, Jim Davidson) = Classic Movie Review 8654
Director Peter Greenaway’s 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts is more like a diagram than a narrative, overflowing with symbols and puns, and underpinned by the memorable Michael Nyman soundtrack. A surgeon covets the […]
The Road Home [Wo de fu qin mu qin] **** (1999, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng) – Classic Movie Review 7887
There is superb acting in Zhang Yimou’s heart-rending, exquisitely realised 1999 Chinese film The Road Home, a tale of pure and simple love that does not put a foot wrong and will have hardly a […]
The World of Apu [Apur Sansar] ***** (1959, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty) – Classic Movie Review 7741
The majestic 1959 The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) is the last part of Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s great Apu trilogy and is its crowning glory. Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee) grows to love his arranged-marriage wife […]
Photographing Fairies ** (1997, Toby Stephens, Ben Kingsley, Edward Hardwicke, Frances Barber, Ben Kingsley, Emily Woof, Philip Davis) – Classic Movie Review 6289
A love story that extends into the next world, a spot of sleuthing with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edward Hardwicke), and Steven Spielberg-style supernatural creatures flying around the English countryside. This 1997 British fantasy mystery […]
Jet Storm ***½ (1959, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Mai Zetterling, Diane Cilento, Hermione Baddeley, Harry Secombe, Virginia Maskell) – Classic Movie Review 5934
This tense 1959 British thriller, tautly directed by Cy Endfield [C Raker Endfield], the maker of Zulu, is a more than decent early example of the airplane disaster picture, in which a man’s mad passion […]