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Director Frank Perry’s strong, dark, X-rated 1969 drama of troubled teens Last Summer is based on Evan Hunter’s novel of youthful passions, teen angst and young cruelty. Last Summer is an intelligent, believable version of […]
Joan Collins tops the bill as Carol Radford, in director Sidney Hayers’s unedifying but efficient country-set 1971 British revenge thriller Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] about two men visiting the recluse they suspect has […]
René Clément’s chilling 1970 French mystery thriller Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] is the film that turned Charles Bronson into a star in Europe. Director René Clément’s 1970 French-Italian mystery thriller […]
Director Tony Garnett’s 1982 revenge thriller Handgun [Deep in My Heart] stars Karen Young as Dallas teacher Kathleen Sullivan, who sets out to avenge herself on her gun-toting rapist, Texan lawyer Larry Keeler (Clayton Day), […]
The ironic title of Norman Jewison’s 1979 crime thriller And Justice for All hides a wildly funny and despairing film that shows the US legal system in the worst possible light. It was nominated for […]
Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s deservedly much admired German late-period silent cult favourite 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] stars Louise Brooks as a sweet young rich gal Thymiane, who goes downhill […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s underrated 1983 The Entity stars Barbara Hershey as a single-mom psychiatrist called Carla Moran who thinks she is dreaming up the thing – an unseen presence or invisible demon – that […]