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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
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- 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
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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The Disappearance of Finbar *** (1996, Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor) – Classic Movie Review 8764
Co-writer/ director Sue Clayton’s 1996 drama The Disappearance of Finbar stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers in his first leading role as young Irishman Finbar Flynn, who vanishes, upsetting his friends. When he resurfaces in Sweden years […]
The Girl in the Spider’s Web *** (2018, Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Convery, Beau Gadsdon, Carlotta von Falkenhayn) – Movie Review
The 2018 New Dragon Tattoo Story, Uruguay director Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, is a brisk, capable and coldly efficient noir-style action crime thriller, but it is also uber-dark, gruelling and deeply unpleasant, […]
Miss Julie ** (1999, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7713
Writer-producer-director Mike Figgis’s 1999 British film Miss Julie is an interesting but stagey and sluggish rendition of August Strindberg’s world classic play, with actory performances, too many hand-held camera and too-large close-ups, in which the […]
Intermezzo *** (1936, Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad) – Classic Movie Review 6678
Co-writer/ director Gustaf Molander’s unfairly neglected Swedish original 1936 film of the classic 1939 Hollywood romance Intermezzo sees Ingrid Bergman as the gorgeous young musician Anita Hoffman falling in love with married, older concert violinist Professor Holger Brandt (Gösta […]
Pelle the Conqueror [Pelle Erobreren] ***** (1987, Max von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath) – Classic Movie Review 6160
The exceptional, outstanding performances from Max von Sydow and little Pelle Hvenegaard light up this 1988 Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning Best Foreign Language Film from Danish writer-director Bille August about the humble old widowed farmer […]
The Girl Who Played with Fire [Flickan som lekte med elden] *** (2009, Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre) – Classic Movie Review 6098
The second part of the Swedish-language thriller based on Stieg Larsson’s novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) picks up immediately where part […]
Love Lessons [Lust och fägring stor] *** (1995, Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brümssen, Karin Huldt, Nina Gunke) – Classic Movie Review 4571
This sexy 1995 Swedish rites-of-passage erotic drama film outing comes from writer-director Bo Widerberg, with nepotism working well in the form of director’s son Johan Widerberg as Stig, a 15-year old schoolboy aroused by his 37-year old […]