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- Sunset Across the Bay **** (1975, Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 12,877
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum **** (1975, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow) – Classic Movie Review 12,876
- Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary] ** (1983, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Leopold von Verschuer) – Classic Movie Review 12,875
- Invasion *** (1965, Edward Judd, Valerie Gearon, Lyndon Brook, Yoko Tani, Tsai Chin, Barrie Ingham) – Classic Movie Review 12,874
- Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] *** (1978, Brigitte Fossey, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Bernhard Wicki) – Classic Movie Review 12,873
- Tomorrow We Live [At Dawn We Die] ** (1942, John Clements, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Yvonne Arnaud, Godfrey Tearle) – Classic Movie Review 12,872
- Lord Edgware Dies ** (2000, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Helen Grace, John Castle, Fiona Allen, Dominic Guard, Christopher Guard) – Classic Movie Review 12,871
- Lord Edgware Dies ** (1934, Austin Trevor, Jane Carr, Richard Cooper, John Turnbull) – Classic Movie Review 12,870
- Lord Camber’s Ladies ** (1932, Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence, Benita Hume, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 12,869
- They Came to a City *** (1944, John Clements, Googie Withers, Raymond Huntley, Renee Gadd, A E Matthews) – Classic Movie Review 12,868
Close My Eyes *** (1991, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 7099
Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff’s provocative, controversial 1991 British drama film Close My Eyes stars Clive Owen as Richard, an architect who is very close to his older sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves), who is married to a wealthy […]
The Unbelievable Truth **** (1989, Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke) – Classic Movie Review 7098
Delightfully oddball characters, situations and dialogue are orchestrated endearingly by writer-director Hal Hartley in his auspicious 1989 début film The Unbelievable Truth. It is a rewarding, darkly satirical comedy of American small-town life about paroled […]
The Mask of Fu Manchu *** (1932, Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, David Torrence) – Classic Movie Review 7096
Directors Charles Brabin and (uncredited) King Vidor’s 1932 pre-Code adventure thriller stars Boris Karloff as Sax Rohmer’s incredibly creepy Chinese villain, the fiendish Fu Manchu. In the story, a party led by Sheila Barton (Karen Morley) on an expedition to […]
Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097
‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]
Trust **** (1990, Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson, Edie Falco) – Classic Movie Review 7095
Writer-director Hal Hartley’s nicely written, tremendously well performed, deliciously dark 1991 cult comedy of romance in drab, middle-class Long Island is brimming over with engaging characters and offbeat humour. Adrienne Shelly stars as Maria Coughlin, a […]
Truly Madly Deeply **** (1990, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson, Jenny Howe) – Classic Movie Review 7094
Writer-director Anthony Minghella’s 1990 film Truly Madly Deeply is the adorable British answer to Ghost (1990), in which Juliet Stevenson stars as English language teacher Nina, still in love with her dead cellist boyfriend Jamie (Alan […]
Tuesdays with Morrie **** (1999, Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz) – Classic Movie Review 7093
In one of his last roles, the great Jack Lemmon touches the heart in a clever, intense, intimate performance as the old Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, in director Mick Jackson’s […]
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- Sunset Across the Bay **** (1975, Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 12,877
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum **** (1975, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow) – Classic Movie Review 12,876
- Ediths Tagebuch [Edith’s Diary] ** (1983, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Leopold von Verschuer) – Classic Movie Review 12,875
- Invasion *** (1965, Edward Judd, Valerie Gearon, Lyndon Brook, Yoko Tani, Tsai Chin, Barrie Ingham) – Classic Movie Review 12,874
- Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] *** (1978, Brigitte Fossey, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Bernhard Wicki) – Classic Movie Review 12,873
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