Movies

9 1/2 Weeks (1998)

Two strangers, Wall Street trader John (Mickey Rourke) and art gallery assistant Elizabeth (Kim Basinger), become involved in a new relationship. What begins as a courtship, though, becomes extremely sexual, as John begins to push for more daring and kinky ...

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The film starred Malcolm McDowell as gang leader Alex, with an early appearance by Warren Clarke as the brainless, ox-like 'Dim'. Burgess's novel was written in 'Nadsat', a teenage street-argot of the future. Based on Slav, Nadsat also conatins elements ...

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

1988 comedy farce about a group of four people who team up to commit a diamond robbery but end up double-crossing each other to try and get the jewels for themselves.John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis ...

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Robert Englund stars as nightmare serial killer Freddie Krueger in Wes Craven's 1984 horror movie in which Nancy and the other Elm Street teens (including a young Johnny Depp!) are haunted in their dreams by the badly burnt psychopath with ...

A Passage to India (1984)

Based on the EM Forster book (that I read for A-level English!) this film was confusing unless you'd read it but notable because Sir Alec Guiness was 'blacked up'! Wouldn't get away with it nowadays....  ...

A View To A Kill (1985)

Roger Moore returns as James Bond on a mission to defeat the evil industrialist Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) who intends to destroy Silicon Valley. ...

About Last Night (1986)

About Last Night was such a typical 80s movie. It starred the gorgeous Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, who meet at a bar and begin a relationship. The film is quite steamy, from what I can remember, but also comes ...

Absolute Beginners (1986)

The film that was supposed to bring musicals back into fashion. Actually Absolute Beginners turned into a megaflop - hardly surprising given that Patsy Kensit was one of the leads.Memorable only for the theme song and, if I'm not making ...

Action Jackson (1988)

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Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

The title to this movie says it all! When Chris' boyfriend cancels their "big date" it's babysitting instead so let the ADVENTURES begin!! Very funny movie. ...

Against All Odds (1984)

Against All Odds is a movie about two lovers who meet on a tiny island. The husband, played by James Woods, gets his friend ex-football player played by Jeff Bridges to find his wife played by Rachel Ward. Yes they ...

Airplane (Flying High)

Crazy comedy from the people who later went on to produce the Naked Gun films.Packed full of great and silly jokes - the sort of film you can watch several times and find new jokes each time. ...

Airport '77 (1977)

I remember going to the pictures and seeing this film - the sequel to Airport and loosely based on the 1965 film adaptation of The Flight Of The Phoenix. It had some big names in it including James Stewart and ...

Alien (1979)

"In space no one can hear you scream...". Terrifying sci-fi film starring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley who battles against evil alien parasites on board the deep space mining ship Nostromo. ...

Aliens (1986)

Sigourney Weaver plays Ellen Ripley again in this terrifying sequel to the original Alien. Ripley is sent back to the planet full of Aliens that was colonised after the Aliens had been wiped out.Turns out there are a load of ...

Amadeus (1984)

The story of Mozart as a young man of incomparable musical genius. He was a party guy and a spendthrift, but he worked on composing constantly. In fact, goaded by a rival and guilt generated by his father - ...

American Gigolo (1980)

American Gigolo was the film that made Richard Gere a star, and did even more for the designer Armani, as the scene of Gere laying out his clothes to wear is probably the most memorable thing in the film. ...

American Graffiti (1973)

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An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Ohhhh, man. What memories here! I remember watching this with my best buddy at the time, Chris. We simply sat there on the floor in front of the old floor-console TV, and when the "dream monster-army" started ...

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Ah, every girl's fantasty, to be swept off their feet whilst working in a factory (and looking, frankly, cack) by a guy in a pristine white uniform. fnarrr! Watch those grubby hands... It's got Richard Gere in it, what more do you want? ...

Angel Heart

Angel Heart is a 1987 American neo-noir psychological horror film, an adaption of William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel. The film was written and directed by Alan Parker, and stars Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet and Charlotte Rampling. Harry Angel (Rourke), a New ...

Annie (1982)

Set in the 1930s, Annie is a musical based on the life of red-headed Annie who lives in a miserable orphanage.Somehow she ends up staying for a while in a wonderful mansion and charms the owner into helping her locate ...

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

Clint Eastwood & an Orangutang called Clyde fighting the Black Widows gang. 'Right turn Clyde'! ...

Armed and Dangerous (1986)

I picked up a copy of Armed and Dangerous in a Tokyo Supermarket discount bin! I'm a big John Candy fan so I thought I would add it to my collection. Good guy Candy gets busted out of the cops ...

Arthur (1981)

Arthur (Dudley Moore) is a happy drunk who stands to inherit a vast fortune if he marries Susan but instead Arthur falls in love with a woman with no money.A truly funny comedy with great performances from great actors including ...

Arthur 2 : On The Rocks

Oh dear, this was one of those rotten sequels, when all involved were on the downward spiral. Plot - Arthur gets drunk - loses dosh - gets visited by ghost of dead butler - gets dosh back. Fans of the ...

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Remarkable John Carpenter action thriller about the siege of a decommissioned Los Angeles police station. It received poor box office figures when first released in the US, but has since gone on to become a cult classic.Austin Stoker plays young ...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Possibly one of Mike Myers' best roles in cinematic history ever, "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" gives the viewing public great heaps of good ol' fashioned fun in this one. Myers stars as Austin Powers, a British secret agent from ...

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

"Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me" sees the return of Austin Powers (Mike Meyers) and Dr. Evil (Mike Meyers). This time around we get the voluptuous Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) and find a disturbing end to Elizabeth Hurley's ...

Back To The Future (1985)

Michael J Fox starred as Marty McFly in this cool 80's time travel adventure comedy. Marty's eccentric friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) invents a time machine fitted inside a stainless steel Delorean car.Marty travels 30 years back in time and ...

Back To The Future: Part 3

Michael J Fox concludes the Back to the Future trilogy by travelling back to 1855 to save Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) from being killed by the Tannen clan. Trouble is, whilst Doc has been in 1855, he has fallen in ...

Back To The Future: Part II

Michael J Fox returns in the sequel to the original Back to the Future as Marty McFly. Marty, his girlfriend Jennifer and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel in to the future to help straighten out the future of the McFly ...

Bad Boys (1995)

Bad Boys was a top quality action movie starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The pair are Miami cops on the trail of a drug kingpin and they also have to protect the eye-witness. ...

Bar fly

Barfly is a 1987 American film directed by Barbert Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, and it presents Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski. The screenplay, ...

Basic Instinct (1992)

Basic Instinct was a seductive thriller starring Michael Douglas as Nick Curran, a tough detective, and Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell, a beautiful novelist who is suspected of murdering her boyfriend. A true game of cat and mouse. ...

Batman (1989)

The Movie adaption of one of the most popular super heros of all time.I actually remember watching this in the theater and being afraid that it would suck. The second the credits started rolling we all knew we were in ...

Batteries Not Included (1987)

Feelgood 80's film featuring a group of pensioners who are being forced out of the apartment block they live in so that it can be demolished. The pensioners don't want to leave so the developers try to 'persuade' them using ...

Baxter (1989)

Baxter was a film I watched on TV (although I think it was probably a made -for -TV movie), in the seventies. Baxter was about a boy of about eleven or twelve with emotional/mental scars and problems. Can't remember too ...

Beetlejuice (1988)

Quirky Tim Burton film (aren't they all) starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash and are sent back to their house as ghosts where they try to scare away a yuppie ...

Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982)

Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Charles Durning, Dom Deluise, singing dancing all about a whorehouse run by Dolly Parton, she sang the song 'I will always love you' in it. ...

Betty Blue (1986)

Jean-Jacques Beineix is one of European cinema's best directors. His plots, sub-plots and characters weave together to create visually stunning and compelling movies. Where Hollywood generally concentrates on big budgets, famous names and the 'wow' factor (sparkles and bangs), European ...

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

The first Beverly Hills Cop movie was arguably the best and featured Eddie Murphy adding a comedy layer that is less noticable in the two sequels.Eddie Murphy plays Axel Foley a cop whose friend is killed on a visit to ...

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Beverly Hills Cop II marked the return of the fast-talking, quick-minded Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) as the cop trying to track down the assassins of one of his friends in the police force. We get to see once more the ...

Beverly Hills Madam (1986)

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Big (1988)

If you start researching it you’ll find there are a good few films that employ the ‘body swap’ plot device, but a few are better remembered than the rest. The 1976 Barbara Harris / Jodie Foster vehicle Freaky Friday - ...

Big Business (1988)

What a great film this was! With Lily Tomlin and Bet Midler - two of the funniest ladies of the 1980's. Can't believe it's not remembered more.It was obviously, an American film and was very funny - both Lily and ...

Big Man on Campus (1989)

Big Man on Campus, alias the 'Hunchback Hairball of LA' was about a hunchback that stays in the bell tower of a school campus. Big Man on Campus was an hysterical comedy and one of the funniest movies ever. It's ...