Filmography Highlights
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006- Rated:
- TBC
Long delayed DVD release of the much-loved sequel as its original director always intended... or as close as he could manage
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Superman II
1980- Rated:
- PG
Episodic but fun installment of the franchise, with the Man of Steel having to contend with the threat of three fellow Kryptonians as well as that devious Lex Luthor
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Tess
1979- Rated:
- PG
Fine but slightly un-British feeling adaptation of Hardy's novel from Roman Polanski. Natassja Kinski stars as the ill-fated country girl
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First Great Train Robbery, The
1979- Rated:
- AA
Crichton's adaptation of his own novel is only sporadically successful. Connery and Sutherland are the pair of 19th-century crooks determined to relieve a train of its precious gold cargo. While the
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Superman The Movie
1978- Rated:
- PG
America's first and finest superhero strives to save the world from the dastardly plans of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor
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A Bridge Too Far
1977- Rated:
- 15
Innumerable stars from Britain, the US and beyond gather for this Second World War epic. Directed by Richard Attenborough and scripted by William Goldman
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Royal Flash
1975- Rated:
- A
Fraser's tales of Harry Flashman, a 19th-century British naval officer who always manages to come out on top despite being a bit of a rogue and a lot of a coward, formed a series of much loved comic
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Lucky Lady
1975- Rated:
- TBC
An offbeat offering from 'Singin' in the Rain' man Donen which bombed at the box-office and was the subject of much critical scorn. It has its good points but remains more of a curio than anything el
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Return of the Pink Panther
1974- Rated:
- U
Star Peter Sellers and writer-director Blake Edwards are reunited for another tale of crime and incompetence in the hugely successful series
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Murder On The Orient Express
1974- Rated:
- PG
Albert Finney is Hercule Poirot in this highly entertaining whodunit. Played with a nod and a wink, the big-name cast includes John Gielgud, Sean Connery, and an Oscar-winning Ingrid Bergman
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The Abdication
1974- Rated:
- TBC
Pauline Kael once remarked that Ullmann's dutiful recreation of Queen Christina was 'like a hausfrau who's too conscientious to give good parties'. Well, Ullmann has never set the screen alight in En
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Zardoz
1973- Rated:
- TBC
Sean Connery stars as the last man capable of an erection in an effete and decadent future. An anti-science dystopian vision that includes that astonishing maxim: "the gun is good, the penis is evil".
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Cabaret
1972- Rated:
- X
A sensitive young Englishman falls into the whirl of pre-War Berlin, and the arms of the equally dizzying Sally Bowles, in this dazzlingly choreographed story of love and Nazi stormtroopers
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Baxter!
1972- Rated:
- TBC
Jeffries returns to the themes and ideas he had explored so successfully in The Railway Children - kids growing up, dealing with change and confronting emotional dilemmas. Roger Baxter (Jacoby) is a
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
1972- Rated:
- U
A young girl finds herself transported to a world where nothing is quite what it seems. Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic starring Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford and a host of celebs
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Unman, Wittering and Zigo
1971- Rated:
- X
Not so much a whodunnit as a 'did they actually do it?', this posh school chiller is full of intriguing twists and turns
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Three Sisters
1970- Rated:
- U
Olivier directs his own interpretation of Chekhov's play about a trio of siblings who dream of a more exciting life in Moscow. His wife Plowright plays the adulterous eldest and the support cast incl
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Cromwell
1970- Rated:
- PG
Although it's impressive, boasting lavish sets and costumes and a British cast to die for, this biopic of the Protestant leader who caused the downfall of Charles I and ruled the country briefly betw
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Reckoning, The
1969- Rated:
- TBC
Williamson's sexual bull on the rampage was all the rage in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but he couldn't quite extend the characterization into something approximating fully fledged stardom. Here,
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The Magic Christian
1969- Rated:
- A
"Grand is the name, and money is the game. Care to play?" Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr discover the establishment has its price in this satire from Terry Southern
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Assassination Bureau, The
1969- Rated:
- TBC
Rigg is a British journalist who infiltrates a secret society of assassins and ends up falling for its leader, played with relish by Reed. Dearden and the cast appear to be having a splendid time, sw
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968- Rated:
- U
We know what the year 2001 looks like now, and it doesn't look much like Kubrick's vision. But 2001: A Space Odyssey itself still looks immaculate. Spectacular, trailblazing and philosophical
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Half a Sixpence
1967- Rated:
- U
This shallow musical was based on an H G Wells story and stars Steele, once touted as Britain's answer to Elvis only to turn family-entertainment man. He plays the witless Arthur Kipps, an orphan wor
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You Must Be Joking
1965- Rated:
- U
For a while in the mid-1960s it seemed as though Winner might develop into a director with a light touch. No such luck. The association with bankable stars and vigilante movies obliterates pleasant f
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Becket
1964- Rated:
- PG
Archibishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket falls out with former friend Henry II. Period drama starring Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole
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