Jacqueline Bisset
Predominantly cast for her looks alone, Jacqueline Bisset is also a fantastic actress. It is often assumed that she must be French, but Bisset was actually born and raised in England. Originally a model, she became famous in 1967 after starring in Casin
Filmography Highlights
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Domino
2005- Rated:
- 15
Based on a true story (well, sort of), Tony Scott's highly stylised action thriller follows the life and times of model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey, played by Keira Knightley
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The Sleepy Time Gal
2000- Rated:
- TBC
A middle-aged woman dying of cancer tries to come to terms with the main regret of her life: giving up her daughter for adoption. Can mother and daughter find solace in each other, or find each other at all?
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New Year's Day
2000- Rated:
- TBC
Engaging Britflick written by Ralph Brown (aka Danny the dealer in Withnail And I) dealing with teen angst, mourning and gloriously over the top hijinks
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Wild Orchid
1990- Rated:
- TBC
Smutty thriller in the style made popular by Esterhasz and the Playboy Channel, in which Rourke's sleazy millionaire exercises a Svengali-like power over women, by sheer force of his puffy little eye
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989- Rated:
- TBC
More camp and corny fun at the expense of the rich and would-be rich, denizens of the Hills and all that surrounds them. Bartel's continued claim to attention on the strength of a couple of cult come
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High Season
1987- Rated:
- 15
An elderly art expert saves a beautiful woman in a life-crisis come spy-thriller on a sunny Greek island
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Under the Volcano
1984- Rated:
- TBC
A novel that is so strange and hallucinatory that it's often hard to tell exactly what's supposed to be happening, is literalized by Huston into hard, brassy explicitness. The result is intense, but
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Inchon
1982- Rated:
- TBC
A stinker of a war flick from Young, responsible for one of the best James Bond films (Dr No), and one of the least (Thunderball). Financed by the Unification Church, it is an incoherent, directionle
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Rich and Famous
1981- Rated:
- 18
Based on Old Acquaintance, Cukor's last film is a disappointingly muddled affair starring Bisset and Bergen as the old, very different friends who go through thick and thin together. Bisset is the hi
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When Time Ran Out
1980- Rated:
- PG
A Pacific island is the setting for a natural catastrophe when an active volcano threatens to blow its top. Irwin Allen's unmitigated disaster of a disaster movie has been dubbed 'When the ideas ran
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Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978- Rated:
- TBC
An easily digestible comedy-mystery with Segal as the owner of a chain of fast-food outlets whose romantic pursuits are dogged by the periodic appearance of dead bodies. While he trails his ex-wife,
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Deep, The
1977- Rated:
- A
For a while in the 1970s Peter Benchley, son of Robert, could do no wrong, and this adaptation of his best-selling novel was another blockbuster, although not quite of Jaws-proportions. Shaw does a v
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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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Nuit Amercaine, La
1973- Rated:
- TBC
Also known as Day for Night, Francois Truffaut's celebration of the elaborate, inspiring, frustrating and funny chaos that is film-making won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. La Nuit
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Day for Night
1973- Rated:
- PG
During the filming of a melodrama called Meet Pamela, the juvenile lead, Léaud asks, 'Are films more important than life?' Truffaut answers in the affirmative with this exuberant celebration of
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Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The
1972- Rated:
- 15
A western that grows on you, not least because of Newman's quirky and charm-laden performance. He's an out-and-out scoundrel in the Old West who ironically sets himself up as a judge to tackle lawles
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The Mephisto Waltz
1971- Rated:
- TBC
This complicated and utterly preposterous film might just have worked as a devil-in-the-family kind of horror movie. But Maddow, who once showed talent (The Asphalt Jungle), provided the highly errat
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Airport
1970- Rated:
- PG
Classic 1970s disaster movie about peril in the sky, on the ground and all points in between. With Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin
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Bullitt
1968- Rated:
- AA
The star power of Steve McQueen lends this gritty, San Francisco cop movie iconic status
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Cape Town Affair, The
1967- Rated:
- TBC
In 1953, when Sam Fuller directed Pickup on South Street, America was in the midst of the 'Red Scare'. In a way, in 1967, apartheid South Africa was just as paranoid about communists as this lame, an
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