Filmography Highlights
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Ghost Story
1981- Rated:
- 18
A disastrous attempt to bring to the screen Peter Straub's monumental literary horror novel, the tale of four aging friends (Astaire, Houseman, Douglas and Fairbanks Jr) who find the sins of their yo
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Seduction of Joe Tynan, The
1979- Rated:
- TBC
Joe Tynan (Alda) is the aspiring politician with his heart set on the top job. Compromising his ideals on the way, and wearing an autopilot smile on his face, he charms the public but increasingly al
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Changeling, The
1979- Rated:
- TBC
Effective tale of tragedy, haunting and stolen lives starring George C Scott that is both eerie and moving
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Being There
1979- Rated:
- AA
An Oscar-nominated Peter Sellers shines in his penultimate film. A simple gardener gets mistaken for a guru and finds himself imparting wisdom to the American nation
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977- Rated:
- 15
What did Lancaster think he was doing when, in Aldrich's atomic-age thriller, he took the part of a former general who turns the missiles against the liars and cheats on Capitol Hill? Would his back
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Le Locataire
1976- Rated:
- 18
Roman Polanski directs and stars in this eerie urban psychodrama. A quiet bachelor moves into a Parisian apartment after the suicide of its previous tenant, and slowly loses his mind
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The Candidate
1972- Rated:
- PG
Robert Redford stars in this razor-sharp, Oscar-winning political satire. An idealistic young lawyer runs for the US Senate but swiftly comes up against corruption, media manipulation, cynicism and spin
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I Never Sang for My Father
1970- Rated:
- TBC
An emotionally intense and powerful drama looking at family relationships, based on a play by Robert Anderson. Hackman is a son faced with a moral dilemma. He has the chance to leave the family home
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Americanization of Emily, The
1964- Rated:
- X
This should have been Andrews' passport out of wholesome good-girl roles but, given the huge success of The Sound of Music it wsas never going to be easy to escape. A cowardly Second World War marine
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Hud
1963- Rated:
- A
Paul Newman is hard-man anti-hero Hud in an Oscar-winning cowboy film with plenty of cultural resonance. Set in 60s Texas, Hud swindles, boozes and fornicates his way to the top as the old ways clash with the new
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Woman's Secret, A
1949- Rated:
- TBC
An early gem from Ray, who would undoubtedly go on to greater things, but who, at the very least, shows promise here. Told in flashback, it's the story that leads to the death of singer Susan (Graham
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Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948- Rated:
- U
Jim Blandings (Grant), an advertising executive, and wife Muriel (Loy) are fed up with New York, especially its high prices and their cramped apartment. Next stop paradise, also known as Connecticut,
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Sea of Grass, The
1947- Rated:
- TBC
Tracy plays a 19th-century New Mexico cattle tycoon, obsessed with the grasslands of his family estate, and Hepburn the strong-willed, sensitive young woman who marries him. Kazan had only made one p
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They All Kissed the Bride
1942- Rated:
- TBC
Ball-busting haulage boss Joan Crawford and investigative journalist Melvyn Douglas clash heads and hearts in this romantic comedy from director Alexander Hall
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Woman's Face, A
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Crawford gives one of her best performances in this remake of a similarly titled 1938 Swedish effort (itself based on the play 'Il Etait une Fois'), as a petty criminal whose behaviour is largely inf
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Two-Faced Woman
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Cukor rehashes his pet theme of feminine masquerade as Garbo pretends to be her imaginary twin in order to test husband Douglas's fidelity. It's a standard plot and, despite the combined talents of c
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That Uncertain Feeling
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Barking mad Lubitsch comedy - based on a Sardou farce - which mixes Freudian analysis and fairly weak situations to fitful comic effect. Oberon and Douglas are the Bakers, a couple who appear to be a
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Ninotchka
1939- Rated:
- A
'Garbo laughs'. If that isn't enough of an attraction for a modern audience, how about a wonderful script by Wilder and Bracket
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Captains Courageous
1937- Rated:
- U
Bartholomew is the spoilt son of a businessman, who falls off an ocean liner when one of his pranks goes wrong. Tracy is the Portuguese fisherman who rescues him, but the rest of the crew on his boat
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Angel
1937- Rated:
- 12
Frustrated wife Marlene Dietrich takes a solo holiday and picks up more than a tan in this 1937 romantic comedy
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Theodora Goes Wild
1936- Rated:
- TBC
Starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas, Richard Boleslawsk'’s screwball comedy despatches a repressed small-town author to let it all hang out in glamorous New York
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She Married Her Boss
1935- Rated:
- TBC
Superbly crafted screwball comedy starring Claudette Colbert as a romantically inclined secretary trying to persuade boss Melvyn Douglas that their new marriage is more than just another business partnership.
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As You Desire Me
1932- Rated:
- TBC
Greta Garbo is the enigmatic (what else?) Budapest bar entertainer whose life is turned upside down when she is recognised by a customer as his best friend's wife, missing since the First World War i
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