robert-bucknor's - FAVOURITES List

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Swinging 1960s London. Laura Quinn (Demi Moore), a bright, driven and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation finds herself frustrated that the progress of her career is being impeded by a glass ceiling, as man after man is promoted ahead of her.

Laura decides to join forces with Hobbs (Michael Caine), the embittered night-time janitor who feels betrayed after a lifetime of service at the company. Together, they plan the perfect crime and set in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen.

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Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep - a godfather of the Albanian mafia - before this formidable criminal is due to stand trial. Killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free him, but Laborie and her men manage to escape.

After a frantic chase, the officers seek refuge, with their prisoner, in a massive warehouse... But they are not alone. Now, three different gangs on the run, find themselves taking refuge in the same warehouse - all armed, all tense and all with itchy trigger fingers!

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Yvan (writer/director Yvan Attal), a young sports writer, is married to Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), one of France's most famous actresses.

They try to live a normal life, but her fame makes it difficult as autograph hunters interrupt their dinners, cops about to serve traffic summonses let them off with a warning and a smile when they recognise her, and impossible-to-get restaurant reservations magically appear when Charlotte makes the calls instead of Yvan. All this threatens and challenges his male ego, but Yvan is able to take her stardom in his stride. Until, that is, a man at a bar asks him if he gets jealous watching his wife make love in the nude to another man on screen. It has never seriously worried him before, but the stranger has sown the first seed of doubt in his head...

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Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

The breakout is set for the day of a morale-raising football match between a 'celebrity' football team and the inmates of Slade. Everything is going to plan until Godber is injured on the goal post. In the ensuing confusion, Fletcher finds himself on the wrong side of the prison walls and must now try and break back into prison.

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Washed-up, fighting bankruptcy and caught in the midst of a desperate struggle to win his daughter back, Van Damme unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dangerous bank robbery led by a gang of armed and violent criminals.

Trapped inside, Van Damme is framed for the robbery and the murder of innocent hostages. Now he must win the approval of the crowd as well as the trust of the police if he is to survive this deadly heist!

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Minder is a British drama series about the exploits of a double dealing grifter and the bodyguard he works with on a regular basis.

The series followed bodyguard/Minder Terry (Dennis Waterman) and his assignments as well as the actions of his friend Arthur (George Cole), an unscrupulous man who will do anything to make a bit of money, be it legal or illegal, he doesn’t care. The series follows the two as they do their respective jobs but each in a very different and unique manner as Terry keeps to the law and Arthur subverts it.

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The legendary partnership of George Cole and Dennis Waterman play Arthur Daley, a man synonymous with dodgy goods and shady deals, and Terry McCann, Arthur's 'Minder' who protects him from small-time crooks, in this hugely successful ITV series.

Drinking in the Winchester Club, driving the Capri and chatting up the ladies, catch up with Arthur and Terry's escapades in this classic series...

On April 10th, 1912, RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton on her maiden voyage. On her fourth night at sea she struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of 1,500 passengers and crew. The film faithfully depicts the drama, heroism and horror of the night the unsinkable sank.

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In 1950's industrial Yorkshire, social climber Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) woos the boss's daughter as he sets out to reach the top of his profession.

But when his working-class background hampers his efforts, Joe seeks solace with the unhappily married Alice (Simone Signoret), an affair that will have dire consequences.

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'The Informers' sees Scotland Yard battle organised crime in this tough 1960s drama, a forerunner to the 1970s TV series 'The Sweeney'.

Following a number of high profile robberies, Superintendent Bestwick (Harry Andrews) decrees that his officers should adopt new scientific police methods and Chief Inspector Johnnoe (Nigel Patrick) is ordered to break contact with his network of snouts. However, when his best informant Jim Ruskin is murdered whilst on the trail of the gang responsible for a number of bank robberies, Johnnoe follows his detective instincts rather than orders. Following up Jim's earlier tip off, Johnnoe encounters two mobsters, Bertie Hoyle (Derren Nesbitt) and his wily cohort Leon Sale (Frank Finlay). When Hoyle's attempt to bribe Johnnoe fails the criminals fit him up with the help of Maisie, a cheap tart. Having been suspended, but released on bail, Johnnoe again ignores orders as he attempts to clear his name. With the help of the Ruskin family he tries to track down the murderers of his informer, solve the robberies and gain revenge on the criminals who framed him.

This terrific suspense movie contains a marvellous series of ingenious plot twists and multiple climaxes, superbly wrought by screenwriter Alistair MacLean, with a super cast headed by Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton.

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Shot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes. Each episode is a separate entity, revealing another riddle crime that quickly and reliably solve Sherlock Holmes.

Have the reputation of an excellent detective Sherlock Holmes (Geoffrey Whitehead) is an apartment in the house on Baker Street. He would like to take a roommate. When winter 1881. Dr. John Watson (Donald Pickering) returns from the war in Afghanistan and is looking for an apartment in London, a friend advised him to Holmes took advantage of the offer. Both men quickly became friends and since Watson accompanied Holmes in his remarkable work, admiring his ability to deduction and clear facts. Full of praise for the insight and perception Holmes is also Inspector Lestrade (Patrick Newell) of Scotland Yard.

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Director Ken Russell's 'Mahler' is a dazzling depiction of Gustav Mahler's tormented life. The blend of history and psychological analysis produces a fascinating study of art and sensuality.

The film takes place on a single train ride, in which the sickly, aged composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife, Alma (Georgina Hale), confront the reasons behind their faltered marriage and dying love. Flashbacks and sequences chronicle his turbulent and dysfunctional family life as a child, his discovery of solace in the 'natural' world, his brother's suicide, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his rocky marriage and the death of his young children. Revel in Mahler's stirring music, the exquisite cinematography and lavish sets.

For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel or get the drop on a gunslinger. It's all safe: the park's lifelike androids are programmed never to harm the customers. But not all droids are getting with the program.

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When young David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative first tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies.

Fortunately, David strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck (Michael Caine), who is escaping from Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When the ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats.