robert-bucknor's - FAVOURITES List
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Drunks (1995)Alcohòlics
A stellar, ensemble cast, including Oscar winners Dianne Wiest and Faye Dunaway, feature in a sometimes tragic, sometimes funny journey into the lives of a group of recovering alcoholics at an Alcoholics Anonymous clinic in New York. Each of the characters, including an overworked doctor, an HIV positive mother, a divorcee coping with a troubled son and a man who almost killed his son in a drink driving accident has their own story to tell as they battle against their own demons to sustain their faith. - Director:
- Peter Cohn
- Cast:
- Richard Lewis, Liza Harris, Liam Ahern
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An aspiring young painter falls for his patron's niece but forsakes love for ambition when a ghoulish stranger demands her for himself. Adapted from the chilling ghost story by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Schalcken the Painter' weaves a fictional tale of terror around the work of real life seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Godfried Schalcken. - Director:
- Leslie Megahey
- Cast:
- Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Cheryl Kennedy
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Newsmakers (2009)Goryachie novosti
Russia is terrorized by a series of brutal armed robberies. Lethally trained, the gang behind the atrocities are on the run from every law enforcement agency in the country. When they gain the upper hand in a devastating shoot-out with the Moscow police department and make their escape, the young and ambitious head of the police PR department comes up with an unusual solution to a complex problem: the restoration of the force's reputation by turning the capture of the infamous criminals into a live reality show that can be viewed by the entire nation. However, behind the scenes the gang is developing deadly countermeasures, and both sides will inevitably collide in a violent conflict where life and dead is breaking news... - Director:
- Anders Banke
- Cast:
- Olga Shakina, Andrey Merzlikin, Evgeniy Tsyganov
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Catch-22 (1970)Trampa-22
Mike Nichols' superbly directed cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy. 'Catch 22' is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together, they are frightened, nervous, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. 'Catch 22' is an anti-war satire of epic proportions! - Director:
- Mike Nichols
- Cast:
- Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
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My Cousin Vinny (1992)Mi primo Vinny
In this must-see comedy hit, two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a lawyer friend in the family -Vincent Gambini (Joe Pesci), a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has never been in court - or in Alabama. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to handle his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South! - Director:
- Jonathan Lynn
- Cast:
- Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio
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After radio and TV success with 'The Goon Show' and 'Beyond the Fringe', comic Peter Sellers found big screen fame, notably as Inspector Clouseau in the 'Pink Panther' series. This compilation collects together memorable movie clips from 'Return of the Pink Panther', 'What's New Pussycat?', 'Heavens Above' and 'Revenge of the Pink Panther'. - Director:
- Blake Edwards
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- Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell
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Nuclear war - a nightmare that may become grim reality for the world in this riveting thriller. When a fanatical group opposed to friendly U.S./Soviet relations explodes a nuclear missile over a Russian city, it begins a chain reaction of accusations and actions that begin the groundwork for WWIII. As the clock ticks toward total nuclear annihilation, the American President and the Soviet President race toward a solution, fighting within their own camps as well as with each other. Two Air Force pilots involved romantically as well as professionally, Cassidy and Moreau , are ordered to take their B-52 bomber into the air and await further instruction from the president. But when it is reported that a bomb has killed the President, pilots Cassidy and Moreau are ordered to perform the "grand tour", the systematic bombing of the bunkers of all Russian leaders. Can these two follow through on a command that will mark the beginning of the end? - Director:
- Jack Sholder
- Cast:
- Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones
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There'll be a hot time in the old South tonight, as an 1840s plantation owner Warren Maxwell (James Mason) delights in buying and breeding slaves: men to fight as bare-knuckle boxers and women to service him and his son Hammond (Perry King) sexually. The sordid goings-on reach a fever pitch when the son falls for a female slave Ellen (Brenda Sykes) while his wife Blanche (Susan George) is drawn to a newly purchased fighter Mede (Ken Norton). - Director:
- Richard Fleischer
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- James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
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This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes of footage cut from the film's original release, plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), the bold gladiator slave and Varinia (Jean Simmons), the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Roman Empire at its glorious height. - Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
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- Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
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Animal (1977)L'animal / Stuntwoman
A movie about good-for-nothing stuntman Mike Gaucher (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée (Raquel Welch) wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak, and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari (also Jean-Paul Belmondo). Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike. - Director:
- Claude Zidi
- Cast:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval
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With the imminent arrival of the Queen, Britannia Hospital couldn't be any less prepared. With striking workers only allowing patients near to death into the hospital, the kitchen staff refusing to prepare food until union leaders are bought off with promises of O.B.E. 's, and the head surgeon conducting, with public funds, expensive, deranged experiments, like inventing a modern Dr. Frankenstein - there is nothing short of anarchy! With Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) hot on their heels as the undercover investigative TV reporter catching all this bedlam on film, this energetic black comedy is a very bleak insight into the wrongs of modern Westernised culture. - Director:
- Lindsay Anderson
- Cast:
- Leonard Rossiter, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt
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Without a Clue (1988)Genie und Schnauze
With deerstalker cap perched smartly on his head, and Inverness cape hanging smoothly from his frame, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes faces the press with elegant ease. He is about to reveal the clues which eluded Scotland Yard and now enable him to close another baffling case. There is only one small hitch. He is actually Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), a third rate actor with an insatiable thirst, a weakness for women and an aversion to violence. Hired by the real investigative genius Dr. Watson (Ben Kingsley) to impersonate the mythical detective Sherlock Homes, he hasn't got a clue how to solve a crime... - Director:
- Thom Eberhardt
- Cast:
- Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones
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In the savage and deadly world of the gangland king, the man at the top is ruler, only for as long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man, the rewards can be infinite, but so are the dangers. Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is enjoying the height of his powers, and he is on the verge of something that would make his current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day of terror, an Easter Good Friday, he is to see his empire begin to crack and crumble. - Director:
- John MacKenzie
- Cast:
- Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan, Kevin McNally
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Capricorn One (1977)Capricornio Uno
At NASA's Mission Control the first manned space flight manned space flight to Mars is about to blast off. Bit as its three astronauts (James Brolin, O.J Simpson and Sam Waterston) await their historic journey a mysterious man enters the craft and insists they leave. He explains that the spacecraft is dangerously flawed. The mission, however, must be seen to go ahead, otherwise the Government will stop funding the space programme. In a television studio the astronauts are coerced, through threats and bribery, to make broadcasts as if they were on the Red Planet. Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould), a journalist becomes interested in the Mars mission when a technician friend becomes suspicious and sets out to investigate. - Director:
- Peter Hyams
- Cast:
- Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro
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The year is 1929 and dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the 20-year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to combat Italian colonisation and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore". Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as his sixth governor to Libya, confident that the eminently accredited soldier can crush the rebellion and restore the dissipated glories of Imperial Rome. Omar Mukhtar - a teacher by profession, guerilla by obligation, fights against his oppressors and commits himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime. With Omar Mukhtar as their inspirational leader, the Bedouin troops fight on horseback against the tanks and planes of the Italian Army. As the conflict between the two implacable enemies deepen, the Bedouin suffer crippling losses, but still they fight on... - Director:
- Moustapha Akkad
- Cast:
- Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
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