Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Science fiction horror film Aliens invade Earth by replacing every single human with an exact replica that lacks all emotions. Director: Philip Kaufman Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Murder by Death (1976)
Film Noir Satire / Comedy.
The greatest Detectives from all over the World are summoned to solve a yet to happen murder… and one of them is the killer.
Director: Robert Moore
Cast: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers
Les Maîtres du temps (Masters of Time) (1982)
French Sci-Fi Jaffar’s best Friend died on an a strange alien Planet called Perdide. He leaves behind his little son Piel. So Jaffar sets course to Perdide to rescue the young boy. But the journey is not without peril. Directed by René Laloux Voice Cast (French): Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros
Little Big Man (1970)
Western Comdey/Drama Jack Crabb tells the story how he has been raised by Native Americans and about the Battle of Little big Horn. Director: Arthur Penn Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George
Medusa Touch (1978)
Mystery Thriller.
During the cold war a French Policeman investigates a murder in the centre of London. Paranormal things are seemingly going on.
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Lino Ventura, Richard Burton, Lee Remick…
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Comedy
A European City is under siege by the Turks. A small theater company tries to keep the moral of the citizens up by performing a play about the great Baron Munchhausen. All works well until the real Munchhausen appears and interrupts the play.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Drama – 2 FBI Agents investigate the disappearance of 3 civil rights workers. The movie portrays the racism at the time in the south of the United States.
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Dark Star (1974)
Sci-Fi Parody.
The ship Dark Star is on its 20 year mission of discovering and blowing up new planets. The moral on board the ship is at an all time low as suddenly one of the bombs malfunctions. Only one thing can save them now: Philosophy.
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Dystopian SciFi.
In the near future Books have been outlawed because they support free thinking. The firewatch has lost its former purpose and is now only there to get rid of books and the ones that read them.
Director: François TruffautCast:
Oskar Werner
Julie Christie
Cyril Cusack
Hitch hiker’s guide to the Galaxy
UK 1981.
TV adoption of the Book series. Technically a 6 part series, but in the last weeks the 2005 “movie” is brought up a lot and it doesn’t even compare to the original. Arthur Dent has a rough day after his planet is destroyed by the Vogon Fleet.
Simon Jones as Arthur Dent
Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect
Susan Sheridan as Trillian
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Crime Movie.
Thunderbolt teams up with past partners in crime to do one last job. One Major problem remains that they all can’t stand each other.
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy
The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Comedy. Sequel to The Mouse That Roared (1959)
At the peak of the Cold War both USA and USSR are racing for the first the moon landing. But when a small unimportant Country in the centre of Europe comes close to beating the 2 super nations, the real race begins.
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins
Angel Heart (1987)
Neo-noir psychological horror film
A private Detective is tasked to find a once famous Singer that now has disappeared. But soon enough strange things start happening where ever he goes and it is revealed that the singer was part of a Satanist cult.
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
12 Monkeys (1995)
Post Apocalypse / Time Travel Movie.
Criminal James Cole is send back in time to find the source of the virus that wiped out most of humanity.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
Chinatown (1974)
Neo-noir mystery film. A private detective is hired to surveil a woman’s husband. But once he is found dead, things get complicated. Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Comedy.
A Professor and his Apprentice are trying to find evidence that vampires really exist. But things don’t go as easy as planned.
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965)
Comedy.
To prove to the World that Great Britain is still the leading power in the world a Lord calls for an air race from London to Paris.
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Gert Fröbe
Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
WW2 Comedy.
The 35th Infantry Division decides to no longer fight for Freedom, Democracy or the homeland. Instead they fight for the only thing that matters in live: Gold.
Director: Brain G. Hutton
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland
The Ladykillers (1955)
Gangster-Comedy.
A group of criminals move into the house of an old lady from where they plan to rob a money transport. After the job is done, they only need to dispose of the woman. Easier said then done.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Katie Johnson, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers.
The Great Race (1965)
Comedy.
The Great Leslie constantly beats Professor Fate to fame and glory. Professor Fate tries to finally beat him in a car race around the world! … by cheating of course.
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk
Time Bandits (1981)
Comedy
The life of a young boy changes forever once a band of dwarfs take him with them on their big Heist through time!
Cast: Craig Warnock, John Cleese, Sean Connery, David Rappaport, Jack Purvis
The Ice Pirates (1984)
SciFi Comedy.
In the future all Planets that contained Water have been destroyed during the last war. A religious sect is controlling the last water reserves in the Galaxy. Only a few Pirates dare to oppose the regime.
Director: Stewart Raffill
Cast: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts
The Con Artists (1976)
Comedy Italy.
A Crime syndicate frees a man from prison… the wrong man as it turns out. So he has to get back in and rescue the real one.
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Adriano Celentano, Anthony Quinn, Corinne Cléry
Genghis Cohen (1994)
Comedy about an Ex-Nazi SS-officer that is haunted by a Jew he killed in Auschwitz.
Part of Series “Screen Two”.
Cast: Robert Lindsay, Anthony Sher, Daniel Craig
Burn! / Queimada! (1969)
Drama/Political Film about an English Agent that organizes a slave revolt on a Spanish island.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Valeria Ferran Wanani
Water (1985)
Comedy.
The last remaining Caribbean Colony of the British Empire comes into focus of the worlds view as an oiling company finds valuable mineral Water on the Island.
Director: Dick Clement
Cast: Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Billy Connolly
Bound for Glory (1976)
Based on the life of songwriter Woody Guthrie, this film showcases the living conditions during the great depression in the 1930s.
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
Papillon (1973)
Drama based on a true story. A man gets falsely accused of a murder and deported to the devils Island. All he wants is to escaped.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Zerbe
Brazil (1985)
Dystopian SciFi. Sam lory works in the Archive of the Ministry of Information retrieval. He has to deal with bureaucracy, an unfair system and terrorists while trying not to lose his sense of reality. Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Comedy about WW2.
After the death of Mussolini the town’s drunkard becomes Major. Now he has to deal with invading Germans that want to steal Santa Vittoria’s most valuable treasure: Wine.
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Hardy Krüger, Virna Lisi
Charade (1963)
Thriller/Comedy.
After her husband died, Reggie has to realize that she didn’t really know anything about him. Certainly not that he stole gold during the WW2 together with his comrades… who want it back now.
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Coburn
Charlie Muffin (1979)
Thriller.
Charlie Muffin is an underpaid British Secret Agent that needs to deal with a Russian turncoat.
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: David Hemmings, Shane Rimmer, Sam Wanamaker
