Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)



Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

The story depicts an extraterrestrial invasion in a small California town. The invaders replace human beings with duplicates that appear identical on the surface but are devoid of any emotion or individuality. A local doctor uncovers what is happening and tries to stop them.

Directed by: Don Siegel
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
Distributed by : Allied Artists Pictures Corporation


Saturday, June 9, 2012

Blow up (1966)




Blow-Up, is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing.


Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 








Friday, December 23, 2011

The Night of the Hunter (1955)



The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubbs. The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers, hanged in 1932 for the murders of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Directed by: Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Distributed by: United Artists


Muscle Beach Party (1964)




Muscle Beach Party is a 1964 beach party film about Local beach-goers who find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.


Directed by: William Asher

Starring: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello

Distributed by: American International Pictures




Sunday, June 19, 2011

Super Fly (1972)


Super Fly is a 1972 film about a black cocaine dealer called Priest who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.


Directed by: Gordon Parks, Jr.
Starring: Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor
Distributed by: Warner Bros.



Spring Break (1983)

Spring Break is a 1983 comedy film about two sets of two college guys spending a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.

Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
Starring: David Knell, Steve Bassett, Perry Lang
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures





Saturday, June 18, 2011

Bells of Coronado (1950)


Bells of Coronado is a 1950 western which tells the story of Roy who is an insurance investigator looking into the theft of uranium ore. He must prevent the thieves from taking off in a plane with the stolen ore.


Directed by: William Witney
Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady
Distributed by: Republic Pictures 




The Trip (1967)


The Trip is a drama released by American International Pictures shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966. 
Paul Groves takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce from his beautiful but adulterous wife. He starts his trip with a "guide," John but runs away and abandons out of fear.


Directed by: Roger Corman
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Distributed by: American International Pictures




Liquid Sky (1982)

Liquid Sky is a 1982 independant American film.
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model.


Directed by: Slava Tsukerman
Starring: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard
Distributed by: Cinevista, Media Home Entertainment






Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Just One of The Guys (1985)


Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film.
Terry is determined to win a school writing contest to prove that a pretty girl can be capable and intelligent. In order to be taken seriously, she dresses as a boy and tries to blend in at a new school until the contest results are announced.

Directed by: Lisa Gottlieb
Starring: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures





Tuesday, May 24, 2011

More (1969)


More is a 1969 drama film which deals with heroin addiction on the island of Ibiza.  It features a soundtrack written and performed by Pink Floyd, released as the album Soundtrack from the Film More.


Directed by:  Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg
Distributed by: Jet Films


Sunday, May 22, 2011

My Tutor (1983)

My Tutor is a 1983 comedy. The film details high school graduates' attempts to lose their virginity during the summer vacation before leaving to college, and one's eventual relationship with his female French tutor hired by his rich father.


Directed by: George Bowers
Starring: Caren Kaye, Matt Lattanzi
Distributed by: Crown International Pictures


Charade (1963)



Charade is a 1963 American film. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance, and comedy.
Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?


Directed by: Stanley Donen
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn
Distributed by: Universal Pictures




Angel Face (1952)


Angel Face is a 1952 black-and-white film noir. Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Directed by: Otto Preminger
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Distributed by: RKO pictures




St Ives (1976)





St. Ives is a 1976 American action film. Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

Directed by: John Lee Thompson
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jacqueline Bisset, John Houseman
Distributed by: Warner Bros





Saturday, May 21, 2011

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedy film which tells in flashback form the misadventures of a fictional American submarine, the USS Sea Tiger, during the opening days of World War II.

Directed by: Blake Edwards
Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill
Distributed by: Universal International




Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Wild One (1953)

The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film. Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.



Directed by: László Benedek
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures








Friday, May 6, 2011

Fraternity Vacation (1985)

Fraternity Vacation is a 1985 low-budget American sex comedy. On spring break in Palm Springs California, several boys compete for the affections of a sophisticated co-ed.



Directed by: James Frawley
Starring: Stephen Geoffreys,Tim Robbins, Leigh McCloskey, Sheree J. Wilson
Distributed by: New World Pictures










Saturday, April 30, 2011

Pandora and The Flying Dutchman (1951)



Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 British drama film. In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora's friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate.


Directed by: Albert Lewin
Starring: Ava Gardner, James Mason
Distributed by: Romulus Films (UK), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer(US)




Thursday, April 28, 2011

To Sir With Love (1967)


To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school.

Directed by: James Clavell
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Lulu
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures