89% (3)  Repulsion  105 min,  Not Rated,  [Drama, Horror, Thriller]  [Roman Polanski]  [03 Oct 1965]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 78%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   Metacritic: 91%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors:  Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux
Writer:  Roman Polanski (original screenplay), Gérard Brach (original screenplay), David Stone (adaptation)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  UK
Plot:  In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word "sensitive" to describe Carol's overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything. When she does speak up, it generally is about something against one of those few issues on which she obsesses, such as Helen's boyfriend Michael's invasion of her space at the apartment. That specific issue may be more about men in general than just Michael's actions, as witnessed by Carol being agitated by hearing Helen and Michael's lovemaking, and she not being able to rebuff the advances effectively of a male suitor, Colin, who is infatuated with her. One of those other obsessive issues is noticing cracks and always wanting to fix them. While Helen and Michael leave on a vacation to Pisa, Italy, Carol chooses largely to lock herself in the apartment, ditching work. There, she is almost hypnotized by her solitude, which leads to her mental state deteriorating as those obsessions come to the fore. She quickly descends into madness, which ultimately also affects those that are trying to get in touch with her.
Rotten Tomatoes:   When Carol, a shy young Belgian, is left alone for a few days in the Kensington flat she shares with her sister, she begins to withdraw into a reclusive existence where innocuous everyday realities are distorted by deep-seated anxieties. On screen throughout the film, Deneuve gives a wondrously subtle performance as the increasingly catatonic girl, but equally expressive of her terrifying inner torment are the sometimes surreal but never over-emphatic visual and aural effects created by Polanski to accompany her wanderings around the empty apartment or the bustling streets of South Kensington.
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85% (3)  The Passenger  126 min,  PG-13,  [Drama, Thriller]  [Michelangelo Antonioni]  [09 Apr 1975]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 76%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 91%,   Metacritic: 90%,   External Reviews
Awards:  5 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors:  Ian Hendry, Jack Nicholson, Jenny Runacre, Maria Schneider
Writer:  Mark Peploe (original story), Mark Peploe (screenplay), Enrico Sannia (screenplay), Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Spanish, German, French    Country:  Italy, Spain, France
Plot:  A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. When the journalist notices that they have a similar appearance, he assumes the recently deceased's identity and accepts the consequences that it brings.
Rotten Tomatoes:   The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead man, Locke, long desirous of starting life over again, assumes the corpse's identity. He soon discovers that the man he's pretending to be is involved in gun running on behalf of a terrorist group. Making the acquaintance of a mysterious woman (Maria Schneider), he finds a kindred spirit -- a woman as "lost" as he. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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82% (2)  Theater of Blood  104 min,  R,  [Comedy, Drama, Horror]  [Douglas Hickox]  [05 Apr 1973]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 72%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 93%,   External Reviews
Awards:  2 nominations.
Actors:  Diana Rigg, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Vincent Price
Writer:  Anthony Greville-Bell (screenplay), Stanley Mann (idea), John Kohn (idea)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  UK
Plot:  Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A Shakespearean actor becomes enraged after losing a prominent acting award and decides to seek revenge on the critics responsible, and he does so using the works of the Bard as a guide, basing his killings on violent scenes from Shakespearean plays.
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81% (2)  Get Carter  112 min,  R,  [Crime, Thriller]  [Mike Hodges]  [18 Mar 1971]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 75%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 87%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Britt Ekland, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Michael Caine
Writer:  Mike Hodges (screenplay), Ted Lewis (novel)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  UK
Plot:  A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This action film stars Michael Caine as a powerful British gangster out for blood. His brother has been murdered in Newcastle, prompting Caine to declare a war on other racketeers. Now that he is a loose cannon, Caine must be eliminated, a job that falls to the his brother's assassin.
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62% (1)  The Internecine Project  89 min,  PG,  [Action, Thriller]  [Ken Hughes]  [24 Jul 1974]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 62%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, James Coburn, Lee Grant
Writer:  Barry Levinson (screenplay), Jonathan Lynn (screenplay), Mort W. Elkind (from "Internecine" by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  UK, West Germany, USA
Plot:  Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.
Rotten Tomatoes:   James Coburn stars as Robert Eliot, an opportunistic entrepreneur destined to become a key Presidential advisor -- if his murky past isn't brought to light first.
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55% (1)  The Southern Star  104 min,  M,  [Adventure, Comedy, Crime]  [Sidney Hayers, Orson Welles]  [28 May 1969]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 55%,   External Reviews
Actors:  George Segal, Ian Hendry, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress
Writer:  David Pursall (screenplay), Jack Seddon (screenplay), Jules Verne (novel)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  UK, France
Plot:  Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this comic adventure, an impoverished Yankee geologist and his cohorts band together with a group of fortune hunters to search for the priceless "Southern Star," an enormous diamond. The geologist finds the diamond, but when his partner and the diamond vanish, the geologist is blamed for the crime.
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31% (1)  The Bitch  89 min,  R,  [Drama, Romance]  [Gerry O'Hara]  [01 Dec 1979]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 31%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Antonio Cantafora, Ian Hendry, Joan Collins, Kenneth Haigh
Writer:  Jackie Collins (novel), Gerry O'Hara
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  UK
Plot:  The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Joan Collins stars as Fontaine Khaled in this sleek and sleazy sequel to her sister Jackie Collins's The Stud. Fontaine is the owner of a high class London nightclub, but after having an extramarital affair, her marriage falls apart and she stands to lose her nightclub. As a result, she hits the jet-set circuit, plying her allure for erotic dividends. She also involves herself in smuggling and in rigged horse races, trying any means necessary to obtain the funding to rescue her beloved nightclub from foreclosure. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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