7.3

A Bug's Life

1997, USA

• Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind, David Hyde Pierce, Joe Ranft, Denis Leary, Jonathan Harris, Madeline Kahn, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McShane, John Ratzenberger, Brad Garrett, Roddy McDowall, Edie McClurg, Alex Rocco, David Ossman, Carlos Alazraqui, David L. Lander, Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Kimberly J. Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Anthony Burch, Jennifer Darling, Rachel Davey, Debi Derryberry, Paul Eiding
• Genre: Family, Animation, Comedy, Adventure
• Director(s): John Lasseter
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Every year, a bunch of grasshoppers come to the anthill and eat what the ants have gathered for them. The "offering", as the ants call the ritual, is a part of their fate. One day in spring, when the offering's preparation has just been finished, Flik, unliked inventor ant, accidentally drops the whole offered seeds into the river. The grasshoppers come and give the ants a second chance to collect food until fall. Flik sets off to find bugs that are willing to fight the grasshoppers (nobody expects him to succeed anyway) and, due to a double misinterpretation, returns with a circus crew, giving everybody new hope. When the misunderstanding finally gets cleared out, there is only little time left for a new plan, which has to work, or else...

  5.4

Fright Night Part 2

1988, USA

• Actors: Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen, Jon Gries, Russell Clark, Brian Thompson, Merritt Butrick, Ernie Sabella, Matt Landers, Josh Richman, Karen Anders, Rochelle Ashana, Blair Tefkin, Alexander Folk, Scanlon Gail, Grant Owens, John Lafayette, Gary Allen, Brad Kepnick, Neith Hunter, Ed Quinlan, Jennifer Joan Taylor, Jill Augustine, Gar Campbell, Ed Corbett, Robert Jenkins, David Efron, Bob Bergen, Dinah Cancer
• Genre: Horror, Comedy
• Director(s): Tommy Lee Wallace
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Three years after killing the vampire in the original, Charlie has started to believe it was all his imagination and starts to forget that vampires truly exist - until four strangers lead by Regina, a noted actress, arrives at Peter Vincent's house and starts to have an unhealthy interest in Charlie, Peter and Charlie's new girlfriend Alex. It becomes clear that Regina is Jerry's (the vampire in the original film) sister and she is determined to get revenge on the friends and plans to turn Charlie into a vampire - so that he can face his punishment for all eternity.

  6.9

Fright Night

1984, USA

• Actors: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall, Stephen Geoffreys, Jonathan Stark, Dorothy Fielding, Art Evans, Stewart Stern, Nick Savage, Ernie Holmes, Heidi Sorenson, Irina Irvine, Bob Corff, Pamela Brown, Chris Hendrie, Prince Hughes, Lene Hefner, Joy Michelle Moore
• Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Tom Holland
• Available languages:
  • English English.

For young Charlie Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charlie with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charlie's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money...

  6.8

Evil Under the Sun

1982, UK

• Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay, James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, Emily Hone, John Alderson, Paul Antrim, Cyril Conway, Barbara Hicks, Richard Vernon, Robert Dorning, Dimitri Andreas
• Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Guy Hamilton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is...

  6.5

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

1974, USA

• Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey, Eugene Daniels, Lynn Borden, Janear Hines, Elizabeth James, Adrianne Herman, T.J. Castronova, James W. Gavin, Al Rossi, Ben Niems, George Westcott, Tom O'Neill, Edna MacAfee, Don Coughlin, Sonny Dukes, Beau Gentry, Robert Hirschfeld, Bill Catching, Jody Carlson, Tom Howard Jr., Craig Kelly, Larry Luttrell, Gary McLarty, Bob Minor, Jerry Summers, Dick Warlock, Ted White
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): John Hough
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mary and Larry are two lovers who, with Larry's ace mechanic, rob a grocery store and flee the police with hopes of making the professional racing circuit. They are chased over hill, over vale by the cops, who deploy everything from a 426 Hemi to a helicopter to stop Larry's Dodge Charger culminating in a memorable ending.

  5.8

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1971, USA

• Actors: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Natalie Trundy, Hari Rhodes, Severn Darden, Lou Wagner, John Randolph, Asa Maynor, H.M. Wynant, David Chow, Buck Kartalian, John Dennis, Paul Comi, Gordon Jump, Dick Spangler, Joyce Haber, Hector Soucy, Ricardo Montalban, James Bacon, Rayford Barnes, William Bryant, Sam Chew Jr., Daniel Keough, Ron Pinkard
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): J. Lee Thompson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Cornelius and Zira's son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. Dogs and cats have been wiped out by a plague and now apes are household pets that are treated like slaves. Caesar has the intelligence to fight this oppression.

  6.7

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971, USA

• Actors: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, Bruce Forsyth, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roy Snart, Ian Weighill, Tessie O'Shea, Arthur Gould-Porter, Ben Wrigley, Reginald Owen, Cyril Delevanti, Rick Traeger, Manfred Lating, John Orchard, Bob Holt, Lennie Weinrib, Dal McKennon, Conrad Bachmann, Eric Brotherson, James Brugman, Patrick Sullivan Burke, Patrick Dennis-Leigh, Anthony Eustrel, Morgan Farley, Ina Gould, Delos Jewkes, Sid Kane
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
• Director(s): Robert Stevenson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.

  8.0

Planet of the Apes

1967, USA

• Actors: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison, Robert Gunner, Lou Wagner, Woodrow Parfrey, Jeff Burton, Buck Kartalian, Norman Burton, Wright King, Paul Lambert, Gene O'Donnell, Army Archerd, James Bacon, Erlynn Mary Botelho, Priscilla Boyd, Eldon Burke, David Chow, Billy Curtis, Frank Delfino, Buddy Douglas, William Graeff Jr., Irvin 'Zabo' Koszewski, Robert Lombardo, Jerry Maren, Cass Martin
• Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.

  7.9

How Green Was My Valley

1940, USA

• Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, John Loder, Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Welsh Singers, Morton Lowry, Arthur Shields, Ann E. Todd, Frederick Worlock, Richard Fraser, Evan S. Evans, James Monks, Rhys Williams, Lionel Pape, Ethel Griffies, Marten Lamont, Dennis Hoey, Una O'Connor, Gertrude Astor, Frank Baker, Ruth Clifford, Minta Durfee, Herbert Evans, Mary Field, Pauline Garon
• Genre: Drama, Family
• Director(s): John Ford
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwyllim and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is. Gwyllim has greater hopes for younger son how to honor his hard working parents. Huw who has his own ideas on how to honor his father. Daughter Angharad is the most beautiful girl in the valley and is very much in love with Mr. Gruffydd who isn't sure he can provide her the life she deserves. Times are hard and good men find themselves out of work and exploited by unseen mine owners.

  6.9

Convict 99

1938, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne, Basil Radford, Dennis Wyndham, Wilfred Walter, Alf Goddard, Garry Marsh, Graham Soutten, Teddy Brown, Kathleen Harrison, Roy Emerton, Bertha Belmore, Clifford Buckton, Noel Dainton, Roddy McDowall, Basil McGrail, George Merritt, Bernard Miles, Charles Paton, Leonard Sharp, Harry Terry
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.