7.7

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

2008, Australia, USA

• Actors: Phillip Adams, Glory Annen, Christine Amor, Victoria Anoux, Briony Behets, Steve Bisley, Jamie Blanks, Graeme Blundell, Russell Boyd, Richard Brennan, Tom Burstall, Dan Burstall, Robin Copping, Barry Crocker, Lynette Curran, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cassandra Delaney, Everett De Roche, Ross Dimsey, David Eggby, Bob Ellis, Alan Finney, Richard Franklin, Belinda Giblin, Rebecca Gilling, Antony I. Ginnane, Deborah Gray, David Hannay, Gregory Harrison, Rod Hay
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Mark Hartley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story of "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema showed an explosion of sex, violence, horror and action. Includes anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine love of Australian movies. It moves through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s - claiming it's an unjustly forgotten cinematic era of boobs, pubes, tubes... and even a little kung fu.

  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...

  6.8

Heaven Can Wait

1977, USA

• Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Vincent Gardenia, Joseph Maher, Hamilton Camp, Arthur Malet, Stephanie Faracy, Jeannie Linero, Harry D.K. Wong, George J. Manos, Larry Block, Frank Campanella, Bill Sorrells, Dick Enberg, Dolph Sweet, R.G. Armstrong, Ed Peck, John Randolph, Richard O'Brien, Joseph F. Makel, Will Hare, Lee Weaver, Roger Bowen, Keene Curtis, William Larsen
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
• Director(s): Warren Beatty
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

  7.0

The Boys from Brazil

1977, UK, USA

• Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner, John Rubinstein, Anne Meara, Jeremy Black, Bruno Ganz, Walter Gotell, David Hurst, Wolfgang Preiss, Michael Gough, Joachim Hansen, Sky Dumont, Carl Duering, Linda Hayden, Richard Marner, Georg Marischka, Günter Meisner, Prunella Scales, Raul Faustino Saldanha, Jürgen Andersen, Mervyn Nelson, David Brandon, Monica Gearson
• Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the U.S. in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery.

  7.5

Cross of Iron

1977, UK, West Germany

• Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz, Dieter Schidor, Burkhard Driest, Fred Stillkrauth, Michael Nowka, Véronique Vendell, Arthur Brauss, Senta Berger, Igor Galo, Sweeney MacArthur, Ivica Pajer, Nedim Prohic, Robert Rietty, Slavko Stimac, Vladan Zivkovic
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1943, in the Russian front, the decorated leader Rolf Steiner is promoted to Sergeant after another successful mission. Meanwhile the upper-class and arrogant Prussian Captain Hauptmann Stransky is assigned as the new commander of his squad. After a bloody battle of Steiner's squad against the Russian troops led by the brave Lieutenant Meyer that dies in the combat, the coward Stransky claims that he led his squad against the Russian and requests to be awarded with the Iron of Cross to satisfy his personal ambition together with his aristocratic family. Stransky gives the names of Steiner and of the homosexual Lieutenant Triebig as witnesses of his accomplishment, but Steiner, who has problems with the chain of command in the army and with the arrogance of Stransky, refuses to participate in the fraud. When Colonel Brandt gives the order to leave the position in the front, Stransky does not retransmit the order to Steiner's squad, and they are left alone surrounded by the enemy and having to fight to survive.

  6.9

The Blue Max

1966, UK

• Actors: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler, Anton Diffring, Harry Towb, Peter Woodthorpe, Derek Newark, Derren Nesbitt, Loni von Friedl, Friedrich von Ledebur, Carl Schell, Hugo Schuster, Alex Scott, Roger Ostime, Ray Browne, Timothy Parkes, Ian Kingsley, Warren Crosby
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Action
• Director(s): John Guillermin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero even though his wife also finds him useful as a love object. In the end the General arranges for him to test-fly an untried fighter.

  8.6

North by Northwest

1958, USA

• Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein, Les Tremayne, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Edward Binns, Ken Lynch, Stanley Adams, Andy Albin, Anne Anderson, Ernest Anderson, Malcolm Atterbury, Tol Avery, Baynes Barron, John Beradino, Sara Berner, Stephen Bolster, Taggart Casey, Bill Catching, Bob Coe, Walter Coy
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde.

  7.5

Bigger Than Life

1955, USA

• Actors: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stephens, Kipp Hamilton, Dee Aaker, David Bedell, Harold Bostwick, Virginia Carroll, Mary Carver, Betty Caulfield, Lewis Charles, George Chester, Richard Collier, Fred Dale, Nan Dolan, Alex Frazer, Bill Jones, Colin Kenny, Thomas Martin, Portland Mason, Natalie Masters, Jerry Mathers, Mary McAdoo, Renny McEvoy, Joseph Mell
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Nicholas Ray
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou, and their son, Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the "miracle" cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets, causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings.

  7.2

20000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954, USA

• Actors: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia, Carleton Young, J.M. Kerrigan, Percy Helton, Ted Cooper, John Daheim, Jack Gargan, Harper Goff, Fred Graham, Harry Harvey, Dayton Lummis, Eddie Marr, Laurie Mitchell, T. Monaghan, Ron Nyman, Gloria Pall, Jack Pennick, Jack Stoney, S. Tarnell, Herb Vigran
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Richard Fleischer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler, Ned Land, join an US expedition which attempts to unravel the mystery.

  7.0

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

1951, UK

• Actors: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabré, Marius Goring, John Laurie, Pamela Mason, Patricia Raine, Margarita D'Alvarez, La Pillina, Abraham Sofaer, Francisco Igual, Guillermo Beltrán, Lilli Molnar, Phoebe Hodgson, Gabriel Carmona, Antonio Martín, Lolita Allergria, John Carew, Helen Cleverley, Pepe de la Isla, Christiana Forbes, Eddie Leslie, Ricardo Valle, Gerald Welsh
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Albert Lewin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted by Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him...

  7.0

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951, USA

• Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll, George Macready, Richard Boone, Eduard Franz, Desmond Young, Philip Ahlm, John Alderson, Jack Baston, Roland Carpenter, Mary Carroll, Steve Carruthers, Paul Cavanagh, Pat Coleman, Robert Coote, Eric Corrie, Ashley Cowan, Lawrence Cregar, Charles Davis, Jack Deery, Don De Leo, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Elmore, John Epper, Charles Evans, Ray Flynn
• Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Henry Hathaway
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This biopic follows Rommel's career after the Afrika Korps, including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler, and his subsequent suicide.