Douglas Hickox

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition. (imdb)

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Despite the defeat, the Zulus are first humiliated at Roark's Drift and then crushed at the Battle of Ulundi. (imdb)

Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both A price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with. (imdb)

Escaped convicts Oliver Reed and Ian McShane are lying low before they prepare to skip the country. However, Reed can't control his rage at being cheated by his wife whilst he was inside, so he decides to kill her and her secret lover before he goes. This causes all sorts of complications to their escape plans. (imdb)

The dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean disturbs a prehistoric monster than can project electric shocks and radioactive beams. After terrorizing the English coast, it is discovered that if the creature is destroyed with conventional weaponry it would spread a dangerous amount radioactive contamination over the entire country, with this fact preventing the military from attacking the monster as it nears London. (imdb)

Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top lair. (imdb)

This is a cross between _Jagged Edge_ and _The Stepfather_, as Keith Carradine receives plastic surgery after a car accident and winds up looking just like... Keith Carradine. He marries lovely Kathleen Quinlan, much to the dismay of her old flame, Michael Beck. Meanwhile, Richard Widmark spends years searching for a man who had slaughtered his family at the start of the flick; he believes the killer to be Carradine, since he has remembered nothing since the accident. (Kris Gilpin)

Sam Costa, disc jockey, lying in bed operates the first push button hit parade in the history of science. This electronic device provides not only the performers, music, haggis, vitamin and pep pills but also a girl to go with them! (imdb)

Sloane, a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. He is recognized by Kemp (Dadda) as the murderer of Kemp's former employer, whereupon Sloane murders Kemp. Sloane's "just desserts" are not what one would expect. (imdb)

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people (imdb)

It was not unusual in the 1980s for a British TV miniseries to resurface in America in the form of a re-edited feature-length "movie." The Master of Ballantrae, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, offered a unique reversal on this process. Originally telecast in the United States as a three-hour TV film on January 31, 1984, the production subsequently aired on Scottish television as a six-part miniseries, 25 minutes per episode. (imdb)

A musical short film. A young man cycling around the Hampstead (NW3) area of London. After crashing into a billboard he falls in love with a fashion model depicted on it. There is almost no spoken dialogue, and the soundtrack to the film is musical virtually throughout. The title is derivative of the French film, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg; apart from a musical theme there is no other obvious link. (en.wikipedia.org)

Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an art model and attracts the attention of Picassoesque painter Julien Mistral, who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis to save his career, a decision that will come back to haunt him. Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral.

Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton and Gene Kelly star in a 1986 miniseries about a woman's rise in the fashion-magazine industry. (imdb)