Action
The enduring popularity of the action movie has drenched the genre in cliche yet glorious invention abounds around the globe - fighting is the international language. Fashionable styles of film-making come and go but action movies just change their shoes and remain centre-stage.
Great glittering galaxies of genre from across the Alice universe have been gleaned to assemble a suitably kick-ass selection of ballistic ballet and poetic pugilism to scintillate the delicate senses of our discerning clientele. Are you ready to rumble? Are you feeling lucky, Sir/Madame? Our suggestions for a hearty evening of action are listed below.
Pictured: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang springs into action. Sean Connery as agent 007 in "Diamonds are Forever" (1971).
The Great Silence (1968)
7.8/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Widely considered to be among the best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made, this bleak, brilliant, violent, snowbound, politically charged 's... Read more
The Great Silence (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Widely considered to be among the best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made, this bleak, brilliant, violent, snowbound, politically charged 's... Read more
Bullitt ( Blu-ray ) (1968)
7.5/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simo...
Steve McQueen stars in this classic action movie about Frank Bullitt, a San Francisco detective who has become hardened to crime. He is assigned by an... Read more
Hang 'em High (1968)
7/10
Director: Ted Post
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle
After his "Dollars" trilogy made him an international star, Clint Eastwood returned to America to portray a cattleman who is falsely accused of murder... Read more
The Green Berets (1968)
5.7/10
Director: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Starring: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray
This Vietnam action picture presents WWII-type heroics of the American Special Forces. The now infamous ending has the sun setting in the East. Read more
Anzio (1968)
6/10
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Earl Holliman, Robert Ryan, Arthur Kennedy
AKA 'The Battle for Anzio'. This blazing actioner about the Allied assault on Italy in WWII features spectacular battle footage and an all-star cast i... Read more
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Brian G Hutton
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to t... Read more
Bullitt (1968)
7.5/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Steve McQueen, Simon Oakland, Robert Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Norman Fell, Jacquel...
The quintessential Steve McQueen role has him as the system-bucking cop Frank Bullitt going after the killers of a government witness. Highlighted by... Read more
The Way West (1967)
6.2/10
Director: Andrew V McLaglen
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Jack Elam, Stubby Kaye, Harry Car...
In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership. Read more
You Only Live Twice ( Blu-ray ) (1967)
6.9/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Akiko Wakabayashi, Donald Pleasence, Sean Connery
The talented novelist Roald Dahl adapted the Ian Fleming original in this expansive and colourful James Bond entry. Sean Connery is the British spy wo... Read more