Derek Winnert

The 1963 British crime thriller film The Switch stars Zena Marshall as a woman abducted by a wrist watch smuggling gang who believe she knows too much. It is the last film of Susan Shaw, who died alone and broke in Soho. tinyurl.com/y6kvdkem

The 1941 British wartime thriller film Tower of Terror stars Wilfrid Lawson, Movita, and Michael Rennie. tinyurl.com/285hb532

The 1959 American war film Battle of the Coral Sea stars Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala, and Patricia Cutts, and tells the story of ‘the most decisive battle in naval history’. tinyurl.com/2czkuapx

English aristocrats Sir Rodney Ffing (Sidney James) and Lord Darcy Pue (Jim Dale) join the French Revolution, in the 1967 British Carry On comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head. tinyurl.com/yxkljt88

MGM’s 1930 romantic drama film Romance casts Greta Garbo in her little-known second talkie as 1860s Italian opera singer Rita Cavallini, courted by a young American priest (Gavin Gordon). tinyurl.com/y9cssryz

The 1985 coming-of-age film That Was Then, This Is Now is based on the 1971 young adult novel by S E Hinton, and stars Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, and Kim Delaney. tinyurl.com/2726zhmb

Francisco Celhay stars as a 35-year-old architect who leaves his perfect life to find himself, in the admirable 2015 Chilean drama film In the Grayscale. tinyurl.com/27bmgasl

The pleasurable 1957 British crime mystery thriller film That Woman Opposite is based on John Dickson Carr’s novel The Emperor’s Snuff-Box, and stars Phyllis Kirk, Dan O’Herlihy, Jack Watling, William Franklyn, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Petula Clark. tinyurl.com/282b2yl6

The suspenseful 1950 film noir Union Station stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olson. A villain (Lyle Bettger) abducts a blind teenage girl (Allene Roberts) for the ransom, but a tough police lieutenant (William Holden) has other ideas. tinyurl.com/2ydmbosw

The 2000 Australian horror thriller Cut is written by Dave Warner, and stars Kylie Minogue, Molly Ringwald, Geoff Revell, and Frank Roberts tinyurl.com/259u7shj

Ivan Passer’s involving and gripping 1981 film version of Newton Thornburg’s novel Cutter and Bone is always fascinating, with lovely performances from ideally cast Jeff Bridges and John Heard in their prime. tinyurl.com/y56cp5b9

The suspenseful 1969 chiller Eye of the Cat stars Michael Sarrazin as a young cat hater who teams up with a beauty-parlour girl (Gayle Hunnicutt) to bump off his rich aunt cat lady (Eleanor Parker) to inherit her money. tinyurl.com/y2z5jrfj

Mitchell Leisen’s delightful hit 1935 romantic comedy film Hands Across the Table stars Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, who fizzle like firecrackers. tinyurl.com/y5bdfbjv

Dustin Hoffman sizzles as controversial, self-destructive Jewish club stand up comedian Lenny Bruce, in the 1974 biopic Lenny, brilliantly directed by Bob Fosse. It is Valerie Perrine’s finest hour as Bruce’s stripper wife Honey. tinyurl.com/y6fadtlj

RIP Valerie Perrine.

The ambitious, costly, awesome-looking and entertaining 1978 first film in the original four-part Superman saga stars Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando and Valerie Perrine. tinyurl.com/y6mmqfzs

Gus Van Sant’s hilarious 1986 debut film Mala Noche stars Tim Strecter as a gay shop clerk, who falls head-over-heels for a teenaged illegal Mexican migrant worker (Doug Cooeyate). tinyurl.com/to63xhf

Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully as a woman who marries a murderous man, in the twisty and stylish 1952 cat-and-mouse film noir thriller Sudden Fear. tinyurl.com/y7sqsalj

Carole Lombard, Preston Foster and Cesar Romero star in the frothy 1936 American romantic comedy film Love Before Breakfast. tinyurl.com/y48nzkez

Director Claude Chamis’s 2018 The Wanderings of Ivan is a dreamy and poetic French film starring Aram Arakelyan as a young Russian immigrant navigating homelessness and human relationships in Paris. tinyurl.com/2bmupr7p