amac's - Films List

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When Slade embarked upon their one and only movie in 1974, fans and critics alike were expecting something like a Glam Rock update of The Beatles’ ‘A Hard Days Night’, released a decade earlier.

After all, Slade were the ultimate good time band: irreverent, loud and armed with a terrific set of singalong stompers. Expectations were confounded, however, upon release of the film. Gritty realism, exposing the seedy reality of band life in the late 60s, was the order of the day and Flame is all the better for it. Now rightly lauded as one of the finest rock/pop movies ever made.

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In the late seventies celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola and his cast and crew ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, "Apocalypse Now".

But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film's narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed. Compiled from rare on set footage filmed by Coppola's wife Eleanor and interviews with the cast, "Hearts Of Darkness" is the ultimate feature-length documentary, capturing the explosive events that lead to "Apocalypse Now" becoming an acknowledged classic.

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Here's the real-life, almost animated story of the world's best-known sailor, Popeye (Robin Williams), and Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), his celebrated lady friend.

See all the famous characters - Swee'pea, Bluto, Wimpy and Castor, to name just a few - as we follow Popeye's trail to find his Pappy and the kidnappers of baby Swee'pea. Many adventures ensue, including "Me Big Fight" and a final confrontation wit Bluto, as the search continues for Pappy's Treasure.

A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage.

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Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That's something the school's teenage musicians, actors, dancers and dreamers strive for.

Fame sings the body electric, celebrating the growing-up process of honing talent, confronting realities, finding love, living life.

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Nola (Tracy Camilla Johns) is an independent woman with an independent libido, and she's having a hard time deciding who will satisfy her in bed.

Courted by a trio of distinctive lovers - the possessive romantic, the vain model and the fast-talking bicyclist (brilliantly played by Spike Lee) - she must find the man who inspires both her lust... and her trust.

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"The Boys from Brazil" is a terrifying film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers, based on Ira Levin's thrilling book of the same title. In the setting of 1970's South America, a notorious Nazi War criminal, Dr.

Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a covert project to establish a Fourth Reich. But when famed Nazi-hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) is enlightened to Mengele's bone-chilling scheme - to clone 94 young Hitlers and cause horror on a global scale - he attempts to unravel the conspiracy.

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When married architect Flipper (Wesley Snipes) begins an affair with his secretary Angie (Annabella Sciorra), neither anticipate the turmoil their romance unleashes.

Drawn together by jungle fever sexualised racial myths rather than love the couple struggle to reconcile their emotions with the social expectations that foster division between the black and white communities. Set on the streets of New York City in the early 1990's, Spike Lee's (Do the Right Thing) all-star drama is a typically engaging and provocative examination of interracial relationships in the United States.

In a powerful high-energy tribute to 'The Dirty Dozen", ten soldiers condemned to life-term prison sentences are offered an amnesty if they go behind enemy lines in Vietnam to destroy a top-secret munitions dump.

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In a spellbinding story of ultimate heroism, love, and betrayal - Seven Swords tells the tale of a band of legendary swordsmen drawn together against all odds to protect their village from an evil warlord, hell-bent on the merciless massacre of its innocent people.

Directed by celebrated visionary, Tsui Hark (Swordsman, Once Upon a Time in China trilogy), and starring action hero Donnie Yen (Blade II, Hero), this is a beautiful, stunning and emotive story featuring some of the most outstanding cinematography, Lavish costumes and jaw-dropping action scenes ever committed to film.

Wong Fei-Hung (Jet Li) faces off against the White Lotus Cult, a dangerous xenophobic group seeking to drive all European influence out of China, as well as a conflicted military officer, played by Donnie Yen in his breakthrough role.

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Miracle at St Anna, is a war epic focusing on the famous Buffalo Soldiers - the 92nd Infantry Division consisting of 15,000 American soldiers serving in Italy during the Second World War.

When four soldiers are caught behind enemy lines and separated from their unit, they must soon form an allegiance with the villagers to stand up to the terrifying oncoming Nazi attack...

In Spike Lee's dramatic and explosive treatment, Denzel Washington stars as controversial black activist, Malcolm X. From an early life as a pimp and drug-pusher, he became the leading voice of America's black consciousness, feted by some as a visionary and despised by others as a dangerous radical.

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It's 1948 and Los Angeles is booming, but Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) has seen better days. He has just been fired and his house payments are due, so when DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) offers him a seemingly harmless job he jumps at the chance.

All he has to do is track down the elusive Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), a mysterious beauty known to keep company on the wrong side of town. Soon he finds himself implicated in two murders and is forced to call upon an old friend, Mouse (Don Cheadle), who is all too familiar with the violent world Easy has landed himself in. Slowly drawn deeper and deeper into a web of blackmail, dirty cops and even dirtier politicians, the ways out for Easy become harder and harder to find...

Throughout his life, Sheriff Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) has been cowed and brutalised by his father, a venomous alcoholic. But a child never forgets a cruelty, and two suspicious deaths in their small New Hampshire town lead inexorably to a cataclysmic confrontation between father and son.