Michael Winner

Michael Winner

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 30 (Director), 8 (Writer)

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    Death Wish
    A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks.
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    Chato\
    After Pardon Chato, a mestizo, killed a US marshal in self-defense, a posse pursues him, but as the white volunteers advance deep in Indian territory they become more hunted then prey, leading to internal strife. They rape Chato's woman, and are hunted down to the last man by the unrelenting warrior. (IMDb)
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    The Mechanic
    An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them. (imdb)
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    The Sentinel
    Not ready for marriage, a fashion model moves into an unbelievably nice Manhattan apartment, where scary occurrences turn into a much more frightening turn of events. (imdb)
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    The Big Sleep
    Set in England, rather than California, the story follows Raymond Chandler's book fairly closely otherwise. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly (and near death) General Sternwood to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters. He soon finds that the attempt is half hearted at best and seems to be more connected with the disappearance of the other daughter's husband, Rusty Regan... (imdb)
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    Scorpio
    Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative... (imdb)
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    Death Wish 3
    Paul Kersey, New York architect and part-time vigilante, comes to LA to visit an old friend. Instead, he must avenge his death by fighting youth gangs. (imdb)
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    Death Wish II
    Paul Kersey, the vigilante, now lives in LA with his daughter, who is still recovering from her attack. He also has a new woman in his life. One day while with them, Kersey is mugged by some punks, Kersey fights back, but they get away. The leader wanting to get back at Kersey, goes to his house, but Kersey was not there, but his daughter is. So they kidnap her and assault her. After they were done, she leaped out of a window to her death. Kersey then grabs his gun and goes after them... (imdb)
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    The Wicked Lady
    Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities. (imdb)
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    Appointment with Death
    Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence... (imdb)
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    Lawman
    While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death... (imdb)
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    You Must Be Joking!
    A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items. (imdb)
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    Firepower
    Adele Tasca is convinced that her late spouse, a chemist, was murdered by a filthy rich, reclusive entrepreneur, Stegner. When she reports her suspicions to the authorities at the U.S. Justice Department, the officials squeeze mobster Sal Hyman to put a contract out on Stegner. Hyman, in turn, persuades retiree gunsmith Jerry Fanon and his assistant Catlett to bring down Steiger once and for all. (Rotten Tomatoes)
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    A Chorus of Disapproval
    A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening behind the scenes: seduction, romance, faction fighting, and the inevitable jealosy. (imdb)
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    The Stone Killer
    Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen but will he discover what is planned before the big day? (imdb)
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    The Nightcomers
    Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care. (imdb)
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    The Jokers
    Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through theft -- in this satiric comedy. David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) is a successful London architect, and his younger brother Michael (Michael Crawford) is weighing his options after being kicked out of school. The brothers share a bemused disgust with the world around them and a desire to get through life without the burden of labor. (ioffer.com)
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    Dirty Weekend
    Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males. (imdb)
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    Bullseye!
    Moore and Caine play dual rolls in this off-beat and highly silly caper - a pair of small time con-men and a partnership of nuclear physicists... (imdb)
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    Hannibal Brooks
    A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom. (imdb)
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    I\
    Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past. (imdb)
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    Parting Shots
    Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life.
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    The System
    In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it's not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games. (imdb)
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    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
    In 1924 Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress, but the dog, that followed her becomes the star. But Hollywood has its own rules of success. (imdb)
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    Girls Girls Girls!
    A look at the world of female modelling in a period before the Beatles and the pill.
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    Scream for Help
    Christie is just your average teenage girl. Well, except for the fact that her stepfather is trying to kill her while her cries for help fall on deaf ears. A cat-and-mouse thriller of wits and wills as she takes matters into her own hands.
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    The Games
    Four marathon runners (one from England, one from the U.S., a Czech and an Australian Aborigine) prepare to run in the Olympic games. The film follows each one and shows what their motivations are for running in the games. (imdb)
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    The Cool Mikado
    In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza (Japanese mafia) fiance who kidnaps him. (allmovie.com)
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    Play It Cool
    A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope. (wikipedia.org)
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    The Square
    The Square (1957) - Short Film
    An old man won’t sell the home he’s always known.
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