Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. Read More »
Biography
Malice in Wonderland (1985) Gus Trikonis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Richard Dysart
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper (Jane Alexander) can’t get a break in Hollywood Read More »
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) William Witney, Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Read More »
November Days AKA Novembertage (1991) Marcel Ophüls, Anne Blaurock, Bärbel Bohley, Barbara Brecht-Schall
Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism. Read More »
Knute Rockne All American (1940) Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard, Pat O’Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan
Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. Read More »
Path to War (2002) John Frankenheimer, Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin
A portrayal of the Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) Presidency and its spiralling descent into the Vietnam War. Read More »
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011) Marie Losier, Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P’Orridge, Big Boy Breyer P’Orridge
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist Read More »
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) Mark Robson, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »
My Life So Far (1999) Hugh Hudson, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian Read More »
Santa Fe Trail (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey
The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer Read More »
Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung
The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. Read More »
Karl May (1974) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. Read More »
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo AKA Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981) Uli Edel, Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother Read More »
George Wallace (1997) John Frankenheimer, Richard Yett, Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham
A story about former Alabama governor George Wallace, whose views on racial segregation put him against the US government Read More »
The Bronte Sisters AKA Les soeurs Brontë (1979) André Téchiné, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor Read More »