Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War Read More »
History
The Opium War AKA Ya pian zhan zheng (1997) Jin Xie, Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung
Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium Read More »
The Trojan Horse AKA La guerra di Troia (1961) Giorgio Ferroni, Steve Reeves, Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore
In the final year of the 10 year long Trojan War, Ulysses devises his infamous scheme to get into Troy. Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1996) Nicolas Roeg, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Eric Thal
Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living Read More »
Mother AKA Mat (1990) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution. Read More »
The Destruction of Herculaneum AKA Anno 79: La distruzione di Ercolano (1962) Gianfranco Parolini, Susan Paget, Brad Harris, Mara Lane
In 79 AD the Roman city of Herculaneum was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius. Read More »
Taira Clan Saga AKA Shin Heike monogatari (1955) Kenji Mizoguchi, Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating Read More »
Shooting the Past (1999) Stephen Poliakoff, Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Liam Cunningham
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London Read More »
Atlas Against the Czar AKA Maciste alla corte dello zar (1964) Tanio Boccia, Kirk Morris, Massimo Serato, Ombretta Colli
The czar Nicolas sends a secret mission of experts to find a hidden treasure. Read More »
Birth of the Blues (1941) Victor Schertzinger, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. Read More »
Against the Wall (1994) John Frankenheimer, Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Clarence Williams III
Based on the true story of the uprising at Attica Prison in 1971. Read More »
Yours in Sisterhood (2018) Irene Lusztig
What might be revealed in the slippery space of inviting strangers to act out Read More »
Adults in the Room (2019) Costa-Gavras, Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Ulrich Tukur
Provides an extraordinary account of low cunning at the heart of Greece’s 2015 financial bailout. Read More »
Eismayer (2022) David Wagner, Gerhard Liebmann, Luka Dimic, Julia Koschitz
Sergeant Major Eismayer, the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces Read More »
The Nights of Lucretia Borgia AKA Le notti di Lucrezia Borgia (1959) Sergio Grieco, Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas, Arnoldo Foà
Central Italy in the Late Middle Ages. Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family Read More »