Nine personalities from various walks of life are hauled into some post-war Utopia, but just how many are prepared to live inside? Read More »
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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Robert Hamer, Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson
In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist’s assistant Read More »
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Lynne Ramsay, Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
Eva Khatchadourian is trying to piece together her life following the “incident”. Read More »
Bunco Squad (1950) Herbert I. Leeds, Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez
Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section Read More »
The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose
Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor Read More »
Blackout (1985) Douglas Hickox, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery Read More »
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Guy Hamilton, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson
The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple Read More »
Friends and Lovers (1931) Victor Schertzinger, Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier
British Army Captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Read More »
The Cobra Strikes (1948) Charles Reisner, Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser, Leslie Brooks
Hard-boiled reporter Mike Kent investigates the murder of a prominent scientist Read More »
Husbands and Lovers AKA La villa del venerdì (1991) Mauro Bolognini, Julian Sands, Joanna Pacula, Tchéky Karyo
Young cinematographer Stefano and his wife Alina, who cannot have children, sincerely love each other Read More »
Mona Lisa (1986) Neil Jordan, Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine
After getting out of prison, George (Bob Hoskins) looks for a job, but his time Read More »
Ghosted (2009) Monika Treut, Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting Ting Hu
A mysterious love story between Hamburg and Taipeh. The unsolved murder of her young Taiwanese lover Read More »
The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Charles Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Margot Kidder
After years of living alone, an eccentric black and white couple Read More »
The Girl (1987) Arne Mattsson, Franco Nero, Bernice Stegers, Clare Powney
Pat Carlsson is a 14-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who though very young is very streetwise Read More »
The Second Face (1950) Jack Bernhard, Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital Read More »