In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Brothers in Law (1957) Roy Boulting, Henry B. Longhurst, Edith Sharpe, Ian Carmichael
Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm. Read More »
In Which We Serve (1942) Noël Coward, David Lean, John Mills, Bernard Miles
In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Read More »
Traitor’s Gate AKA Das Verrätertor (1964) Freddie Francis, Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Read More »
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) Anthony Pelissier, Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling
A T.V. set given as a retiremant present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. One of the Ealing comedies. Read More »
Eye of the Needle (1981) Richard Marquand, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
A German spy carrying information that will reveal the target of Operation Overlord Read More »
Priest of Love (1981) Christopher Miles, Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Graham Faulkner
Following the banning and burning of his novel, “The Rainbow”, D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. Read More »
A Soldiers Daughter Never Cries (1998) James Ivory, Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Read More »
Reach for the Sky (1956) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 Read More »
The Witches (1990) Nicolas Roeg, Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. Read More »
Tender Is the Night (1985) Robert Knights, Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, Sean Young
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920’s are slowly drawn Read More »
Taxandria (1994) Raoul Servais, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt
A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Read More »
Murder Most Foul (1964) George Pollock, Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell
Although the evidence appears to be overwhelming in the strangulation murder of a blackmailer Read More »
Dandy Dust (1998) A. Hans Scheirl, Suzie Krüger, Leonora Rogers-Wright
Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. Read More »
Omnibus – Made in Ealing (1986) Alan Yentob, Richard Attenborough, Jill Balcon, Michael Balcon
A BBC Omnibus special documentary about Ealing Studios Read More »