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Mrs. Dalloway (1997) Marleen Gorris, Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen
London, summer 1923. Clarissa, MP Richard Dalloway’s wife, sets out on a beautiful morning Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby
1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
A Town Like Alice (1956) Jack Lee, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. Read More »
Night Was Our Friend (1951) Michael Anderson, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough, Ronald Howard
Martin’s plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. Read More »
Waterfront (1950) Michael Anderson, Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott
A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. Read More »
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) John Gilling, Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley
Bandit of Zhobe is what actor Hans Conried once described as a “western in burnoose.” Read More »
Desperate Characters (1971) Frank D. Gilroy, Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are set in their ways. And unsettled in their hearts. Read More »
Hamlet (1990) Franco Zeffirelli, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates
Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet’s uncle Claudius, the new King. Read More »
Spitfire (1942) Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John
By the late 1920’s aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants Read More »
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) Anthony Kimmins, John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character Read More »
Innocent Meeting (1959) Godfrey Grayson, Sean Lynch, Beth Rogan, Raymond Huntley
A teenager on probation is falsely accused of robbery. A young girl, knowing the truth Read More »
Warning to Wantons (1949) Donald B. Wilson, Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon, David Tomlinson
Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother Read More »
Creation (2009) Jon Amiel, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly
What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter Read More »