Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Small Voice (1948) Fergus McDonell, Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
The British writer Murray Byrne and his wife Eleanor stop to help two men Read More »
Shiner (2000) John Irvin, Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber
Billy Simpson is a shady boxing promoter in South London banned from legitimate fights. Read More »
The History of Mr. Polly (1949) Anthony Pelissier, John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Betty Ann Davies
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father Read More »
Mamma Gógó (2010) Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Gunnar Eyjólfsson
Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. Read More »
The Gelignite Gang (1956) Francis Searle, Terence Fisher, Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne, James Kenney
Insurance investigator Jimmy Baxter searches for a gang of jewel robbers. Read More »
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) Carol Reed, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers Read More »
Wittgenstein (1993) Derek Jarman, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born Read More »
To Dorothy a Son (1954) Muriel Box, Shelley Winters, John Gregson, Peggy Cummins
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband Read More »
Return to Sender (2004) Bille August, Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, Kelly Preston
Charlotte Cory is a young woman convict on Death Row who has built up a friendship with Frank Nitzche through mail correspondence Read More »
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, John Schlesinger
Based on Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful Read More »
29 Acacia Avenue (1945) Henry Cass, Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Jimmy Hanley
A middle-aged British couple are scheduled to go off on a holiday cruise in the Mediterranean. Read More »
The Dawning (1988) Robert Knights, Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jean Simmons
An I.R.A. gunman (Sir Anthony Hopkins) on the run from the government. Read More »
The Lad (1935) Henry Edwards, Gordon Harker, Betty Stockfeld, Gerald Barry
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed, by various parties, to be investigating their indiscretions. Read More »
The Feast of the Goat AKA La fiesta del Chivo (2005) Luis Llosa, Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman
Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this is the story of Urania Cabral Read More »