Set in modern day France, the story of Pierre Brossard who, as a young man, was a Nazi executioner under the Vichy regime. Read More »
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Barnacle Bill (1957) Charles Frend, Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors…but is all too susceptible to seasickness. Read More »
Murder by the Book (1987) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier Read More »
Autumn Crocus (1934) Basil Dean, Ivor Novello, Fay Compton, Muriel Aked
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria. Read More »
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Carol Reed, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »
Carnival (1946) Stanley Haynes, Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway
A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth. Read More »
Sailors Three (1940) Walter Forde, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Carla Lehmann
Three British sailors find they’ve accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. Read More »
49th Parallel (1941) Michael Powell, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George
In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Read More »
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
Throughout the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the people was frequently advised that “A raid happened last night over…, One (or more) Our Aircraft Is Missing”. Read More »
The Scapegoat (1959) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
On a vacation in France from his nondescript job and life, John Barratt encounters a titled but impoverished French nobleman who looks exactly like him. Read More »
The Living and the Dead (2006) Simon Rumley, Leo Bill, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Fahy
A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London Read More »
The Ragman’s Daughter (1972) Harold Becker, Simon Rouse, Victoria Tennant, Patrick O’Connell
A cheese warehouse worker with wife and two kids hates his dull life. Read More »
Coherence (2013) James Ward Byrkit, Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Read More »
Elizabeth I (2005) Helen Mirren, Hugh Dancy, Toby Jones
Emmy-winner Helen Mirren and Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons star in Elizabeth I, a two-part HBO Films miniseries event that explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I (Mirren) in the latter half of her reign Read More »
Seven Nights in Japan (1976) Lewis Gilbert, Michael York, Hidemi Aoki, Charles Gray
The fictional British royal Prince George travels to Japan and falls in love with a local female tour guide named Sumi. Read More »