Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl’s first day at school Read More »
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) Ennio De Concini, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler’s final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun. Read More »
The Magic Bow (1946) Bernard Knowles, Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent
The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini. Read More »
E venne un uomo (1965) Ermanno Olmi, Rod Steiger, Adolfo Celi, Giorgo Fortunato
Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Read More »
Poets Pub (1949) Frederick Wilson, Derek Bond, Rona Anderson, James Robertson Justice
A struggling young poet in love manages a country inn, and thwarts a kidnapping attempt. Read More »
The Face of Eve (1968) Robert Lynn, Jeremy Summers, Celeste Yarnall, Robert Walker Jr., Herbert Lom
Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Amazon jungle. Read More »
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) Berthold Viertel, Conrad Veidt, René Ray, Frank Cellier
In a London boarding house, a number of lives exist precariously on the edge of disaster or despair. Read More »
The Girl in the News (1940) Carol Reed, Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams
Nurse Anne Graham is controversially – but rightly – acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Read More »
Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992) Stefan Schwartz, Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Catherine Russell
Eight years ago, Gavin artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children’s books. Read More »
Spin a Dark Web (1956) Vernon Sewell, Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson
A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. Read More »
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Arthur Lubin, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Read More »
A Tale of the Wind (1988) Joris Ivens, Henxiang Han, Zhuang Liu
This film travels through fantasy and reality as Joris Ivens goes to China to capture the wind. Read More »
Hotel Sahara (1951) Ken Annakin, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, David Tomlinson
During World War Two, Emad and Yasmin are the proprietors of a desert hotel caught between the various waring sides. Read More »
Never Too Young to Rock (1976) Dennis Abey, Peter Denyer, Freddie Jones, Sheila Steafel
In the late 1970s, rock ‘n’ roll was banned from television. One young man, our hero, led the battle against the TV ban. Read More »
Dangerous Exile (1957) Brian Desmond Hurst, Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell
During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman. Read More »