Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Alice in Wonderland (1966) Jonathan Miller, Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Drama, Family, Fantasy
There have been numerous film adaptations of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, over the years. Read More »
Hell is a City (1960) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Crime, Thriller
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Read More »
The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, Biography, Drama
Dr. Frederic Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in a sideshow. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (2011) Andrea Arnold, Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Drama, Romance
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
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The Stud (1978) Quentin Masters, Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Drama, Romance
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. Read More »
Absolution (1978) Anthony Page, Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher’s pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. Read More »
The Lady Vanishes (1979) Anthony Page, Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
On a train traveling through pre-WW II Germany, American heiress Amanda Kelly befriends a Miss Froy, an older nanny. Read More »
The Magic Toyshop (1987) David Wheatley, Caroline Milmoe, Tom Bell, Kilian McKenna, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Read More »
Intent to Kill (1958) Jack Cardiff, Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom, Crime, Drama, Thriller
As British Dr. Bob McLaurin prepares for a dangerous surgical procedure on South American leader Juan Menda in Montreal, the doctor’s wife reveals her plan to blackmail McLaurin if he refuses her demand to take a job in England. Read More »
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) Nagisa Ôshima, David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Drama, War
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. Read More »
Home at Seven (1952) Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered. Read More »
Train of Events (1949) Sidney Cole, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Drama
A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. Read More »
The Intruder (1953) Guy Hamilton, Michael Ripper, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Williams, Drama, War
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former trooper from his tank regiment. Read More »
Out of the Shadow / Murder On The Campus (1961) Michael Winner, Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Mystery
When reporter Mark Kingston’s student brother falls from his Cambridge college window, he makes haste from the States to set out to prove that it would not have been suicide, but was rather murder. Read More »