The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) Terence Fisher, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Horror
In Spain, Leon is born on Christmas day to a mute servant girl who was raped by a beggar. His mother dies giving birth and he is looked after by Don Alfredo. Read More »
The Greatest (1977) Tom Gries, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Biography, Drama, Sport
Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. Read More »
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995) Nick Broomfield, Nina Xining Zuo, Madam Alex, Documentary, Biography
A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Read More »
The Day of the Triffids (2009) Richard Mewis, Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Action, Horror, Sci-fi
It’s an up-to-date setting of the 1962 Sci-fi thriller. With the world blinded and the Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered Read More »
Channel Crossing (1933) Milton Rosmer, Matheson Lang, Constance Cummings, Anthony Bushell, Crime, Drama
Money isn’t everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil. Read More »
They Flew Alone / Wings and the Woman (1942) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Drama
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Read More »
O.H.M.S. / Youre in the Army Now (1937) Raoul Walsh, Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Action, Comedy, Drama
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Read More »
Things to Come (1936) William Cameron Menzies, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Read More »
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) Irving Lerner, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Adventure, Drama
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. Read More »
The Misfit Brigade / Wheels of Terror(1987) Gordon Hessler, Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, D.W. Moffett, Action, Adventure, Drama, War
In 1943, the Nazi Germany is suffering heavy losses at the Eastern Front and an order for all-out retreat is eventually issued. Read More »
The Lion In Winter (1968) Anthony Harvey, Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Biography, Drama, History
Christmas 1183–an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his successor. Read More »
Destroying Angel (1990) Arne Mattsson, Debra Beaumont, Norman Bowler, Fiona Curzon, Comedy
A romantic comedy, entreing around a feuding but very wealthy married couple, who are planning their divorce while relaxing at luxury hotels in Yugoslavia. Read More »
Maurice (1987) James Ivory, James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Drama, Romance
Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced “Morris”) and marries. Read More »
Sweetgrass (2009) Ilisa Barbash, Documentary, Adventure, Western
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. Read More »