Terence Davies’ The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background Read More »
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Lady of Vengeance (1957) Burt Balaban, Dennis O’Keefe, Ann Sears, Anton Diffring
A man hires a killer to avenge an innocent girl’s death. Read More »
Rhinoceros (1974) Tom O’Horgan, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black
Originally an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. Read More »
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967) Peter Whitehead, Alan Aldridge, Julie Christie, David Hockney
Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” Read More »
Fools of Fortune (1990) Pat O’Connor, Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Sean T. McClory
This an intensely moving story of young love set in 1918 rural Ireland. Read More »
Man on the Run (1949) Lawrence Huntington, Joan Hopkins, Derek Farr, Edward Chapman
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. Read More »
Arthur? Arthur! (1969) Samuel Gallu, Shelley Winters, Donald Pleasence, Terry-Thomas
The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life Read More »
Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) Muriel Box, Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird
When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final Read More »
The Servant (1963) Joseph Losey, Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
The aristocratic Tony moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett for all services at home. Read More »
Night Without Stars (1951) Anthony Pelissier, David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. Read More »
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case (1932) Graham Cutts, Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter
A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she’s menaced Read More »
Trust (1990) Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents Read More »
Johnny Frenchman (1945) Charles Frend, Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc
There is always rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fishermen, but the two factions have a routine ebb Read More »
Magicians (2007) Andrew O’Connor, Robert Webb, David Mitchell, Sarah Hadland
A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling Read More »
The Waiters (1969) Jan Darnley-Smith, Benny Hill, David Battley, Arthur Hewlett
Benny Hill scripts and stars in a dialogue-free rendition of a posh dinner party ruined by two boorish waiters. Read More »