All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »
Biography
My Life So Far (1999) Hugh Hudson, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian Read More »
Santa Fe Trail (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey
The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer Read More »
Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung
The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. Read More »
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo AKA Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981) Uli Edel, Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother Read More »
George Wallace (1997) John Frankenheimer, Richard Yett, Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham
A story about former Alabama governor George Wallace, whose views on racial segregation put him against the US government Read More »
The Bronte Sisters AKA Les soeurs Brontë (1979) André Téchiné, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor Read More »
I, Claudius (1976) Herbert Wise, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips
This mini-series follows the history of the Roman Empire, from approximately the death of Marcellus (24/23 B.C.) Read More »
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AKA Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Julian Schnabel, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »