A woman returns up North to her rural fishing village, and re-lives the village’s history through work, war, rebuilding and depopulation. Read More »
History
East – West (1999) Est – Ouest – Régis Wargnier
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. Read More »
A Bridge Too Far (1977) Richard Attenborough
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. Read More »
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns Read More »
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) Mike Newell
Fed up with the the insufferably cruel behavior of Louis XIV (Richard Chamberlain), a group of musketeers Read More »
The Truce (1997) La tregua – Francesco Rosi
This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. Read More »
My Tender Matador (2020) Tengo Miedo Torero
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite Read More »
Lucrezia Borgia (1935) Abel Gance
After the advice of his main adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to try to unify the nation so as to become even stronger. Read More »
Le calde notti di Lady Hamilton (1968)
In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of the English painter George Romney. Read More »
I Killed Rasputin (1967) J’ai tué Raspoutine
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia’s Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. Read More »