Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper Read More »
Romance
Priest of Love (1981) Christopher Miles, Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Graham Faulkner
Following the banning and burning of his novel, “The Rainbow”, D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. Read More »
In the Family (2011) Patrick Wang, Sebastian Banes, Trevor St. John
In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. Read More »
The Day of the Trumpet / Cavalry Command (1958) Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, John Agar, Pancho Magalona, Alicia Vergel
An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Read More »
Botany Bay (1952) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina
In 1787 prisoners from London’s Newgate Gaol are to be shipped to New South Wales. Read More »
Je vous trouve très beau / You Are So Beautiful (2005) Isabelle Mergault, Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu, Wladimir Yordanoff
When farmer Aymé Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow Read More »
Agnes (2016) Johannes Schmid, Odine Johne, Stephan Kampwirth, Sonja Baum
WALTER (41) is planning on writing a book about German entrepreneurs. On a spring day he meets the physics student AGNES (28). Read More »
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
In 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Read More »
El Callejón de los Milagros / Midaq Alley (1995) Jorge Fons, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Maria Rojo, Salma Hayek
Based on the Nobel Prize Winner’s novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. Read More »
Take a Girl Like You (2000) Nick Hurran, Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Robert Daws
The novel opens with Jenny Bunn’s arrival at her lodging-house. Read More »