A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. Read More »
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Savage Messiah (1972) Ken Russell, Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren
Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony). Read More »
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Read More »
Cal (1984) Pat O’Connor, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella Read More »
Age of Consent (1969) Michael Powell, James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. Read More »
Miss Julie (1972) John Glenister, Robin Phillips, Helen Mirren, Donal McCann, Heather Canning, Drama
A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg’s classic play. Miss Julie (Helen Mirren), a 19th century aristocrat’s daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father’s house. Read More »
Caligula (1979) Tinto Brass, Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole, Helen Mirren, Drama, History, Erotic
The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign – he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end.
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Coming Through (1985) Peter Barber-Fleming, Kenneth Branagh, Helen Mirren, Alison Steadman, Drama, Romance
Celebrated actors Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this film by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth century – D. H. Lawrence’s passionate relationship with Frieda Weekley.
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) Piers Haggard, Richard Quine, Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Comedy
Fu Manchu’s 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu’s age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap the king and queen and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage to stand-in for the queen. Fu nabs the “fake” queen; Rage becomes enamored of Fu and aids him in his quest for the George V diamond.
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