June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Little Sweetheart (1988) Anthony Simmons, John Hurt, Karen Young, Cassie Barasch
Having embezzled a small fortune and attempting to lay low, Robert Burger (Sir John Hurt) Read More »
The Epic That Never Was (1965) Bill Duncalf, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Graves, Josef von Sternberg
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of “I, Claudius”, starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage. Read More »
The Age of Stupid (2009) Franny Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, Alvin DuVernay
The film contrasts a bleak future that we are heading towards Read More »
Subway in the Sky (1959) Muriel Box, Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven
A military doctor in Berlin is falsely accused of illegal dealing in drugs. Read More »
Walking and Talking (1996) Nicole Holofcener, Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Amy Braverman
Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment Read More »
Freedom Fields (2018) Naziha Arebi
An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team Read More »
Assault (1971) Sidney Hayers, Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones
After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods Read More »
Piccadilly Third Stop (1960) Wolf Rilla, Terence Morgan, Yôko Tani, John Crawford
A Playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife’s expensive tastes Read More »
Never Let Go (1960) John Guillermin, Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure. Read More »