The film follows a series of striptease acts performed for an imaginary audience in a seedy club. Read More »
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Alfie (1966) Lewis Gilbert, Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
For Alfie, the only real life is sex life; only then can he kid himself he is living. Read More »
The Sacrifice / Offret (1986) Andrei Tarkovsky, Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall
Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried Read More »
Secret People (1952) Thorold Dickinson, Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Charles Goldner
In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London Read More »
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) Charles Jarrott, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. Read More »
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1985) Giles Foster, Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart
In 19th-century England, a misanthropic weaver named Silas Marner hoards his gold. Read More »
The Supergrass (1985) Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress Read More »
Ratcatcher (1999) Lynne Ramsay, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight Read More »
Orders Are Orders (1954) David Paltenghi, Brian Reece, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley
Movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using an Army barracks as location, and its soldiers as actors. Read More »
Churchill and the Generals (1979) Alan Gibson, Timothy West, Eric Porter, Arthur Hill
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill Read More »