1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
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Time Bandits (1981) Terry Gilliam, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese
Intrigued by history but neglected by his parents, Kevin, an eleven-year-old schoolboy Read More »
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) Michael Crichton, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down
Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train’s safe in Victorian England. Read More »
Hitler: A Film from Germany AKA Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich Read More »
Providence (1977) Alain Resnais, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. Read More »
21 Days (1940) Basil Dean, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover’s blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Read More »
Too Hot to Handle (1960) Terence Young, Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm
In London’s Soho, Johnny Solo runs the Pink Flamingo Club. He’s tough to intimidate. Read More »
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) Alan Gibson, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles
In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. Read More »
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) Jeremy Summers, Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Tsai Chin
In his remote Asian hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival Read More »
Machuca (2004) Andrés Wood, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Read More »