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From a Far Country (1981) Krzysztof Zanussi, Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »
The Vicious Circle (1957) Gerald Thomas, John Mills, Derek Farr, Noelle Middleton
When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat Read More »
The Man Who Finally Died (1963) Quentin Lawrence, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Georgina Ward
A mysterious call summons Joe Newman to Bavaria in search of the father he believed dead for 20 years. Read More »
The Sword and the Rose (1953) Ken Annakin, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Read More »
The Europeans (1979) James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe Read More »
The Hamburg Cell (2004) Antonia Bird, Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Read More »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
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 »