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My Life So Far (1999) Hugh Hudson, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian Read More »
Up Jumped a Swagman (1965) Christopher Miles, Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd
A surrealist musical comedy about a hopeful young Australian singer, who on arriving in England gets involved Read More »
White Corridors (1951) Pat Jackson, Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle
The scene is Yeoman’s Hospital, set in the English Midlands, soon after the NHS was founded. Read More »
Whirlpool (1959) Lewis Allen, Juliette Gréco, O.W. Fischer, Muriel Pavlow
On the run from her murderous wartime partner in crime Hermann, Lora hides on a small cargo boat captained by heroic Rolf. Read More »
Windom’s Way (1957) Ronald Neame, Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry
A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Read More »
Woman of Straw (1964) Basil Dearden, Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson
Tyrannical but ailing tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria. Read More »
Pope Joan (1972) Michael Anderson, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Kemp, Natasa Nicolescu
A present-day female evangelist strongly feels that she resembles the legendary Pope Joan Read More »
American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers Read More »
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) Arthur Crabtree, Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow
A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes. Read More »