In 1912 pompous industrialist Arthur Birling, who has hopes of a knighthood, his superior wife Sybil and young son Eric Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
No Love for Johnnie (1961) Ralph Thomas, Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he’s feeling frustrated with his life Read More »
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Read More »
Private’s Progress (1956) John Boulting, Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. Read More »
Bibliothèque Pascal (2010) Szabolcs Hajdu, Orsolya Török-Illyés, Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu
In order to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left in the care of her fortune-telling aunt, Mona must tell a social worker her story. Read More »
Owning Mahowny (2003) Richard Kwietniowski, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Read More »
The Curse of the Swastika (1940) Roy de Groot, Bob Danvers Walker
The Curse of the Swastika, a classic British Pathé documentary from 1940 Read More »
Pennies from Heaven (1978) Piers Haggard, Cheryl Campbell, Bob Hoskins, Gemma Craven
Arthur, a sheet music salesman, has an ear for the hit tunes, but nobody will trust it. Read More »
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Read More »
The Dogs of War (1980) John Irvin, Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely
Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune — a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price. Read More »