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Tag Archives: UK
Murder! (1930) Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she is condemned. Read More »
Poor Cow (1967) Ken Loach, Terence Stamp, Carol White, John Bindon, Drama
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Read More »
Sleuth (1972) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, Mystery, Thriller
Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew’s wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony Read More »
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) Richard Loncraine, Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright, Drama, Thriller
Brimstone and Treacle is a modern gothic tale about the evil that men do and the price that must be paid to make things right. Read More »
Defence of the Realm (1986) David Drury, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Thriller
A reporter Mullen ‘stumbles’ on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
The Limbo Line (1968) Samuel Gallu, Craig Stevens, Kate O’Mara, Eugene Deckers, Crime, Drama
Defectors are being sent back behind the iron curtain. Can the limbo line be stopped? Read More »
Paris by Night (1988) David Hare, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Iain Glen, Drama, Thriller
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career – but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter. Read More »
Clean (2004) Olivier Assayas, Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Drama, Music, Romance
London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. Read More »