The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937) Marcel Varnel, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Comedy
Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Read More »
Homo faber / Voyager (1991) Volker Schlöndorff, Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Drama, Romance, Art-house
Having recently survived a plane crash, American engineer Walter Faber (Sam Shepard) decides to forgo flying and cross the Atlantic Ocean via ship. Read More »
Dutchman (1967) Anthony Harvey, Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman, Drama
A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech Read More »
Fires Were Started (1943) Humphrey Jennings, Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Drama, War
A new man joins the civilian firefighters at a London unit during the Second World War. Read More »
Tmavomodrý svet / Dark Blue World (2001) Jan Sverák, Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, War, Drama, Action
March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. Read More »
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Read More »
Run a Crooked Mile (1969) Gene Levitt, Louis Jourdan, Mary Tyler Moore, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Drama
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there’s no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Read More »
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Comedy
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. Read More »
The Duke Wore Jeans (1958) Gerald Thomas, Tommy Steele, June Laverick, Michael Medwin, Comedy
In anticipation of Elvis Presley’s Kissin’ Cousins, British rock-and-roll idol Tommy Steele plays a dual role in The Duke Wore Jeans. Read More »