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Androcles and the Lion (1952) Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young
Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion’s teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Read More »
Double Exposure (1954) John Gilling, John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh
A lady photographer clicks a few revealing pix at the home of a wealthy woman. Read More »
Treasure Island (1986) Raúl Ruiz, Vic Tayback, Martin Landau, Anna Karina
Raúl Ruiz’s fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel. Read More »
A Severed Head (1971) Dick Clement, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm
The wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow Read More »
Porridge (1979) Dick Clement, Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay
This prison comedy is based on the popular British television series of the same name. Read More »
Doss House (1933) John Baxter, Frank Cellier, Arnold Bell, Herbert Franklyn
An escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses Read More »
The Mudlark (1950) Jean Negulesco, Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray
In 1875 London, young Wheeler (who lives by scavenging) finds a cameo of Queen Victoria Read More »
The Cold Room (1984) James Dearden, George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk
Seventeen-year-old Carla arrives in East Berlin to spend the summer with her estrange historian father, Hugh. Read More »
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) Ralph Smart, John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Patrick Holt
When a local cycle club, invite a couple of new members to join them, little do the club realise Read More »
Adam Bede (1992) Giles Foster, Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker
In rural England in 1799, emotions run high when two men, one rich and one poor Read More »
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) Robert Day, Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, Betta St. John
Tarzan must escort his prisoner Coy Banton out of the jungle to the authorities. Read More »
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined Read More »
Vote for Huggett (1949) Ken Annakin, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river Read More »
A King in New York (1957) Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York – almost broke. Read More »