Released Date:
1966-10-17
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2578 Reviews)
Director:
Silvio NarizzanoMargaret Forster (novel)
Margaret Forster (screenplay)
Peter Nichols
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
Released Date:
1973-02-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (464 Reviews)
Director:
Waris HusseinGenres:
DramaIan Thorne (original screenplay)
On his deathbed Tudor-king Henry VIII remembers his long reign and especially the crucial part his six marriages played in it, without producing the male heir he desired most to prevent civil wars for the succession as England suffered before his father's ascent. His first queen, Spanish princess Kathryn of Aragon, had one fatal flaw: her children died, except daughter Mary, so he pressed Rome for an annulment, and when that failed out went cardinal Wolsey as chief minister and Henry made himself head of the Church of England instead of the papacy and married Anne Boleyn. When she too failed to produce a male heir, just princess Elisabeth, he had her head roll for 'infidelity'. The third queen, gentle Jane Seymour, died giving birth to sickly prince Edward. For diplomatic reasons Henry married minor princess Anne of Cleves, whose utter lack of female charms causes another annulment and the fall of Thomas Cromwell, who recommended her. Fifth is the lovely Catherine Howard, cousin of Anne Boleyn, but again childless and found to have been carnal with servants before and after her royal marriage, so also decapitated. Finally Catherine Parr, a young widow, stands at his deathbed.
Released Date:
1974-02-06
Languages:
English, Italian, Swedish, Latin, German, French, Irish
Countries:
Ireland
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (13576 Reviews)
Director:
John BoormanIn the distant future Earth is divided into two camps, the barely civilized group and the overly civilized one with mental powers. A plague is attacking the second group, after which its members cease to have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic. When Zed, one of the barbarians, crosses over, the tenuous balance in their world is threatened.
Released Date:
1974-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (7314 Reviews)
Director:
Liliana CavaniGenres:
DramaLiliana Cavani (screenplay)
Italo Moscati (screenplay)
Barbara Alberti (screenplay)
Amedeo Pagani (screenplay)
Liliana Cavani (story)
Barbara Alberti (story)
Amedeo Pagani (story)
Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.
Released Date:
1975-08-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3940 Reviews)
Director:
Dick RichardsDavid Zelag Goodman (screenplay)
Raymond Chandler (novel)
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.
Released Date:
1976-10-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (471 Reviews)
Director:
Boris SagalIn this mystery, Holmes pursues his arch-enemy Moriarty to New York, which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Meanwhile, Holmes enjoys a blossoming romance with Charlotte Rampling, who becomes the target of a kidnap by (yes, you've guessed it) Moriarty.
Released Date:
1980-12-01
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Ireland, Italy
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (388 Reviews)
Director:
Yves BoissetGenres:
DramaAnne Dutter (adaptation)
Georges Dutter (French adaptation)
Michel Dèon (novel)
Michel Dèon (screenplay)
With its mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.
Released Date:
1980-09-26
Languages:
English, French, Persian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (15145 Reviews)
Director:
Woody AllenRenowned filmmaker Sandy Bates is in a professional transition, directing largely comedies early in his career now wanting to direct more serious movies so that he can explore the meaning of life, most specifically his own. Most are fighting him all along the way, including the movie going public, who continually tell him that they love his movies especially the earlier funny ones, to studio executives who are trying to insert comic elements wherever possible into his current movie in production. He reluctantly agrees to attend a weekend long film festival of his movies. Despite the throng of requests for his time, he is further able to reflect on his life as he addresses the questions at the post screening Q&A sessions. He also reflects specifically on his love life as his current girlfriend, married Isobel, shows up unexpectedly, and as he starts to fall for festival attendee Daisy - at the festival with her Columbia professor boyfriend, Jack Abel - who reminds him of Dorrie, a neurotic former girlfriend who he probably considers the one that unfortunately got away.
Released Date:
1982-12-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (24114 Reviews)
Director:
Sidney LumetGenres:
DramaBarry Reed (based upon the novel by)
David Mamet (screenplay)
Frank Galvin was once a promising Boston lawyer with a bright future ahead. An incident early in his career in which he was trying to do the right thing led to him being fired from the prestigious law firm with which he was working, almost being disbarred, and his wife leaving him. Continually drowning his sorrows in booze, he is now an ambulance chasing lawyer, preying on the weak and vulnerable, and bending the truth whenever necessary to make what few dollars he has, as he has only had a few cases in the last few years, losing the last four. His only friend in the profession is his now retired ex-partner, Mickey Morrissey, who gets Frank a case, his fee solely a percentage of what his clients are awarded. The case should net Frank tens of thousands of dollars by settling out of court, that money which would at least get him back on his feet. It is a negligence suit brought on behalf of Deborah Ann Kaye by her sister and brother-in-law, Sally and Kevin Doneghy, against St. Catherine Labourè Hospital, operated by the Archdiocese of Boston, and Drs. Towler and Marks. Kaye was admitted to the hospital for what should have been a routine delivery, but something that happened while Kaye was on the operating room table led to her brain being deprived of oxygen, resulting in permanent brain damage, and Kaye now being in a totally vegetative state requiring hospitalization for the rest of her life. Frank eventually learns that the cause seems to be that Dr. Towler, the anesthesiologist and an expert in the field, used the incorrect anesthetic for the situation. However, all but one person that was in the operating room that day has provided depositions that nothing improper occurred in the operating room. The one holdout is the operating room head nurse, Maureen Rooney, who is not talking, period, to Frank or the other side. Upon seeing the state Kaye is in, Frank unilaterally decides to do what he believes is the right thing by declining the lucrative out of court settlement offered by the Archdiocese and take the case to court. In doing so, he hopes the truth that the hospital and the doctors truly were negligent comes to light. Feeling that this case may be a turning point in his life, Frank has a new spring in his step, enough that he attracts the attention of Laura Fischer, the two who begin a relationship. Despite having whatever the truth is on his side, that truth which he does not know, and having an expert witness of his own, Frank has an uphill battle in that the Archdiocese has retained the services of Ed Concannon, a high priced lawyer who has a large team of associates whose task is to help Concannon and the Archdiocese win at any cost. Concannon's task seems even easier as Judge Hoyle, the presiding judge, is already biased against Frank for taking the case to court.
Released Date:
1987-03-06
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
UK, Canada, USA
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
X
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (58765 Reviews)
Director:
Alan ParkerWilliam Hjortsberg (novel)
Alan Parker (screenplay)
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
Released Date:
1997-11-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (8445 Reviews)
Director:
Iain SoftleyHenry James (novel)
Hossein Amini (screenplay)
Kate Croy's mother was born to wealth and privilege, but she threw it all away to marry Kate's father, a penniless opium addict who admits to having stolen from his wife. After her mother's death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the life her mother gave up. There is a condition, however: Kate must sever all of her old ties, not only to her father, but also to her lover, the muck-raking journalist Merton Densher, whom she has promised marriage. Kate reluctantly agrees to this, and in the meantime becomes friendly with "the world's richest orphan," Millie Theale, an American making the Grand Tour. Desperate to see Kate, Merton crashes a party that she and Millie are attending, and Millie is attracted to him. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she comes up with a plan to have her cake and eat it too...but all does not go as planned.
Released Date:
2000-01-12
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Greece, France, Cyprus
Runtime:
141 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (485 Reviews)
Director:
Mihalis KakogiannisGenres:
DramaAnton Chekhov (play)
Mihalis Kakogiannis (screenplay)
Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Released Date:
2000-01-12
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Greece, France, Cyprus
Runtime:
141 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (485 Reviews)
Director:
Mihalis KakogiannisGenres:
DramaAnton Chekhov (play)
Mihalis Kakogiannis (screenplay)
Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Released Date:
1999-05-09
Languages:
English, Greek
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
168 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1363 Reviews)
Director:
Julian JarroldGenres:
DramaCharles Dickens (novel)
Tony Marchant
Young Pip is expected to become a blacksmith, but, hating the soot and smoke, he secretly dreams of becoming a gentleman. When he meets the mysterious Miss Havisham and her haughty niece Estella, Pip is confident that his dream is to come true.
Released Date:
1976-01-08
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (230 Reviews)
Adriano Celentano (screenplay)
Miky Del Prete (screenplay)
Alberto Silvestri (story)
Released Date:
2000-09-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Norway, Sweden
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2468 Reviews)
Director:
Hans Petter MolandGenres:
DramaHans Petter Moland (screenplay)
Kristin Amundsen (screenplay)
Hans Petter Moland (based on an idea by)
Lars Bill Lundholm (based on an idea by)
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years. The impatient Kaisa reluctantly agrees. The story is a ruse: mom is dying and wants her ex and her daughter together again. The trip gets complicated (dad is too drunk to fly and the hot-tempered Kaisa gets them banned from the airline): they go by ferry then car, needing a great deal of help along the way from a sweet lorry driver named Clive. Will they reach Aberdeen before mom's death, and will Kaisa find any stability within herself or in others?
Released Date:
2000-03-29
Languages:
English, Greek
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (484 Reviews)
Director:
Jonathan NossiterGenres:
DramaJames Lasdun (screenplay)
James Lasdun (story)
Jonathan Nossiter
Alec Fenton, an American by adoption and his wife, Marjorie, an American of Greek origin, live with their two children in Athens. Both Alec's business life and his tender relationships with his daughter are guided by a playful but deeply felt need to interpret the smallest details of the world as significant. Under the influence of powerful signs and premonitions, Alec allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with a colleague, Katherine, eventually leaving his family and returning to America with his lover. Once there, however, the same belief system urges him back home for one final attempt to win back his family. But his new quest is endangered by the presence of a political activist, Andreas, in his family's life. Andreas becomes the victim of a series of incidents, each one more threatening than the last.
Released Date:
2001-05-04
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Japan
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (6538 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois OzonFranèois Ozon (scenario and dialogue)
Emmanuèle Bernheim (collaboration)
Marina de Van (collaboration)
Marcia Romano (collaboration)
Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years, although they have no children. During their summer vacations in the southwest of France, Jean leaves Marie sunbathing on the beach and goes to swim in the sea. When Marie turns back, she cannot find Jean. Has he left her? commited suicide? drowned? With no clue and no body to mourn over, Marie acts as her husband was still alive.
Released Date:
2002-10-09
Languages:
French, English, German, Italian
Countries:
France, UK, Italy
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2053 Reviews)
Director:
Michel BlancMichel Blanc
Joseph Connolly (book)
Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of his father's employee... More, at the end of the summer all of them will join the same party...
Released Date:
2004-03-24
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
France, Italy, UK
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(17382 Reviews)
Director:
Enki BilalEnki Bilal (comic books "La Foire aux immortels" and "La Femme piège")
Serge Lehman
This movie is set in the year 2095, hence the presence of mutant humans and extraterrestrials. The main character is known as Jill. She is not human. When she is discovered by Dr. Elma Turner she is diagnosed as being the most interesting genetic test subject Turner has ever come across. Her organs are not in the right place, she has no memory and her internal biological age appears to be only three months old. Turner gives her a break, giving her an identity card and a place to stay, in exchange for Jill being her guinea-pig to work on and discover more about. Nicopol is a frozen prisoner who is due to be released a year after the film is set. There is a problem in the frozen prisoners' ward and several are thrown down to the ground(dying in the process), including Nicopol, but he lives and only loses a leg. There is a lot more to this story but I can't disclose it in this summary; I don't have the words.
Released Date:
2004-04-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (7324 Reviews)
Director:
Mike HodgesWill Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime and is living in the countryside. He comes out of hiding to investigate the death of his brother when he learns that he committed suicide. Charlotte Rampling is his old girlfriend who owns a restaurant. Boad is the villain responsible for the bad things that happened to Will's brother.
Released Date:
2003-08-01
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
France, UK
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (33258 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois OzonFranèois Ozon (screenplay)
Emmanuèle Bernheim
Sionann O'Neill (translation: English)
Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season, and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her--until late one night, when John's indolent and insouciant French daughter Julie unexpectedly arrives. Sarah's prim and steely English reserve is jarred by Julie's reckless, sexually charged lifestyle. Their interactions set off an increasingly unsettling series of events, as Sarah's creative process and a possible real-life murder begin to blend dangerously together.
Released Date:
2004-09-10
Languages:
Italian, German, French, English
Countries:
Italy, Germany, France
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1954 Reviews)
Director:
Gianni AmelioGenres:
DramaGianni Amelio (story)
Sandro Petraglia (story)
Stefano Rulli (story)
Giuseppe Pontiggia (novel)
"Prepare yourself for suffering if you intend to be close to him." So speaks the mother of a young woman with severe disabilities, speaking to Gianni, the father of 16-year-old Paolo, himself developmentally disabled. Gianni abandoned the boy at birth, when the child's mother died, and Paulo's aunt and uncle have raised him. They have contacted Gianni and asked him to take Paulo to Berlin for a battery of medical tests. Images of people walking, running, skating, and dancing dot the screen as Gianni and Paulo get to know each other. Over a few days, Gianni tries to sort out his obligations and his desires. Will he accept his role as father to this engaging, mercurial, disabled youth?
Released Date:
2006-01-25
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Canada
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (2315 Reviews)
Director:
Laurent CantetGenres:
DramaLaurent Cantet (scenario)
Robin Campillo (scenario)
Dany Laferrière (based on three stories from the book "La Chair du Maètre" by)
Sandy Whitelaw (dialogue: English translation)
Haiti, late 1970's. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame, thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor, Brenda, an unfulfilled wife from Savannah, Georgia and Sue, a sexually frustrated but good-natured Canadian factory worker. In this second garden of Eden they don't care too much about the neighboring poverty nor about Baby Doc's violent dictatorship. The trouble is that that two of the three women have sights on a single man, Legba. And Legba is beginning to be fed up with being a stud...
Released Date:
2005-05-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (4253 Reviews)
Director:
Dominik MollGilles Marchand
Dominik Moll
The automation engineer Alain Getty and his beloved wife Bènèdicte have just moved to the suburb of Bel-Air. Alain has developed the prototype of a flying web-cam for Pollock S.A., a high-tech company. After a successful presentation of his project to their clients, Alain invites his boss Richard Pollock and his wife Alice for dinner at his home. The couple arrives late, and Alice is extremely rude, insulting her husband and the young couple, and forcing Richard to leave the house earlier. During the night, Alain finds a rare Scandinavian lemming stuck in the siphon of the sink in the kitchen. On the next night, Alice unsuccessfully tries to seduce Alain after-hours in the laboratory of the company. On the next afternoon, she visits Bènèdicte to apologize her behavior and cynically tells her sexual harassment to her husband. Then she locks herself in a room and commits suicide. On the next days, Bènèdicte changes her behavior and relationship with Alain, seeming to be possessed by Alice.
Released Date:
2007-08-24
Languages:
Spanish, Arabic, French, English
Countries:
Spain
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3513 Reviews)
Director:
Julio MedemThe teenager artist Ana is raised in Ibiza by her German father Klaus in a naturalist lifestyle in a cave. One day, she meets a woman called Justine that invites Ana to move to Madrid, offering education and economical support, to live in an old house with other artists having classes of Arts and with the only commitment of studying. Ana befriends her mate Linda (Bebe) and falls in love for the problematic Said, having her first sexual experience with him. After a period together, Said leaves Ana, and then she is hypnotized by Anglo, discovering her past lives and deaths.
Released Date:
2006-11-08
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, UK, Romania
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (530 Reviews)
Director:
Antoine de CaunesGenres:
ComedyThirty years ago they were lovers. Their affair fascinated a nation. Louis was a director and Alice was his muse. Then came the breakup It too, was public and painful. They have not met since. But Alice, who has established herself as a first lady of English theatre is asked to present Louis with a lifetime achievement award. She is married and has a son and a dog that snores....but the game is on again....delightfully.
Released Date:
2008-10-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Italy, France, USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (56215 Reviews)
Director:
Saul DibbJeffrey Hatcher (screenplay)
Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay)
Saul Dibb (screenplay)
Amanda Foreman (book)
Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her.
Released Date:
2011-03-18
Languages:
English, Spanish, Flemish
Countries:
Poland, Sweden
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2794 Reviews)
Director:
Lech MajewskiMichael Francis Gibson (screenplay)
Lech Majewski (screenplay)
The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
Released Date:
2012-09-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
Australia
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (1198 Reviews)
Director:
Fred SchepisiGenres:
DramaJudy Morris (screenplay)
Patrick White (novel)
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
Released Date:
2013-04-11
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, Switzerland, France
Runtime:
83 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (44 Reviews)
Director:
Alina MarazziGenres:
DramaAlina Marazzi (story)
Gaia Giani (story)
Chiara Cremaschi (story)
Alina Marazzi (screenplay)
Dario Zonta (screenplay)
Daniela Persico (screenplay)
Released Date:
2015-08-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (395 Reviews)
Director:
Andrew HaighDavid Constantine (short story)
Andrew Haigh (adaptation)
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
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