The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke…
Florence Nightingale
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering…
Deja Vu
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous wife, a ballerina.
Henry VIII
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor…
What the Deaf Man Heard
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced…
The Brothers Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant…
Brideshead Revisited
In this acclaimed eleven-hours British television miniseries, Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years…
Max Rose
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
A Severed Head
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and…
The Outrage
At a disused railway station, three men — a con artist, a preacher and a prospector — discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the…
Islands in the Stream
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
The Chapman Report
Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives…
80,000 Suspects
A doctor’s already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Look Back in Anger
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Charly
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to his…
The Illustrated Man
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the “skin illustrations”. Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which…
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
The Haunting
The Man Between
Mighty Aphrodite
Daylight
A bunch of armed robbers fleeing the authorities mind to its New Jersey Tunnel and operate into trucks hauling toxic waste. The dramatic explosion that follows contributes to the two…