Chandler
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster’s former mistress.
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
After Elizabeth’s husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception)…
Austerlitz
The first half of this film covers Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.
The Doctor’s Dilemma
About a young artist, his wife and a doctor who, when the artist suffers from consumption, uses his limited serum on a more worthwhile case. (BFI Website)
The Head Of The Family
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with…
The Man Who Loved Women
At Bertrand Morane’s burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand’s life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical…
A Christmas Carol
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life…
A Very Special Favor
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
The Glass Slipper
Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince’s ball.
The L-Shaped Room
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby’s father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London…
Father Goose
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau…
Damage
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son’s lover.
Funny Bones
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the…
Love, Cecil
Lisa Immordino Vreeland directs this documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known for designing on award-winning films such…
Gigi
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who’s gone from girlish gawkishness to…
Valentino
In 1926 the tragic and untimely passing of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in certain instances to commit suicide…
Fanny
Daddy Long Legs
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter in a French orphanage having a merry 18-year-old residen, also anonymously pays her schooling in a New England school. She writes letters…
Le Divorce
Whereas visiting her sister in Paris, a younger girl finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.