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Tags: Period Film Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 124min
Set in 1978 England, AKA opens with 18-year-old Dean (Matthew Leitch) being kicked out of his working-class home by his abusive father. Shy but socially ambitious, Dean subsequently finds work with high society marm Lady Gryffon (Diana Quick), who...
Cast: Michael Gambon John Hurt Michael York
Tags: Animated Musical Family
Length: 76min
A team of writers and artists from France, Great Britain, and Germany came together to create this animated fantasy about a monkey who unwittingly confronts the fears and superstitions that have held back his kind. In a lush jungle untouched by human...
Cast: Julien Temple
Tags: Drama Biopic Period Film
Length: 100min
French filmmaker Jean Vigo made only four films prior to his death in 1934 at the age of 29 (only one a full length feature), but all of them are today recognized as landmarks of the European cinema, and Zero For Conduct and L'Atalante are often cited...
The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt (1989)
Cast: Michael Tuchner
Tags: Comedy Absurd Comedy
Length: 84min
Produced for London Weekend Television, Wilt is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Sharpe. Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, stars of the internationally popular TV series Not Necessarily the News, head the cast as Henry Wilt and Inspector...
Cast: David Thewlis
Length: 89min
Jake (Clive Owen) and Ringe (David Thewlis) keep a 1950s American car under wraps in hopes of someday escaping their drab town. When Jake falls for divorcee Susan (Diana Quick), she joins Jake and Ringe on a joyride, but the excitement of their...
Cast: Charlotte Rampling Nagisa Oshima Jean-Claude Carrière
Tags: Sex Comedy Satire Comedy Drama
Length: 98min
Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee (played by a short-statured man in a monkey suit)....
Cast: Faye Dunaway Christopher Plummer Donald Sutherland Ian McShane Sarah Miles
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 91min
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) comes back to England after two years on an Antarctic expedition and discovers that the man he is searching for...
Cast: Paul Scofield Frank Finlay
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Reunion Films Drama
Length: 99min
Much of 1919 takes place in 1984, but the spectre of that year looms large over the proceedings. Paul Scofield and Maria Schell play two of the surviving patients of Sigmund Freud. Currently residing in the US, Schell happens to see Scofield being...
Cast: John Gielgud Laurence Olivier Claire Bloom Jeremy Irons
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film War Drama Drama British Empire Film Family Drama
Length: 660min
Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel -Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy,...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 100min
In this dark British comedy, a despondent businessman (Graham Chapman) decides to end it all after his wife leaves him. Unfortunately, he lacks the courage to do it to himself and so hires a professional assassin, telling him to do the deed no matter...
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