Biography: Jerzy Skolimowski |
Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original and innovative of the eastern European filmmakers. He is also one of the few to find success in the West. As a youth, the talented Skolimowski published several short stories, two poetry... more
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Tags: Drama
Length: 95min
A small town hospital worker who witnessed a brutal rape becomes obsessed with the victim after she lands a job as a nurse at the same hospital where he works, but how far will he go before he finally loses control? Leon Okrasa was there when a young...
Tags: Adventure Drama Comedy Drama Buddy Film Coming-of-Age
Length: 95min
Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white, upper-class surroundings. He ends up in a particularly dismal Chicago ghetto neighborhood where, after enduring a beating...
Cast: Robert Duvall Klaus Maria Brandauer
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 87min
Before entering this story of a battle between the ostensible forces of good over evil, viewers should know that a lightship is a floating lighthouse, anchored in dangerous waters to warn other ships away. The German-American Captain Miller (Klaus...
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Romance Drama
Length: 102min
Based on the novel by Ivan Turgenev, this drama tells of a young Russian noble during the mid 19th century who, although engaged to a young pastry chef, falls for a seductive married noblewoman who has arranged to buy his estate. Timothy Hutton,...
Cast: Helen Mirren Geraldine Page
Tags: Thriller Drama Musical Drama Escape Film
Length: 135min
The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue....
Success is the Best Revenge (1984)
Cast: Jerzy Skolimowski Michel Piccoli
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama
Length: 95min
Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the...
Cast: Jeremy Irons
Tags: Psychological Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 97min
Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, one of four Polish laborers, living in England. In exchange for a place to stay, Irons and his buddies -- none of whom have British work permits -- agree to renovate their landlord's flat within a limited time-frame....
Cast: Alan Bates John Hurt Tim Curry Susannah York
Tags: Drama
Length: 88min
An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his "better" patients, Crossley (Alan Bates) who is able to compete. Some time previously, Crossley accosted Anthony (John Hurt), a composer, just after church and was...
Cast: Hanna Schygulla
Tags: War Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 110min
Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship...
Cast: David Niven
Tags: Slapstick Black Comedy Comedy
Length: 92min
Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die,...
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