Movie | United Kingdom | 12/16/1983 | Drama
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/08/1982 | Drama | Holocaust
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Movie | United Kingdom | 05/15/1981 | Drama | Sport
The true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Movie | United Kingdom | 08/31/1977 | Drama | Revenge
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Movie | United Kingdom | 09/18/1982 | Drama
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Movie | United Kingdom | 03/04/1973 | Drama | Family
A young boy struggles to overcome his speech problem and strained relationship with his parents.
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/17/1975 | Drama
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as \godlike\ rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
Movie | United Kingdom | 10/06/1979 | Drama
This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
Movie | United Kingdom | 05/28/1983 | Drama
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Movie | United Kingdom | 10/05/1978 | Drama | Spies
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.