Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena’s documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they…
Huff
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called…
Mr. Wrong
A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince…
I Am David
Based on Anne Holm’s acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on…
Callas Forever
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.
And a Nightingale Sang
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp,…
Daphne Laureola
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts – whose much older husband is not pleased.
Global Heresy
A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.
I Love You to Death
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on…
Avalon
Avalon is the third in Levinson’s semi-autobiographical series of four “Baltimore Films”: Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in…
Equus
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable…
Surviving Picasso
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her…
Bringing Down the House
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak…
Tea with Mussolini
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca’s upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she…
A Place for Annie
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she’s deported to a home where they’d just wait for…
101 Dalmatians
An evil high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
Dennis the Menace
Mr. Wilson’s ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he’ll need Dennis’s tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when…
The Dressmaker
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Drowning by Numbers
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which…
Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration,…
The Entertainer
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
A Pyromaniac’s Love Story
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire…
Brimstone & Treacle
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Enchanted April
Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim’s novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Dinosaur
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Knife Edge
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country…
The Scarlet Letter
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the…
The Return of the Native
Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers’ triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a…
Dance with Me
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn’t know he is…
Back to the Secret Garden
A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before – but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to…