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Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame
IMDb: 7.4
80

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…

Genre: Documentary
Huff

Huff

Huff
TMDb: 6.5
N/A

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…

Status: Released
Genre: Drama
Mr. Wrong

Mr. Wrong

Mr. Wrong
IMDb: 3.8
96

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…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
I Am David

I Am David

I Am David
IMDb: 7.1
90

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…

Genre: Drama, Family
Callas Forever

Callas Forever

Callas Forever
IMDb: 6.4
111

A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.

Genre: Drama, Romance
And a Nightingale Sang

And a Nightingale Sang

And a Nightingale Sang
IMDb: 7.7
95

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,…

Genre: Drama
Daphne Laureola

Daphne Laureola

Daphne Laureola
IMDb: 6.9
90

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts – whose much older husband is not pleased.

Genre: Drama
Global Heresy

Global Heresy

Global Heresy
IMDb: 6.2
106

A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
I Love You to Death

I Love You to Death

I Love You to Death
IMDb: 6.4
94

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…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Avalon

Avalon

Avalon
IMDb: 7.2
126

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…

Genre: Drama, Family
Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Three Sisters
IMDb: 6.4
165

Laurence Olivier’s film of Chekhov’s play.

Genre: Drama
Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.2
137

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…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso
IMDb: 6.4
125

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House
IMDb: 5.6
105

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…

Genre: Comedy
Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini
IMDb: 6.9
117

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.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
IMDb: 6.8
112

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Place for Annie

A Place for Annie

A Place for Annie
IMDb: 7.3
99

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…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians
IMDb: 5.7
103

An evil high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace
IMDb: 5.6
94

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…

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
IMDb: 6.2
92

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers
IMDb: 7.2
118

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital
IMDb: 6.2
116

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

The Entertainer

The Entertainer
IMDb: 7.1
96

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Genre: Drama, Music
A Pyromaniac’s Love Story

A Pyromaniac’s Love Story

A Pyromaniac’s Love Story
IMDb: 5.3
94

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brimstone & Treacle

Brimstone & Treacle

Brimstone & Treacle
IMDb: 6.4
87

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Enchanted April

Enchanted April

Enchanted April
IMDb: 7.4
89

Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim’s novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Revolution

Revolution

Revolution
IMDb: 5.3
126

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts…

Dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaur
IMDb: 6.5
82

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Genre: Animation, Family
The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles
IMDb: 6.5
95

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of…

Knife Edge

Knife Edge

Knife Edge
IMDb: 4.6
90

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

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
IMDb: 5.3
135

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native
IMDb: 6.1
101

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

Dance with Me

Dance with Me
IMDb: 5.9
126

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…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Back to the Secret Garden

Back to the Secret Garden

Back to the Secret Garden
IMDb: 5.8
100

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…

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy