Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
In Celebration takes place in the Derbyshire mining town of Langwith. The Shaws’ three sons have returned home to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. Shaw has been a coal miner for 49 years, and has only one year left until retirement. Mrs Shaw is the daughter of a pig breeder, meaning she came from a higher social class.
In Celebration (1975) Read More
Georgy Girl movie storyline. 22-year-old Georgina Parkin (Lynn Redgrave) , Georgy to her friends, is a Plain Jane of a woman who beats to her own drummer. She grew up in the household of wealthy James Leamington, Georgy’s parents being the household domestics.
Georgy Girl (1966) Read More
Far from the Madding Crowd movie storyline. Based on Thomas Hardy’s nineteenth century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man’s complete and helpless adoration, and she captures the lives and loves of three very different men:
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Read More
The Fixer movie storyline. Set in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman’s life in prison, and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
The Fixer (1968) Read More
The Go-Between movie storyline. Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last, and the summer Leo (Dominic Guard) turns thirteen. He’s the guest of Marcus (Richard Gibson), a wealthy classmate, at a grand house in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian (Julie Christie), Marcus’ twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh (Edward Fox), a viscount and good fellow.
The Go-Between (1971) Read More
Quartet movie storyline. It’s 1927 Paris. Following the conviction of her art dealer husband, Stephan Zelli (Anthony Higgins), for theft for which he was handed a one-year prison sentence, Marya Zelli (Isabelle Adjani), originally from West India, moves in with her acquaintances, expatriate Brits H.J. (Sir Alan Bates) and Lois Heidler (Dame Maggie Smith).
Quartet (1981) Read More
A Kind of Loving movie storyline. Victor ‘Vic’ Brown (Alan Bates) is a draughtsman in a Manchester factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (June Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured of her.
A Kind of Loving (1962) Read More
The Rose movie synopsis. Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. This movie follows Rose’s career during her last tour, as she’s determined to return to her Florida hometown. Although a success, she’s exhausted and lonely, but continued working by her gruff and greedy manager.
The Rose (1979) Read More
An Unmarried Woman storyline. Erica is unmarried only temporarily, in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt.
An Unmarried Woman (1978) Read More
Three Sisters movie storyline. Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who had commanded the local army post.
Three Sisters (1970) Read More