Tagline: The life of Beatrix Potter was the most enchanting tale of all. Biography of children’s author Beatrix Potter, including how she overcame a domineering mother and the chauvinism of Victorian England to become a best-selling author. Beatrix Potter was a literary phenomenon of the early 20th Century. At a time when most young women…
Category: Period Films
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
Tagline: The pin up sensation that shocked the nation. Bettie Page was the ultimate girl-next door, and one of the most popular Playboy centerfolds. Page challenged the conservative 1950s, posing as a fierce dominatrix and earning both a cult underground following and Senate Committee investigation on juvenile delinquency, essentially a witch-hunt orchestrated by a senator…
One Night with the King (2006)
An epic motion picture set in an imaginative world of adventure, intrigue and romance, One Night With the King follows a young girl who rises from peasant to princess by going against the culture and seeking the King’s heart rather than the riches of the kingdom. The movie is set in Susa, Persia (now Iran)….
The Painted Veil (2006)
Tagline: Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people. Based on the classic novel by Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the tale of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong…
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Tagline: Innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine. In this fairy tale, a small family in Spain moves into an old house in 1943 after the rise of Fascism. Their eldest daughter, at age 12, falls in love with a fawn that lives in the old ruined labyrinth which resides behind their new decrepit…
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Tagline: He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it. Based on the bestselling novel by Patrick Süskind, “Perfume” is a terrifying story of murder and obsession set in 18th-century France. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, orphaned as a newborn in the streets of Paris, is alone in the world. A peculiar child who rarely speaks, Grenouille…