On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By…
Category: History and War Films
Black Book (2007)
Set during the end of WWII, Black Book is the story of a German Jewish girl who narrowly survives the war in Holland. She joins the resistance to find out who betrayed her family after all of them were killed in an attempt to reach the liberated south. Holland 1944 – The final years of…
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Tagline: Woman, Warrior, Queen. Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett returns to her star-making role from Working Title Films’ seven-time Oscar-nominated 1998 film Elizabeth. She is reunited with her collaborators from the worldwide crossover hit—Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and Golden Globe- and BAFTA-nominated director Shekhar Kapur—in this gripping historical drama laced with treachery and romance:…
Golden Door (2007)
Tagline: A remarkable vision. A dream of a better life. A romance that would change their lives forever. “Golden Door,” a modern fable from director, Emanuele Crialese, captures the spirit of the immigrant experience as one family sheds the comfort of the Old World for the opportunities of the New – a risk that carries…
Goya’s Ghosts (2007)
Spain 1792 – the Catholic Church is at the height of its powers. The revolution has sent neighbouring France into turmoil and the Spanish church decides to restore order by bringing back the dreaded Inquisition. Spearheading this movement is the enigmatic and cunning priest Lorenzo, a man who seeks power above all. Lorenzo’s friend is…
The Hunting Party (2007)
Tagline: “In war what you see, and what really happened, are sometimes two very different things.” TV News reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard) have worked in the world’s hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected…