Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Wealthy Londoner Tony, who says he is part of a plan to build cities in Brazil, moves into his new house, and hires Hugo Barrett as his manservant. Barrett appears to take easily to his new job, and he and Tony form a quiet bond, retaining their social roles.
The Servant (1963) Read More
Song Without End starring Dirk Bogarde, Genevieve Page and Capucine. The film tells the romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt.
Song Without End (1960) 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
I Could Go on Singing movie storyline. Jenny Bowman (Judy Garland) is a successful concert singer who regularly tours the world. During a stay in London, she visits recently widowed David Donne (Dirk Bogarde), a prominent ENT surgeon. It is revealed that over a decade ago the two had an affair that led to the birth of Matt, who is raised alone now by David and has been told he was adopted.
I Could Go on Singing (1963) Read More
Providence movie storyline. Clive Langham (John Gielguld) is an old writer with health problems who still enjoys the gifts of life, as his gusto of his daily white wine. He is a storyteller and he tells us of his family, especially of his sons.
Providence (1977) Read More
The Night Porter movie storyline. 1957. Max works as a night porter at the Hotel zur Oper in Vienna. During the war, he was an SS officer based in a concentration camp, where to his captors he posed as a doctor conducting research allowing him even more intrusive access.
The Night Porter (1974) Read More
The Damned movie storyline. The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost World War I, and during the depression that followed. Now it’s 1934, and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the great house accompanied by a rising manager at the baron’s company.
The Damned (1969) Read More
Death in Venice storyline. It’s the early 20th century. Gustav von Aschenbach, once married with a daughter, is a Munich-based composer of experimental music.
Death in Venice (1971) Read More
Darling movie storyline. Twenty-something Italian Princess della Romita, better known to her British fans as Sussex born Diana Scott, is giving an interview to a reporter.
Darling (1965) Read More