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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
IMDb: 4.3
96

A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

King Ralph

King Ralph

King Ralph
IMDb: 5.4
97

As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Genre: Comedy
Romeo.Juliet

Romeo.Juliet

Romeo.Juliet
IMDb: N/A
130

The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound
IMDb: 5.4
85

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year…

The Field

The Field

The Field
IMDb: 7.3
110

“Bull” McCabe’s family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a…

Genre: Drama
Scandal

Scandal

Scandal
IMDb: 6.4
115

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties…

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
IMDb: 5.4
126

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to…

Genre: Drama
White Mischief

White Mischief

White Mischief
IMDb: 6.4
107

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up…

Vincent

Vincent

Vincent
IMDb: 7.4
105

A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.

From the Hip

From the Hip

From the Hip
IMDb: 6.1
111

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Aria

Aria

Aria
IMDb: 5.7
97

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Jake Speed

Jake Speed

Jake Speed
IMDb: 4.9
100

Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a…

The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron
IMDb: 6.3
80

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen,…

After Darkness

After Darkness

After Darkness
IMDb: 4.9
104

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency…

Success Is the Best Revenge

Success Is the Best Revenge

Success Is the Best Revenge
IMDb: 5.8
91

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share…

Genre: Drama
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDb: 7
113

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It’s the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three…

The Hit

The Hit

The Hit
IMDb: 7
98

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Osterman Weekend

The Osterman Weekend

The Osterman Weekend
IMDb: 5.8
103

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that…

Champions

Champions

Champions
IMDb: N/A
106

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs
IMDb: 7.7
86

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors…

Partners

Partners

Partners
IMDb: 5.3
93

After a series of murders in Los Angeles’s gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover as half of a gay couple with Officer Kerwin, a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Night Crossing

Night Crossing

Night Crossing
IMDb: 6.5
107

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate
IMDb: 6.7
217

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers…

Genre: Drama, Western
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.2
124

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and…

Genre: Drama, History
Alien

Alien

Alien
IMDb: 8.5
117

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of…

Watership Down

Watership Down

Watership Down
IMDb: 7.5
92

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe…

The Shout

The Shout

The Shout
IMDb: 6.5
86

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to…

Midnight Express

Midnight Express

Midnight Express
IMDb: 7.5
121

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison….

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings
IMDb: 6.2
132

Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he’s tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small…

East of Elephant Rock

East of Elephant Rock

East of Elephant Rock
IMDb: N/A
93

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

Genre: Drama
The Disappearance

The Disappearance

The Disappearance
IMDb: 5.7
100

The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant
IMDb: 7.8
77

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
IMDb: 6.8
111

An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist “party” that promotes male sexual dominance and which attracts…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper
IMDb: 6.3
90

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
IMDb: N/A
101

A self-absorbed young biologist takes on a six-month research post in Antarctica to study a penguin colony. Alone in Shackleton’s abandoned hut, with only radio contact and letters to his…

Genre: Adventure
10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place
IMDb: 7.5
111

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes
IMDb: 5.8
103

Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons
IMDb: 7.7
120

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head…

Genre: Drama, History
This Is My Street

This Is My Street

This Is My Street
IMDb: 6.6
94

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother’s lodger.

Genre: Drama