Susannah York

Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.

O Filme é uma narrativa passada simultaneamente entre uma Londres contemporânea e em uma metrópole futura governada pelo fervor religioso. A história envolve de quatro almas, divididas entre dois mundos paralelos, que estão caminhando para uma colisão explosiva e quando uma única bala decidirá o destino de todos. No filme, Ryan Phillippe interpreta Preest, um detetive mascarado à procura de seu inimigo pelas ruas de Meanwhile City, uma metrópole governada pela fé e pelo fervor religioso. Bernhard Hill é Esser, um homem falido em busca de seu filho rebelde pela cidade de Londres. Sam Riley interpreta Milo, um garoto de coração partido que tenta, desesperadamente, encontrar o caminho de volta à pureza do primeiro amor*. E por fim, Eva Green vive Emília, uma estudante de arte, que produz trabalhos cada vez mais complexos e de morte.

Quando o cinema australiano alcançou o público internacional na década de 1970 por meio de filmes de arte respeitados como Picnic na Montanha Misteriosa (1975), de Peter Weir, um novo underground de cineastas de exploração de baixo orçamento estava produzindo consideravelmente menos filmes intelectuais. O documentarista Mark Hartley explora esta era desenfreada de sexo e violência, completa com clipes de alguns dos filmes mais ultrajantes e entrevistas com os próprios cineastas renegados.

Chronicles the 2005 tour and production for the Rhapsody of Fire albums "Symphony of Enchanted Lands, II" and "Triumph or Agony". Includes recordings from the band's first tour through US and Canada as well as their performance at the Eartshaker Fest 2005.

A 5-part documentary of the history of Superman in the movies. • Origin - Superman in the media and the challenges the Salkinds faced • Vision - Creating the right script, Choosing the right director and casting the right actors • Ascent - The production and launch of a new kind of fantasy film • Crisis - Complications and conflicts between the creative forces behind Superman II • Redemption - Criticisms and burnout of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Young American Catherine Mulligan follows her love to Iran and converts to Islam. After being raped she is sentenced to death by stoning.

Sacha is an aging, well-established London 'male escort' with a select clientèle of weekly socialite ladies, such as baroness James, who expect an impeccable service he can only provide thanks to his in-living 'orderly', handsome 'clever Trevor', who moonlights as nude arts class model. Ben is a rising novice, who seeks their coaching. When Sasha makes a bad fall, Trevor must cover during his recovery, but jealous Sasha is far from grateful.

'A Guest of life' is inspired by the journey of Alexander Csoma de Koros. The eccentric 19th century set out from his native Transylvania to central Asia on foot, only taking his knowledge of 13 dead and spoken languages with him. He wanted to find the ancestors of the Hungarians, but once reaching Tibet he stayed there, compiling an English-Tibetan dictionary, translating and abridging Buddhist teachings and literature, including the Book of the Dead. The film however is not a biopic, but a collection of impressions of Tibet, recorded on an 8mm camera, overlaid with excerpts from Csoma's diary and translations, spoken on the many languages familiar to Csoma. Intercut with the documentary-style footage are animated segments, which tell Transylvanian folktales that have been weaved around the legendary figure of Csoma.

Georgia Perry é uma exploradora que finalmente consegue patrocínio para fazer uma viagem de barco ao redor do mundo. Depois de seis meses e durante uma forte calmaria, ela começa a ter alucinações e se torna incapaz de separar a realidade da fantasia. Ela conversa com a mãe recentemente falecida, Carolyn, e acredita estar sendo perseguida por piratas modernos. Aos poucos, essas ilusões começam a deixar marcas físicas no mundo da exploradora.

A charming woman and a mysterious young man have a shared past, but what’s the secret?

A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave. Enduring many hardships, he finds comfort and eventually salvation in his faith. After several years, he escapes back to England, where he joins a convent to prove his faith. His greatest desire is to return to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. Years later, he is given the opportunity. Upon setting foot on the Irish soil, all snakes are aitomatically driven from the land. He then overcomes many obstacles, including disagreements with the British Cardinal (Malcolm McDowell), to fulfill his destiny and ultimately being given Sainthood.

Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.

Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend Helen. But Mike's life takes several unexpected turns when he meets Sara. After the two depart for an idyllic vacation together, Mike locates his mother (Susannah York), who, 35 years previous, had left his father. Writer-director Kevin W. Smith's feature-film directorial debut.

Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes Bill's cherished sports car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off to the country and to her dysfunctional family's farmhouse. By trying to sort out her own family's problems Rachel hopes to come to terms with her own predicament. But Bill discovers her whereabouts and is on the warpath.

This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and analogy in its critique of the John Major government of the day.

Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.

A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.

The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution to the crime has been found through a surfeit of working hypotheses.

Writer Jake Blackburn and his model girlfriend Chelly are a new couple living together in LA. When Chelly's tragic past begins to catch up with her, she and Jake will need more than psychics and spirits to save their relationship.

Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.

Art critic Keller, a German ex-pat living in London, is confronted by his radical 1960s past when he's asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer who is on a visit to London.

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.

Após o Super-Homem acabar com todas as armas nucleares do mundo atirando-as contra o Sol, Lex Luthor consegue fabricar um vilão com a mesma estrutura molecular do nosso herói, e os mesmos poderes: o Homem Nuclear. A criatura está programada para destruir o Homem de Aço e, quando o duelo tem início, o confronto torna-se numa grande ameaça à paz mundial.

O jovem e humilde Bosse leva uma vida pacata de menino comum. Um belo dia, ele é levado à Terra da Magia, um local fantástico onde assume uma nova identidade: é filho do rei. Neste reino, ele descobre que tem também um novo amigo, Jum-Jum, um novo inimigo, o cavaleiro Kato, e um novo nome, Mio.

A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.

11-year-old Nick moves into a large old house with his sisters Jennie and Clare, left in the care of Helga the Swedish au pair while their parents are away in America. Nick is unhappy at his new school, where he is befriended by a boy named Sam and intimidated by scripture teacher Mr. Crabb, who is interested in the occult and demonology. Nick hears voices in the house and receives messages on his computer screen; he also suffers inexplicable blisters on his feet and grazes on his elbows and knees. When he dreams of burning and wakes up in a bed full of ashes, Nick tells a psychiatrist that he feels he is possessed by a demon.

Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.

Um senhor amargo e miserável revive momentos de sua vida para avaliar seus erros.

For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretching back to his childhood. What develops is the story of an intense young boy who yearned for stardom, achieved notable success in such classic films as From Here to Eternity and I Confess, only to be ruined by alcohol addiction and his inability to face his own fears and homosexual desires. Montgomery Clift, as this film portrays him, may not have been a happy man but he never compromised his acting talents for Hollywood.

Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Queenie wants to kill him. So Rabbit packs up to leave the country. When Alice finds this out she commits suicide which brings her into a fantasy world.

Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Queenie wants to kill him. So Rabbit packs up to leave the country. When Alice finds this out she commits suicide which brings her into a fantasy world.

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

Três perigosos prisioneiros do extinto planeta Krypton que estavam confinados na Zona Fantasma, se libertam graças à uma explosão. O trio parte então para a Terra, onde passam a ter os mesmos poderes do Superman, mas o objetivo deles é dominar o planeta.

Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two kids. While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple. Will they see in the Bronx what they expected? Will the good memories from their past help rekindle their fading love? Is it too late to dream?

Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two kids. While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple. Will they see in the Bronx what they expected? Will the good memories from their past help rekindle their fading love? Is it too late to dream?

No Egito, o arqueólogo Matthew Corbeck está obcecado em encontrar a tumba de uma milenar rainha egípcia cuja história foi totalmente apagada pelos antigos, inconformados com as enormes iniquidades cometidas por ela. No exato momento em que Corbeck localiza a câmara mortuária e a múmia da Rainha Kara, no hospital sua esposa dá à luz a uma filha, Margaret, que o arqueólogo suspeita ser uma reencarnação da amaldiçoada soberana egípcia.

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.

An elderly, venerable priest goes over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge and everyone except his nurse, Sister Benecia, believes that it was suicide. Sister Benecia finally manages to convince the police department to assign a detective, the cynical, irascible Paul Silver, to investigate. The "Mad Nun" and the "Mad Cop" become a formidable investigative team -- and much, much more.

Jor-El, um renomado cientista, prevê a destruição do seu planeta e alerta o governo, que não lhe dá credito. Assim, decide salvar seu filho, mandando-o ao planeta Terra, onde terá superpoderes. Na Terra, ele usa o nome de Clark Kent e, já adulto, trabalha como repórter em um jornal, não demonstra ter superpoderes. Mas quando uma situação inesperada põe em risco a vida de Lois Lane, uma colega de trabalho, ele é obrigado a se revelar para o público, ficando conhecido popularmente como Superman. Descontente com o surgimento de um super-herói na cidade, Lex Luthor, um gênio do mal, o obriga a se desdobrar para evitar a morte de milhões de pessoas.

A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman.

Toronto, Canadá. Alguns dias antes do Natal, Miles Cullen, um caixa entediado trabalhando em uma agência bancária em um shopping, descobre acidentalmente que o local está prestes a ser assaltado quando encontra uma nota confusa em um dos balcões.

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 displace his host.

An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.

Jonas Bracken (Robert Culp) é um homem rico do meio industrial que parece ter a vida perfeita. Porém, quando sua esposa, Ellen (Susannah York), e seus filhos são sequestrados por terroristas, seu mundo vira de cabeça para baixo e ele se vê obrigado a unir forças com Jim McCabe (James Coburn), o ex marido de Ellen.

A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.

A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.

O gerente de uma das minas de ouro mais importantes da África do Sul se une a um grupo de homens sem escrúpulos para fechar o lugar e, com isso, aumentar o preço do minérios com a redução da produção.

Uma dona de casa esquizofrênica, engolfada por aparições aterrorizantes, mata cada uma delas, sem saber se esses demônios são meras criações de sua imaginação alucinatória ou parte da realidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Uma dona de casa esquizofrênica, engolfada por aparições aterrorizantes, mata cada uma delas, sem saber se esses demônios são meras criações de sua imaginação alucinatória ou parte da realidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave’s fiancée doesn’t love him.

A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.

Ben Scruggs is an intellectual gangster who lives his life like a poker game.

Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.

Durante a Grande Depressão as vidas de um grupo heterogêneo de competidores se entrelaçam numa maratona de dança desumana e esgotante. Gloria é uma jovem mulher. Ela parece mais velha do que é e sente que sua vida não tem mais jeito, depois de ter sido enganada e traída muitas vezes no passado. Enquanto se recupera de uma tentativa de suicídio, tem a ideia fixa de que uma revista de cinema para Hollywood vai torná-la uma atriz. Robert é um morador de Hollywood desesperado tentando se tornar diretor. Robert e Gloria se encontram e decidem entrar na maratona de dança, uma das manias dos anos trinta. A dança esgotante cobra seu pedágio no espírito já enfraquecido da Gloria, e ela diz ao Robert que estaria melhor morta, que sua vida não tem mais jeito - o tempo todo agindo com crueldade e amargura, alienando as pessoas ao seu redor, tentando convencê-lo a atirar a deixando livre de sua miséria. Afinal de contas, eles atiram cavalos, não é mesmo? (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

A mais extraordinária batalha aérea da história, transformada num clássico filme de guerra. Em 1940, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a RAF - Real Força Aérea britânica entra numa luta desesperada contra a Luftwaffe para impedir uma possível invasão das forças alemãs ao território inglês. Os soldados se engajam numa luta aérea pelo controle dos céus, e o que está em jogo é a sobrevivência da Inglaterra.

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.

Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.

Adaptação da peça teatral de Frank Marcus, de 1964. June Duckbridge é uma atriz de meia idade cuja vida está desmoronando. A personagem que ela interpreta numa novela da TV vai ser morta. A única oferta de emprego que recebeu é ser a voz da vaca Clarabella. Pior do que isso é o fato dela suspeitar que a sua jovem namorada está tendo um caso com outra mulher.

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.

Na Inglaterra do século XVI, Henrique VIII (Robert Shaw) planeja se separar de sua primeira esposa para se casar com Ana Bolena (Vanessa Redgrave), mas não recebe a aprovação de Thomas More (Paul Scofield), um fervoroso católico que se tornou Lord Chanceler, um altíssimo posto que ele preferiu renunciar a trair suas convicções. Entretanto, a importância de Sir Thomas é tão grande que mesmo após sua renúncia o rei continua lhe perseguindo. Até que surgem “provas” que o incriminam como alta traição, um crime punido com a morte.

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.

A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.

TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young ward, Cecily. And he intends to propose to Gwendolyn--that is until he discovers that she loves him because his name is Ernest.

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

An actress dressed as a nun flounces off a film set and has a series of encounters on the streets of London.

No século XVIII, uma criança abandonada é criada por um nobre inglês. Quando adulto, Tom Jones torna-se um playboy mulherengo. Mas quando seu tutor morre e ele se apaixona por Sophie, vê-se obrigado a mudar o seu comportamento. O roteiro é baseado no romance The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, de Henry Fielding, publicado em 1749.

John Huston realiza uma pseudo-biografia do psicanalista vienense Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), mas descrevendo apenas um período de cinco anos (a partir de 1885) da vida do médico. Nessa época, a maioria dos colegas de Freud se recusavam a tratar dos casos de histeria por acreditar que tudo não passava de fingimento dos pacientes para chamar atenção. Mas Freud não acreditava nisso e passou a aplicar a técnica da hipnose, que viria a se tornar uma prática no tratamento psiquiátrico.

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Logo após a 2ª Guerra Mundial, o Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness), boêmio, bom de copo, e amigo de seus subordinados, vive seus últimos dias no comando de um regimento escocês. Em seu lugar, assumirá o Coronel Basil Barrow (John Mills), oficial muito mais rígido e disciplinador. O conflito entre as duas personalidades mudará a vida de todos os envolvidos naquele batalhão. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.

Short film inspired by Norfolk Coast