Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Mata Hari é um exótica dançarina nascida em Paris que, durante a I Grande Guerra Mundial, dormiu com inúmeros oficiais, tanto franceses, quanto alemães, e se tornou um peão da intriga internacional.
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
Após profecia de bruxas - que dizem que ele seria rei -, Macbeth mata o soberano e assume o trono. Só que, em seu reinado de sangue, ele jamais alcança a paz: sua esposa, tomada pela culpa, começa a enlouquecer; ao mesmo tempo, os inimigos conspiram para retomar o poder.
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
