Penelope (
2006) | IMDb:
6.7
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Starring:
Christina Ricci
,
James McAvoy
,
Catherine O'Hara
,
Reese Witherspoon
,
Peter Dinklage
,
Richard E. Grant
Farewell to the King (
1989) | IMDb:
6.2
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
Empire of the Sun (
1987) | IMDb:
7.7
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Starring:
Christian Bale
,
John Malkovich
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Nigel Havers
,
Joe Pantoliano
,
Leslie Phillips
Burke & Wills (
1985) | IMDb:
6.3
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Starring:
Jack Thompson
,
Nigel Havers
,
Greta Scacchi
,
Matthew Fargher
,
Ralph Cotterill
,
Drew Forsythe
A Passage to India (
1984) | IMDb:
7.3
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Directed by:
David Lean
Chariots of Fire (
1981) | IMDb:
7.1
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.