The History Boys (
2006) | IMDb:
6.8
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Starring:
Samuel Anderson
,
Dominic Cooper
,
James Corden
,
Richard Griffiths
,
Samuel Barnett
,
Russell Tovey
Directed by:
Nicholas Hytner
Saving Grace (
2000) | IMDb:
6.9
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn
,
Craig Ferguson
,
Martin Clunes
,
Tchéky Karyo
,
Jamie Foreman
,
Bill Bailey
Directed by:
Nigel Cole
The English Patient (
1996) | IMDb:
7.4
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Kristin Scott Thomas
,
Naveen Andrews
,
Colin Firth
An Awfully Big Adventure (
1995) | IMDb:
5.8
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Starring:
Alan Rickman
,
Hugh Grant
,
Georgina Cates
,
Alun Armstrong
,
Peter Firth
,
Prunella Scales
Heavenly Creatures (
1994) | IMDb:
7.3
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.
Starring:
Melanie Lynskey
,
Kate Winslet
,
Sarah Peirse
,
Diana Kent
,
Clive Merrison
,
Simon O'Connor
Directed by:
Peter Jackson
Firefox (
1982) | IMDb:
5.9
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
,
Freddie Jones
,
David Huffman
,
Warren Clarke
,
Ronald Lacey
,
Kenneth Colley
Escape to Victory (
1981) | IMDb:
6.6
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.