Death at a Funeral (
2007) | IMDb:
7.3
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Directed by:
Frank Oz
The Mother (
2003) | IMDb:
6.7
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Starring:
Anne Reid
,
Daniel Craig
,
Peter Vaughan
,
Steven Mackintosh
,
Cathryn Bradshaw
,
Anna Wilson-Jones
Directed by:
Roger Michell
An Ideal Husband (
1999) | IMDb:
6.8
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Starring:
Cate Blanchett
,
Minnie Driver
,
Rupert Everett
,
Julianne Moore
,
Jeremy Northam
,
Peter Vaughan
Directed by:
Oliver Parker
The Legend of 1900 (
1998) | IMDb:
8
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Starring:
Tim Roth
,
Pruitt Taylor Vince
,
Mélanie Thierry
,
Bill Nunn
,
Gabriele Lavia
,
Clarence Williams III
Directed by:
Giuseppe Tornatore
Les Misérables (
1998) | IMDb:
7.4
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Directed by:
Bille August
The Crucible (
1996) | IMDb:
6.8
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Winona Ryder
,
Paul Scofield
,
Joan Allen
,
Bruce Davison
,
Rob Campbell
The Remains of the Day (
1993) | IMDb:
7.8
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins
,
Emma Thompson
,
James Fox
,
Christopher Reeve
,
Hugh Grant
,
Peter Vaughan
Haunted Honeymoon (
1986) | IMDb:
5.6
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.
Brazil (
1985) | IMDb:
7.9
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
The Razor's Edge (
1984) | IMDb:
6.4
An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
Starring:
Bill Murray
,
Theresa Russell
,
Catherine Hicks
,
Denholm Elliott
,
James Keach
,
Peter Vaughan
Time Bandits (
1981) | IMDb:
6.9
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Zulu Dawn (
1979) | IMDb:
6.6
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Starring:
Burt Lancaster
,
Simon Ward
,
Denholm Elliott
,
Peter Vaughan
,
James Faulkner
,
Christopher Cazenove
Valentino (
1977) | IMDb:
6.1
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Starring:
Rudolf Nureyev
,
Leslie Caron
,
Michelle Phillips
,
Carol Kane
,
Felicity Kendal
,
William Hootkins
Straw Dogs (
1971) | IMDb:
7.4
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.