Whisky Galore (
2016) | IMDb:
5.9
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Starring:
Gregor Fisher
,
Eddie Izzard
,
Naomi Battrick
,
Ellie Kendrick
,
Sean Biggerstaff
,
Kevin Guthrie
Wild Target (
2010) | IMDb:
6.7
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
Directed by:
Jonathan Lynn
Lassie (
2005) | IMDb:
6.7
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Starring:
Peter O'Toole
,
Samantha Morton
,
John Lynch
,
Peter Dinklage
,
Hester Odgers
,
Celyn Jones
Directed by:
Charles Sturridge
The Merchant of Venice (
2004) | IMDb:
7
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
Starring:
Al Pacino
,
Jeremy Irons
,
Joseph Fiennes
,
Lynn Collins
,
Zuleikha Robinson
,
Kris Marshall
Directed by:
Michael Radford
Love Actually (
2003) | IMDb:
7.6
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
White Mischief (
1987) | IMDb:
6.4
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
Starring:
Greta Scacchi
,
Charles Dance
,
Joss Ackland
,
Sarah Miles
,
Geraldine Chaplin
,
Murray Head
Directed by:
Michael Radford
Nineteen Eighty-Four (
1984) | IMDb:
7.1
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Starring:
John Hurt
,
Richard Burton
,
Suzanna Hamilton
,
Cyril Cusack
,
Gregor Fisher
,
James Walker