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
Wolf (
1994) | IMDb:
6.2
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
James Spader
,
Kate Nelligan
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Christopher Plummer
Howards End (
1992) | IMDb:
7.4
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Starring:
Emma Thompson
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Anthony Hopkins
,
Samuel West
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Adrian Ross Magenty
Directed by:
James Ivory
The Wicked Lady (
1983) | IMDb:
4.8
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
Starring:
Faye Dunaway
,
Alan Bates
,
John Gielgud
,
Denholm Elliott
,
Prunella Scales
,
Oliver Tobias
The Boys from Brazil (
1978) | IMDb:
7
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Laurence Olivier
,
James Mason
,
Lilli Palmer
,
Uta Hagen
,
Steve Guttenberg