
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Genre: Hollywood, Biography, Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Director: John Maybury
Actors: Adrian Scarborough, Annabel Brooks, Anne Lambton, Daniel Craig, Derek Jacobi, Karl Johnson, Tilda Swinton
The Reader (2008)
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface…
Children of Men (2006)
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where…
Great Expectations (1946)
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham,…
The Hard Word (2002)
Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However…
Helix (2015)
When a low-level cop, Aiden Magnusson, solves an infamous crime, he is promoted to Sector One and used as a “poster boy” of success. But his newly established status and…
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can’t do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a…