When Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is unable to produce an heir to the throne, he uses that as a pretext for the pope to grant him a divorce, so he can marry his newest conquest,... ... more about Man for All Seasons
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan. ... more about Atonement
Actor Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
Encounter of three social classes of the England at the beginning of the century : the victorian capitalists (the Wilcoxes) considering themselves as aristocrats, whose only god is money ; the enlightened bourgeois (the Schlegels), humanistic and ... more about Howards End
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Veteran actors Maurice and Ian try to bestow their life-time of experience on to a young hopeful teenager, Jessie. As Maurice guides the girl through theatrical ups and downs he learns that perhaps his advice isn't the best. ... more about Venus
Actor Awards
British Independent Film Awards - Best Supporting Actor/Actress
Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scene's from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times that shaped the play and the events that happened at the time the play is set. ... more about Looking for Richard
From "Pentimento," the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play "The Childrens' Hour" on Broadway. ... more about Julia
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. ... more about Cradle Will Rock
Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. ... more about Smilla's Sense of Snow
This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer, returns to his Brighton Beach boyhood home for a "job. ... more about Little Odessa
As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive. ... more about Deep Impact
Actor Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actress - Action/Adventure
Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents' friend. ... more about Girl
Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of pre-rennaisance France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. ... more about Devils
Shanghai. 1936. Crossroads of the world and into this city of political intrigue comes Sofia, a Russian Countess who, with the remains of her family, has been left stateless by the Revolution. ... more about White Countess
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex. ... more about Déjà Vu
Morgan is obsessed with Karl Marx and gorillas. He is also obsessed with stopping his ex-wife from marrying a more normal art dealer who is not obsessed with Karl Marx and gorillas. ... more about Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best British Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. ... more about Month by the Lake
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. ... more about Seven-Per-Cent Solution
South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. ... more about House of the Spirits
Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. ... more about Mrs. Dalloway
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating. ... more about Murder on the Orient Express
Izzy Maurer è un sassofonista jazz in crisi. Un giorno trova una borsa, accanto al cadavere di uno sconosciuto, che contiene un fazzoletto con su scritto un numero telefonico ed una scatola contenente una pietra misteriosa. ... more about Lulu on the Bridge
Michael Cunningham (author of THE HOURS) lends his screenwriting skills to Lajos Koltai's EVENING. This time, Cunningham adapts a book by Susan Minot for the big screen. ... more about Evening
In this historical drama, Mary must battle Queen Elizabeth I, her brother James, the Scottish Lords, the Scottish protestants, her husband and herself to secure the crown for her son and heir, the future James I of England. ... more about Mary
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time. ... more about Isadora
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actress
Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. ... more about Keeper: The Legend Of Omar Khayyam
Rosanna Arquette informally interviews several contrasting actresses about how they cope with being a woman in the entertainment industry. ... more about Searching for Debra Winger
A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. ... more about Oh! What a Lovely War
19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman. ... more about Bostonians
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actress
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. ... more about Ballad of the Sad Cafe
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge ... more about Charge of the Light Brigade
Based on the novel by Cornelia Funke, this charming tale follows six-year-old Bo (Jasper Harris) and fifteen-year-old Prosper (Aaron Johnson), two recently orphaned brothers who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. ... more about Thief Lord
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages. ... more about Comrades
At his new job at Butterworth Chocolates, Mr. Farris accidentally knocks several workers into a mixing vat, the contents of which are then sent to market. ... more about Consuming Passions
Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. The city has fallen into Greek hands and it is likely their lot to become slaves of Greek soldiers. ... more about Trojan Women
A young boy (Morgan) spending the summer in Maine finds help in dealing with his mother's tragic death through his friendship with an eccentric widow neighbor (Redgrave). ... more about Rumor of Angels
With Paris as the backdrop and a plot reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her best, this is a whimsical homage to film and celebrity. ... more about Merci Docteur Rey
Jude Madigan leaves her husband Robert and her three children without any explanation. Three years later, when all think that she has already died, Jude returns and asks for pardon. But her husband Robert does not forgive but instead wants the divorce. ... more about Mother's Boys
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. ... more about Bear Island
Food’s up! It’s another night on earth, friends, and up there in space, in the company of the satellites and telecom hardware your host Lenny Green of the Radio World Broadcasting Network sends deep thoughts and musical moments through the misty blue of our delicate planet and eavesdrops on a ma ... more about Short Order
An ambitious London sports journalist, an enigmatic tramp and a police press officer team up to solve a series of murders that follow the discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Charles Dickens in a present day Thames-side pub. ... more about Riddle
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes to be intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching a sailor known many years before. ... more about Sailor from Gibraltar