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Howard's End
(1992) [G]

From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and...  More

The Pit And The Pendulum
(1961) [M]

In 16th-century Spain, Francis Bonnard (John Kerr) visits the gloomy castle of his late sister's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), in order to discern the reason for her death. It seems Nicholas is terrified that wife Elizabeth (Barbara Steele) is not really dead and that her spirit wanders the...  More

The Little Foxes
(1941) [PG]

It's the turn of the century in the deep South, and the Hubbard siblings are embroiled in their own money-driven, power-hungry civil war. Most calculating of the group is Regina, who, along with her brother, demands ownership of a cotton mill expected to yield millions. Proving that blood is not...  More

Playing Beatie Bow
(1986) [G]

In modern-day (1985) Sydney, Australia, teen-aged Abigail discovers that she can communicate with at least one apparently dead person, who lived in that town back in 1873. As their communications continue, Abigail suddenly finds herself transported back in time. In this light drama, based on a...  More

Ju Dou
(1990) [M]

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and...  More

The Best Intentions
(1992) [PG]

Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille...  More

Mister Johnson
(1990) [PG]

Drama based on the novel by Joyce Carey, which centres around the relationship between an African, Mr. Johnson and a British district officer Harry Rudbeck, in West Africa in 1923.  More

Scaramouche
(1952) [G]

Let danger befall him. Let winds of fate blow where they may. Andre Moreau will strike a blow for vengeance and the French Revolution. First, he must hone his skill with the blade. By the day Andre secretly perfects his parries and lunges.. and hides his true identity at night behind the mask of...  More

Maurice
(1987) [M]

E.M. Forster's (A Room with a View, Howard's End) story, set in pre-World War I England, studies a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It is the coming of age for two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive...  More

The Bridge
(1992) [M]

When Isobel Heatherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival of Phillip Wilson Steer for his annual painting visit launches a chain of events that will change their lives forever. Overcome by his first sight...  More