"The Fourth Protocol" (1987) Drama / Thriller Running Time: 119 minutes Written by: Frederick Forsyth Directed by: John Mackenzie Featuring: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Ian Richardson and Joanna Cassidy Tom McWhirter: "Don't tell me you reached your limit, Jimmy boy." Valeri Petrofsky: "I usually try to keep my limit to a gallon or so." During …
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"The Honorary Consul" (1983) Drama Running Time: 114 minutes Written by: Christopher Hampton Directed by: John Mackenzie Featuring: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo Colonel Perez: "I have to take every possibility into account, doctor. Even a crime of passion." Dr. Eduardo Plarr: "Passion? I'm an Englishman." When discussing the career of director John …
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"The Long Good Friday" (1980) Drama Running Time: 114 minutes Written by: Barrie Keeffe Directed by: John Mackenzie Featuring: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson and Eddie Constantine Harold: "What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more …
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"Nouvelle Vague" (2025) Drama Running Time: 106 minutes Written by: Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Directed by: Richard Linklater Featuring: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch and Aubry Dullin Jean-Luc Godard: "We control our thoughts, which mean nothing. Not our emotions, which mean everything." Few movements in cinema have had as profound an influence on filmmaking as the French …
"Lust, Caution" (2007) Drama Running Time: 158 minutes Written by: Wang Hui-ling and James Schamus Directed by: Ang Lee Featuring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Anupam Kher, Joan Chen, Wang Leehom and Shyam Pathak Kuang Yu Min: "We must all pitch in. Our soldiers are fighting for their lives at the front... while these Hong Kongers continue …
"The Fabulous Baker Boys" (1989) Drama Running Time: 114 minutes Written and directed by: Steve Kloves Featuring: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer and Beau Bridges Jack Baker: "You let that guy turn us into clowns tonight. We were always small time, but we were never clowns." Some films announce themselves with spectacle. Others quietly slip into your memory …
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"Summertime" (1955) Drama Running Time: 100 minutes Written by: David Lean and H. E. Bates Directed by: David Lean Featuring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin and Isa Miranda Renato de Rossi: "You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat. 'No' you say, 'I want beefsteak!' My dear girl, you are hungry. Eat …
"Hobson's Choice" (1954) Drama Running Time: 107 minutes Written by: Wynyard Browne, David Lean and Norman Spencer Directed by: David Lean Featuring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales Maggie Hobson: "I've been watching you for a long time and everything I've seen I've liked. I think you'll do for me." Hobson's …
"The Sound Barrier" (1952) Drama Running Time: 117 minutes Written by: Terence Rattigan Directed by: David Lean Featuring: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin and Denholm Elliott Tony Garthwaite: "What's so ruddy peculiar about the speed of sound? We all know exactly what it is, don't we? 750 miles per hour at ground level. Now …
"Madeleine" (1950) Drama Running Time: 114 minutes Written by: Ann Todd, Ivan Desny, Norman Wooland and Leslie Banks Directed by: David Lean Featuring: Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard Scots Divine: "The wicked shall be destroyed! This daughter of a rich man in her devilry defied the most sacred laws of God and man. She dresses …
"The Passionate Friends" (1949) Drama Running Time: 91 minutes Written by: Eric Ambler, Stanley Haynes, David Lean and H. G. Wells Directed by: David Lean Featuring: Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard Howard Justin: "Don't you see that you two together are dangerous? You just have to keep away from one another. In the future, I'm …
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"Supercar" (1961-1962) Science Fiction Thirty Nine Episodes Created by: Gerry Anderson & Reg Hill Featuring: David Graham, George Murcell, Graydon Gould, Sylvia Anderson and Cyril Shaps Doctor Beaker: Curious, most curious! The rubbish people do write. What can this man possibly know about 'Neurotic Anxieties in the New England Squirrel'? For fans of classic British television, Gerry Anderson’s pioneering …
"The Lawnmower Man" (1992) Science Fiction Running Time: 108 / 142 minutes Written by: Brett Leonard and Gimel Everett Directed by: Brett Leonard Featuring: Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis and Austin O'Brien Dr. Lawrence Angelo: "This is all so new." Jobe Smith: "It's not new. I realized that nothing we've been doing is new. …
"Priest" (2007) Drama Running Time: 108 minutes Written by: Jimmy McGovern Directed by: Antonia Bird Starring: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle and Cathy Tyson Father Greg Pilkington: "When we were in seminary, it was a sort of standard question: a man tells you in confession that he's poisoned the altar wine. Do you still go out …
“Night Gallery” (1969 - 1973) Anthology/Horror 43 Episodes Created by: Rod Serling Produced by: Jack Laird & William Sackheim Rod Serling: “Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, …
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Cinema of Powell & Pressburger - Collection One Drama Directed by: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Sister Clodagh: [to Mr. Dean] "You are objectionable when sober, and abominable when drunk!" The Powell & Pressburger Collection One Blu-ray boxset (Imprint Collection #456–#461) gathers six seminal films from the first phase of the legendary British filmmaking partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, …
“Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (1974 – 1975) Television / Sci-Fi Twenty Episodes Created by: Jeff Rice Featuring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage and Ruth McDevitt Carl Kolchak: [voiceover] "Buck Finemann, seventy two years old. Cantankerous old geezer. No-one liked him much, but they allowed him to play poker with them once a week because he …
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"3:10 to Yuma" (2007) Drama Running Time: 97 minutes Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsoni and Anna Kalaitzidou Father: [subtitled version] "Soon your mother will give birth to two children and a dog." Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth remains one of the most unsettling, darkly …
"3:10 to Yuma" (2007) Western Running Time: 122 minutes Written by: Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas Directed by: James Mangold Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster, Dallas Roberts, Alan Tudyk, Vinessa Shaw and Logan Lerman Dan Evans: [while being choked] "I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle …
"Afterglow" (2018) Drama Running Time: 113 minutes Written & Directed by: Alan Rudolph Starring: Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle and Jonny Lee Miller Lucky Mann: "I don't know what I like, but I know what art is." Afterglow is a quiet, bruised, deeply adult drama that arrived in the late 1990s almost unnoticed, yet has steadily …
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