1984 (1984 Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)
Based on George Orwells novel In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is re writing history, tries to rebel He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair Sir Richard Burtons final
Harold and Maude (1971)
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task
Where the Spies Are (1966)
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent
Les Miserables (1978)
Jean Valjean Richard Jordan, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert Anthony Perkins
Gone to Earth (1950)
A beautiful, superstitious, animal loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman
Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast
The Abdication (1974)
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic Church
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder
The Fighting Pimpernel (1950)
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine
King Lear (1970)
The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and its especially galling because he turned over his en
Miracle in Soho (1957)
In Londons colourful but seedy Soho of the 1950s, Michael Morgan is working mending the road He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a conservative catholic girl making plans for a new l
80,000 Suspects (1963)
A doctors already shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic
The March Hare (1956)
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot But the horse is pulled, and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him
The Taming of The Shrew (1967)
Brutish, fortune hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina
The Homecoming (1973)
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife