The Handmaids Tale (1990)
Under a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Colin and Mary retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with lyrical local bar owner Robert and his odd, sexually frank wife Caroline leads them into a world of intrigue where their darkest desires are in
The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)
Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mikes character is engaged
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II
The Servant (1963)
Upper class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda
Sleuth (2007)
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wifes heart
Reunion (1989)
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart However, they dont realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well to do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German
Accident (1967)
At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz Jacqueline Sassard is dating fellow student William Michael York, whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage As suspicions of Husband Jakes philandering grows, Jos sanity spirals
The GoBetween (1971)
A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside
The Last Tycoon (1976)
F Scott Fitzgeralds novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death
The Birthday Party (1968)
The down at heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away
The Guest (1963)
While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Astons brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate
Turtle Diary (1985)
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free t
Betrayal (1983)
An affair between a literary agent and his best friends wife The story unfolds in reverse chronological order
Rogue Male (1976)
In 1939 when an English hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a rifle, he is captured, tortured and left for dead He escapes but his captors pursue him to England
No Mans Land (1978)
In this television adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet Sir John Gielgud shows up at the house of a rich writer Sir Ralph Richardson and they start reminiscing about the past
Butley (1974)
An English professor finds his life crumbling around him