Filmography Highlights
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Le Divorce
2003- Rated:
- 12A
Period literary specialists Merchant Ivory unbutton their corsets to adapt Diane Johnson's novel charting the romantic entanglements of Americans in present-day Paris
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Funny Bones
1994- Rated:
- TBC
Lee Evans stars in this bittersweet drama about comedy and professional comedians. A Las Vegas stand-up comes to Blackpool in search of inspiration and encounters a whole range of English variety performers
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Damage
1992- Rated:
- 18
Icy MP Jeremy Irons embarks on an obsessive affair with his son's new fiancee. Great looking, well-casted psychodrama that follows the fallout generated by their dangerous liaison
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Contract, The
1980- Rated:
- TBC
An altogether more vibrant film than one is used to from this director, possibly because of its television finance and an international tone - using several languages, in all of which Zanussi is flue
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Valentino
1977- Rated:
- X
Russell's biopic of Rudolph Valentino, one of the silent era's greats, is not a patch on the numerous biographies with which he made his name in the 1970s. Told in flashback at Valentino's funeral, t
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L'Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes
1977- Rated:
- 15
Celebrated New Wave director François Truffaut returns to the familiar theme of a man in search of female attention in one of his later and darker films
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Father Goose
1964- Rated:
- TBC
Grant, uncharacteristically, plays unkempt alcoholic beach bum Eckland in this, his penultimate film. Persuaded by Australian naval officer Commodore Houghton (Howard) to spy on planes flying overhea
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L-Shaped Room, The
1963- Rated:
- TBC
'It takes all sorts, dear,' says the lesbian music-hall trouper (Courtneidge) to the unmarried pregnant French girl (Caron, in her meatiest role). The Notting Hill bedsit they inhabit also hosts a 'b
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Gigi
1958- Rated:
- PG
Colette's original French novella about two old cocottes raising a young girl to be a courtesan is not exactly the stuff of a Hollywood musical, but it was cannily sugared over, and the terrific song
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Gaby
1956- Rated:
- TBC
After a chance encounter on Waterloo Bridge, and army officer and a ballerina begina a passionate affair. He returns to service and is reported killed in action, after which she drifts into prostitut
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Story of Three Loves, The
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Three stories depicting different kinds of love, all revolving around passengers on board an ocean liner. The first is about a ballet dancer with an incurable disease; the second the relationship bet
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Lili
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Lili (Caron) is a French orphan who runs off with a circus troupe. She attaches herself to miserable puppeteer Ferrer, but when he does not have time for her, she makes friends with the puppets thems
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An American In Paris
1951- Rated:
- U
An exuberant Gene Kelly stars in a musical love story set against the painterly backdrop of bohemian Paris
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