David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.
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GREASE (1978)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A high school musical which ripped off everything it could from the 1950s. At the time it was slated, but, in retrospect, it started a trend and is nowhere near as bad as some of the movies which followed it. In fact, one could go as far as to say it's now a bit of a classic...
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HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959)
Certification12 Our Rating
The story of a French actress and a Japanese man's brief affair in Hiroshima, stirring up painful memories for them both, for her wartime 'collaboration' and, for him, the bomb which quite literally destroyed everything he had known. Resnais's film is now seen as revolutionary for its time an a must for film study courses. Sadly haunting.
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IMITATION OF LIFE (1959)
Certification12 Our Rating
Fannie Hurst's emotionally charged drama, which chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters as they struggle to find true happiness amidst racial prejudice. Lana Turner plays Lora, a single white mother whose Hollywood starlet ambitions come at the expense of any meaningful relationship with her daughter, Susie. Lora's black housekeeper, Annie, has troubles of her own as she faces the rejection of her own fair-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, who abandons her heritage for a chance to be acce
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (1965)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Loosely based around the actress Felicity Kendal's childhood in India, we follow her family's Shakespearian theatre group as they travel the country performing to an ever dwindling audience, the terminal victims of a burgeoning Bollywood. Shakespeare Wallah is one of the earliest Merchant Ivory films and is a delicate, intimate portrait of colonial demise and Indian self assertion.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
Certification15 Our Rating
Nominated for eight Academy awards and hailed as "the most important work by a young director since Citizen Kane". A bittersweet human drama, accurate in its depiction of period and place, exploring the social and sexual turmoils of a group of young people in small town Texas. Featuring a cast that went on to be all-star.
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